Shadow Work
Always an uncomfortable process,
working with our shadow involves
considering how our best qualities
manage to hide us from our worst
and choosing instead to employ an honest mediator between the two.
Condor is horrified by life’s indignities.
If your Daring energy vacillates between love and hate with only heartbreak to show for it, you are lost in shadow.
True Power requires that you subdue your flight of passions and, instead,
share the slights and hurts that arise as you dance with your Beloved.
Find inclusive language to express temporary feelings of disgust.
Reaffirm your loyalty even while expressing each small displeasure.
Bat is absorbed in selfless love.
Manatee sees others as threats and seeks to escape.
If your Determined energy approaches all interactions with others as a problem to be fixed, you are lost in shadow.
True Power requires that you quiet the impulsive Dolphin urges to engage and, instead,
retreat with the Manatee to the depths of your manifest distrust.
Listen more closely to the messages of Despondency.
Lend them your powerful voice and force to make their needs known.
Dolphin wants to participate with others in a spirit of openness and trust.