Tag: the unconscious
Giving the Devil Her Due
Journal Date: March 29, 2021 The past month I’ve had to come to terms with a lot of my basic primal defense mechanisms (I am going through a Saturn square Pluto transit right now, so it’s not surprising). I’ve known about these defensive patterns of mine for quite a while now, and I’ve hated myself…
Mercury in the 12th House
The placement of Mercury in the 12th house in a natal chart is a complex and intriguing one. Known as the house of the unconscious, the 12th house is associated with secrets, dreams, intuition, and the hidden aspects of life. When the planet of communication, intellect, and reasoning occupies this enigmatic space, it brings a…
Inner Beso Dream
Journal Date: February 2, 2021 At the end of the collection of short stories in Warming the Stone Child, Clarissa Pinkola Estés offers a couple tips for continuing the healing journey on your own. The first one is this: “Pay attention to your dreams. Your dreams will tell you everything. In terms of injured instinct,…
The Anima and the Animus in Jungian Psychology
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Among his contributions to this field was the concept of the anima and animus, which refers to the feminine and masculine aspects of the human psyche, respectively. According to Jung, every person has both an anima and an animus, regardless of their gender.…
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,…