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Light, Dark & Shadow + Archetype Clarity
Ok…this question has been brought up numerous times over the years in group settings and from individual clients:
“What’s the difference between Light, Dark and Shadow?”
I recently led a Mystical Grail month 12, video call around this exact theme for over an hour available to paid members.
I’ll also say that getting clarity on Light, Dark and Shadow is also relevant to the concept of discovering with more clarity not only along your own healing path and spiritual growth; but also with the concept of The Beloved and ‘Who is My Beloved’?
It is good to be aware of the ARCHETYPAL aspects of Light, Dark and Shadow especially if you are on a spiritual path of Divine Union (holy marriage within);
Your Beloved may have more Dark than Light and THAT is what heals and psycho-activates ALL of you; but if you’re afraid of it because you think it’s masculine shadow, your own awakening could be stunted for decades.
The workbook brings this up;
“What are His (or Her) balance of Light & Dark (purified) aspects?”
If He is a Prince-Warrior Eros-King for example which aspects would have what balance of Light and Dark?
You can get that workbook here ‘Who is my Beloved’?
So let’s go into this whether you have the workbook or not because really, there is a LOT of confusion out there en masse from religion AND in spirituality as well as many leaders in basically all industries.
Knowing the difference between Light, Dark and Shadow is CENTRAL to true spiritual work and transformation of consciousness with minimal entropy.
We often think that it’s Light vs. Dark (or Good vs Evil) but this is a dangerous conflation…what is more spiritually accurate and discerning (if and when we embrace the Divine Feminine consciousness instead of simultaneously exalting and shaming female sexuality) is Light AND Dark (pure, healthy Dark) vs. Shadow.
“Come to the Dark side (Luke)” more accurately means, come to the Shadow side of misuse of power and black magic.
It’s specifically SHADOW that is actually the problem, not really the ‘Dark’ or Dark Divine. So much fear exists around ‘the Dark’ and unnecessarily so.
And it is shadow consciousness that millions of people are conflating with the Dark like ‘good vs. evil’ (but Dark isn’t evil).
If the Dark keeps being demonized, can you imagine how FAR from accepting and integrating it you or most people may be?
NOT being clear on the difference between Dark and Shadow has created all KINDS of havoc and stunt healing and even enlightenment for lifetimes.
Thus…In writing this up, I am going to create another post just to extend further into the Dark vs. Shadow arena b/c there’s so much to cover, so check that post out also on the blog when released.
Now…
With Light, Dark and Shadow we are speaking of consciousness and consciousness within the archetypes (which are Immortal God and Goddess fractal lineages as iconic signatures within the subconscious and supra-conscious collective).
Archetypes have aspects of Light, Dark and shadow consciousness. These aspects play through human history and mythology evermore.
Generally ‘Light’ is associated with;
High frequencies
Benevolence
Light
Heavens
Angels
Goodness
Air
Aether
Peace
Daytime
Sunshine
Harmony
Clouds
Cosmos
And Dark is where it gets trickier because so much of religion and programming conflates Dark with Shadow.
PLUS, keep in mind that ‘Dark’ IS closer to Shadow consciousness (so for MANY, it can remain difficult to discern and differentiate).
Generally speaking; the short-code for ‘Dark’ or ‘Dark’ consciousness is;
The Erotic
But it’s also;
The pure primal
Dark Divine
Primal divine
Primal pulse
Earthly
Earthen
The Void
The night
Winter
Decay ‘n Death (related to re-birth)
The Womb
Dionysian
Survival instinct
Killer instinct
The underworld
The underneath
The hidden out of waking day sight and cultural daily niceties
The sensual
And ‘Dark’ consciousness is (in large part) – key to desires (which can cross over into the shadow of Hunger, Lust and so forth but that’s more of a masterclass but also why Divine Union is a great pathway because it purifies all shadow to easily discern true Dark).
Again; with the Divine Union, ‘Grail’ or Communion lens which EMBRACES Sophianic or Goddess consciousness; the Divine Feminine and all archetypal Feminine, DARK IS GOOD.
ANYTHING GOES (basically) in the purified Truth of Dark Communion; Erotic Truth. With that said; Communion wouldn’t likely be centered in human BDSM which in large part operates in a mix of Shadow and Dark – especially with any of the players who are bringing their own shadows to otherwise relatively safe containers and agreements (that’s an extended subject).
The DARK MASCULINE (absentia of all shadow, control, coercion, force, destruction, etc.) is actually very good and powerful; just ‘good’ in different ways. His killer instinct is actually a GOOD thing for the principle of Protection, Guardianship and Rightful Power over tyranny.
It’s important to DISCERN and DIFFERENTIATE between what is DARK and what is SHADOW to ideally calibrate your lens to COMMUNION Truth of Light and Dark VS. Shadow.
Shadow (to only introduce it here because it’s a VAST subject-realm) and shadow consciousness generally denotes;
The selfish, destructive, forceful, coercive, malevolent, stealing, lying, cheating, defrauding, scamming, siphoning, harvesting, looting, raping, pillaging, murder, backstabbing, dethroning, and generally all forms of ‘evil’ and that which takes away from life (exempting ie. killing from what should be karmic-free self-defense) or that which violates free will and sovereignty.
There are often evil spirits BEHIND shadow consciousness and the behavior from which it ensues. This is more than merely psychological.
Many, many millions of people and entire cultures have issues because the LIGHT is glorified, the Dark ignored denied or suppressed because they are conflating it all with Shadow and ‘demonizing’ it.
This leads to massive repression and the general thing is; enormous Light casts large SHADOWS. These shadows can FESTER underneath to come out all of a sudden in bursts of chaos and destruction if they are not managed or integrated.
The book ‘Owning Your Own Shadow‘ goes into this VERY well and I highly recommend it.
You yourself might find yourself by default conflating the ‘Dark’ and ‘wronging’ it when you actually meant SHADOW.
MANY spiritual guides still do this, so I think it’s important to take more time to stop yourself and calibrate/correct yourself….to discern and realize when someone actually means ‘shadow’ instead of ‘Dark’.
Fortunately Divine Union gives us a CLEAR LENS because it is ALL DARK of the Masculine for example IN ABSENTIA of all shadow, oppression and tyranny.
You have unlimited access to righteous high-frequency benevolence, provision, protection as well as the Dark Erotic in Communion which used to be fractured as Fantasy…and NO SHADOW.
Your immortal Beloved; He DOES NOT traumatize, abuse, misuse, control, oppress and so forth. It is the highest, purified consciousness Truth of the masculine through all of time.
Mortal man however, is privy to shadow consciousness but the more you are reunified with Him in spirit and all aspects of Self, the less you will experience shadow with masculine consciousness in men.
So yeah; it’s important stuff. You may have a lot of dealing to do with the masculine and are armored AGAINST the Pure, Healthy DARK EROS of a Beloved because your body gets triggered and conflates that with toxic masculine shadow when it isn’t.
‘Toxic Masculine’ is a blanket statement for those who cannot differentiate between Light, Dark and Shadow masculinity for the life of them.
On this journey, that can hold you back for decades being stuck in the astral SWAMP of resisting what could actually heal and awaken all of you.
It’s good to know that DARK is actually the healthy BUFFER to balance and integrate; to live in the healthy balanced ‘median way’. This is its own extended topic but it helps to mitigate the actual shadows and the number of psychic attacks to those of us who work with the Light a lot.
As I mentioned;
There’s a BRILLIANT book entitled:
Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche Paperback – February 17, 1994
by Robert A. Johnson
I highly recommend it and have a lot highlighted in it. It’s also very practical.
You can get it on amazon here.
So, you can find your strategy of RE-BALANCING your Light and Dark (much of spirituality focuses on the Light and bypasses or denies the Dark)…
Maybe you’ve glorified the Light while suppressing the Dark so you might have to go through a Dark Reclamation era (like me) while getting more discernment on the Shadow aspects (which can creates WEBS of entropy in spiritual progress.
Gene Keys provides a wondrous immersion for discovery and discernment with the 64 shadows of consciousness which are specific aspects that play out practically in individuals and the world (in behavior).
Generally the DARK is actually GOOD because what I’m referring to is the PURIFIED DARK which is ABSENT of Shadow.
Dark King purified from all tyranny and toxic shadow is actually a powerful and beautiful thing.
With true Divine Union; there is NO shadow aspect with the Immortal Beloved nor with Communion-Truth itself; yet with mortal humanity and consciousness in general, there is. It can be disorienting to do spiritual work based on flawed humanity.
I mean; it’s really kind of problematic because much of Christianity and religion in general confuses and conflates Dark ‘AS’ Shadow and demonizes anything ‘Dark’ (including Eros) as ‘sin’, ‘immoral’ and puts it in the shadow spectrum.
This lack of consciousness around true, healthy DARK principle creates all kinds of suppression, denial, oppression, fracture, passive-aggressiveness, even greater cultural shadow by DENYING the Dark and Dark Truth (including the Dark Truth OF Communion codes because most of religion doesn’t acknowledge the divine feminine aspect let alone Her Dark consciousness spectrum).
What if sexuality was divine and of pure Light and Dark consciousness and spirit-Light matter quanta?
It’s just not accepted as that because hmm…a lot of religion’s have wanted ‘control’ (shadow of Gene Key 21) over humanity in different ways to retain power politically and socially (perhaps?).
So when it comes to YOUR BELOVED and Divine Union, you want to value His Immortal siddhic, elemental and archetypal Light and Dark aspects.
When it comes to your Lover-King (or whatever His archetypal signature order is); His ‘Dark Power’ can largely be related to His Dark Eros or His ‘erotic power’ and His ability to awaken and fulfill your own Dark Erotic desires; much of which may have been shamed, guilted and suppressed by society.
Dark Power of your Beloved and of the archetypal masculine also holds with many archetypes;
Dark King
Dark Sorcerer
Outlaw
Dark Eros
Dark Magician
Dark Prince
Dark Star…
These have more Dionysian or ‘underworld’ power that may not fit into mainstream society, whereas the Light aspects are higher frequency, benevolent and heavenly…often in service to others and it’s not that Dark isn’t, but it usually is Power that is more drawn in to the masculine embodiment that holds it more ‘densely’ (vs. solar radiance).
We don’t often see it ‘serving’ as much or when we do it’s rarer (like Dark Star). This post could keep going on and on when we explore further into Light, Dark and the archetypes.
So you can find and intuit what balance of Light and Dark your Beloved has WITH different archetypes.
I can help you of course with this after you start the workbook process. I can help in the group format with Mystical Grail membership OR in the Grail Kundalini package consulting time.
At the time of writing I’ve helped 3 women specifically get exact clarity on their Beloved by them going through the workbook first and THEN having the consulting time at the start of their Elixir 1 session…that’s 100% success ratio so far!
So look for the upcoming and extended Dark vs. Shadow post on the blog!
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