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Divorcing Monstrous Behavior
Shedding Patterns of Monstrosity
As the most recent yang wood dragon year ends and the year of the yin wood snake begins, much has been incepted, and much needs to be shed.
That’s a mouthful, isn’t it? So does this year promise to be. We are well into the shedding phase of this process.
What I notice most in the world, myself, and those I work with, is a deep shedding of global patterns of monstrosity and how they have been held personally by each of us. Monstrosity is such a good word, isn’t it? What does it bring up for you?
Monsters, Inc. aside, dissolving and integrating all images of fearsome creatures hiding under beds, do we not all fear that something monstrous resides within us? {Denial has no place here.} There are some, perhaps, who seem to enjoy acting out what is most abhorrent in human nature, but if we’re honest, is this not something that most of us fear?
We are taught, if we’re fortunate, not to act out so-called bad behaviors. Often, those teaching/preaching this kind of restraint exhibit cringe-worthy behaviors themselves. Haven’t we all? And haven’t we all had to learn to parent? Have we not all wished to be better than what we experienced as children or what has gone before?
