2022 Relate with Equality - Moon Cycle 8

MY HISTORY — ORIGINALLY POSTED JULY 13, 2022 ON INSTAGRAM@THEPOINTOFYOU

Happy full moon! Are you having any experiences these days where you express something you’d like, that triggers someone else … or someone else expresses something they would like, that triggers you ... and it feels like you have to fight to prove your equality to get what you need?

To me, this is co-dependence “hell,” and finally navigating our Selves out of this broadly-systemic-energy-dynamic is our current lifework.

In this 8th moon cycle, we either experience the same old fall into our pattern of co-dependent "winner-loser-power-play” roles … fighting to over-power others to get what we want, or fighting against being over-powered by others … OR we consciously choose to relate with the grace of equality — choosing to a be, and allowing others to be, equally sovereign in relationship.

My own lifework in this cycle is with the magician archetype. After experiencing much success early in my life, and being shamed for it, I “learned” that I had to serve other people’s dreams (co-dependently), at the expense of my own, to be “safe” in the world. I chose relationships with men who I could see “needed” me. I chose to work in businesses that I could see “needed” me.

Today, instead of trying to protect my Self from being betrayed and abandoned by others, by “taking" responsibility for others’ dreams coming true, I now choose to direct my competence, wisdom and leadership toward fulfilling my own dreams … and to "co-operate” (not co-depend) with people who are choosing and creating the same for themselves.

In other words, I am being more conscious about choosing to create sovereign win-win relationships from a place of equal strength, not complementary weaknesses. Sometimes, this means listening with compassion and gracefully saying “no, thank you” to people who co-dependently need me and want me to need them … even when it feels uncomfortable to do so.

Which archetype shows you what you feel you have to fight for and/or against? How can you choose to relate with the grace of being equally sovereign in this way, in relationship with others?