Soulbyte for Friday January 15, 2016

A warrior is a spiritual being. A warrior spends life in a state of awe, always ready for the next challenge, always anticipating change, for a warrior knows that life is all about change. A warrior lives in tune with nature, the sun, stars, and moon guides in the heavens; the rivers, lakes, and streams the pulse of life; the wind like breath, the earth like the Soul of the warrior, deep and nurturing. Your warrior self seeks union with the true nature of your spirit. In union comes knowledge of Self and all that is. Above all, the warrior seeks knowledge. With knowledge all is revealed and understood. With knowledge the warrior’s path is made clear and filled with awe. Stay in the awe!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday January 14, 2016

Hold yourself in the highest regard for you carry within the golden seeds of enlightenment. All beings carry the same seeds though often those seeds are never nurtured, tended, or allowed to sprout. There are many opportunities in a lifetime that tickle those seeds into life. Even without awareness they are touched by love and kindness.

Breathe them into life. Give them your love. In this manner honor yourself as a being of great potential and allow the golden seeds within you to awaken. Even as you live an ordinary life in an ordinary world, even if you are unaware, so do they join you on your spiritual journey, that is, the life you are in.

Give your golden seeds some love and kindness today. Give them some gentle play today too! In this manner awaken and honor your greatest potential.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne, with a little bit of play from Chuck

Chuck’s Place: Bowie, Androgyny, Syzygy, and Wholeness

Spirit rising... - Photo by Chuck Ketchel
Spirit rising…
– Photo by Chuck Ketchel

I honor the earthly life of David Bowie who creatively expressed and lived the innate androgyny of all human beings to the benefit of human evolution. Well done, David. May your journey continue to new energetic heights!

Marie-Louise von Franz quite bluntly identified the physical manifestation of a woman in a man’s body in his nipples, and the physical manifestation of a male in a woman’s body in her clitoris. Although one’s sex is genetically determined, she points out, biologically it is obvious that there is a real contrasexual component to both sexes, present in the sex they are born into.

Psychologically, C. G. Jung coined the term syzygy to depict the inherent pairing of contrasexual opposites within the human being. Syzygy literally means yoked together, like a pair of horses bound together, drawing a carriage. The male/female parts of each human being are yoked together for life in every human being and it remains for all to creatively get to know, accept, and integrate those part selves into a wholeness that gains deeper entrée into the magic and mystery of infinity.

We find ourselves now in an energetic fervor similar to that of 1933 Nazi Germany when the solution to wholeness went the way of the scapegoat, of annihilating the shadow self, projected, in a xenophobic assignment of the rejected self, onto the wandering Jew. As history has shown, this psychotic one-sided attempt at purification to achieve wholeness allowed pure evil to dominate the world and nearly destroy it. Extinguishing an unwanted part will never bring about wholeness.

On another front, the movie The Danish Girl depicts another fatal attempt to achieve wholeness through a concretized physical attempt to surgically transform the body. Unfortunately, the psychiatry of that time, the 1920s, had not been sufficiently infused with Jung’s wisdom about syzygy to support a deeper process of reconciliation with one’s inner opposites.

David Bowie shines as a modern creative being who fully allowed for the unfolding, integration, and manifestation of a multifaceted being. He continued to evolve and died as an integrated warrior, leaving behind a plethora of insinuations for creative transformation and wholeness.

Thank you, David. Bon voyage,

Chuck

Soulbyte for Wednesday January 13, 2016

Why are you so hard on yourself? Why do you turn away from your Spirit Self, though it calls to you so sweetly? Why do you run when it loves you so deeply, wants you, and needs you? Why do you look outside of you when what you seek is inside you? Though you look without what you really seek lies within. Your one true love is your Spirit Self and your Spirit Self wants only for you to receive it and be at one with it. It is the union you yearn for, right there all along!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday January 12, 2016

All beings are seekers. Some seek with intent, others with abandon. No path is greater or less than another, for all journeys are journeys of the soul. You might not see this in others, but are you aware of this in yourself, of your own soul’s journey? Turn inward as often as possible for clarity. Ask what it is that your soul really seeks in this lifetime and then seek that, with both intent and abandon.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR