The Unconscious Is Not Just Evil By Nature, It Is Also The Source Of The Highest Good: Not Only Dark

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.

The Practice of Psychotherapy

Carl Jung

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Libbee tries to be just and fair to all. An animal, a bird, a fish can feel and suffer pain. To live without guilty conscience, Libbee believes in painless existence of all living beings. As someone who is into astrology, Veganism was a big stepping stone in my self-realization and analyzing my shadow traits. Veganism is not just about food; food is not just about hunger; food is identity, self image, habit, repetition, dependence. Veganism has shed light upon the half-truths, misinformation, ignorance and darkness that lived inside me.

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hi, can my feelings of sudden and unexplainable guilt be linked to people being mad at me from their self made projections about me. it's like a spiritual warfare that's going on and it's because of them not me. and lot of times i also intuitively feel the need to adapt and adjust to a different me so that doesn't piss off people (who don't know me, i get projected a lot) in order to keep the peace

i have 1st house lilith, 12th house sun, pisces rising and scorpio mars in vedic

Hello,

You say sudden and unexplainable guilt... to adapt and adjust to a different me so that does not piss off people. And that people project a lot to you.

Could it be that you feel guilt because you change yourself around people? See, every situation is different and we do unconsciously adapt to the environment and mirror the feelings of other people. This is necessity of social life. But after this trip around the town, do you come back home?

Guilt is a relatable emotion and I can say I feel guilty when I do something that is not consistent with my... values. I do not have any strict written down values but when the heart says something is not right, it wants to analyze some event or interaction.

A sudden pang in the chest, a quiet voice persistently whispering at the back of our mind, we experience guilt when our actions, or deliberate lack thereof, infringe upon our personal ethical code or societal norms.- https://thisjungianlife.com/guilt/

So perhaps the guilt is invitation to build a home inside yourself, where you feel at equilibrium, peace, safe beyond the influences of other people. How a home feels just right.

Astrology of Goodbye

I don't know how to see goodbye in chart. I will only share the stories of mine and my family's charts. This is in no way intended to guide someone else nor it is indication that everyone going through certain dasha will definitely undergo the same event. I only share dots I can connect from little knowledge I have.

Trigger warning: death, loss of parent, grief.

This happened in my Jupiter's mahadasha that I have been running since 2014. That year I started college. Definitely Jupiter is planet of blessings and it is luck and blessing to graduate and be able to use degree for job and livelihood. Then in Ketu's antardasha in 2022 that rules my 1st house, my father was diagnosed with a life threatening disease. For my father's chart, it happened in his Venus Mahadasha and Jupiter Antardasha. Jupiter rules his 8th house that has Saturn in it. It came to light out of nowhere, suddenly, although there was no prior hint.

On first impression, I thought Saturn in 8th house gives very long life, although it may not guarantee good quality of life. I had read that this placement can give chronic diseases. I assured my father that nothing will happen to him, trust me, this will pass for you, just keep taking medical treatment, you're only being tested by God. Once I asked him do you have faith in astrology papa? He said, I have faith in you. So I said, then trust me you will live a long life.

Time pass by, medical treatments do not work for him. One chemotherapy. Next radiotherapy. No change. Next immunotherapy. Next chemotherapy. Next chemotherapy. All these treatments for long months. He was not ready to give up. As you know each chemotherapy takes months for cycles then we wait for some days before body scan. It was test of patience and powerlessness. I stopped telling him astrology and stop seeing everything. In my culture, vedic astrology is a big thing so we consult my friend's father who sees charts. He says, is it in bones? Do not worry, nothing will happen to you, you will recover even without surgery.

Meanwhile, we do everything we know. Buying stones, doing rituals, long 9 days of rituals, donating food grains and consulting a family tantrik. My father's health deteriorates further. One day he tells me, look my skin looks so old, I look like I am 95 year old. Instantly it struck me that although he's young he indeed looks like he is very old because of the treatments and looks like he "lived a long life".

My obsession with studying the 8th house makes me realize that he is being compelled to take the path of Yogi. He eats nothing, drinks nothing, speaks nothing, cannot leave house, does not go to work, does not socialize. This means he is doing sadhana and it is spiritually important event. It is internal self destruction to the point of nothing, so that a big transformation can begin.

In rahu's antardasha and rahu pratyantardasha, dear father leaves his body and departs to the world of unknown. For me, it was my Venus' antardasha and rahu's pratyantardasha. For my mother, she was running rahu's mahadasha, rahu's antardasha and venus pratyantardasha. I have venus in my 8th house but it rules my 7th/12th house. My mother's 8th/1st house are ruled by Venus. Can you see the change in her identity, self image, social identity from this information? It makes some sense in hindsight.

So, this is the story of timeline of what happened and when. How my incomplete astro knowledge made me tell misinformation and false promise to my father. And why I will only stick to personality analysis and not predicting events in coming times. I have not touched astrology for last 7 or 8 months now. But today it feels like I need to take it seriously and begin learning things from scratch once again. Living in a rut will keep close to memories of past but life has to move on even if that means getting distant from memories and not thinking of the same things every single day.

Thank you to people who asked me how I was doing. This community is very supportive and does not forget you though one may forget oneself. My best wishes to everyone.

— A. Y.

Emotional turmoil that feels like motion sickness

Have you ever done something against your conscience? For eg, cheated someone who believed you to be honest. Have you ever done something that is supposed to give positive feelings but instead make you sick? For eg, giving a dance performance but feeling guilty and wrong about it.

Emotional turmoil is the downward spiral of negative emotions like guilt, shame, confusion, resentment. It may make one sick, physically sick like motion sickness. Motion sickness gives one nausea, dizziness, fatigue and vomiting sensations. It is something you understand with experience.

There are similarities in symptoms of emotional turmoil and motion sickness. Emotional turmoil usually happens because of internal spiritual or psychological conflicts. Whereas motion sickness happens while travelling via sea or car or airplane or swinging or when you run round and round.

"A man is ill, but the illness is nature's attempt to heal him." - Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 361

When one does not understand the nature of emotional turmoil, they resort to methods to numb or escape them. But there is so much potential in the turmoil for depth and inner realizations.

I don't want to call emotional turmoil as a tool for personal growth or self improvement or self actualization because I think that neither improvement nor actualization is lasting and permanent. The effects last for maybe 4/5 minutes and then emotions are back to the same behaviour as before.

Emotional turmoil, however, can be a tool for psychoanalysis and self inquiry.

Whenever we talk about emotions we symbolize them with water. Water is volatile, flowing and has a lot of power. Just like emotions are moving inside our body and hold a lot of power.

So, to realize that sickness is around the corner if you do certain behaviours can actually take you to a path that is more honest to your inner life: a path where you don't feel as sick anymore. Whenever you feel the sickness coming in, it is symptom that the path has to change a little or maybe a lot.