Pushed away: Garlic
“There's something rotten at the middle of me, so I keep myself small on purpose.”
It puts down its own power, its desire and its access to plenty in a steady act of self-disarmament, on the conviction that a person made this way should not be given range. The verdict was issued at home by an engulfing and furious mother, and the attachment to her survived the verdict, so the sentence goes on being served in her absence. What it asks for is to hold one ordinary piece of power for a week without the penance that usually accompanies it.
It echoes Set, cast in the family story as the ruinous one and kept in the account because the account required somebody to carry that part. The form implies a task: to ask who assigned the role, and what the household needed it for.
- Essence
- Wrong at the Root
- Rule
- I was told what I was at the root, by the one person I couldn't leave.
- Substance / Activity
- Garlic
- Archetype
- Set
- Emotional theme
- Moral badness taken as one's own nature
- Behavioural pattern
- Deflection of personal power, sexuality and abundance; self-disarmament as penance
- Family dynamic
- Engulfing and angry mothering that issued a verdict of wickedness the child stayed attached to
- Core wound
- I was told what I was at the root, by the one person I couldn't leave.
- Exit
- Holding one ordinary piece of power for a week without penance.
What is the "Pushed away: Garlic" pattern?
It puts down its own power, its desire and its access to plenty in a steady act of self-disarmament, on the conviction that a person made this way should not be given range. The verdict was issued at home by an engulfing and furious mother, and the attachment to her survived the verdict, so the sentence goes on being served in her absence. What it asks for is to hold one ordinary piece of power for a week without the penance that usually accompanies it.
What does "Pushed away: Garlic" sound like when it shows up?
There's something rotten at the middle of me, so I keep myself small on purpose.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Garlic"?
It echoes Set, cast in the family story as the ruinous one and kept in the account because the account required somebody to carry that part. The form implies a task: to ask who assigned the role, and what the household needed it for.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.
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