THE PREDATOR

What is the manifestation of BLUEBEARD in your life? Where is the Predator in your outer world and in your inner psyche? What an amazing and incredible chapter this is about Bluebeard. It spoke to me on so many levels. First.....the naivete of the younger sister. I have been her too many times. I have known I was with a predator and I have chosen to overlook that inner knowledge in favor of the dazzle of a handsome smile. I have allowed myself to remain in destructive relationships by refusing to see the secrets behind the cellar door. Yet this does not apply merely to those things outside of ourselves, but more deeply, it applies to our own sabotage of our own freedom and creativity. How many times have I started a creative project only to abandon it as frivolous or unworthy...too many times. That is the predator in our own minds....the one who says "who do you think you are to try to do THAT...YOU can't do THAT". That is the Real Predator. The one in our mind who says "YOU do not know what your are seeing, listen to me instead." Second...The older sisters, represent that knowing...the intuition that is there and is being pushed aside by the younger sister. The younger sister, in her naivete, is in cahoots with the predator to keep KNOWLEDGE from occurring. She wants an illusion vs truth. She literally transforms, in her mind, his odd and ugly blue beard..to a thing of "elegance" and mystery and intrigue. All the while her older sisters, those in the story and those within her psyche, know better...and on some level she knows it also. Third...The brothers. This part of the story, this part of the inner working of the psyche kept me up late last night, tossing and turning, as I realized this is a part of me that I have not recognized, for a long time, if ever. The brothers are summoned by the younger sister to save her life. They arrive and charge into her chambers killing the predator and allowing her to be free from his cruel plan to mutilate her. I am beginning to recognize that it is time to summon the brothers in me to kill off the predators in my internal and external worlds, metaphorically of course, however in a very psychologically real way. I dreamt of hand guns. I have never dreamt of guns, before. Also, quite amazingly, to me, I have had several people brought into my life in the past few years who are hunters. Not something I am drawn to by any means...and I have often asked myself this past year..."Why am I drawing Hunters into my Life?"...Suddenly the answer is very clear...they were brought into my life in order that I would begin to see the Brothers in my own inner psyche. That within me is the Predator...but that ALSO within me is THE PROTECTOR. There is within each of us every aspect of this story. Once the secret is revealed do we have the courage to look upon it and to deal with it? I think the author is showing us that we do have that and that we have the resources of our older sisters (our intuition) and our brothers (our own self protection) to rely upon to give us the strength and courage to do what must be done to remain free.