Diverticulitis: emotional and spiritual meaning

What diverticulitis is

Small pouches, called diverticula, can form in the wall of the colon. Diverticulitis is those pouches inflamed or infected. The French ending -ite is heard, in this reading, as a flare of anger. The pain is often low and on the left, with fever. Constipation and a low-fibre diet are among the ordinary risks for the pouches themselves. An infection needs treatment. A feeling of being trapped does not settle it.

The emotional meaning of diverticulitis

The spiritual interpretation sits with anger retained in daily life. You are in a situation that feels like a prison, and you cannot see the way out. Tension, pressure, pain, and sorrow follow. You feel caught. The bowel is pictured as becoming as fragile as the emotions. You are constantly on guard and expecting the worst. You are secretive in what you share. Nobody is to be let into the corners of your personal life.

The first step the pages name is to admit that the situation is real. A thing whose existence you refuse is hard to deal with. Old resentment can be let go of once it has been seen. Openness is imagined as what lets a solution appear, because anger is no longer the only light you are looking by. The antibiotics, if you were given them, remain the care for the infection.

A gentler way to hold it

• Name the trap. Say what you have been unwilling to admit is real.
• Let one secret corner have one trusted person in it.
• Pain with fever still needs a doctor the same day.