Energetic
Cunning Unleashed, Penetrating
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 their selfish gospels created 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.
Why this painting?
In relation to the Lover and in support of the wounded Child, the Artist understands that she needs to interrupt and release what the body has held, and to take an action that is just right for her leading towards Fulfillment. Sensing the Turning Point is near, the moment that the drama has led her to, she will call upon Energetic Fox, to assist with the Ritual of Pain. For effective Ritual she needs to tap a force that is passionate (penetrating and unleashed) yet Responsive (with self-mastery).
Energetic is an inherent state of the Inspired Self. Notice within you this Power that requires you to face circumstances clearly, energetically, and warns you not to be hemmed in. Since we live in a traumatized society, and each of us have some Heart-dramas needing enactment, perhaps for you there is something in the present you need to face. Or there is some unresolved adversity from long ago. Avoiding what feels perilous, prey animals will hide. Herd animals will pretend. Less energetic animals will flee and refuse to face their wounds and their secrets that can be weights about their neck. With the image of the Huntress, you are being called to remember a bolder attitude.
Though she too may hide, pretend, and flee with her secrets (she is flexible and so no action is out of the question), she maintains her wits, 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, and embodies the capacity of Discernment.
Inside Out:
There are consequences for remaining unconscious. A caged Huntress becomes increasingly neurotic, depressed, anxious, or self-destructive, erratic, even dangerous to those who try to love you.
Find the being in you that is sufficiently alive to hunt down 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.
This Huntress 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 especially helpful to be a shapeshifter, 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 the Huntress Fox in you 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. Heed her warning; empathy for those who will injure you is not beneficial, especially if they still exist in your experiential landscape and can exert influence.
Upside down:
Beware of encouragement 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 seductive counsel by their empty cliches or some fixed belief they push. They may attempt to excuse or veil or minimize abuse, with versions of 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.
