Called Down to initiate in Year One

About this episode

Monika Bravo contemplates the nature of identity and personal growth through her experiences and insights gained from her work with Mark Jones.

One of the things that I am deeply in contemplation about is what identity really means. Do I need to identify as a person? As my gender? As my vocation? Just as a human being? Or as a polymath that has so many different variations depending on which angle I am willing to serve and to express in that given moment. "I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." Jorge Luis Borges — The Garden of Forking Paths, in Ficciones, 1944 SYNTHESIS What is converging in my life right now is the recognition that everything I have been building interiorly for a long time is slowly ready to move into the world, and the steadiness I feel in that recognition comes from the quality of the interior work itself, the untangling of the chords that shaped me prior to choosing otherwise, the freeing of space that was previously occupied by patterns that were never mine to carry. I feel blessed because I have been meeting with Mark Jones for 18 months steadily to support the navigation into my psychic untangling. Any chords that defined me are now being freed by the space. It is human action at…

People in this episode

Host: Monika Bravo

Topics covered

• identity
• self-discovery
• astrology
• psychotherapy
• personal growth

Keywords

• identity
• self-exploration
• astrology
• psychotherapy
• personal development

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Garden of Forking Paths, Ficciones

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