Jungian Psychology
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Hadewijch of Brabant: The Annihilating Fire 🔥🕯️
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XIV The Forgotten Mystic in a Time of Constraint 🌒 In the thirteenth century, when women’s voices were confined or quieted, a radical fire flickered in the Low Countries. Hadewijch of Brabant — Beguine, poet, and visionary… Continue reading
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Saturn, Shadow, and the Language of Synchronicity
Saturn at the Table 🕯️ If the horoscope is a council of gods, then Saturn sits among them as the most uncompromising elder. Cloaked in time, wielding the weight of limits, Saturn is both shadow and teacher. Jung’s psychology saw… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays, Vol. II
The Threshold of Circe — Witch of the Liminal Shore 🌊 At the Edge of the Known There are times when we find ourselves lingering on the shoreline of our own lives — not yet crossing into what calls, not… Continue reading
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The Pool, The Toad, and the White Figure
Dream Analysis Vol. II 🌒 Entering the Dream A recent dream carried me into an enclosed pool — clean, contained, and surprisingly inviting. Swimming became a vision of joy, even though in waking life such an act may feel distant.… Continue reading
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Mary Magdalene — The Exiled Gnosis
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XIII The Opening Thread There are figures who never leave history quietly. They slip between scripture and shadow, between the altar and the marketplace, carrying the tension of what the world would rather silence. Mary Magdalene has… Continue reading
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Jung, the I Ching, and the Archetypes That Speak Across Worlds
🌌 East Meets Depth When Richard Wilhelm first laid eyes on the I Ching in China, he did not see an exotic puzzle or a foreign curiosity. He saw a living oracle — a voice as ancient as the mountains,… Continue reading
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A Council of Gods Within: Jung, Astrology and the Mandala of the Soul
Gathered in the circle of stars, the gods take their places.Mars strikes the table,Venus opens her hands,Saturn weighs silence in his cloak of stone,while Pluto whispers beneath the breath of time.The Sun burns, the Moon reflects.And I, the listener, enter… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays | Skeleton Woman 🕸️🦋✨
There is a story that has traveled through Inuit myth, retold in many voices, and it lingers like salt on the tongue and shadow in the net. It is the story of Skeleton Woman. 🕯️ The Story She was once… Continue reading
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Understanding Dreams: The Symbolism of Lava and Bridges
A Jungian Dream Analysis Through the Soul’s Evolutionary Lens 🌑🔥 🌋 The Dream In the dream, I was preparing to leave a temporary dwelling, some in-between place that was neither home nor exile. Night wrapped the world outside. In the… Continue reading
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Rosa Mayreder: The Rebel Thinker and the Mirror of Gender’s Shadow
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XII ✨ The StoryRosa Mayreder (1858–1938) was an Austrian writer, painter, philosopher, and one of the earliest feminist voices in Central Europe. Born into a middle-class family in Vienna, she resisted the narrow confines of gender roles… Continue reading
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