Jung said if the cultural mythology fails us, then the myth making power lies in individuals. The most important question we can ask ourselves is what myth am I living.

Creative unconscious as a guiding, whispers symbolically giving us powerful blueprints to own our own authority as older women for ourselves, not waiting behind the scenes but determining who we are in this stage of life. We claim self agency. Reimagine a way forward, using imaginal symbolic creative unconscious. Jungian Psychotherapy is an analytical psychological approach to talk therapy that seeks to bring balance and union between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind and body. Carl Jung taught that the unconscious is purposeful. He saw that our dream shows us (therapist or patient), through images, how to take the next step in in our own individuation journey. He also saw that a legend or fairy tale uses similar images to similar purpose.Sandlplay, dreams and fairytales. Meaning making systems using symbolism. Focuses on using non-rational methods. Connection from past to present - Telos - acorn theory. Connection to Self, the Imago Dei - the God/dess image inside each of us. What does yours look like?Jung showed that some images are true symbols, that is, the best possible representation of a mystery. Therapy helps us to develop a dialogue between the conscious mind and the unconscious: the unconscious itself remains a mystery. Such dialogue dissolves psychological blockages and thus allows the personality to renew itself.Jung’s approach to therapy works, in part, by helping us to better understand the images which the unconscious sends us. These images may appear in our relationships with others, as well as in dreams and myths.Therapy helps us to confront unconscious contents as they are projected onto our relationships. Relationships improve as we become more conscious.Since creativity also involves a dialogue with the unconscious, Jungian therapy is a creative process. It is thus specially attractive to creative people.Archetypal images represent as-yet-unconscious potentials. Jung saw that archetypal potential leads to illness when it is blocked. Therapy helps us to relate to archetypal images consciously, thereby releasing their energy for growth. Carl Jung’s approach resembles that of many traditional cultures; traditional cultures often attend closely to dreams.The archetype-as-such is universal while the archetypal image is derived from the dreamer’s experience.The shadow, anima, animus, and Self are common archetypal forms. Therapy works to make these more conscious. Each usually appears as a charged human figure.Archetypes, though numerous, are still limited in number – they represent universal factors.Jung argued that the personality can be renewed by integrating new archetypal contents.

Aging as a spiritual path

Spiritual Companion- Daiemon / soulmate reminds us who we are - an acorn - a Calling- a choice point- a unique way of being and gift to the world- represents the potential- not a predestined life - an image- helps us to remember what we are here for- follow our path intuitively aligned with our calling- risky not necessarily safe or easy, the world is persuading you helping you to align with calling. Not a race to the finish line- but a journey- aDISCOvery - of our authentic self, - path can be very smooth, opportunities presented, intuitive aligned calling - we need to align our lives. There is no one true path- irs all workable - not failing - live life like it matters- live life that matters to us and the world.

In childhood what were we drawn to? Horses! Reading!

Jung- the purpose of the second half of life is individuation- being genuine - meaning making- Jung said second part of life is a Spiritual Quest. - second half - what can we do with our life? Who are we in the world?

Can be too attentive and attached to children’s needs- need a creative dream - a way to engage the world

Centering women’s stories - feels like you are dying but being reborn - birth is messy and hard - feel like you are dying - cocoon being broken down so you can breakthrough to another form.

Clients- burned out therapists in midlife at career crossroads

Help women experience and explore this spiritual transformation- butterfly - help women find their medicine, meaning and symbol

Stigma- 4-10 year span

Felt like self slipping away becoming invisible- remedy- life you want and becoming whole

, menopause has evolved from an unpleasant (okay, miserable) transition women muddle through alone into an empowering rite of passage and booming wellness category. We now know that it affects every—every!—aspect of life, so we’ve created an entire curriculum to give you the tools to stay firmly in the driver’s seat as you navigate perimenopause and then menopause.

My niche is perimenopause.

. My midlife crisis had transformed into my midlife calling: helping wisdom seekers (of all ages) discover a renewed sense of purpose in their lives.

OFTEN, WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SEE A STRANGER. FORTUNATELY, IT’S ALSO WHEN WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TRULY IMPORTANT AND FOCUS ON RECALIBRATING AND DESIGNING THE LIFE WE WANT TO LIVE.

I had known that menopause was a thing that would happen to me eventually, that I might experience an occasional hot flash, but then I’d finally be free of the sword of Damocles suspended over me every month. But this felt shocking. Somehow, I was supposed to know that momentary flights of uncontrolled rage were just part of life at 39, that a large percentage of folks who have a uterus are walking around the world breathing through the instinct to strangle the nearest unwitting stranger. I am indignant: Why am I learning about this as it is happening to me?

The answers to these questions are tragically predictable, almost boring. By creating and upholding a stigma around menopause, we keep the train of the status quo on the tracks. By not preparing folks with uteruses for the breadth of what is to come in menopause, we reinforce how unimportant and trifling women’s health issues are. If no one ever talks about the very real impacts of the symptoms, it must be because they aren’t that serious, right? And if they’re not that serious, then I must not be as tough as everyone else if I’m complaining, right? My mother didn’t complain, my aunties didn’t complain; they all just kept taking care of everyone else. So what right do I have to need to care for myself? And the cycle repeats.

My niche is specific pain that clients come with that I understand and can describe insights they haven’t experienced yet. It’s about the pain.

The problem as the client is experiencing as they describe it

Marketing- change in perspective

Promise deep exploration - I value - and can go deep.

And deep insights

My practice has changed and clients have left- shift professional identity

Authentic marketing has changed for me now

Not addressing symptoms

Looking for long haul clients

99% networking

Looking at roots - where it started- not symptom relief- my goal is for you to know yourself in a deeper and more meaningful way.

We are our brand

I’m not as visible to help you become more visible- keeping more boundaries

How what I do different- ____

Spiritual direction

Mid-life Chrysalis. SPIRITUAL CRISIS. Feel like we are dying but are really being reborn.

We are required to look back as things that were stripped away, to look at it, facing our dead parts, breaks my heart culture sees it as a disease, medicalized menopause - get to other side designed for difficulty and transformation, profound transformation requires pain, opportunity and also dislocating time of our life.

The Medial Woman - sufficient unto herself, not defined by relationship but by relationship to collective unconscious - we need to uncover our own medial woman, shift from external life, to inner life search for meaning - need so we can fully individuate - the function of the second half of life. The psychological work we have to do at this time in our lives. Jung said we are open to the transcendent function, the numinous - something within. If not connected, we miss mystery, magic, we can potentially delve again into the imaginal the enchantment the slightly magic, go back to poetry, art, inspired to believe in beauty in this part of life.

time between time - and everything keeps happening because culture doesn’t recognize it.

Archetypes - Rage, righoutous rage - furies, europe, the furies, not careticture.

Types of Medial Woman

The Alchemist - nigredo, mortification, everything identified with stripped away - beauty, lushness, fertility.

The Mystic - Hildaguard of Bingem - began her work at 40 years of age died in her eighties. Late bloomer.

The witch - the witch wound - ppl on the fringes of society, different, learning difficulties, fear of partiarchy, worshipped nature and communion of nature, keeper of natural ways. Ex. Starhawk, ecologically focused witch, healer, herbalist. Deep connection, finding magic in her surroundings, connection to the natural world. A revisioned witch - in tune with natural world, related to natural world.

The Hen Wife - woman who helps younger women, caretaker the younger generation, boss, looked up to as mentor.

Jung said if culture fails to provide archetypes the individual must create their own myth - Menopausal women archetypes are lacking in the US. Menopause is a tumultuous time - there is an emphasis about keeping us in perimenopause -youthful -otherwise we become like men or castrates.

The Post Heroic Journey - Hagitude- A woman’s journey from Menopause to Elderhood.

Perimenopause breaks down our patterns so we can breakthrough.

Menopause as initiation and spiritual development.

Holistically treat

The meaning and purpose of your life changes. Questions resurface. Why am I here?

Medicine Woman. Its a CALLING.Old women are complex — guise of dark feminine - incorporates danger, mad, power, necessary, transformative, cst spells, do magic - help heroine to help herself so she can be the best that she can become/ Hen wife/ Fairy Godmother. Harnessing the power of Hope to absolve or deflect the curse.

Trickster- habitude - linage- ancestry, go back to claim them because elder women archetypes sorely lacking in our world.

Contrary to popular belief, individuation is not about self-centeredness and egoistic wish fulfillment by any means. Rather, it is unconscious self-fulfillment despite the ego’s conscious objectives, often through crisis and unwelcome life-turns. In astrological terms, this unconscious self-realization would equal to temporarily defined outer planet transits and progressions which would always coincide with major personal transition periods.

Astrology - our birth chart. map of our soul and jungian framework of meaning for our individuation - where is the Self represented in the chart? Shadow? Anima/Animus? Persona? Ego? In addition, Jung developed a range of psychological terms that the birth horoscope both confirms, echoes and reinforces. Consequently, these terms can be effective in astrological counseling. The most stunning and accurate of these overlapping concepts of Jungian thought and astrology seems to be the one connecting Jung’s fourfold personality typology and the four astrological elements. In Psychological Types 3, Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function, proposing four main functions of consciousness: sensation, intuition, thinking and feeling. Although he had no preliminary astrological reference, his four main personality types mirror the fourfold element-based grouping of the twelve astrological signs: Earth, Fire, Air and Water. The elements describe the very same modes of adaptation that Jung calls psychological functions, Earth being the sensation function, Fire intuition, Air thinking, and Water feeling. Thus, the emphasis of a certain element in the birth chart (that is, important placements or multiple planets in signs representing the same element) would result in the corresponding Jungian personality type. For example, several planets, Aquarius plus a Gemini Ascendant, would always suggest an overwhelming emphasis of the thinking function displaying both its positives (well-developed intellectual and communication skills, strong verbality, objectivity, fairness) and negatives (being somewhat aloof, non-committal, indifferent, impersonal in intimate relations). As a rule, the birth chart would also reveal a secondary emphasis in another element, in the same vein as Jung’s typology also acknowledges a secondary or supporting function. In addition, it is important to note that the primary function is not necessarily the one corresponding to the element of the Sun’s sign (that is a Pisces Sun would not automatically signify the dominance of the feeling function), as the birth chart must always be assessed in its wholeness and complexity.

More generally, some of the most important Jungian terms can be effectively applied in chart reading. Extraversion versus introversion is in most cases plainly visible in the general sign- and house-placements of the birth horoscope. Persona (“social face”, “social mask”) corresponds to a high degree with the tenth house and its placements. Animus (the unconscious feminine aspect of a man’s psyche) can be traced in the Venus-placement of the birth horoscope whereas the Animus (the male aspect of a women’s psyche) will show in the Mars-placement of a woman’s chart. What Saturn represents in the birth chart displays a stunning degree of similarity to what Jung described as the Shadow (the unconscious, suppressed and rejected dark side of our nature). Similarly, the crucial Jungian term of Projection (that is the unconscious projecting of own psychological content onto the environment) has much to do with the dynamic, challenging aspects (oppositions, squares) between planets in the birth horoscope. In these, there is usually a conscious identification with one side of the problematic aspect whereas the other is largely unconscious, gets projected and comes to us from the outside. Lastly, the lengthy cycles of the so called outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) correspond to a high degree with the Jungian term of collective unconscious.

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