The Destroyer is the Angel of Death who makes us authentic, stripping us of the superfluous and useless. And he makes us understand that all that matters is the experience that remains in the soul and not in earthly things. It is necessary to be allies of death, to live walking side by side with death. With the knowledge that you can die at any moment. Only in this way can you fully experience the present moment in the here and now.
At some point in life there comes a time when we discover that everything we have worked for no longer exists. What we believed in ended in nothing. We feel failed, empty, disappointed, embittered, we fall apart and life no longer makes sense. We feel a sense of helplessness and injustice towards life. Towards forces greater than us, we feel at the mercy of fate, with the sensation that the world has fallen on us, in those moments the Destroyer is active
The Destroyer is essential to metamorphosis, growth, evolution
It works through abandonment and betrayal. Judgment, scourging, derision, torture, dismemberment, shattering, crucifixion, death, and rebirth. These are all elements of the initiation process, and they allow for awakening.
The mysteries of love, birth, and death require a sacrifice to be understood. The Destroyer helps us break off relationships that don’t work. To get rid of ways of thinking and of being no longer suited to our needs. To let go of all the things one is attached to, to deconstruct oneself from all patterns and rules, from all conditioning.
The Destroyer Archetype
Planet – Pluto
Zodiac sign – Scorpio
Eighth astrological house – Loss, Death and Resurrection, management of common goods.
Axis of energy – Guardian Angel – Destroyer – Fool
Quality – Attachment
metamorphosis, change, ability to let go, detachment, humility, presence in the here and now
Shadow – Destructiveness
abuse of harmful substances, excesses and dangerous actions, poor consideration of one’s own life and property and that of others. Crime, death, suffering, failure, resistance to change, attachment to old patterns
Purpose in life – Growth, change, metamorphosis
Fear – Of stagnation, of death without rebirth, of the end, of arrest
Relationship with the dragon problem – It destroys it, takes it apart piece by piece, deconstructs it
Lesson to learn – Transformation, learning to let go, learning to change, learning humility
Topics to explore – Change and obstacles, family loyalty, death, and rebirth. Letting go, the renunciation of the ego, the symptom, and the disease. The unconscious drive of death, betrayal, loss, and integration of mourning, Pluto, and the realm of the dead.
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