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over. This is the cross of life, a veritable what they can give us; but who they are.
crucifixion and we are all on this cross The love that can now grow between

whether we know it or not. This inner two partners is profound because it is
urge to individuate is what drives us REAL. Real love, unlike projection, is a

on in our voyage of self-discovery. willingness to see and support another
Jung says, person to be their own unique, separate
self. This will untangle us from seeking

“I should like to emphasize that the in them the perfect parent-mirror image
integration of the shadow, or the of ourselves, for as long as we are still

realization of the personal unconscious, seeking to be completed by another
marks the first stage in the analytic person, we will not allow them their
process, and that without it a recognition own autonomy.

of the anima and animus is impossible.
The shadow can be realized only through As the Nordic Rune “Partnership”

a relation to a partner, and the anima describes it, two separate and whole
and animus only through a partner of beings — equals in the true sense of
the opposite sex, because only in such the word — can help each person

a relation do their projections become feel their own union with the Divine
operative.” within instead of through projective

—Carl Jung, AION, Research into the identification with their partner. As the
Phenomenology of the Self, par 42, pg 22 love between them grows and expands
to the entire Cosmos, this kind of love

This is not an easy task as it takes gives each partner their freedom — the
work and often involves a painful greatest gift of all. As I see it, freedom

encounter with the Self. In Mysterium to be ourselves is the goal of the Age of
Coniunctionis, Jung says, “An experience Aquarius.
with the Self is always a defeat for the

ego,“ but that the death of the ego (the
self as you knew it) allows one to be Rebeca Eigen

reborn into one’s own wholeness as
projections are taken back.

The value of taking back our projections
is that we can now see and accept our

partners for who they are — not what
we wanted them to be; not what we
wish they would change into; not for

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