Pushed away: Nasturtium
“Push me and watch me set. I don't move because somebody would like me to.”
It holds its own line with unusual force and treats influence of any kind as an attempted takeover, so persuasion, advice and even agreement arriving from outside get resisted on principle rather than on merit. It formed between a father who ruled by decree and a mother who never held a position of her own, which left exactly two available roles and only one of them worth having. What it asks for is to be moved once, visibly, by an argument that turned out to be the better one.
It echoes Cato the Younger, who would not bend on any point for any party for any reason, and carried the refusal all the way to the end of it. The form implies a task: to test whether every yielding is a surrender.
- Essence
- The Fortified
- Rule
- In that house you were the one giving orders or the one taking them.
- Substance / Activity
- Nasturtium
- Archetype
- Cato the Younger
- Emotional theme
- Will taken as the whole of the self
- Behavioural pattern
- Control-avoidance; deflection of influence; resistance offered on principle
- Family dynamic
- Ruling father and a capitulating mother, leaving two roles and only one worth having
- Core wound
- In that house you were the one giving orders or the one taking them.
- Exit
- Being visibly moved once by a better argument.
What is the "Pushed away: Nasturtium" pattern?
It holds its own line with unusual force and treats influence of any kind as an attempted takeover, so persuasion, advice and even agreement arriving from outside get resisted on principle rather than on merit. It formed between a father who ruled by decree and a mother who never held a position of her own, which left exactly two available roles and only one of them worth having. What it asks for is to be moved once, visibly, by an argument that turned out to be the better one.
What does "Pushed away: Nasturtium" sound like when it shows up?
Push me and watch me set. I don't move because somebody would like me to.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Nasturtium"?
It echoes Cato the Younger, who would not bend on any point for any party for any reason, and carried the refusal all the way to the end of it. The form implies a task: to test whether every yielding is a surrender.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.
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