If it is true–and I believe it is–that we all have a daimon, guardian angel, inner voice, Self, whatever you want to call it, then it follows that one of the primary ways that inner reality manifests itself is as intuition. If, as Hillman says, the daimon accompanies you in order to keep you on the path of your calling, then intuition can be navigation.
In mainstream therapeutic culture, the feeling I get when I don’t want to engage in certain conversations–or the feeling that comes afterward when I ignore that reluctance and engage anyway–is described as conflict avoidance. It is a very tidy explanation. My behavior is interpreted as an unhelpful, even harmful, repression of my own voice or feelings.
What if, instead, what we call conflict avoidance is my daimon telling me, “not your circus, not your monkeys”? What if that intuition is guiding me away from the wrong path? What if the sense of relief I feel when I disengage with those conversations is the satisfaction of working at my proper task?