Healing & Integrating Your Shadows

Healing/Integrating Your Shadows in Your Fire, Earth, Air, and Water Signs

Your Shadows handicap, or even stop you cold, on your Spiritual Path, relationship path, and personal growth path. Its characteristics also make you not very pleasant and highly defensive, perhaps aggressive, or other less than desirable traits.

When your whole personality is in-synch, or in-phase, you function holistically well in a pretty balanced way so that you grow emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and probably get on reasonably well in your behaviors and events as well. You probably do well on the Physical Plane because what you have within yourself, you pour out, or out-picture, to the world that you meet.

Spiritually speaking, I deem the Shadow a highly Spiritual part because it helps us know what’s blocking AND what is suggested in its opposite. We are spirits of Light, but VERY identified with Mind, Ego, and senses—to the point that we have forgotten ourselves as Souls, as Spirits.

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When we are deep in the forgetting, the Shadow parts, the inverse of our positive parts, dominate. When we turn to ourselves selfishly, we instigate in ourselves the Shadow which is as false as the Ego, yet it or they MUST be dealt with.

How to identify Shadow(s) and deal with this part of our psyches? Actually the Shadow subject is too huge in us and in Astrology to address adequately in this hour because dark characteristics are found in our 4th, 8th, and 12th Houses (for those of you who’ve studied some of this Sacred Art). One of its purposes is to empower us—by illustrating the *wrong end of power* in such things as anger, resentment, guilt, aggression, and the like. These are identifications with which everyone has experience.

Although the Shadow is hidden in ourselves (indicated in the 3 Houses just mentioned) it is out-pictured around ourselves sometimes or frequently, depending on our attitudes and Profile. Out-picturing means that a person or situation comes to face you in some way in your daily life—prompting you to deal with what seems to be “out there.” Someone with planets in the 8th and 12th Houses will encounter those Shadows often and be regularly challenged—until what must be learned is learned.

More well-known to most of you is your Sun Sign in which Shadow selves exist. Most likely your friends and family are familiar with yours, while you may be less conscious of this disagreeable or even horrid part of you.

Let’s look at these in the Signs while suggesting ways that such dark parts can be integrated to your light. Click on the signs below.