theartemisian.com
I write and teach about inner work through the lens of archetypal studies and Jungian psychology, exploring how myth, dreams, alchemy, and tarot can build a deeper relationship with the psyche.
theartemisian.com
I write and teach about inner work through the lens of archetypal studies and Jungian psychology, exploring how myth, dreams, alchemy, and tarot can build a deeper relationship with the psyche.
Not a loss of self, but a deepening of it. A paradoxical wholeness, where difference is not dissolved, but honored.
This is the alchemy of relationships.
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Not a loss of self, but a deepening of it. A paradoxical wholeness, where difference is not dissolved, but honored.
This is the alchemy of relationships.
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By withdrawing projections, setting firm boundaries, untangling intense emotions, we begin to see the other more clearly.
Not as a mirror of our unmet needs, but as their own distinct being.
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By withdrawing projections, setting firm boundaries, untangling intense emotions, we begin to see the other more clearly.
Not as a mirror of our unmet needs, but as their own distinct being.
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The originating condition is never pure.
Our attachments are woven with shadow and expectations, longings we place upon a partner.
Now we’re called to unravel them.
The originating condition is never pure.
Our attachments are woven with shadow and expectations, longings we place upon a partner.
Now we’re called to unravel them.
Meaningful union requires a pulling apart, a process of differentiation. Without this, we risk a monstrum, a distorted fusion of projections, unmet needs, and unconscious patterns.
Not intimacy, but confusion and enmeshment.
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Meaningful union requires a pulling apart, a process of differentiation. Without this, we risk a monstrum, a distorted fusion of projections, unmet needs, and unconscious patterns.
Not intimacy, but confusion and enmeshment.
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