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fought Sigourney Weaver. Our fear, rage and disgust over the Dark Goddess can be
seen in our severe reactions to women who do no not no
behave as the loving, nurturing
mothers we expect/want them to be.
Ask someone to give a description of the personality type s/he finds most offensive,
irritating, and impossible to get along with, and s/he will produce a description of
his/her own repressed shadow!
"Jungian psychology tells us that in order to heal the wounds and suffering caused by
denying and rejecting specs of our wholeness, we must first enter into our
unconscious and develop a relationship with our shadow. It is necessary to recognize
that all of these hated and ostracized parts of ourselves have a legitimate need to exist
and be expressed. If we can affirm the full range of our essential human nature,
acknowledging both the desirable and undesirable qualities, then we have the option
to transform the more problematical energies that cause our pain and suffering into
constructive activity that will benefit our lives and relationships.
We need to go into our darkness and make our peace with all the lost parts of
ourselves in order to redeem the healing and renewal that reside in the dark.
The hero or heroine's journey into the underworld to reclaim the stolen treasure from
the monster is not an easy quest, and is fraught with many dangers. As we move
toward accepting the wholeness of our beings, we will inevitably have to revise our
fears of the dark.
And so we must invoke and praise the Dark Goddess, who has been banished to the
neglected corners of our psyches. Her ultimate function is to facilitate the
transformation that occurs in t he dark. She provokes the death of our ego selves, of
our old forms, and of our false assumptions, so that we can give birth to the new. Our
personal healing experiences then become the training ground for the compassion
that permeates our potentialities as a wounded healer. The mystery of the Dark Moon
Goddess is that death and birth are the twin faces of her cosmic orgasm with the Sun
God each month at the new moon conjunction. Fulfilled in love, she then circles,
ever turning around the earth, and sends forth a shower of blessings with the
knowledge that there is no annihilation." (Ibid 55-58)