“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning ones life and self anew.” Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
Come, Samhain season… threshold, entryway…embracing of the archetypal tide of descent. Come, season of dark, of Shadow.
The Dark as metaphor in soul or individuation work can, but doesn’t have to only mean repressed or disembodied material. It also suggests unpotentiated, as in latent or undeveloped energy. In this way, we enter the dark dance with our own shadows understanding another metaphor:
Sight brings awareness, or light.
What can be seen can be transformed. And to see…
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