Can We Transform Fear into Joy? - learn the secret in the Six Swans fairytale

[@PenelopeRyder]

Gosh, this is beautiful I was badly abused as a child and live with it daily and am 58 this month and helping people where I can now who had CSA as a peer worker. Words don't work and action does .... your podcasts have helped me over the last few years. I add ... a wonderful artist in California a new friend 91 said this week to me that many therapists are concretizing the traumatic events: Instead, she wrote to me ... I want to know “what part of you survived…got you here, knows and is enraged you have been victimized and cares…is your guide, champions you…Get that established first and that becomes the witness who guides you “through” rather than stuck…concretized, in the trauma. On reflection reliving trauma and having innocence taken is a hard card to handle betrayal at its heights and yes a happy ending is the plan!

[@niccoloflorence]

"But he who has no faith and no wisdom, and whose soul is in doubt, is lost. For neither this world, nor the world to come, nor joy is ever for the man who doubts." Bhagavad Gita, 4 40

[@noahlapuz3853]

❤🙏💎

[@helendickinson9169]

Hair is quite a feminine aspect. We were always made to tie it back so we werent too wild. Hair also contains our DNA, history. Love your podcast 😍

[@carlamartinez1895]

Love you three !! Thank you for so much !! I would love to translate your podcast into Spanish to reach so many people that would highly benefit from it. Thank you !!

[@marmarlittlechick]

I really enjoyed this episode. The way Joseph and Deb brought their own take was fascinating and I found myself switching from one side to the other all the whole landing somewhere in the middle. So much fun. Thank you.

[@ant_ace]

I think it’s really interesting seeing where Deb and Joseph’s interpretations overlap here and how the wounded male psych is saved by the transforming and empowering sacrifice of the loving, magical female anima.

[@AnastasiaR]

Also the daughter sacrificing (not speaking up to save her babies) in order to to save her brothers is like foregoing some of her own future potential in order to heal generational trauma in her family's past, specifically the masculine.

[@josephinejones9392]

I am , simply, SO fond of you both (and, yes, you too, Lisa!

[@annab3070]

I wondered if you could possibly discuss self harm at some point, I realize it's a very sensitive topic but it could be helpful to understand a bit more the deeper psychology around it, someone close to me recently self harmed. It would be interested to hear what your thoughts around it were anyway. Great podcast 🙏

[@mythandstories3069]

Wonderful - thank you both.

[@Sjb2524]

Fascinating as this is where my current journey of my self discovery is leading me to.

[@kevin_heslip]

I love y’alls podcast so much

[@AnastasiaR]

The yarn is his only way to get back to his children as he's wrestling with this destructive feminine aspect of his psyche. He receives it from the positive feminine. The only way back to what he loves is through the feminine but he does not have a full grasp on this. It is literally hanging on by a thread. The ball of yarn is a small piece of thr contained feminine, but the Queen has dominion over the feminine more than the King does. She easily overtakes the sons, but its up to the limitless feminine potential hidden deep in the psyche (the daughter) to save the limitless potential of the masculine represented by the sons. It costs her a lot and permanently maims one of her brothers. It is imperfect. There is a remainder. It is also another aspect of the negative feminine (devouring mother, mother-in-law) that hinders her progress. This figure projects her own complex onto the young new queen (daughter) by accusing her of eating HER own children. In the end the fears of the king and his unwillingness to integrate his shadow harm his children (or his own creative potential), and the fears of the mother-in-law later create a horrific situation. The King 's unwillingness to integrate anima end up harming the further generations of his masculinity. This is mirrored by the mother-in-law.

[@elizabethmansfield3609]

The heroic feminine doesn’t always succeed, because not everyone is able to receive e.g. loving kindness. The boy swans have to be able to be touched by the shirts. I’m also not impressed by the idea that women have to endure misery in silence to save their men… which is how many people would interpret this tale, and is certainly how women have been advised to act over the millennia.

[@deed3211]

Thank you. All hail the Bard.

[@jillscheintal4600]

I see this tale as a modern metaphor for incels. The first king gets lost and distracted in his wanderings through youth, incapable of setting his own path, like many lost young lonely men of today. He's rescued by beings wiser and craftier, and although he has access to a beautiful woman to merge with, he is repulsed by her, because he is actually mostly composed of immature boy. These child parts of himself go off and live wild, staying with robbers--young parts of his psyche still unable to develop but rather live off taking from others. As swans they contain potential for becoming fully realized beings with magical potency. Swans were also Aphrodite's bird. So, will the incels develop into full men capable of being the equal of women, though love (Aphrodite?). Only with the help of their inner feminine (sister) who labors away making shirts out of flowers too delicate to turn into fabric, for 7 years. She also tries to distract her rescuers by casting off the ephemera of feminine identity: ribbons, bracelets, all the things which traditionally broadcast feminine influence, but are just childish fripparies. An actual King recognizes her worth because he is developed enough to see her truly sans any dazzling accoutrements, and because he instinctively values her immense virtue in working away to save her brothers (her own fragmented masculine). Yet he is thwarted by the aspect of feminine identity (cruel witch) who devalues this new queen for being "nobody" (not having status), and seeks to maintain the stasis of the undeveloped male (which allows her ability to manipulate/power over him) by staging baby murders by the new mother. King's instinct to trust her first wins, but doesn't convince him until she clothes all her brothers in their magical shirts, breaking the spell, and becoming whole men.

[@user-js4sb4qq2h]

What he says as his end question about her father having died from MS and his concern about her not having genetic testing doesn't make sense. Epigenetics teaches us that we up and down regulate our genes with environment, health, food choices and monitoring stress levels so MS is usually caused by lack of nutrition. The hair in the food is his fear, The hair is like a symbol of a strand of DNA that it will digust him when he finds it in his food, a bit like finding the truth in the matter. But it's a projection of his fear, and not reality. Think forward: he's thinking about children and he's paranoid that his children will have MS.

[@2_limmas_768]

Hello everyone! What are the meanings when you dream of a swamp?

[@jaispera]

Murky, decay, frogs eggs, pulsing nature, untamed and undifferentiated material?

[@jaispera]

Potential. Repressed or unexplored feeling and value?

[@jaispera]

Feels like value laden shadow

[@Kintsugi979]

I'd love to hear you guys analyze the movie. "My Neighbor Totoro"!!! It's a very popular Japanese children's movie.

[@Eve90]

Does a woman only have 3 archetypes? The young virgin, the evil witch, or the elderly wise woman?

[@Krystyna--]

The Dreamer, whom we first meet as a boy, who is maturing as the dream progresses, is offered a bowl containing strings of hair. Now, as he's mature enough to think of having his own offspring, does he find the strings of hair offered by his mother, and strings of DNA offered by his girlfriend equally gross?

[@Liyah-encyclopedia333]

❤❤❤

[@junalovermine]

Powerful. Thank you.

[@fatema555]

The feminine is the ways however, saviour and destroyer

[@sterlgirlceline]

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