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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats up the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
– Maya Angelou
“I don’t care!” Harry yelled at them, snatching a sneakascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’VE HAD ENOUGH. I’VE SEEN ENOUGH. I WANT OUT!
I DON’T CARE ANYMORE!”
“You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry from demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Definition:
Rage: Feel or express violent or uncontrollable anger.
c 1300 madness, insanity, wrath, fierceness in battle, violence of storm or battle.
Anger: A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure or hostility.
c 1200 to irritate, annoy, provoke, tight painfully constricted, ill will, surliness.
Body Location: Kidneys and bladder (pissed off) Gall bladder (bile), adrenals, head (hot-headed)
Stories with negative results from Rage or Anger: Kali Ma (once anger starts for a reason, it can sometime continue without discretion and become complete destruction).
Positivity and Rage or Anger Stories: Kali Ma (there is a time for rage that can save lives), Crescent Moon Bear, and The Mistress of the Fire (patience of tracking and hunting down and getting to know rage and bring it to light).
Compassion Acknowledgment, Healing: One’s own history and exposure to trauma and stress.
STORIES:
An aperture story for dealing with anger (possibly as a result of PTSD / previous trauma as the husband has just returned from war), which is a template for healing. How to heal rage is already something that must be answered by the self. There is a journey to the top of the mountain in which in tracking and hunting the Ancient crescent moon bear one learns how to do the same with their own anger.
None could stop the war including Durga. For every drop of blood that spilled thousands were born to replace, to fight back. Finally Kali came and began to slay all of the demons. She fought and fought and defeated them. However, she couldn’t stop. She kept killing everyone and destroying everything. Once rage kills what it needs to kill, sometimes it continues to destroy.
The initial wound that one carries when hurt triggers rage that may be directed at the part of one’s self that is keeping them warm or alive. That rage can extinguish the fire not just putting the wounded part of oneself in danger of freezing but that of the entire community or family. The elder woman takes the young woman back to her tent to examine what happened and without shame or guilt to discover the Mistress of the Fire who had been disrespected. To bring her back to life sacrifice must be made of that infantile part of ourselves.
Possible Manifestations, Notes and Thoughts:
Tefnut – rage caused droughts in Ethiopia. The heat rises and dries out the complex where inside rage is peace.
The fire of rage needs to cleanse and transform as it is inside the complex itself. Stick to the heat of your issue for illumination.
Ichtel – Mayan Goddess of Childbirth and War
When self care (self mothering) is not there or neglect of things building up occurs, anger can build up can come to the surface.
Story of the wall
by Michael Meade
“The wound becomes the womb.” The answer to rage has to come from the fire (the spirit of the fire) itself whether it is hot or cold. “The wound is a salt mine. If we lick it right, it will give us the flavor of our own life and the endurance to live it.” – Michael Meade, The Alchemy of Fire
Relevant Notes Clarissa Estes Women Who Runs With the Wolves (Chapter of Marking Territory: The Boundaries Between Rage and Forgiveness)
Rage is a teacher.
Mother is developed in caring for the injured part of the psyche.
Tolerance for every creature and every emotion.
Sooner injury is dealt with the less its effect spreads and worsens.
Home from war, the body still thinks it’s at war.
Ask for Rage to take a seat with us.
We want to use anger as a creative force. We want to use it to change, develop and protect. “We want to show something for being angry.”
Possible Birth Manifestations:
Getting angry when frustrated and reaches the tipping point for a decision.
Feeling disrespected by someone in the room.
Underlying issues or patterns of anger that cannot be hidden.
Surpassed anger of not yelling or getting it out – not acting upon rage that energy continues to travel internally.
Expressed anger is released like a tea pot.
Sexual abuse, somatic reminder of anger (and many other emotions and feelings).
Legacy of anger and rage passed on.
Being a warrior in childbirth or on the battlefield may take that decisive action or expression.
Getting rid of the social niceties and allowing that flow to be released.
