Tag: the great work

• 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

• Notes on a Dream

  

  This morning I woke up from a very difficult dream. I had spent most of the night crying in my sleep. Here’s what happened:  In my dream my dad and my brother were going to all these different events and giving speeches about everything that was wrong with me and why I deserved to be…

  Eleanor

  April 14, 2022

  Alchemy

  analytic psychology, anima, animus, as above so below, as within so without, depth psychology, dreams, masculine, psychology, relationships, the emerald tablet, the great work, the marriage of the sun and moon

• Dissolution

  The second phase of alchemy, dissolution, comes after the fiery heat of calcination which incinerated the ideas we once had about who we are and our place in the world. Once the ego has been suitably reduced to ashes, we then become ready to commence the dissolving process of the Great Work.  In laboratory alchemy,…

  Eleanor

  April 6, 2022

  Alchemy

  dissolution, dissolve, self-expression, subconsciousness, the great flood, the great work, the unconscious