Pip: There’s a certain kind of medical blog that covers allergies, integrative health, and also astral projection encounters with emotionally unavailable men — and this is that blog.
Mara: Today we’re in the territory of the heart, literally and figuratively. Dr. Jen Wyman-Clemons, MD writes about a recurring inner figure she calls the love daemon, and what it means to sit with that kind of pull until it resolves. Let’s start with the daemon himself.
Love daemon (L.D. #2)
Pip: The setup here is a specific kind of obsession — not the anxious kind, but the kind that has its own gravity. Something that pulls at the chest even when the mind knows better. The question the post is really asking is: what do you do with a feeling that won’t be reasoned away?
Mara: The post grounds it in a direct experience. After astral projecting to observe this figure, she writes: “He was angry, flustered and slammed the door. Finally some relief! He is otherwise busy and doesn’t want you.”
Pip: That’s the release valve. Not a romantic resolution — just information. The feeling needed somewhere to go, and the vision gave it an exit.
Mara: What follows is almost tender. A quieter version of the same figure appears later in her living room, cheerful about the absence of television. She describes it as “a very happy version of my love daemon.” The emotional register shifts completely — from longing to something closer to amusement.
Pip: The heart apparently runs its own editorial calendar, independent of the rational mind.
Mara: She’s honest about that tension. She writes that unless actively engaged with someone else, she feels like her heart has “an MRI magnet on it.” That’s a precise image — a pull that’s physical, directional, not entirely voluntary.
Pip: She even flags the irony — she notes it’s been her habit to detach easily from men no matter how strongly she felt. This one is different, and she knows it.
Mara: She closes by reaching for the tarot. The eight of cups, she explains, is about letting emotional attachment run its full course to completion. Not cutting it off — completing it. That’s a meaningful distinction.
Pip: Completion, not suppression. The whole post is a case study in that difference.
Mara: What stays with me is the idea that some feelings have to be witnessed before they can move.
Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else this site has been sitting with.
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