ANGER

  
ANGER IS A LOVING RESPONSE TO INJUSTICE

-- Lawrence Plumlee

The power of anger is difficult to face. We identify anger with violence, and women have been conditioned to feel that our anger is wrong and unacceptable. yet anger is a manifestation of the life force. It is a survival emotion, a warning signal that something in our environment is threatening. Danger triggers a physical, psychic, and emotional response that mobilizes our energy to change the situation. Being human, we respond to verbal and emotional attacks as threats, which arouse anger. But when we cannot admit our own anger, instead of recognizing the threat in the environment, we experience
ourselves as wrong. Instead of flowing outward to change the environment, our energy becomes locked into internal efforts at repression and control. The Goddess liberates the energy of our anger. It is seen as sacred, and its power is. purified. Like a forest fire in undisturbed wilderness, it sweeps away the underbrush so that the seedlings of our creativity can receive the nourishing sunlight. We control our actions; we do not attempt to control our feelings. Anger becomes a connecting force that spurs honest confrontations and communications with others.

--Starhawk