Agata Burdziuk ~ Counselling, Psychotherapy, Soul Work
I'm a Jungian and somatic psychotherapist. I love to write and educate about soul alignment and embodiment, psychospiritual alchemy, and the death-rebirth process that we must move through as we walk our individuation journey.
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The Energetics of Individuation
Published 14 days ago • 4 min read
Walking the Path
Dear Reader,
We’re halfway through the year already with summer solstice exact next Sunday, June 21.
This midpoint is a natural checkpoint for me, andI’ve been looking back at the intention I set for myself at the beginning of this year: to live in pure flow. No pushing or pulling. All action initiated by Source inside (rather than my ego).
A tall order lol!
My year started with a freak fall which resulted in a tailbone fracture. I was brought to a complete stop. The opposite of flow! But as I surrendered and engaged with this injury, I realized it was inviting me to root more deeply in the inner light … in what appeared to me at the time as a golden rhizome inside.
Turns out this deeper and more precise alignment was a prerequisite for pure flow.
Six months later now, a rhythm has established where I can sense life force within me with surgical precision as I continually look to it for direction. For how it wants to be expressed. And as I take action from that Source and stay in alignment with it, I'm in pure flow.
Invitation:
If you set an intention for yourself at the beginning of the year – maybe you wrote it down in your journal, or have been holding it in your heart – sit with these questions:
Does the intention still feel alive for you?
Does it need a course correction?
Are you in alignment with what you set out for yourself?
How is this intention shaping your year and your life? Who are you becoming?
Coherence
🜞 WHAT I’M SEEING IN SESSIONS
When I work with clients, I look at their individuation journey through four different lenses: psychological, somatic, spiritual, and energetic.
Psychologically – the classic Jungian lens – individuation is about making the unconscious conscious. Integrating shadow into the light where the ego enters a more conscious relationship with the deep Self. Becoming more surrendered. In service to the Self.
Somatically – individuation is about clearing contraction from the body that wounding, trauma and conditioning create. Allowing the body to heal and to expand, which allows for a more true and free expression of the inner essence.
Spiritually – individuation is a return to Source. The embodiment of the divine spark within which becomes a guiding star. The light is lived and expressed fully.
Energetically – individuation is a restoration of coherence in the inner and outer field. As distortion, fragmentation, and static are cleared, the energetic field becomes naturally aligned and coherent. Expressing wholeness and connection to the unified field – what quantum physics calls the zero-point field. Aka unity consciousness.
All of these layers ultimately interweave, as they all lead to a fuller expression of the deep Self, the soul, the light within.
Trail of Light | photo by Luca Iaconelli
Separation is an Illusion
Over the last two weeks, the energetic level has been prominent in my work with clients.
What I’ve noticed in session after session is that wounding and early life trauma tend to create a protective coping pattern that feels like an energetic bubble. A psychic sphere of protection.
Because the early environment was unsafe in some way, and we couldn’t physically leave (we were dependent on our caregivers), the psyche created an autonomous protective pattern.
This sphere, while offering the best available protection at the time, creates a bubble of isolation long-term. We’re protected and at the same time alone. “Safe” and separate.
The sphere often becomes a glass ceiling, which is highly limiting and needs to be dissolved to restore coherence and connection within and without. Ultimately restoring connection to the field of oneness … because it’s all one field.
From this place, a natural spontaneous expansion begins to unfold. An expansion that is fully rooted and deeply authentic, where you get to emit the unique light you’re here to shine.
I believe we’re simply here to express the stream of divine consciousness flowing through us. Each one in our unique way.
Michelangelo's David | photo by George M. Groutas
A story about Michelangelo comes to mind ...
He was only 26 when he began to carve the statue of David.
When the Pope asked Michelangelo about the secret of his genius, Michelangelo replied: "It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David."
This is what individuation ultimately is. Regardless of which lens we look through, we're simply delayering … removing all that is not “David” … all that is not our True Essence … so the inner light can be fully revealed.
Reflection:
Do you notice a glass ceiling in your field? A place where you feel both protected and alone, "safe" and separate?
What might it feel like to let that dissolve?
New Moon Sky Map
🜞 LUNAR INSIGHTS
New Moon in Gemini exact June 14 at 7:56pm PST.
The quality of time is changing this month. Maybe you’ve already been feeling this as a certain bumpines in the air. In a few days, Chiron – the planet representing the core wound – will be changing signs from Aries to Taurus, and Jupiter will be moving into Leo.
While today’s New Moon isn’t aspecting any of the major planets, it’s sextile Eris and Chiron, which are conjunct in Aries.
Eris is a Trans-Neptunian dwarf planet that was discovered in 2005. Mythologically, she’s connected to the Greek goddess Eris who was not invited to the wedding feast – an exclusion that subsequently sparked the Trojan War.
Earlier this week, Eris was squaring Venus and Jupiter – if you’d like to learn more about her and this aspect, see my IG post.
This square (which was exact on Tuesday) may have surfaced an emotional truth … a truth that wasn’t acknowledged before because you didn’t want to see it … or simply couldn’t see it as it was entangled with your core wound.
Today’s New Moon offers support to integrate this truth.
What surfaced earlier in the week may now be ready to be seen differently. Understood in a new light. Perhaps even communicated. This is Gemini's gift … a shift in perception. A new way of seeing yourself, the other, and the situation.
A new beginning.
Reflection:
Is there a painful, uncomfortable truth that you've been blind to, pushed away, or simply not wanted to see?
Agata Burdziuk ~ Counselling, Psychotherapy, Soul Work
I'm a Jungian and somatic psychotherapist. I love to write and educate about soul alignment and embodiment, psychospiritual alchemy, and the death-rebirth process that we must move through as we walk our individuation journey.
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