Part of our Tyrants blog series where you will learn the many faces of the tyrants. You will learn about the other tyrants of life like time, situations, space and the environment. You will also learn about the people called “Two-Legged Tyrants” and what their focus is for tyranting you. You will clearly see how you opened the door and let the tyrant in. Best of all, this series teaches you how to stop any tyrant from stealing your life force energy and how to count coup and gain the true teaching for both you and the tyrant.
Last blog, we looked at the story & teaching of this tyrant. Now let’s take a closer look at the sad, melancholy, guilt provoking tyrants by examining four different faces:
In the south are the social and cultural image makers. These are the peer and ethnic groups we were born into. These image makers pull at our heart strings. When society attacks it will be in the emotional arena. When we are molded, sculpted and armored, our friends, neighbors and the very culture we are associated with will often make us feel guilty for our choices in life.
In the west are the co-dependent sexual partners. These tyrants really doubt your love for them. In the case of the co-dependent lovers, both are insecure as to whether the other really loves them. Therefore, they engage in sad, melancholy, guilt provoking tyrant behavior in order to keep the other person dependent on them. They use the vehicle of physical sexuality as the snag or pull for co-dependency. This sets them up in an adaptive relationship triangle where there are three roles: the persecutor, the rescuer and the victim. If the partners in the co-dependent relationship each take on one of the roles, the relationship will take on the third.
In the north are parental/child image makers. This is where sad, melancholy, guilt provoking behavior is used to control relationships between parent and child. Sometimes teachers can be put here. When I was a teenager my brothers and sisters would manipulate my beliefs about mother /daughter relationships to create guilt. They used guilt to try to get me to do more for my mother. They would say “Staying out late and making your mother worry is no way to be a good daughter. After all the sacrifices she has made for you and this is how you treat her”. They believed that if a person really loved their mother they would help around the house and stay home more. Margo and her mother are a good example of this tyrant.
In the east are the religious image makers. The religious image makers impact our self-growth, our vision, and our spiritual beliefs. A religious tyrant image maker will try to repress the spirit. Often they themselves lack creativity and show very little passion and lust for life. Out of this repressed energy they will try to control and limit what others can do with their body. For example, making activities like dancing, card playing or sexuality a sin according to their doctrines. When a person’s natural proclivity prompts them to do these activities, they are made to feel guilty for it.
The Elders say that the first chakra is our sexuality and creativity. The seventh chakra is our dream. If a person can control our first chakra and our seventh chakra they can control our physical body (8). The religious image makers do a very good job through guilt, blame and shame at controlling our sexuality
(1) and saying if you want to get to heaven, believe in our definition of the dream (7).
The sitting place (3) of this tyrant is in the northwest. They try to make you emotionally indebted to them by having you agree to their patterns of behavior; This is where greed and avarice sit on the triggers wheel. The sad, melancholy and guilt provoking tyrant wants it all. They want your time, energy and whatever it is you possess that they need; Their aim is to play on your morals and feelings of right and wrong to make you feel guilty and fulfill their wishes. They want to place limitations and boundaries on your time and energy for their benefit.
One (1) is where you open the door to this tyrant through the south, the emotions. This tyrant causes you to constantly doubt your emotions. This affects your emotional balance and control, which in turn opens the door wider for doubt. You begin to hold with your emotions instead of giving with them. This tyrant provokes the question “Do you really love me?” As a result your Inner Tyrant begins to feel guilty and you ask yourself “What have I done wrong?” Or you question whether you are good enough. It begins to erode your self-esteem. You now must deal with your anger at yourself that comes out of a poor self concept.
The (5) place is where you must count coup on the tyrant. It sits in the east, the place of spirit, and on the triggers wheel, repression. You want to stop this tyrant before they drain your energy with their guilt provoking behavior. These are often the hardest tyrants to count coup on because they are locked into their story as their identity.
To stop this tyrant from laying blame on you, you must help them confront the unexpressed repressions held within the subconscious. You might do this by saying “It sounds to me that you don’t know you are loved or appreciated”, or whatever is appropriate in the given situation. This tyrant is working on your boundaries and limitations, so lay down clear boundaries about your space. Use your own spirit, vision and creativity to appeal to the same in the tyrant. It is important for you to use a good deal of humor and never take their drama seriously.
At (6) which is in the southeast, is the true teaching of this tyrant. They are teaching you how to build a good self-concept by setting proper boundaries in response to their greed. Your attitude toward life becomes better as you become clear about what is right and wrong for you. It also teaches you the discipline of humor and to learn to laugh at yourself, at life and with people.
Join us on the next blog as we learn about the prosecuting tormenting tyrant.
Excerpted from “A Course of Study, Series B: Module 2: The Tyrants of Life″, written by Mary Flaming Crystal Mirror.
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