Breaking Free From the Traps We’ve Learned to Live With

What if some of the things keeping you trapped don’t actually feel like traps anymore because you’ve gotten really good at living with them? Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius this week, bringing desire, attachment, power & the bargains we make with ourselves to the surface, while the Sun moves through Human Design Gate 6, the Gate of Friction, whose Gene Key travels from Conflict to Diplomacy to Peace. And with Venus giving us a preview of themes we’ll revisit during her upcoming retrograde, it’s worth paying attention to what starts rubbing now. This episode revisits Chapter 8 of Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves and the eight traps she explores through The Red Shoes, from the gilded cages we willingly step into and the soul famine that follows, to the ways we override instinct, normalize what isn’t working & eventually become participants in maintaining our own cages. We’ll look at why the bait matters, how friction can help us recognize an adaptation that has outlived its usefulness, & three things to contemplate as Venus and Pluto show us some of the fine print. Maybe breaking free starts with a harder question: what are you still getting from the thing you say you want to escape?   Work with Me Access your free Shamanic Journey to Meet a Guardian Guide Purchase your Human Design Energetic Blueprint Access your free Human Design Chart For more information visit https//www.adriannemcdonald.com