Archetypes in Tarot – The Shadow

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Archetypes in Tarot – The Shadow
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Thank you for this great insight! This article just helped understand Shadow more deeply and had such great realizations about our nature as human beings. And of course, now I can interpret those cards better in my readings, especially the moon one 😀 .. the dog and the wolf, self and shadow .. Higher Self and self 😀 That’s the nature/purpose of shadow, to show us shadow is our nature just as we are the nature of Higher Self. Once we integrate shadow, there is no sense of duality, and after that realization of integration (the moon), the sun comes out.. and then what follows 😀
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Yup! The Shadow, perhaps, is one of the most misunderstood archetypes. In fact, it is one of those archetypes which we cannot live without, but learn to disregard… perhaps, that is why it is the Shadow, eh!