How has your inner work been unfolding this month?
Today, I’m opening up the discussion thread to answer your pressing inner work questions. This is your chance to ask me for guidance, interpretation support, or perspective on something emerging in life currently.
Think of it like my monthly office hours — an opportunity for direct support :)
For example:
Interpretation help for a dream
A tarot card or spread you’d like another perspective on
Guidance on an inner work dynamic you’re trying to understand
Clarification on concepts, ideas, etc from this month’s studies
General questions on tarot, dreamwork, Jungian psychology, myth, alchemy, or related subjects
Requests for inner work or study resources (books, classes, etc)
See you in the comments!
~Alyssa
Have you watched this month’s workshop?
This month’s workshop on synchronicity is now available to stream! In it, I challenged myself to create a framework members can use to interpret and integrate synchronicity by tracing its archetypal and inner work themes. It’s a fairly simple, 4-step process.
If you try out the technique, let me know how it goes :)
What’s coming up next in the membership…
In June, we will study the court cards of the tarot, some of the trickiest cards in the deck! We’ll approach them as psychic configurations that reveal distinct modes of being and patterns of expression within the psyche. Special attention will be given to working with them in readings.
A series of livid waking nightmares arose in the year or so since my mother’s death. I’ve had five or six in the last month. In all the dreams, someone stood by my bed and pointed their hand toward me. I knew 1000% that if they touched me, I would die. Instantly. Four or five times I leapt out of bed to get away and fell to the hard floor. 😩 Once I hit my husband, believing he was my attacker.
A month ago, on the night I shared a novel I’d just finished that exposes my worst year of sexual trauma, the hand returned. I fell twice, unknowingly injured my throat and both shins while running out to my friend’s 4th floor deck. I shut the door and waited in terror until I realized the threat wasn’t real.
Jung is a longtime spirit guide since childhood (the Red Book became my blueprint for awakening). Intuition showed me the time and place for a ritual of active imagination. I was guided to the underworld, where I was the egg that became me - inside my mother’s 4-year-old body (factually true). There I felt and witnessed a large man lay upon her, with his hands around her neck. Likely her uncle. She couldn’t breathe and felt she would die. Result: her lifetime of trying to heal the trauma in her body - and mine. The insight: her truth. “Touch kills.”
I believed the nightmares would end, but I had three more in the week after. In one the hand held a bar soap. Symbol of an emerging memory, my grandmother’s abuse of me in the bathtub. Guided to do a time-travel healing ceremony last week, I held my toddler self as a wise, loving elder while the scary things occurred. No more dreams since then.
I feel so blessed by these dreams and healings. Doing the intergenerational work I’ve long tended, deep into my ancestry (it’s the theme of my novel, half told by my soul).
My questions: can a person be “done”?? 🤪 If you were me, would you seek trauma therapy to support my inner work?
Hi Alyssa! I've been deep in archetypal work and even doing research on the feminine archetypes and I'm wondering how to navigate with so many archetypes! I was realizing I feel like I do not fit into any single archetype, and even studying feminine archetypes, I genuinely feel like I'm all of them lol. I was thinking maybe I classify as the "maiden who has seen to much but not yet a queen, mother, or crone" lol. I'm not sure how to make archetypes study useful when it feels so vast! Any ideas would be appreciated on finding the one that most resonates.