dark night
As our dark nights deepen, we find ourselves recovering our love of mystery. When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The world was full of it and we loved it. Then as we grew older, we slowly accepted the indoctrination that mystery exists only to be solved. For many of us, mystery became an adversary; unknowing became a
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
Mercurius is the wonder of the world because it reminds us that what is lowest and most rejected in us contains the germ of what is highest , and that spiritual forces do not act only from the heights of a transcendent beyond, but also incarnated in the darkness of our creation. This discovery allows all those psychic forces we fear as destructive... See more
Alchemist • Carl Jung: Mercurius, the fire of transformative potential
This ritual helps guide us from the dark night of Samhain into the healing waters of Imbolc, from the alchemical nigredo or blackening where we must give over to decay, to the albedo or whitening, cleansing and tending the new, emergent seedling that grows from the nutrients of death
An Irish Imbolc Ritual
Know that you are both intelligent and stupid, often in the same moment. Admit to what you desire and what you fear.