The more identified you are with your conscious personality, the less you will be aware of your shadow. You may unconsciously select other people to act out vicariously aspects of your own hidden self, or even encourage others to behave in ways that actually serve as your alter ego. If it meets the other person’s needs, he or she may at the same time be using you as a reciprocal shadow. Think of how many couples live Laurel and Hardy lives, each a caricature of the other’s disowned self.
If you believe that you have thoroughly purged the unacceptable parts of yourself, you may be one of those too-good-to-be-true people who believe that they cast no shadow. Though you can admit that no one is perfect, you find it difficult to recall a time when you were clearly in the wrong. If this is your Posture, you are in a dangerous position. Whatever You’ve been unwilling or unable to face within your-self is likely to hit you in the face like a bucket of cold water.
One of our most dangerous mistakes is believing that We’re always right.