Embodied as The Lover

The Dimension of Powerful-Work

Inspired State of Attunement

Builds the Capacity for Discernment

 

Energetic Cunning Unleashed

Hunters prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to love the world. But the Queen of the forest long ago recognized that selfish gospels create suffering. She has tasted the bitter weeds that numb her soul and turn her cold. She is not blind to the traps of Narcissists (however clever the snares) and is intuitive to Sociopath’s poison set out to kill her.

She’s blended with Trickster energy, too powerful for comfort. She penetrates and anticipates. And so is well prepared when she confronts the liars or jumps beyond the barbed wires. Farmers will say she is crazy, of course, too emotional, and wild, rabid even, a danger on the farm.

But, if there is any hope for humankind, it will come from such powerful female Heart energy (called the Anima in the male psyche) impossible to catch! Beings who love the world enough to raid the henhouse, stealing all the eggs from dominators and their best laid plans before they hatch.

Energetic

Why this painting?

Energetic is an inherent state of the Inspired Self. Notice within the Power that requires you to face circumstances clearly, energetically, and warns you not to be hemmed in. We live in a traumatized society. And each of us have some Heart-dramas needing enactment, perhaps for you this is something in the present you need to face or some unresolved adversity from long ago. Avoiding what feels perilous, prey animals will hide. Herd animals will pretend. Wounded animals will flee with secrets that can be weights about their neck. With the image of the Empress, you are being called to remember a bolder attitude.

Though she too may hide, pretend, flee with her secrets (she is flexible and so no action is out of the question), she maintains her cool, moving freely but strategically, aware but uncowed by the very real dangers. In the landscape of Narcissists and Sociopaths, she is a powerful inner entity and personal resource. This courageous personality (subjugators would call her a nightmare) understands that only arduous, dangerous, and wild work can help her maintain her sanity. The hunters who live fully in projection of their own nightmares would never comprehend that she lives in Love, and in Unconditional Love she grows the capacity for discernment.

Inside Out:

Find the being in you that is sufficiently alive to hunt for what is most important and worthy of your life. Be animated and sufficiently bold. Drive the action. Take a step onto some lands that rulers have colonized and have tried to keep closed to you.

The Empress can be an aid to you in therapeutic work. She is plucky, spontaneous and refuses to be deterred from exploring places that are frightening. In experiential therapies, it is helpful to be a shapeshifter, and it comes natural to the Empress to switch in and out of roles and to step into other worlds. Role reversals can accelerate awareness of the crucial players, both internal and external, who have influenced your actions and reactions.

Trust yourself to decide what is ultimately worthwhile to seek out. Trust yourself that there are points of view you do not want to even try to understand. Empathy for those who will injure you is not beneficial, especially if they still exist in your experiential landscape and can exert influence; it can lead you to distrust your essential intuition and so to minimize their threat.

Upside down:

When the Empress is caged by pressures to maintain the appearance of normality, the crafty elusiveness of a Fox can be used in the service of Self-Deception, to deny what is true, to disguise the Pain. Beware of urges to “compartmentalize,” a clinically polite word for denial. Understand that dampening your wild spirit undermines your more creative efforts.

Watch out for people, inner voices, external family members or organizations who support avoidance and caution you not to dig deeply. Often the most fervent accomplices for Self-Deception can be people in “intimate” relationships, siblings, spouses, friends. Well meaning, perhaps, but more likely self-serving, they encourage silence, conformity, and limits to your potential. You may recognize their counsel by empty cliches or a fixed belief they require of you. They may attempt to excuse or veil what the Empress inside us needs to recognize, any minimizing of abuse, for example. Or tribalism, racism, sexism, hateful multi-generational traditions, mind-numbing theocracy, systems of male domination or simply wishful thinking and the refusal to face the Truth.

There are consequences for remaining unconscious. A caged Empress becomes increasingly neurotic, depressed, anxious, or self-destructive, erratic, even dangerous to those who try to love you.