When we start to draw lines across the circle of our selves, we start fragmenting the personality into pieces that compete for energy, attention and territory.

Bringing those fragments back together into a coherent and self-referential (and self-reverential) whole is the driving focus of depth astrology and depth psychotherapy.

There is nothing inherently wrong with lines, whether they’re independent of triangles or quadrangles, or part of these larger shapes. It’s just that, in the absence of conscious awareness, they tend to Balkanize the Self until it’s hard to find our center, our wholeness again. That center is the place from which we act as boldly and wholly ourselves, not as a pawn of people who seem more powerful or as a needy or frightened being. The center is our true power because it is at once the root of our individuality and our compassion. It is there that power is not based on fear but on exuberant selfhood.

Knowing where your lines are — what parts of you compete for attention, or hide away in fear, or puff themselves up, or writhe like a cobra out of control — is a first step toward the center, toward feeling comfortable in your skin, toward self-assurance and the ability to breathe deeply because you can locate and listen to your Self, instead of to your fragments, in any given moment.

(More on sacred geometry here and here)

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