From Darkness To Light- Integrating the Shadow Within

shadowLouisa Love – Much of the work I am focusing my attention on at the moment is about integrating the shadow. What does it mean to integrate the shadow? And what is the shadow

The shadow is anything we feel ashamed about, or it can also be seen as our repressed inner child that demands being heard during certain emotional trigger points. The shadow emerges its dark head when we are challenged and it usually causes havoc within our relationships. Continue reading

Healing Our Inner Separations

healingKate Spreckley – We must remember that chaos always precedes any major change and what is happening in our world today indicates that major change is underway. The intensity of this time is urging us to see that what is occurring now is the dismantling of another energetic layer of the past.

As this layer dissolves we are compelled to awaken from our own inner darkness and the chain of karmic cycles which have kept us separated and bound to outdated patterns and beliefs. Continue reading

The Shadow Side of Awakening: False Prophets, Nasty Gurus & Bliss Babes

magicLori Ann Lothian – In the seven years since an overnight spiritual awakening catapulted me into a surreal peace with a months-long afterglow—followed by years of increasing hyper-synchronicity, mini-miracles and rare but intense episodes of suffering—I have learned two true things:

Nothing is static, especially enlightenment.  And awakening to true nature does not mean liberation from the personality (and it’s shadow) but rather a new relationship to it.

In a private message, a new friend asked this about me, today:  “But I wonder about the shadow…What do I not see? What does she hide from others? Are there things she rejects about herself? How would that play out?”

Well, in full disclosure, let me answer these questions. Continue reading

Half-Way Through The Pluto In Capricorn Transit

plutoCarol Ciocco –  On January 25, 2008 – 8 years ago tomorrow – the planet Pluto (which had been re-classified a dwarf planet in 2006) entered the sign of Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.

This was a humongous shift, one of the biggest turning points of our time. We astrologers knew it was coming. As the 16-year Pluto in Capricorn era began, we knew that unprecedented massive societal changes to all of the world’s structured organizations/institutions – esp corporations and government – was on its way. Like a freight train.

As expected, government is now nearly completely owned by corporations – here in the US we now live in a Plutocratic Corporatocracy. At the same time, corruption in institutions is being dredged up like sewage, as the dark and ugly aspects our societal structures are exposed – mostly through independent internet-based independent media.

Of course, this macrocosmic darkness is only a reflection of our inner ‘shadow side’, and is a systemic manifestation of it. When we look out at society, we are looking at a mirror of our fear-based aspects, and our lack of love for ourselves. This means one basic and all-important thing: we can change it because we can choose to change ourselves.

Within months of Pluto entering Capricorn, the massive Bear-Stearns global investment bank collapsed due to Wall Street’s casino-gambling of the people’s money in a heartless game of trading worthless assets. A global Ponzi Scheme. Continue reading