Mercury square Neptune portends our time of curated narrative and the strife caused by it. From “beautification” filters to ego-syntonic and cohesion-busting algorithms, our species has fallen victim to a virtual reality that damages real life. All sides of a multitude of important issues have been managed and manipulated by a ego-mimicing media. No one…
Today Mars opposes Uranus, firing up our nervous systems. The crackling energy is palpable as we head toward the 1st of 7 fate-shifting eclipses from the 19th on through 2022. This Lunar Eclipse with the fixed star Algol-The Demon’s Head-will reveal dark realities. After 21 months of overcontainment, mobilization instincts will break out, and dominion…
On November 19th, the 1st of 7 fateful eclipses, will take us down the rabbit hole. The Sun is now squared Jupiter so we can already feel everything becoming larger than life in both a “Too terrible to comprehend” and a “Too good to be true” manner. We are going to be stretched and compressed…
This New Moon Stellium in Aries, includes the “Wounded Healer” Chiron. The Archetypal Psychology of this Centaur is a story of life-long pain that is transmuted through Love. Chiron’s acceptance of and capacity to be present with his pain transforms his suffering into healing. Like the lotus, that must submerge itself nightly into the mud…
The Sun is conjunct Chiron in Aries and is conjoining Venus & Neptune conjunct in Pisces. We are starting the Astrological New Year from scratch, at the Zero Point of new beginnings. New shoots are literally and figuratively popping up and out of last year’s scorched Earth. So much has and many have been ended,…
As the Holiday Season approaches, please remember that many people with Complex Trauma (Trauma incurred in the Attachment Field as opposed to an acute stress event) have had their hand forced to cut off or greatly limit their relational ties for the sake of their biological and psychological health. No one comes to such and…
The ego is a feature unique to our species. It is our sense of self as well as a sort of psychological container that holds our parts together. Depending on one’s childhood circumstances, along with the ethical choices made up until early adulthood, the ego develops either in a manner that affords integration or becomes…
The term of Narcissist is overused and flippantly thrown around in popular culture. My training is for clinicians/practitioners treating patients who have been exposed to people with the actual clinical disorder of NPD and Sociopathy. https://psychesjourney.com/events/professionals-training-treating-survivors-narcissistic-abuse/ The Treating Narcissistic Abuse Training focuses on differential diagnosis of NPD from other clinical conditions and characteristics. This training…
When couples are working through their childhood trauma through the dynamic of their relationship, it is important to remember the stress reaction cycle and conscious communication guidelines. Although, life feels like a stimulus leads to a response, there are emotional states that lead to one’s reactions. Conscious Communication Through Emotions: Mad, Sad, Glad, Afraid We…
Although empaths possess exceptional neurological abilities in emotional coregulation and capacity, it is important to name that there are other unique adaptations to being an empath that exceed the neurotypical brain. Three of these phenomena are over-containment of ones own state, cognitive autoimmune responses, and tracking. All three of these are sophisticated threat responses that…
