The Darker Areas of Your Soul

By Ariadne Green
A menacing portrait of a woman with stark lighting contrast
Everyone holds a mystery and secrets in the subconscious !ost never travel beyond
their personality and ego to understand a psychology that is of a deeper and sometimes
darker nature " the dimensions of the soul #n fact$ most don%t even know what the soul
is
The soul is the multi&dimensional evolutionary body that 'arl (ung$ the father of depth
psychology$ defined as the )Self) The soul contains evolutionary memory of the
collective legacy of human e*perience$ memories of its previous incarnations$ archetypal
imprints and the union of opposites " dark and light and male and female Defined
through its accumulative evolutionary e*periences$ the soul is multifaceted and
transforms and evolves through each successive lifetime of improvement lessons Some
souls are more evolved than others and all hold old wounds that emerge in the human
e*perience as conflicts to be resolved and karma to be completed
+irst and foremost you are a soul having a human e*perience that is designed to help
you emerge reborn to your oversoul$ commonly called your )spirit) ,ow$ the ne*t
-uestion is. /hat is the spirit0 Your spirit is your angelic self$ a body of light and higher
intelligence that is unified with the Source
Everyone has dark areas of the soul that need healing before they can truly evolve to
embody the higher intelligence of their spirit 1ne must travel the labyrinth of their soul
from time to time to unearth what is hidden deep within The most direct avenue of soul
work is the study of dreams Dreams emerge from time to time that reveal hidden
conflicts and dark areas of the soul that need to be brought to consciousness and
healed The dreams reveal the personal conflicts of an individual soul and also the more
collective wounds and conflicts such as$ the battle between the light and the dark 2good
and evil3
Seeing #nto the 'ollective Soul
As souls we share our consciousness with every other soul in heaven and on earth /e
are truly one Their problems are our problems to some e*tent$ because we shared a
legacy of e*periences and psychic information through a commonality bond There are
issues that are true for everyone These issues are termed collective issues$ because
they reside within the collective soul of humanity and everyone has them Some of them
were imprinted in the beginning into the human soul The fight between good and evil$
immortality versus death$ the grief or rage surrounding the violation and degradation of
se*uality$ the degradation of cultures$ races and genders$ and the collective sins against
the body of the earth and all its creatures$ are all e*amples of collective wounds that
reside deep within us Therefore$ battling a dark lord or an evil demon in a dream may
remark on con-uering a dark side of the soul This is a battle that each and everyone
one of us must win by choosing love over hatred in every instance
The Shadow of Darkness on the +eminine Soul
A dreamer sent me a dream the other day for interpretation that she found e*tremely
disturbing #n the dream$ there was a young woman who had been raped and then
murdered by a gay man$ who in the dream was a friend of her friend%s e*&boyfriend The
young woman%s body decayed and transformed into the bones of her mother$
grandmother and those that came before The dream remarked on a collective wound of
se*ual violation and disempowerment The bones of the ancestors mentioned a legacy
of degradation carried through from one generation to the ne*t ,ot only that$ the dream
revealed a mistrust of gay men who many still$ unfortunately$ stereotypically consider
se*ual predators Those two wounds were up for review not only for the dreamer but
also for her best friend$ whom the dream seemed to be about A needed clarification is
that rape in a dream does not necessarily represent se*ual violation Sometimes it is a
metaphor for domination or the disempowerment of the victim
'on-uering Dark 4ampires
5op culture%s fascination with vampires$ those creatures who derive power by drinking
the blood of victims$ has its roots in the collective soul Since the beginning$ souls have
shared energy with each other 6owever$ there have always been those who stole the
lifeblood 2psychic energy3 of others$ the ma7ority unconsciously but some knowingly A
dream 7ust told to me by a woman psychic e*amined her soul%s attempt to con-uer this
legacy #n the dream$ she was at a mall Amongst others were a large group of demonic
vampires creating a threatening presence 6er first thought was to escape and never
return to the mall 6owever$ as she was about to leave the mall a tall man$ whom she
described as having a great deal of light$ met her at the door After her conversation with
this being of light she was able to muster up the courage to go back into the mall The
male$ with so much light around him$ represented her own masculine higher intelligence
that could help her con-uer her soul%s fear of having her energy stolen The dreamer
was to remember that the light of her spirit was always with her and a power she need to
embrace
Saturn in the Seventh 6ouse
# had a dream many years back in which # was witnessing a horrifying scene out of the
89::%s There was a young woman who was pregnant and in labor 6er husband$ who
was at first standing over her$ came down on her and began to force se*$ raping her The
woman lay there submitting$ but # could see terror on her face The baby was stillborn A
moderators voice bellowed out in the dream$ )This happened because of Saturn in the
;th house) # woke up perple*ed because #$ personally$ don%t have Saturn in my ;th
house$ nor was Saturn transiting through that house at that time$ according to my chart
And it would be unusual for me to submit to anything The dream was e*pressing the
collective theme of patriarchal domination robbing women of their )creations)$
symboli<ed by the baby The ;th 6ouse in astrology is the house of relationships$ usually
between male and female Saturn is the archetype that rules as a father figure$ creating
laws and enforcing them +or centuries the patriarchy has rule the creative process
robbing the feminine of value$ respect$ e-uality and honor !y dream was pointing to a
very real condition entrenched in my soul that needed to be recogni<ed and transformed
Despite the fact that consciously # wouldn%t let any law or any man usurp my power to
succeed$ the subconscious conflict interfered with the fruition of my goals This is a
common issue for most women +or some$ patriarchal values still dominate their
thinking$ but more pervasive is the fact that the internal conflict within the soul causes
women%s pro7ects to be stillborn They creatively die$ never manifesting in the material
because of an archetypal conflict
6ealing these deeper and darker areas of the soul can be a challenge for most Dreams
illuminate the wound and ingrained patterns$ but it may take a cleansing of the soul to
heal$ battle the dark demons and resolve these conflicts +orgiveness$ prayer$ the
miracle of love$ ritual$ a shaman%s helping hand or the help of an e*perienced psychic
healer and advisor can help the process along
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