Q. I’ve come to realise that I may be called a “healer”, but am struggling with this because of fluctuations in my own health and state of mind. Am I meant to be practicing now or stepping back from getting too involved?
A. From the point of view of your natal chart you are indeed a healer, with a prominent Chiron, Pallas Athena in House of career and the South Node in House of health and healing. Great credentials! But it is not yet time for you to launch fully into this work and there are important hurdles to be faced, ones that are part of it very healer’s journey. The best are often the most wounded ones and being able to separate one's own wounding from that of others is absolutely crucial.
Many natural healers launch into their work soon after they discover the gifts, naturally so but without adequate preparation this can set them up for eventual burnout. Particularly people with strong Chirons, part of their own wounding has to do with the psychic absorption of other people's pain in their early years. This very openness goes hand in hand with healing gifts but if this tendency is not made conscious and worked on, then they tend to also absorb their client's wounding on top of their own. This further perpetuates this original wounding and become a subtle form of self-abuse. It also sets are some unhealthy dependencies with their clients...click 'Read More' to continue...
A. From the point of view of your natal chart you are indeed a healer, with a prominent Chiron, Pallas Athena in House of career and the South Node in House of health and healing. Great credentials! But it is not yet time for you to launch fully into this work and there are important hurdles to be faced, ones that are part of it very healer’s journey. The best are often the most wounded ones and being able to separate one's own wounding from that of others is absolutely crucial.
Many natural healers launch into their work soon after they discover the gifts, naturally so but without adequate preparation this can set them up for eventual burnout. Particularly people with strong Chirons, part of their own wounding has to do with the psychic absorption of other people's pain in their early years. This very openness goes hand in hand with healing gifts but if this tendency is not made conscious and worked on, then they tend to also absorb their client's wounding on top of their own. This further perpetuates this original wounding and become a subtle form of self-abuse. It also sets are some unhealthy dependencies with their clients...click 'Read More' to continue...
If healing comes too easily, without some form of self-responsibility being taken by the client, it diminishes the effectiveness of the work and can encourage victimhood and disempowerment. If this victim/ saviour dichotomy is introduced into the work then it keeps both healer and client stuck in some significant ways. Part of the journey is to remain vigilant of denying one’s own woundedness by over-identifying with the professional role. There is much to learn about inter-psychic boundaries and it is worthwhile enhancing natural healing gifts with some form of psychotherapy training, which can provide greater understanding of what is called transference and counter-transference issues between therapist and client. Such training always includes continuing one’s own healing work, a must for every healer/therapist, which better equips us to deal with the needs of our clients. Such training also demand periods of professional supervision from senior therapists, which can be invaluable in the long run and gives natural healers much greater psychological depth and awareness.
At the moment however there is a much stronger focus on your own healing, which is simultaneously part of your professional preparation. This includes rooting out subconscious tendencies to create illnesses as a way of avoiding the challenges of dealing with the external world. This can stem from the child in you feeling unprotected and unready. As it is also your Saturn Return year, you are in a prime position for identifying these old patterns, to create a new relationship between adult and child in you, and so develop greater solidity and groundedness within. And you will need this as there will be tremendous psychic and spiritual openings for you over the next 2 years, accompanied by an exaggeration of this tendency to absorb others energies. This is not to say that you cannot be doing some work but you will need to take very good care of yourself on these levels, with regular meditation and any other supports that firms up your psychic boundaries, such as flower essences, Aurasoma etc. This is all part of the essential preparation for a full birthing of the healer in you in 2004.
At the moment however there is a much stronger focus on your own healing, which is simultaneously part of your professional preparation. This includes rooting out subconscious tendencies to create illnesses as a way of avoiding the challenges of dealing with the external world. This can stem from the child in you feeling unprotected and unready. As it is also your Saturn Return year, you are in a prime position for identifying these old patterns, to create a new relationship between adult and child in you, and so develop greater solidity and groundedness within. And you will need this as there will be tremendous psychic and spiritual openings for you over the next 2 years, accompanied by an exaggeration of this tendency to absorb others energies. This is not to say that you cannot be doing some work but you will need to take very good care of yourself on these levels, with regular meditation and any other supports that firms up your psychic boundaries, such as flower essences, Aurasoma etc. This is all part of the essential preparation for a full birthing of the healer in you in 2004.
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