Shadow work and Psychoanalysis
A big reason why I do shadow work, is because I have a Master’s degree in forensic psychology and I’m continuing to pursue my doctorate in forensic neuropsychology. What do the two have to do with one another? Well, when you look at the wheels of birth charts and zodiac signs and then see the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light correlations to the Myer’s Briggs and see how ancient religions have always used constellations and planets with deep philosophical/religious understanding; they are connected. Working with mental illness, those who go ‘too far down the wormhole’ means I have to KNOW the wormhole well and be able to go in and out as I please, a gatekeeper of sorts.
Forensic psychology has me asking a lot of deep, dark questions. Soul searching, forgiveness, grief and deep understanding of self, ethics, morals and foundational beliefs. If someone can see a pattern, a recognition of something familiar, a gingerbread crumb path back to mental health or to see why their crazy presents the way it does, they can regain a sense of self control and connection. The process of mental health healing through trauma, is truly divine. Sorting that divination can be hard, dark, scary and something that is avoided unless you have a therapist on hand to remind you. Luckily, I’m both - so the issues of dark spirituality and mental health are always over-lapping and I see my scientific research illuminating new magical powers within spirituality every single day.
The work starts small, seeing and exploring with very little information gathered to yet see the patterns, but then… slowly… you see it.
For example:
This is a classic astrological wheel that is nicely organizing alchemy, planets, their signs and behaviors. You can see what faces what, what closely follows what, and where to look in the sky to find your answers.
This is a newer revamp of CARL JUNGIAN archetypes and is being used in applications to emotional behavior in relations to social networking. I see these models, gently smile to myself and cross my little witch heart. We know this wheel well… don’t we?
If you are interested in presenting personalities, profiling, cold readings, psychological observation theories and ‘psychic’ powers of AIR, then consider the psychology of the personality wheels, also Jungian theory:
The thing is, psychology and intuition are both HARD and SOFT, easy and complex, light and dark… if you can begin to see the patterns, and understand self, then you by design will see and understand others and your place in the Universe.
It starts with simple placement and unconscious guidance of alchemy, the zodiac, the archetypes, the planets and knowing your birthday… then do the ‘math/magic/seeing’ work and it will begin to reveal itself. WHY do you engage at this time and at these triggers, and why does anxiety present when you are otherwise happy? Why do you engage in co-dependent behaviors or toxic relationships? It can be past life related, conditioned, hereditary, and a little bit of all of it. Though we cannot change these factors, once we are aware of them, we are aware of their part and our strengths and therefore can focus our magic on what we CAN control, in order to get the results we want.
It’s so hard, so easy, so simple… and yet so difficult to do.
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