Critics at Work

09/11/2011

 
Q. My biggest area of limitation and absolute frustration (to the point where I have a very violent temper) is work where I feel that my individuality and sense of power and potential is crushed by idiotic authority figures in the work place. 

A. Initially your work involves accepting that the crushing, idiotic authority figure is within yourself. This inner tyrant is the source of so many of the other frustrations you mentioned in your letter and is a composite of much that you already know, i.e. parental influences, negative conditioning from very wounded and essentially powerless individuals who used control and negation to keep you in line...click 'Read More' to continue... 
While this gives you very effective and highly selective radar for attracting fuckwits (or arseholes?) for bosses, ultimately these are but pale imitations for what lurks inside you. Secondly then, you need to shift your focus away from them because, even though you know its pointless to blame the world, your parents or anyone else, your wording betrays a pervasive belief in your own powerlessness. As long as you continue to blame, you are caught but the opposite is also true. Use the intensity of your anger to confront these inner figures and things will start to move. You are after all an Arian and it’s in your nature to confront challenges with your inherent feistiness, irrespective of your past.

Thirdly, you will need high quality support here, in the form of strong, expressive, no-bullshit therapy such as primal, psychodrama or breathwork. Nothing lightweight or New Agie will be enough. Your frustrations are fed by both rage and pain, negatively fuelling these controlling, suppressing figures inside you and you will need firm and safe support to be able to get in touch with these and get them out of your system. As you do this, their power over you will diminish and, you will find greater freedom in dealing with external authorities.

The timing for this is good, as you are in your Saturn Return, which is a time of great power. It’s a turning point in rolling the old negating Saturn, to reveal the fact that you have the power and the ability to take control of your life, so you can own your responsibility for creating it.

Unfortunately, there is no end of crap out there, so the only true power you have is in how you respond to it. This you can change. Good luck!

 


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