I made this little thumb-sized doll for my eldest daughter many years ago and had totally forgotten about it. However, it suddenly came to light again recently when she unexpectedly gave it back to me. It was during one of those darkest nights of my soul when I had to face the hardest challenge of my life. She represents the new me rising up from the flames of the furnace, (or sealed vessel) in a spiritual re-birth… In alchemical terms she is Mercurious, the divine child, born beyond conflict out of a union of opposites, the conscious and the unconscious, the sun and the moon. Alchemy demands death on many levels over and over again until this purifying process is complete.The initiate has to literally die into himself and burn himself out in order to go right back to source. This allows the regeneration that eventually leads to the necessary perfection that preceeds the birth of a fresh self.