The Dark Empath

Today I wanted to talk about empaths. But, there’s a particular sub type of empaths that I think a lot of people aren’t aware of, and they aren’t what you’d expect.

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I know that a lot of my followers might be empaths, and if you are then you’ll know the challenges that many empaths face. We can sense other people’s emotions to the point where we actually absorb them. This can make us feel responsible for other people’s emotions, but it can also leave us feeling confused, full of negative emotions that don’t belong to us, without realising that a lot of them aren’t even ours! It can certainly bring some extra challenges, and we have to clear our energy and take time out from social situations when we get overloaded.

As a general rule, empaths make wonderful friends, because they are thoughtful, sensitive to your needs, we’re great at buying gifts, at anticipating your needs and they really understand you on a level other people might not. That is, until they burn out. Empaths might seem a bit flaky as friends or colleagues because they suffer from empathic burnout – they reach a point where they’ve absorbed and dealt with so much emotion from so many people that they might need to take a break, or at worst have a breakdown.

Being an empath isn’t an easy path, but there is another type of empath that we don’t normally talk about and they are quite different in many ways.

And this is what I call the Dark Empath.

On the face of it, they may seem very much like other empaths, and empathic people will certainly be attracted to them as friends and lovers because they are empathic, you see yourself in them, but they seem to have it all together. There’s a sense when you first meet a dark empath that they know how to control their abilities better than you might, and that can be fascinating if you’re an empathic, spiritually sensitive or psychic being.

But there is something missing from this type of empath, and that is true empathy for others.

These are people who can sense your feelings, know what’s going on with you, they may also be very psychic or fantastic mediums too, but they are lacking the care that empaths normally have. They sense how you feel, but they don’t really care all that much.

I’ve met one or two of these in my lifetime, and it can be quite a confusing experience because they have all the skills of somebody who should be very sensitive and kind, but as time goes on you realise that they are lacking the kindness element. The compassion for others just isn’t there.

Now I’m not referring to empath burnout here – that’s a phenomenon you see where a highly empathic person reaches a point where they are so exhausted and worn out by other people’s emotions that their empathic ability can seem to shut down for a short time. That can make them seem very uncaring, but it’s a necessary defence mechanism that just tells you that particular empath is at a dangerous level of burnout and actually needs your support, or perhaps some time alone.

Dark empaths are people who use their abilities for their own gain, and they can be extremely manipulative and even toxic to be around. The ones I’ve met were also high in narcissistic traits too, so they were very self centred and self serving once you got past all the show, all the things they did to make you believe they were a good person.

I think it’s good to remember that just because somebody is part of the spiritual community and may appear to help people or be very gifted at healing, at readings or very tuned in to others, it doesn’t mean they are a good person. And this is very saddening because most of us really are.

Empaths in general are wonderful people and can really make life better when things aren’t going so well. Dark empaths can appear to be that sort of person at first, but as time goes on, you may notice that something is “off” with them, or not quite right, or they may start to manipulate or take advantage of you.

What is particularly interesting is that empaths themselves are often the victims of dark empaths!

They recognise another sensitive soul who can feel what they feel, have the same awareness they do and it can feel wonderful at first to be so understood and seen. But these empaths don’t reciprocate in the same ways and instead will start to drain you instead of building you up.

So look out for these types of people because they walk among us!

They can appear very charismatic or may feel like your best friend at first, but this type of empath can attach themselves to you and bleed you dry like an emotional vampire if you’re not careful!

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The dark empath is the other polarity from what we normally consider a “normal” empath to be. It’s funny because we might think that the opposite of an empath is somebody who can’t feel anything, who is totally shut off from others feelings, but the dark empath is a different type of counterpart.

This decade and especially this year, we are exploring the energy of number 2, which is about polarities, opposite and finding the balance between the two ends of every spectrum.

We are going to see extremes of polarities being highlighted in our lives and on the world’s stage, so this may be the year that you encounter a dark empath especially if you’re an empath yourself! Or maybe there’s already one in your life, or in your past, and you have healing to do on the harm or hurt that they caused you. These “dark” empaths can also teach other empaths a few lessons too. Many empaths don’t take good enough care of themselves or put themselves first enough, whereas dark empaths are really good at that, so whilst we may not like them, they can help teach us to find more balance in ourselves, even if the lessons aren’t very pleasant to experience! Every day’s a school day!

This is a part of the collective self-healing event that is currently taking place on earth, readying us for the Age of Aquarius. We are being challenged to take personal responsibility for our healing on every level, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual now.