Tag: The Orphanic Wound

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The Orphanic Wound describes the universal injury of separation and the archetypal orphaning of the soul. We trace the journey from the Aporphan Event—the primal act of severance—to the resulting state of Orphancy, where the soul feels cast out from its origin. This is not merely a social condition but a profound site of alchemical transformation. By witnessing this wound, the dispossessed soul begins its path toward individuation, untethering from the pain of displacement to find a true center of gravity within the Self.

  • The Karma of Leaving

    The Karma of Leaving

    Show me the way in which the child was left, and I will show you the way in which that child grows up and later leaves others and ultimately leaves himself.

  • Trauma Bears & Bees

    Trauma Bears & Bees

    I can handle a lot of projections–but my, do they sting.

  • If People Were Stray Animals

    If People Were Stray Animals

    If people were stray animals, we would all be worth rescuing. Groups of rescuers would band together, forming networks whose only purpose is to give care and comfort to the abandoned.

  • The Goose Girl

    The Goose Girl

    The manner in which we leave, or are forced to leave home is a golden key that unlocks the mysteries of a lost inheritance. From the way we left, we can see what’s missing and will need to be reclaimed.

  • The Paradox of One

    The Paradox of One

    Parents get to drive the control car for up to 18 years, but after that, the kid gets to drive and we’re relegated to the back seat, if allowed in the car at all.

  • Lost

    Lost

    Children who weren’t loved, but were left unprotected, don’t know the voice of the good shepherd—the inner guide who calls the soul toward wholeness. Trained instead by parents who mirrored the shadow’s thieves and hirelings—they became attuned to the discordant voices of betrayal.

  • Father’s Day Redux

    Father’s Day Redux

    When we finally gave our parents what they ought to have first given us, we discovered we were repairing not only our own hearts, but tears in the fabric of the universe, too.