Part II – The Shadow Father (also read Part I)
With Pluto in Capricorn we are collectively challenged to let go of our limited agreements with the Old Father. On a collective level this means that all the systems, institutions, and structures of culture are breaking down. We are losing faith in Father Culture. We depended on Him, we believed in Him and now he’s drinking champagne on his yacht while his children can’t afford to go to the doctor!
However, seeing Father Culture for who he really is, evokes a level of disappointment and betrayal that forces us to claim our own inner Father – our responsibility for our lives and for the future of our human family. We each have an individual road to take to grieve the ways our Father failed us and claim our own authority.
On an individual level our relationship to the Father principle impacts how we move out into the world, external security, identity as an authentic and effective bridge, engaging in life’s initiations, feeling wanted and valued by culture and having a healthy relationship to power, responsibility and discipline. Our relationship to the Old Father mediates our relationship to accessing these good qualities of the inner Father. (more…)