So Young by the London Suede

Written By Cristy

Threading music and lyrics in dreams to connections and insights. Recently, I dreamt and recalled the lyrics of a song called “So Young” by an English band Suede (1993) “Lets chase the dragon home.” This band and song never had any significance to me personally but reminded me of an ex. I discussed the song with my husband and he had known that “chasing the dragon” was an English colloquialism for shooting up heroine– not something I am familiar with in any sense. However, chasing the dragon is mythic and connects us to medieval dragons and chinese dragons, linking us with the dark and light aspects of the magical creature. 

Something hints at what it means to chase the dragon. To chase after alter states of the same reality that is somehow known and unknown to us, perhaps we can say what the addict longs for to transcend the banal. Songs can have strong archetypal connections and speak to phenomenon on a collective level not just our personal associations. And yet recalling the song and this ex, I realized how much this was the beginning of me chasing my own path of individuation when I was so young. It allowed me to reinstate the importance of that relationship and time in my life that had a domino effect in reclaiming my power and transcend from other spells, patterns, that I was “addicted” to and it did take numinous experiences, connecting to the transcendent, for it to happen. Facing the dragon’s dark and light sides of myself, the collective and life, and bringing it home.

Micro to macro, macro to micro, an interconnected unfolding, thanks to a song.

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

https://imaginaltherapy@gmail.com
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