Pushed away: Salmon (I)
“Something good turns up and my first move is to find what's wrong with the way it arrived.”
It knocks back what is offered, resources and openings alike, usually by objecting to the form the offer took rather than to the offer itself, which keeps the refusal looking like discernment. Deprivation and denigration in childhood set the ration low and set it early, and an arrival that exceeds the ration produces suspicion faster than it produces appetite. What it asks for is to accept one thing in the shape it actually came in.
It echoes Naaman, who came a long way for a cure and rode off in a temper because it was offered too plainly and in the wrong river, and had to be talked round by his own servants. The form implies a task: to let somebody talk one round.
- Essence
- The Unallotted
- Rule
- I was given so little that anything more looks like a trick.
- Substance / Activity
- Salmon
- Archetype
- Naaman
- Emotional theme
- Ration set low in childhood, defended against anything exceeding it
- Behavioural pattern
- Abundance-avoidance; reflexive rejection of resources and opportunities as they arrive
- Family dynamic
- Intense deprivation and denigration through childhood
- Core wound
- I was given so little that anything more looks like a trick.
- Exit
- Accepting one thing in the shape it actually arrived in.
What is the "Pushed away: Salmon (I)" pattern?
It knocks back what is offered, resources and openings alike, usually by objecting to the form the offer took rather than to the offer itself, which keeps the refusal looking like discernment. Deprivation and denigration in childhood set the ration low and set it early, and an arrival that exceeds the ration produces suspicion faster than it produces appetite. What it asks for is to accept one thing in the shape it actually came in.
What does "Pushed away: Salmon (I)" sound like when it shows up?
Something good turns up and my first move is to find what's wrong with the way it arrived.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Salmon (I)"?
It echoes Naaman, who came a long way for a cure and rode off in a temper because it was offered too plainly and in the wrong river, and had to be talked round by his own servants. The form implies a task: to let somebody talk one round.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.