This photograph was taken on a magical beach in Dorset where I spent many happy hours with an acupuncturist friend (also a firm believer in Jung’s concept of the shadow). As we paddled idly along the water’s edge talking about self development in general, I happened to say that I felt I had at last […]
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A mermaid from ancient hermetic texts.
In the practice and mythology of alchemy, a mermaid is said to guide an initiate into the physical abyss of the ocean as well as the psychological abyss of the inner mind. Her seductive powers can also lead us deeper into the depths of our emotional illusions where insanity lies if we do not take […]
Carl Jung on alchemy,
Alchemist, were traditionally known as the explorers of the darker more remote reaches of the mind but their insights proved a total revelation to the psychoanalyst, Carl Jung. For having studied their ancient texts he was astonished to discover that within their system of initiation and symbolism, were images that mirrored the archetypal images exposed […]
The journey to immortality, Ode by Yuan Yu.
I met the Feathered Ones at Cinnibar Hill, I tarried in the ancient Land of Deathlessness. In the morning I washed my hair in the Hot Springs of Sunshine. In the evening I dried myself where the ten suns perch…. I sipped the subtle potion of the Flying Springs, And held in my bosom the […]
My feathered winged being.
Those who attain the highest form of immortality are said to sprout feathers and wings and become coeval with the sky and earth as they ride the clouds and winds and dragons of paradise. This drawing accompanied one my esoteric stories about a soul being on her last journey back to source.
The myth of the god Mercury and the role he plays in alchemical transformation.
So was it the mythical god Mercury, that lesser god of happy or unhappy happenstance, that divine trickster, who gave me my glittering wings, that I might fligh higher than any other being in order to see the true wonder and magic of the starry heavens; then having done so, who more recently brought me to […]
The birth of the new fully realized spiritual self.
The red king and white queen, represent the process of uniting opposites to create a greater whole in what is often termed the chemical marriage. They are sometimes flanked by the sun and moon, representing fire and air and earth and water respectively.