Shadow

Qualities: reaction, resistance, attachment, unfinished business, unexpressed aspects, hidden potential, journey to wholeness, healing destructive family patterns, and internalized father/mother

Profound insights and empowerment await your journey into the smoky mirror of shadow’s wisdom. Shadow is simply the unseen faces of the light, your “unfinished business,” your fears and doubts, the parts of yourself that you normally avoid or hide. Shadow, the unexpressed, holds the most powerful potentials and important tools for transformation. Shadow gifts you with the vision of how your illusions – your beliefs, judgments, fears, and limitations – are the only things that stand between you and the light.

Your shadow will offer you signs for growth in everyday life. When you have a charged reaction to any person, situation, or issue, this is a clear signal that a shadow aspect is asking to be seen, owned, and thus transformed. Be direct about sharing what you normally withhold. Fully experience and express your emotions. Honor your relationships by your willingness to address shadows with others. Your reward will be deeper intimate, love, and self-acceptance.

Working with shadow is an important part of the journey of self into perceiving its wholeness. When you personally heal and integrate your own shadow aspects, you also help to heal the larger pattern of the collective mindfield.

Now is the time to heal destructive past family patterns and to work on bringing to awareness unfinished business with both your biological father and mother, and the internalized voice of your inner father and mother. When you were growing up, you naturally transferred male authority and female nurturance to an outer father and mother figure. Begin the journey of reclamation of male authority and female nurturance of your own inner father/mother, that only you can offer yourself. Take back the power you gave away growing up to nurture and give yourself permission to be, do, and become all that you are!