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Sacred Mother

Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.

Second in a new series, The Mother, at The Third Eve.

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Little Did He Know

A month after my husband’s death, I wrote that I had discovered the substance of my faith and “found out what’s true for me.” But I don’t know a damn thing today.
Breaking Up

Without psychological separation, we don’t know where we end and the other person begins. Our projections veil the reality of things until we withdraw them and set ourselves and others free.
Being Willing to Change

“To suffer consciously means to live through the ‘death of ego,’ to voluntarily withdraw one’s projections from other people.” Robert A. Johnson
Dare to Be Idle

The great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
A Terrible Beauty is Born

“… All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”
Moving On

Sometimes we have to move on, because what is no longer necessary or supportive of growth must be let go.
The Divine Couple

The problems with becoming whole are the obstacles in the way, not the least of which can be oneself.
How Uncommonly Difficult

Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity. C. G. Jung (1977)
Carnival

The carnival is, among other things, a human manifestation and celebration of the orgiastic urge. It is what Cirlot calls a “call to chaos.”
Letting Go

When the basis of one or more habits decays or disappears, we discover we don’t know who we are any more.
Attending to the Vision

In this great pilgrimage of life, we land in darkness before long, and sometimes it’s a darkness so great we can’t see the hands in front of our faces. We wonder if we even have hands, or feet.
Roadster

No matter how hard I held on, or what the doctors did, this disease was a roiling, heaving event greater than us.