The shadow in woman is her emotionality, which attaches her to an impossible dream of personal love. When the shadow is able to influence her decisions and choices, the selection of a partner will eventuate circumstances in the relationship that bring to the surface hidden emotional fears and self-doubt. Woman’s subconscious impulse is to unite with her essential nature of impersonal love. In her natural state she emanates a power which brings to her a man who represents her formless love within. When in touch with her love, she is one with the earth and the cosmos, whose delight is to provide her with all that is needed for her pleasure and fulfilment in life. This idealised love cannot be realised universally; but only in the individual woman who has suffered enough and refuses to compromise with the demands of sex without love.
To emerge from the shadow and unite with her true nature, a woman must be prepared to make a stand for love. Never again must she entertain an excitable, impatient man who is unable through his actions to demonstrate that he’s worthy of her love. She has to see that the cause of her discontent and heartache has been her willingness in the past to surrender herself to the sexual force of men instead of the power of love in man. A man can only realise his authenticity and power to love through a woman who refuses to compromise with the effects of past sexual dishonesty. And she can only do this when the shadow in her has been enlightened in love and no longer able to drag her down into the depths of despair. Of course, to banish the shadow for good is a momentous undertaking and requires a man to be willing to enter the profundity of woman and be vulnerable to love. Lance Kelly
