Part Two: Why Doesn’t the Parole Officer Want You to Go Back to the Same Neighborhood?
How many times do these young people just find themselves surrounded by the wrong people and find themselves in trouble? Only to discover that society turns a deaf ear and the courts are no better than him. Only monkeys with wig.
But in a big celebration, all the thieves are released from jail. Sometimes the real thieves who steal per suitcase and not one way are rewarded. The world seems to be a contradiction for these young people. Always projecting their faults onto others. Then Pinocchio tells the guard that he is a thief too and they release him. What the fairy wished him not to do, in the end he frees him.
The horse has no udders and the cow does not whine but up is down and side is straight.
Upon his release, he vows once again to do his best to change his ways. But on the way back to the Fairy house, a snake stops him in his tracks.
The snake is the symbol of the death card in the Tarot. It is turning a new leaf, shedding your skin into a new life. After his attempts to travel a new path, the snake bursts a vein laughing and dies. So unfortunate is the truth in Pinocchio’s attempt at change.
On his way back he gets hungry and tries to steal some grapes from a farmer. He is only stealing out of hunger, not out of greed. So he’s caught in a trap for weasels that have been eating the farmers’ chickens. Pinocchio’s life is saved if he acts as the farmers’ watchdog who died that morning. Like the Irish god Cuhulain, he had killed the dogs of his hosts because he was late for dinner. He had to serve a year as the dogs of man.
Now in Alchemy you must balance your animal side with your civilized form. Do not abandon one for the other, but put them in agreement. But for Pinocchio it was a creature driven by his impulses. But impulses can become instincts to accompany our civilized nature. This is what the novel The Steppenwolf is about.
The weasels come to him at night and promise him the same thing they gave the dog. One chicken for every eight they steal. But Pinocchio hands them over to become dinner for a poor family in the village. The farmer is so proud that he sets Pinocchio free. But Pinocchio learned more than to control his desires, he learned to keep the secret of the dog killed out of mercy.
He returns to the Blue Fairy to discover that the girl he loved had died of abandonment. When her abusive partner leaves and returns to find that the other has changed for the better, he feels that she has died and no longer sees her. He tries everything to make her go back to dressing in old destructive clothes.
But a dove approaches him. The symbol of the holy spirit comes to guide you. He rides on his shoulders to a distant peak to see his father fighting the ocean waves to come save him.
Like the movie Finding Nemo, sometimes parents take real action to save themselves and improve their children. Geppetto is trying, but he has a long way to go.
The ocean is the symbol of the subconscious mind. The height from which Pinocchio observes is seen in the alchemy symbol of the Most Pure and the spirit on the hill. This is the frame of mind of him that you can hear all of his faults with the property. It is also the place where you believe your dreams are possible. It is the state of mind that you can plan from your mistakes to achieve your dreams. But this state of mind is only for planning and it is useless without acting on them.
Pinocchio, instead of staying in this state of mind. He jumps into the same chaos that Geppetto fights against. For both almost grown. But Pinocchio ends up on the island of Busy Bees to hear that Geppetto was eaten by a whale. On the island he can’t get any charity to satiate his hunger. He turns down trendy jobs for pay, finally settling for carrying a jug of water for a woman back to her shack for a three-course meal. Desert included.
The woman turns out to be the resurrected fairy Girl with Blue Hair. This is the opposite of his ex-girlfriend. She is the controlling mother seen in fairy tales as the wicked witch. She will now get a job that she approves to support her orders. She needs the fear of the mother to fit into society. She could even become a lawyer or a doctor like the owl and the raven at this point. Her dreams and her true potential are lost to this woman. She now plays the victim instead of the killer.
He keeps his job for some time and is providing many comforts to his wife. But someone from the old crowd, but different, enters. He make her skip work for something big. He promises her that the whale has been seen from the beach. So Pinocchio, hoping to find his father, quits his job. But on the beach there is no whale and seven men assault it. Representing the seven deadly sins. One throws a math book at him and hits another instead, who is presumed dead. The police arrive and Pinocchio is chased by a police dog.
They run a long distance until Pinocchio jumps into the ocean. Use your instincts. The dog falls behind him and begins to grow. Pinocchio feels compassion for his own fears of his freedom and saves the dog.
From there Pinocchio enters a cave with the smell of fried fish. They catch him in a net and mistake him for a fish. Many times these young people will enter the subconscious symbol of the cave in search of a new faith. Many fall into sects. Some, if they are lucky, will join Jehovah’s Witnesses. A good organization for those who are in life, but if they stay at home for a long time, they will find themselves on the plate with a fish fry. Just like AA it also becomes a crutch. All young people must pass this point. For Pinocchio, the police dog saves him from the fire. The dog could be the symbol of his own authority building within him to keep him out of trouble without AA or the Witnesses.
Pinocchio returns to his old job, but another friend convinces him to go on a five-month bender in the land of toys. But on his way he meets a talking mule that tries to warn him. These are the other people in our crowd who are trying to come clean and who are pressured not to. Then Pinocchio turns into an ass once more.
Here they sell it in the circus. On the first night of his show, he mutilates his back leg jumping through a hoop. So they sell it to a man to drown it so he can have the skin of it to make a new drumhead. So he is thrown into the ocean to fall. He is eaten by fish that destroy his donkey parts.
In many primitive cultures this is experienced by shamans. In modern societies, it is the brief collapse of schizophrenia that many experience at times of great stress. The drum is very important in this ritual for the shamans. It is said that the journey to the other world in his skin. In this vision, shamans all over the world speak of animals tearing their limbs apart. Only to put back together in a better shape. But some do not return whole and mount a half-flayed drum.
Pinocchio rises from the sea like a puppet once more and swims away. In the distance he sees a blue-haired goat on a rock. He believes the blue fairy in disguise once again.
My uncle had married a Swedish model with long blonde hair only to divorce and marry a Lebanese woman with long legs. To decide on my father’s advice to marry an ugly woman. He lasted the longest with her so far, but with a lot of heartaches.
But before Pinocchio gets to her, he is swallowed by the same whale as his father. The whale is the symbol of the night journey back to the beginning. As the sun travels east to rise again in the morning. Jonah had made the same trip. At first it is his father who has been through the same inner journey longer than he has. This is where the father finds Nemo. At the whale, Pinocchio meets a Tunny who follows him. This could be that donkey that was trying to straighten up, that followed your lead and cleaned itself up. So when Pinocchio and Geppetto can’t swim anymore after escaping from the whale, Tunny saves them out of gratitude.
Once on land they meet the fox and the cat once again who have fallen into poverty. They leave them to their fate.
Pinocchio looks for charity and food for his father in this hut. It is the hut of the blue goat. The next girlfriend is better but still not the right one, but she still sees his own father in him. But in the house the cricket has returned. He tells Pinocchio about a farmer from whom he can get milk for his father. Because Geppetto never got the loving comfort he needed from his mother too. The symbol of milk.
Then Pinocchio goes to ask the farmer for some milk. But he will show no mercy. So he draws water from the well that the donkey used to make for the farmer. The donkey is the friend who got him into trouble at work and who is now sick and beaten ass. He not only comes back every day to get milk for his father, but he helps his sick demoness by drawing water from the well for her. Over time, the farmer teaches him all kinds of trades and eventually earns his keep with his mind and hand. One that he loves.
As a sign of success, he must reward himself and his father with new clothes. But he hears that the blue fairy is sick in the hospital due to loneliness. Because somewhere there is the perfect partner who is slowly dying for you to save your life so that you can finally see him. Because in the Grail Story, Percival doesn’t see his wife until she is saved from her. True love never sees us until we see it in ourselves. But they can languish waiting for that day or settle for second best and delay if we take too long.
So Pinocchio works harder to earn more to save the Blue Fairy.
This time his dream comes true and he wakes up a real boy and the fairy approaches him. Her old self lies motionless in a corner like a puppet mother. He does not despise it.
Buddhists have the principle of turning people into ancestors. They don’t hate themselves by blaming them, but they give them credit that they did the best they could during the hard times. But their ways are no longer for them leaving good for good. They honor their past that taught them to be what they are today.
But now he’s on the way to becoming a man and an adult, but that’s a different story.
I guess it’s a challenge to have faith in these kinds of young people. With them only changing out of fear or to please others. It takes them a long time to look within themselves to save themselves in this contrary society where some crimes of society and of the self are rewarded. They find that the devil is his best friend, because if the devil that was portrayed by the cat and the fox were not there, he would not be a victim of his own desires and faults that brought him close to death. This is the point where your friend the devil asks you to listen to his brother Christ to earn a living with your hand and mind and not with his short path of promises that takes years to walk. But let it go.
But over time, if we don’t give them our lives and join their misery. The tedium of boredom with secondary trips to apathy could be worth it if we avoid joining them in difficulties and give them a chance to help themselves. But it is no place to be in a relationship with them until they save themselves. But society should always give them a chance while we look at our own flaws and contradictions and change them. Because in a way it is our own demons that show us the errors of our ways.