Metaphors

Today I did some outside of the usual limits or I went off the map. My teacher from grad school would have been proud. Most I can say is combining archetype card with the client’s artwork and doing some wildness. Trying to encourage growling, howling. Where the Wild Things are as I remember was so awesome the way it split the life of a young child on the outside and then finding a whole adventure you might say inside his head but he goes somewhere real. A place of freedom. He is sent to bed with no supper, a punishment that is already strange to people today. Making your kid hungry when he needs to be fed is about a lack of love somewhere in that parent. As soon as you’re born you’re fed. To make the punishment about that is cruel. Anyway maybe the wildness comes partly from hunger.

A bunch of my clients work with shamans. A lot of rituals, guidance, spiritual teaching. The Shaman used to be the therapist when there were none. I think of being a shaman you do extreme things to the body and mind for them to get in touch with their wild things.

Anyway I did different types of growling and making animal noises to encourage her. They’re lots of talk of the moon cycles but maybe witch circles howl more. I also mentioned the throat chakra and her need to talk be heard, open the throat. Homework was to growl like an animal this week. Her shaman has her disciplining herself awakening at 5 every morning to meditate so the two go together, a need for self discipline and a need for freedom even from your species.

It’s fun to work off of what other healers are doing with your clients. Then there’s a concordance going on.

I think waking up at 5 every day is one of the cornerstones of self discipline. I can’t do it.

I’ve got to get there through other means. Being a Wild Thing once in a while…