Tag: Nigredo

• Albedo: The White Phase of Alchemy

  If we have been able to surrender to the darkness of the nigredo, we may find that a shift begins to occur.  The blackness that once seemed to only grow ever deeper begins to recede. The heaviness starts to lift as we relinquish our attachments to past beliefs, habits, ways of being, etc. As with…

  Eleanor

  October 6, 2022

  Alchemy

  albedo, logos, marriage of the sun and moon, Nigredo, psychospiritual alchemy, separation, shadow work, the black phase, the great work, the intelligence of the heart, the lesser stone, the philosopher's child, the white phase

• Nigredo: The Black Phase of Alchemy

  Alchemists have generally divided the Great Work into three distinct phases, referred to by their color: the nigredo (black phase), albedo (white phase), and rubedo (red phase).  In earlier times, some also spoke of the citrinitas (yellow phase) that was said to occur between the white and red phases. However, this term is less frequently…

  Eleanor

  February 7, 2022

  Alchemy

  Dark night of the soul, dissolution, Nigredo, shadow work