The Medial: Bright and Shadow Potentials It is the Medial within that sends us on a search for knowledge of all kinds: spiritual, metaphysical, gnostic, mystical, psychological, intellectual, scientific, genealogical, and technical. Paradoxically, the Medial wants and seeks to know, yet ultimately, through Life’s initiations, falls in love with not knowing.
As Medial women, we are drawn toward the unknown, the outer edges of conventionality and the familiar—or it draws us. We may be terrified, excited, compelled, and enchanted, all at once. Medial women are seekers and keepers of esoteric knowledge and wisdom, and value gnosis: direct mystical experience. Our Medial dimension helps us to realize eventually that we are that which we have been seeking.
We all have this energy available to us in some form, at its most basic level, it is our intuition. The woman with strong Medial energy is highly intuitive and loves to learn and understand how things work. Taking her computer apart and knowing how to fix the car may be just as compelling as making visionary art or working on a dream. She may be a healer, shaman, ritual maker, mystic, teacher, researcher, visionary, artist, song writer, musician, poet, priestess, or police detective.
She may also use her Medial gifts in business or the world of high technology, such as computers, science, forensics, medical research, photography, filmmaking, and digital arts. Having a deep desire, a calling, or a true vocation to serve others with her gifts, her particular soul’s purpose may become evident to her when she is a child, or it may not show up until later in life. Many women see glimmers of its presence when they look back at what they were interested in as little girls.
We can recognize the Medial as Sophia, goddess of wisdom, Cassandra who warned of the Trojans but was not believed, Hecate, the wise crone at the crossroads. She is the Oracle of Delphi, the Chanting Priestess of Mexico, and the Dreaming Goddess carved into the cave wall in France. She can also show up as the Wicked Witch of the West, the dark sorceress who casts spells and lays curses upon others, the psychotic woman who carries the family craziness, the promiscuous teenager who acts out her mother’s repressed sexuality, or the vicious woman who instinctively goes for the jugular.
The Medial woman serves truth and assists others by helping them find meaning in their life experiences, especially the difficult ones. She holds sacred space for them while they make their way and may offer silence, healing, dream work, ritual, art, poetry, music, song, dance, ecstatic trance, guided inner journeys, astrological readings, channeled material, or teachings. She can be evocative, provocative, and inspiring, as well as a disturbing bringer of chaos when she is not self aware. She can also intoxicate and entrance others, take them into sublime experiences, whether it is through a painting, a song, dance, writing, or trance, and she can lead
them into harm’s way if her intentions are power-driven. It all depends on how conscious she is and where her devotion lies.
The Medial is the High Priestess of liminal space, the chaotic, uncomfortable territory between ‘here’ and ‘there’, the pupa stage we must pass through in any initiation. She is the wise woman who greets and guides seekers and pilgrims as they cross thresholds and make their passages. Her primary mode of being in the world is to bring new ideas, images, and information in from the vast realms of collective consciousness, as well as from stillness. She lives on the border between realities, mediating the depths of the collective unconscious to those around her, and dives deeply into her own unconscious, willing to experience and explore the unknown contents, whatever they are. She has courage and a healthy respect for the power of the unconscious and what emerges from it, whether it is bright or dark. A strongly Medial woman needs to develop the focused awareness and boundaries of the Amazon woman, as she may be a psychic sponge, absorbing the feelings and unconscious contents from those around her. She must learn to distinguish what belongs to her, and what belongs to others, what is personal and what is impersonal. The Medial may be more inclined than women with other archetypal strengths to
lose her sense of self and unable to know what she herself needs. This can easily happen to some when they are with other people, groups, or in relation to ideologies. She is so highly attuned to what others think, feel, want, and need—even if they don’t know it themselves—that she can end up living someone else’s life or agenda. If she herself is not well-grounded in her own sense of herself, holding her boundaries well, and does not know how her gift is to be used, the gift can become her curse. The inner Amazon can help a Medial women learn how to define and sustain their own boundaries. It is essential for a Medial woman who is developing her gifts to have a mentor and work with teachers and elders. Not only for the purpose of learning skills and techniques, it is wise for a Medial to be in the field of other Medial women or men because much of the education of a Medial woman comes through non-verbal transmissions. It is all too easy to become identified with the powerful energies and the power of accessing the other dimensions. She can become inflated, grandiose, even dangerous, if not conscious. The core shadow of the Medial archetype is a strong drive for, or addiction to, the power. The power-driven shadow of the Medial can compromise her integrity to manipulate, control, or violate others. There is ample evidence of this happening with clergy, healers, educators, and mental health professionals. No one is invulnerable to the seduction of power. The darkest shadow expression of the Medial is a woman who uses black magic, satanic ritual, sorcery, mind control, curses and spells cast to control, manipulate, hurt or even kill others. Evil exists in the world of duality, and many horrific things happen that are beyond what our minds and hearts can believe or take in, but they do exist. It’s not all on tv or in other people’s worlds.
We must not be naïve, attached only to seeing what is light. We must be scrupulous and willing to look for the truth, no matter what it is. It is highly arrogant to think that we could never fall into unconsciousness with our Medial gifts, cross the line into anything inappropriate. We all have blind spots and vulnerabilities and, as a Medial, we are emotionally, psychically, and energetically open to all kinds of energies and dimensions and their intrusion into our field of consciousness. This is why it is so vital to have a good sense of self, strong, clear boundaries, an ongoing spiritual practice, a peer community, and elders. It is also essential fro a Medial woman to be very grounded and embodied, and willing to see the truth, no matter what it is. The inner Amazon is essential. When our Medial energy is active, we are open to receiving insight, guidance, ‘downloads’, and information in countless forms from many dimensions, including dreams, visions, art, music, writing, poetry, healing work, mediumship, nature, and the world at large.
We must be able to discern our sources, as well as the personal from the impersonal. When our Medial gifts or vocation are denied or refused, as when any aspect of us is refused expression, a very painful journey can ensue. In the shamanic world, a person who is called to be a shaman and refuses the call suffers physical, mental, or spiritual illness, and a sense of soul loss, until they agree to serve and use their gifts appropriately. This could be true of an artist who isn’t making art, a healer who isn’t doing healing work.
Medial energy is powerful and needs to flow and be integrated in us and into our lives in some way. We don’t have to know how to do it, or what to do, we are always guided if we are willing. Helpers and teachers show up at the right time.
When developing our Medial gifts, we must learn to trust our awareness and not let our thinking minds or other people engender self doubt. Self doubt can be demonic and completely undermine any woman’s gifts. Learning to sit in silence, live from the heart, and rest as awareness without thought, brings discernment and recognition of what is pointing to Truth and what is story made up by the mind. All of our Medial skills grow over time if we tend that garden and are around people who support this.
A Medial woman can go into overload if she doesn’t know how to take care of herself, be able to tune things out, or know what her limits are. As we learn what works to support us, and what does not, we may find that we cannot tolerate certain vibrations, television, people, crowds, or shopping malls for long without our nervous system feeling over-stimulated and raw. We may find that we have to be outside with our feet on the earth every day in order to stay grounded and balanced. Medial Crones may be called to mentor, teach, or midwife younger women into their Medial gifts and work. Medial energies often burst into full flowering as we move into and through our second Saturn return, around our late fifties and onward into Cronehood. For some, this next opening may happen at menopause, in which case it could happen sooner than the late fifties for some women. https://veronicagodeanu.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/archetypesfree.pdf
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