The Mystical

Human Design + Astrology 12-18-2022

It is rather often that I hear from a HD client that they booked a reading because they were intrigued that someone who spends a lot of time thinking about and measuring the science of things would be swimming around in the mystical landscape. This always makes me giggle, mostly because I can appreciate the unexpectedness of someone like myself entering into this realm. I LOVE science. I consider myself a scientist, and ultimately I think science is a lot of fun. But I also know that it's not enough. Not all the time. And maybe it seldom is. 

When I was in private practice as a psychotherapist, I worked primarily with adolescents and older adolescents in crisis. I also had part of my practice dedicated to young women working through various kids of trauma. Different populations but generally what all my patients had in common was deep suffering, sometimes suddenly, and they very much wanted to be free of it. And for many of them that was possible. Yet for some, the work became about processing the grief of never truly being as free as they hoped they could be. This can be a reality for those struggling with more acute mental health concerns.  What I learned is that when working with people processing this reality I never wanted to suggest something to my patients or the family of a patient that I hadn't tried myself. New things can be scary and traumatic all on their own. I wanted my patients to be able to spend some moments in receivership. Letting them know I had tried what I was suggesting, for me was part of my job. 

I soon found that receivership was a really important part of the work. The process of therapy when one is in crisis or not is very demanding. That's why it's called work. And while we are working through this process, it's really important to include things that just feel good. Ones that help hold us in ways we need to be supported outside of the work. Where the processing sits different. Where we can just receive. 

One day while sitting with a family who's son had just experienced his second psychotic break, they mentioned to me that they all really missed their dog. It had died several months earlier and on top of everything else the loss just felt like a kick to the teeth. They couldn't conceive of getting another dog at the moment. Things just felt too uncertain.  Combined with everything else the grief just felt enormous. It wasn't moving or changing. It was concrete. The were surprised to hear my suggestion was to sit with a psychic. My main motivation at the time was, why not? In this kind of crisis, why wait? If talking to someone who can be present with your grief in a different way, communicate that your dog is safe and still with you energetically, what's the harm in that? Were they waiting for the zombie apocalypse to feel better? The time to employ a little magic was now. They laughed and asked if I knew of anyone. Of course I did. I let them know that there was of course no guarantee that they would receive any messages about or from their dog, but also that the mystical has a way of holding us in different ways and that often that difference can really help hold us up when it just seems impossible to stay standing on our own. 

Long story short, they visited with the psychic. It didn't change their life, but it did make it better. They came away from their experience with a new found location of support from far away relatives and ancestors, along with their sweet dog that they could choose to access and rely on whenever they wanted. But what really stayed with them was just having another person hold their pain with the certainty that there were people and energies out there in the world who were looking out for them. Holding them. Supporting them. It didn't mean their son wouldn't need to be on medication for the rest of his life, but somehow they felt better all the same.  And that deep feeling of care and ease cannot be underestimated. It's really, really important. 

So when I say that the mystical has a clinical application, it's because I mean it. Is it treatment? NO. Hell no. The mystical is not treatment. Not even close. That's where science comes in. But, we shouldn't deprive ourselves of the support the mystical can offer. And just because it isn't science doesn't mean it isn't as powerful in it's own way. 

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