alchemy
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🌿 Living the Questions
My spiritual practice today looks very different than it once did. It’s less about believing something and more about experiencing—less about adopting ideas and more about listening, embodying, and discerning what actually aligns at the soul level. What some might… Continue reading
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🪞12/12 — The Mirror That Knows You
There are moments when time stops pretending it’s neutral. 12.12 is one of those moments. Not because it’s trendy.Not because it’s “lucky.”But because 12 is a language the psyche already speaks. Twelve zodiac signs circling consciousness.Twelve disciples as disciplined facets… Continue reading
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Theos: A Small Word With a Vast Horizon
For a word so ancient, theos still trembles with relevance. ✨ In Greek, theos simply means god—but the nuance reaches far beyond a single definition. Rather than pointing to a rigid, monolithic deity, the Greek use of theos emerged from… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. XVI: Dorothy Parker — The Sacred Trickster
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant — preferably with gin.” 🜂 The Laugh That Burned at Both Ends Perhaps Dorothy Parker never wanted to be anyone’s muse. Maybe she preferred to be the match — and sometimes, the smoke… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 15 — Nikola Tesla: The Light-Bearer and the Lonely One
✴️He dreamt in storms.He walked among bolts of blue fire, whispering to the unseen.They called it madness — but the thunder called him home. In the flicker of lamps, in the pulse of the modern age,his name hums beneath the… Continue reading
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🌑 Mythic Mondays, Vol. 9 — The Serpent as Initiate
🜏 Descent into the Coil In the deep caverns of Scorpio’s season, the Serpent slithers not as a deceiver but as the first student of death.It moves close to the earth, tasting vibration and shadow alike, knowing that the only… Continue reading
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🌑 Mythic Mondays, Vol. 8
The Night Was Never Empty — Nyx and the Original Dark Her Myth In the beginning, before time had the arrogance to count itself, there was Night.Not the absence of light — the presence of something older.She was called Nyx,… Continue reading
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🔥 Mythic Mondays, Vol. 7 — The Phoenix Remembered
“To burn is not to end. It is to reveal what was hidden beneath the ash all along.” The Bone-Ash Memory There are nights when the air smells like smoke even though nothing around me burns.I’ve come to recognize it… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays, Vol. VI — The Waters of Memory
💧 “The soul remembers in ripples, not in words.” 🌙 The Stream Beneath All Things There is a river that runs beneath every myth — a current older than language, where memory is not recollection but resurrection.In Greek myth, the… Continue reading
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🜍 Sacred Mirrors, Vol. XII
Paracelsus: The Alchemist Who Dared “He who does not know anything must believe everything.” — Paracelsus There are souls who arrive not to kneel before knowledge but to ignite it.Paracelsus walked among such embers — a man too fierce for… Continue reading
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