You Will Never Heal Until You Face This About Your Mother

 

 

You Will Never Heal Until You Face This About Your Mother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WJ21T3hVg&t=63s

  

This video clip is a Zen Buddhist teaching on how to heal from the “mother wound”. Erich Neumann's The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949) discusses a similar theme of and why the mother is the root of all suffering and how to get out of it. He builds on Carl Jung's theories, particularly archetypes and individuation, to outline the archetypal stages in the development of consciousness. The book draws on world mythology to illustrate how individual consciousness mirrors the broader evolution of human consciousness, with stages including the Uroboros, Great Mother, and the hero's journey to free himself from her influence. 

 

Neumann suggests that the mother, as the unconscious, is the root of suffering because she traps the individual in an undifferentiated state, unable to achieve self-awareness. While it is necessary to balance the nurturing and creative aspects of the mother the central idea is that the ego must separate from the mother to develop consciousness, a process fraught with psychological pain.

 

To overcome the suffering associated with the mother archetype, Neumann proposes the process of individuation, where the ego separates from the unconscious and develops its own identity [1]. This is often symbolized in myths as the hero's journey, involving stages like the Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, and Rescue of the Captive. These myths parallel stories in the Ramayana where Ram is sent into exile by a scheming mother and must battle the demon Ravana. Ravana represents the chaotic, ego-dissolving forces of the unconscious, akin to Neumann’s “dragon” as a symbol of the mother archetype’s destructive power. After slaying Ravana and freeing Sita, his captured wife (feminine self) , he returns home a hero and the rightful king of Ayodhya. 

 

Presented here is Erich Neumann’s birth chart [2]. In 1949-50, when Erich Neumann published The Origins and History of Consciousness, his the Primary Direction (mundane) was [Moon opposite Sun]. 

In psychological astrology, the progressed Moon opposite the Sun is considered a pivotal moment where individuals may face a tension between their emotional, unconscious self (Moon) and their conscious, ego-driven identity (Sun). This aspect is often interpreted as a time for integration, where personal growth can occur through confronting and reconciling these two parts of the self. 

The Primary Direction activated his radix placements: 

[Ceres-Sun- Chiron- Aesculapia] opposite [Ascendant-Demeter] 

Both Ceres and Demeter are asteroids that refer to the mother. Recall the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. The story reflects Demeter's struggle to let Persephone become her own person. Persephone's journey to the underworld can be seen as her growing up and asserting independence, which Demeter finds challenging. 

The asteroid Aesculapia is about healing while Chiron, often called the "Wounded Healer," represents deep emotional and psychological wounds, stemming from early life traumas, that an individual must confront and heal from. If we put the pieces together we begin to see the need to heal the mother wound. 

 

[1] German mystery over man, 43, who never left home

https://javed22.blogspot.com/2016/10/german-mystery-over-man-43-who-never.html

 

[2] https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Neumann,_Erich