Hi All!
Doc Murphy's back!
OK, the earlier thread about using for Cast Off Evil to help with trauma intrigued me... and I thought maybe I'd run something past you all to see what you think of this use... I'm in a really good relationship (finally!) with a wonderful man (double finally!)... but after a year together its become clear that he is holding on to an awful lot of trauma around past relationships and his young son. This fella frankly should be in with a male survivors of domestic abuse support group... stuff was that bad for him. And not just one relationship! He really had a tendency to attract genuinely emotionally unstable and cruel women, and he is still recovering. It's sad.
He's a magical practitioner too, and has done a heck of a job cleaning out his life... but well, there's still mess lingering. And when we get into (stupid) arguments, it's not really about anything, but emotional buttons are being pushed, and feelings are getting hurt. I'm pretty stable compared to his past relationships -- to the point that he's so unsure of what a good relationship is like that he's nervous about it. And well, that's trauma. And I also think that stuff is still hanging in is house that sets him off...
We do talk about it, and that does help, but he's got a billion Scorpios in his chart and just doesn't let things go easily, either.
When I was moving on from bad stuff, I found Cast Off Evil really helpful. Like KABOOM helpful -- that stuff is wonderful. I'm wondering if cleaning up his place again -- subtly -- with COE in the mopwater, and maybe putting the same oils in his shampoo and bodywash bottles is a good way to help him start to cast of what keeps him emotionally trapped. Yes, he needs counseling, and yes, he's got too much pride and doesn't want to hear this from me... but I thought a magical nudge might help start things... he's really a wonderful, caring, hardworking decent man and father, and deserves to be happy...
Anyway, what does anyone think of this use of COE? I'd be obliged for feedback.
So good to chat with you all again. It's been a rough, magically meh year. It's time to get back on the magic!
Doc Murphy
St. Paul, MN