“The psychopompos is this second figure; you can call it the daimon, or the shadow, or a god, or an ancestor spirit; it does not matter what name you give it, it is simply a figure; it might even be an animal. For in such a predicament we are dépossèdés [dispossessed], we lose the power of our ego, we lose our self-confidence. Until that moment, we were willful or arbitrary, we had made our own choice, we had found out a way, we had proceeded as far as this particular place. Then suddenly we are in an impasse, we lose faith in ourselves, and it is just as if all of our energy became regressive. And then our psyche reacts by constellating that double, which has the effect of leading us out of the situation.”
- C.G. Jung, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930–1934
Jung says that the psyche constellates a psychopomp when ego has reached its limitations. Its controlling and dominating hold on us begins to release, freeing up psychic space so that we can grow out of the old self and into the new. The psychopomp is many things: soul transitioner, doula of life and death, realm walker, guide, earth walker, heaven walker, shapeshifter, a magical being, human, spirit, and animal, they are arbiters of change.
The inner figure is within all of us and appears during times of difficulty, suffering, trauma, and hardship, they are there because these things are trying to bring us into a new way of being. Death is required of the old self, old structures, old behaviors, old relationships, and the psychopomp walks us into the new.
Discover the psychopomps in and around you, the ones that guide you through a transition that may be made conscious, what area of life for you needs transition and change? You will work on this in this session with Collette.
Collette will take you on a journey through discussion, myth, psychospirituality, and a psychoactivating journey into your psyche to discover the psychopomp, to bring the transition and bringer of change.
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