Your Shadow Isn’t Demonic — Your Avoidance Is
- Karen Di Gloria
- Dec 11
- 3 min read
Sagittarius season is when truth stops whispering
and starts lighting torches.
This is the fire that doesn’t burn you —
it reveals you.
The fire that illuminates the corners
you’ve tiptoed around for years.
Shadow work isn’t about descending into darkness
and never returning.
It’s about walking into that inner underworld
with a lantern and a spine,
knowing you’re not there to die —
you’re there to integrate.
Let’s begin.
The First Lie: “My Shadow Is Evil.”
Most people don’t fear their shadow —
they fear what their shadow suggests about them.
You weren’t raised to trust your instinct.
You were raised to suppress it.
To smooth it out.
To make it palatable.
Fear?
Desire?
Jealousy?
Territorial impulse?
Anger?
Power?
You learned early these parts were “sinful,”
“unspiritual,”
or “dangerous.”
But here’s the truth Sagittarius carries like gospel:
Your instinct isn’t evil.
Your avoidance is.
When you exile instinct, it doesn’t disappear.
It calcifies.
It curdles.
It becomes the monster you swear you don’t have.
Your shadow isn’t a demon —
it’s life force you froze.
Shadow as Frozen Life Force
Jung said that the unconscious becomes your fate
when you refuse to meet it face-to-face.
Shadow is not darkness.
Shadow is unlived truth.
It’s the emotion you swallowed.
The instinct you denied.
The memory you minimized.
The desire you shamed.
The anger you talked yourself out of feeling.
Your shadow haunts you
not because it’s destructive
but because it was abandoned.
Shadow is not the place where your evil lives.
Shadow is the place where your exiled vitality waits.
Why Spiritual Bypassing Creates Inner Monsters
You’ve heard the phrase “love and light.”
You’ve probably used it.
Maybe even believed it.
But overly sanitized spirituality is emotional avoidance
wearing a white robe.
Every time you dodge truth
in the name of being “positive,”
you feed the very thing you’re trying to escape.
Avoidance corrupts instinct.
Denial breeds distortion.
Bypassing is the breeding ground for inner monsters.
Monsters aren’t born in darkness.
They’re born in forbidden emotion.
The Archetypes That Return When You’re Ready
Let’s talk about the archetypes who live in your bones —
the ones religion feared,
society punished,
and spirituality watered down.
But psychologically?
They serve a purpose.
Lilith
The instinctual self who refuses to be tamed.
Not rebellion — integrity.
Persephone
The one who descends to reclaim what’s hers
and resurfaces wiser.
Medusa
A woman turned to stone by trauma —
not a villain, but a warning.
Hekate
Keeper of thresholds, crossroads,
and the torch that helps you see the truth
without collapsing into fear.
These archetypes aren’t here to harm you.
They’re here to escort you back to your authenticity.
They are not demons.
They are protectors.
Gatekeepers.
Unclaimed fragments of your original power.
Sagittarius Season: Meaning-Making After the Descent
This is where understanding enters the chat.
Scorpio season excavates.
Sagittarius season interprets.
You’re not meant to stay in the underworld forever.
You’re meant to translate it.
This is the moment you stop asking:
“What’s wrong with me?”
And start asking:
“What part of me have I forgotten?”
Shadow work is no longer about intensity.
It’s about integration, clarity, and meaning.
Sagittarius doesn’t flee the darkness —
it philosophizes it,
extracts wisdom from it,
laughs with it,
and turns it into truth.
The Question That Changes Everything
Here’s your hinge.
Your spell.
Your portal:
What if the voice you fear
is the part of you
that still believes
you’re worth saving?
Not haunting.
Not punishing.
Not sabotaging.
Saving.
What if the monster is the child you abandoned?
What if the fear is the instinct you exiled?
What if the shadow is the map you need?
What if the darkness is the doorway you keep refusing to walk through?
What if the thing you avoid
is the thing you need most?
Closing Invocation
May you stop demonizing what is yours.
May you stop abandoning your instinct.
May you stop exiling the emotions
that were only ever trying to protect you.
Shadow is not your enemy.
Avoidance is.
Walk toward the voice.
It knows the way home.
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With fierce love,
Karen Di Gloria 🔥
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