At cgjungpage.org, Jan Bauer, a Montreal Jungian analyst, speaks about “The Mysteries of Money.” In Part 2 of the audio, she observes that if someone is strong in relationships, they tend to be weak in money, and if they are strong in money, they tend to be weak in relationships.

To be balanced, according to Bauer, one must integrate the "other side."  To integrate the “other,” there must always be a fall into the shadow. For the relationship-oriented coming to terms with money (warrior archetype maybe?), she will, at first, feel like a “selfish bitch.” For the financially oriented coming to terms with relationship, he will, at first, feel “spineless and weak.” I speak of stereotypical genders here, but the genders could be switched. This is very scary to do, from either side. Seeking wholeness, one must go into that “bad” space, that bad image of oneself, before one can integrate the “other side.”

No wonder change is so difficult.

Listen to full lecture here.

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"…money is intrinsically a principle of reconciliation, of the harmonization of disparate elements. No wonder that in ancient Greece, Hermes was both the god of commerce and the god of communication between man and the immortals, the god of the borders, the god of exchanges."
- Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman

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