Women in Bloom

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[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

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@SmaragdinaVisio ✨️Wow, Jung would have had a lot to say about such a dream.

[Laura London @jungianLaura]

James Hollis on Jung’s concept of #projection: "There are typically five stages of a projection. First, our psyche is triggered and some energy leaves us, goes out into the world, falls on a particular person, a career, an institution, or our children—something that’s capable of holding, at least for a while, that projection. We start responding to that other as if it’s the reality, not understanding that we’re in some way encountering disowned aspects of ourselves.

Second, because the other is ‘other,’ there’s invariably a kind of discrepancy that we begin to recognize. It’s almost as if we put on the wrong pair of glasses. The world is somehow blurry instead of clear. So we may think of the other, What’s wrong with you? You’ve changed. You’re not the person I thought you were. You’re different. Or, Why is it that this wonderful career or expectation that I have is not working in the way in which I wanted it to?

That’s the experience of cognitive #dissonance. Because it’s still #unconscious, we still assume the problem is out there, and that can lead to the problem of power. In this third stage, people frequently fall into controlling behaviors or passive-aggressive behaviors in their intimate relationships, or they start tinkering with this or that in the outer world, thinking, If I can just find the right combination of this or that, it’ll all still work out. Unwittingly, the power #complex is trying to ratify and reinforce the expectation, the hidden agenda of the projection in the first place.

The fourth stage is when the projection wears away because the otherness of the other wears through it and collapses the energy that’s involved. That collapse can lead to confusion or dismay or anger. Often people will wind up blaming each other. ‘I was counting on you for this or that. You really let me down.’ Or, ‘You failed,’ or something like that. We’ve all had that experience of burnout where we invest in a #relationship or invest in a #career or invest in some project or even a #hobby and suddenly it no longer has any feedback. It has no reciprocity to it. You realize the projection has failed, but you may not know that existed as a projection at all. You may still be swimming in that #unconscious mechanism and thus you’re likely to just renew that projection on another person, in another situation, in another hobby, in another distraction, or whatever. Even serial failures or disappointments may fail to produce insight that says, All of this is about what is unaddressed in you, not in the other you now judge.

The fifth stage, if it’s going to happen at all, is where you have to own this hidden agenda: Oh, that energy has come back to me. What am I going to do? How am I responsible for that now? What did I put out on you? Or what did I put out on that other that has now come back to me and I’m accountable for it? To give you an obvious example, think of the famous empty-nest syndrome. Even though I knew it was coming, when my daughter, having completed graduate school, drove through town en route to her own career in a distant city, knowing that my heart drove away with her, I still experienced a reactive #depression. So I had to play that little trick that therapists can sometimes play on themselves, and it helps, so I pass it on to you. You can ask yourself, What would I say to someone else who brought this problem to me?"

~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity, pp. 32-33

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[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

There cannot be peaks without roots.

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@_celia_bedelia_ Fixing a thing short term by damaging another long-term has become such a go-to for traditional Western medicine, I am not surprised people are not used to thinking about their bodies and health issues holistically.

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My last question for this challenge is one it has been on my mind these past 40 days of retreat in the unknown.

What steps do you take to make a difference in the world in a way that only you can?
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#40Day #Rubedo #40dayshadowworkchallenge

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

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Venus turns direct after 40 days of retrograde. Today we celebrate the end of the 40-day journey into the shadow of whatever your subconscious holds. And the completion of the Rubedo phase - the end of the passage after Nigredo, Albedo, and Citrinitas.

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

This Leo Venus retrograde shadow work challenge proved to be the catalyst for a breakthrough. As always, there is no light without the darkness. And this journey into our subconscious, proved it is both about the journey and the destination.

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Take a moment to celebrate the changes happening inside and outside of you.

After her rebirth, Venus will shine as a morning star rising from the shadows of the underworld, where her journey has reclaimed a new way of life.
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[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

In the alchemical journey, the stage of Rubedo represents the culmination of the transformative process.

The seeker attains their true essence. A union, and the birth of something new, combining the purified and improved elements of the Materia that make you a wholesome you.

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

Overlaying astrology onto my Jungian coaching practice helps me understand your unique paths to explore the wilderness of the subconscious.

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#Day39 #Rubedo #40dayhadowworkchallenge

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

Hello September!
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The summer of breakups and relationship reconfiguration has been brought to you by the current Venus Rx season.💘♀️

Few things that I noticed during this shadow work challenge and some questions that helped a lot during this tumultuous 40-day transit:

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

Relationships are funny mirrors like that - they always show us the same thing until we deal with it. Acting like mirrors that echo back our core wounds until we are ready to process it.
#awakening

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Pay attention to the people and the stuff that brings you back to you.

In what ways has the Leo Venus retrograde heightened your emotional and self-value awareness?

Are your connections amplified by your relation with yourself or diminished in their quality?

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

our go-to rituals for feeling super empowered and emotionally balanced.
#InnerGoddessAwakening
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#Day38 #Rubedo #40dayhadowworkchallenge

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

💘Venus is beginning to rise from her journey through the underworld, having been in retrograde motion for over a month. This has been a journey of rediscovery of what has pained us at the root of our wound theme.

A rediscovery of our own innate self-worth and

[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

Our sessions are all about being real and honest - that's how we make progress.

We'll dive into shadow work, dream work, persona archetypes, triggers & self-care sabotage, limiting affirmations, and

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Build meaningful relationships

Set healthy boundaries like a boss in your personal and professional life

Get good at transitions by knowing and taking care of yourself
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[Women in Bloom @KoreAlawer]

powerful creativity by unlocking the stories we were not ready to process.

Come to our coaching space where women can safely explore, discover, and blossom. #womeninbloom #IntegrationJourney

In a Jungian coaching session, we can go over how to: