Daydream_weaver's Refuge

Sometimes...I wonder if I do myself an injustice by not being accepting of her. The wilder side of me. I even seperate her in my thoughts that way, not as if she is a part of me that has a place of her own within the whole...but as an alien part, something to distrust and fear.

And yet I admire her in a way. She is so much that I am not, so wild and so free. Sometimes I feel like I am just a mask of her...a pale representation.

Oh my goddess those are my words exactly!!

Are you familiar with the Guardian on the Threshold?
 
Husky laughter, eyes drifting closed. Poor Muse, soo conflicted. Head goes back. Peace is good, laughter is good. Contentment is good.

Admiration for something that is a part of you is good, my Muse. Acceptance and learning to focus and guide what you have found is also good. Fear has no place in the natural order. You are what you are, sweetness and light..

A finger cocking toward myself

Or darkness and hunger...it is all the same, just two sides of the same coin...
 
I haven't heard of it, no. *her excitement brings a smile to my lips*


*I tilt my head considering Luna's softly spoken words* ...and do we all have the same coin inside us? Both sides?
 
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I haven't heard of it, no. *her excitement brings a smile to my lips*

Well, in my coven (and I think its a Jungian concept to be fair), we always believed that for every initiation, there is an initiatory. When one first goes into the inner places of the self, there is a guardian to challenge you, to not let you pass until you are ready. It is often described as combat actually, but really it is finding some sort of symbiosis with those parts of you that have been repressed... (and hence their designation as inner, eh?).

This feels like that. The Guardian itself is for a specific initiation, but each stage has its own similar concept, its just that the first is so intense because of the sheer mass of repression into which one is delving.
 
I haven't heard of it, no. *her excitement brings a smile to my lips*


*I tilt my head considering Luna's softly spoken words* ...and do we all have the same coin inside us? Both sides?

I believe we do...neglecting one side because you feel it is scary or dirty makes you weaker for it. Acceptance is key.

Well, in my coven (and I think its a Jungian concept to be fair), we always believed that for every initiation, there is an initiatory. When one first goes into the inner places of the self, there is a guardian to challenge you, to not let you pass until you are ready. It is often described as combat actually, but really it is finding some sort of symbiosis with those parts of you that have been repressed... (and hence their designation as inner, eh?).

This feels like that. The Guardian itself is for a specific initiation, but each stage has its own similar concept, its just that the first is so intense because of the sheer mass of repression into which one is delving.

Nods as I listen

I was taught this as well, for vision questing and spirit guides...
 
Opens an eye and jumps up from my place on the couch...meanders toward the back deck. Bored, want to move.
 
Makes it to the back deck and steps outside...after a moment's debate, allows the change to come...returning to my wolf form...down the stairs...away....through the woods..a low howl...fades into the distance...going home...
 
Makes it to the back deck and steps outside...after a moment's debate, allows the change to come...returning to my wolf form...down the stairs...away....through the woods..a low howl...fades into the distance...going home...

Listens to Luna fade away, confused.
 
*focuses on my hands resting in my lap*

What I was going to say was I am interested in what you said. That I understand about repression. Is that a book that you mentioned?
 
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*focuses on my hands resting in my lap(

What I was going to say was I am interested in what you said. That I understand about repression. Is that a book that you mentioned?

Well, it is a concept talked about by Carl Yung and also Joseph Campbell if you want some reading. I learned it initially from my coven though. It was built into our system.
 
Well, it is a concept talked about by Carl Yung and also Joseph Campbell if you want some reading. I learned it initially from my coven though. It was built into our system.

If you think about it though.... there are two reasons why something may not be available to us.. 1. our aware part of our mind is rather limited and can only focus on a part of our personality at once.. its like a lense.. the self is just too big for us to see it at once... and/or 2. there is something that we cant deal with, so we rationalize it away, tuck it out of sight until we are ready. Its a coping mechanism.
 
To keep us from being overwhelmed by it all. That makes sense...

yeah... and so it also make sense that access to these parts of the self would only come once we had undone the things that made us want to put them there to begin with... hence the confrontation. For me, part of the fear of primal is the guilt I feel over having hurt people. Thats whats bringing up this fear now. I have to face that before I can co-exist with that part of my self.
 
I agree with that, actually. Something that bothers you, as that obviously does, has to be dealt with before you can move on. Just as I have things to come to terms with as well. But it is a good thing, it is growth.
 
I would, but I think it will have to wait for another time. My son has an appointment in the morning and it is getting late. I think I should sleep.
 
I would, but I think it will have to wait for another time. My son has an appointment in the morning and it is getting late. I think I should sleep.

I rise, straightening my skirt, giving my hostess a warm smile and offering a hug. "Thank you for the visit Dreamer, maybe we can do it again soon?"
 
I hope so Angel, and soon. I really enjoyed our conversation and I'd like to continue it.

*giving her a hug and a soft kiss on the cheek I step back with a smile*
 
I hope so Angel, and soon. I really enjoyed our conversation and I'd like to continue it.

*giving her a hug and a soft kiss on the cheek I step back with a smile*

Angel fades, to reappear in the vortex accompanied by an ethereal yawn of her own.
 
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