I often used to think what a good thing it is we can’t remember our birth , our infancy, our early life in this body. I don’t quite think this way any longer. Sometimes it would be good to be aware and alive to the inner voices that keep us prisoners in our own lives; voices that were instilled in us very early on in our lives. These patterns of behaviour, the obediance to these internalised voices keep us slaves to our crooked thinking.
I realised very recently, as I go into the second half of my life, that many of us have been the”good girl or boy” all our lives. We have made ourselves slaves to the one who feels she/he has to – “get it right”. What a sadness it is to have held back, silenced and imprisoned the creative spark of the Soul’s voice….. what a tragedy to have kept this spark from lighting up the world with all the other “alight” sparks….
Have you held back? Have you witheld your voice, the truth of who you are?
Now is the time to awaken to who we really are….. allow your *voice* to be heard….. discover who you are…. do something out of your comfort zone… feel the feelings, hear the voices and do it anyway… your soul is waiting to sing. Find out more about your life path through perhaps astrology (see: www.lanawooster.co.uk ) Go to a painting group/ dance class…. tell someone how you REALLY feel…. speak up for your soul…….
If like me, you feel being “good” has been a smoke screen, then just let it go… what does it matter in the grand scheme of things?…. turn it on it’s head and live the “goodness” of who you are… and not who you believe it’s right for you to become!
Gustav Jung said something like: ” It is easier to be who we think we are rather than who we actually are” ….. oh yes…. what words.
Shalom
Dear Flick
Good to see you back in blog land! The People-Pleaser Archetype is often shown by Libran tendencies in a chart. I have Moon in Libra, and (I hope you don’t mind me revealing) you have Ascendant in Libra. Thank you for getting us back in touch with this aspect of ourselves.
Love
Lana
Thank you Lana. This is so insightful ….
Felicity,
This was so beautifully stated and I understand what you are saying. As for my “good girl” I never saw myself as anything other than a rebel and that is also a form of slavery. The point is to break free of anything preconceived and let the wildness merge with the harnesser. Both are you.
Griffin that is lovely. Yes – I am certainly both!!! I’m sure we all are once we let go of trying to control and in fact for me, it has been a ‘breaking free’. Blessings.