Jungian The Shadow Lands
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Rasputin — The Shadowed Mystic of Empire’s Twilight
🔮 The Historical Mirrors, Vol. X: The Man, the Myth, the Projection Grigori Rasputin steps into history draped in contradictions. To some, he was a wandering holy man and healer who eased the pain of the Tsarevich. To others, he… 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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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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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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✨ An Invitation into the Mythic
🌑 What Do We Mean by Mythic?The word mythic is so often mistaken for something untrue — a fairy tale, a story to dismiss. But in its original sense, mythic carries timeless truths wrapped in image, metaphor, and archetype. To… Continue reading
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Dreaming with Depth
An Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis Through the Soul’s Evolutionary Lens 🌑✨ 🌌 Why Dreams? Every night, the psyche speaks in symbols. Dreams are not random; they are living images that arise from the unconscious — whispering what our waking… Continue reading
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Etty Hillesum: The Garden Within the Ruins
Historical Mirrors Vol. IX “I will try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance.” — Etty Hillesum The Quiet Bloom in the Shadow of the Camps In the summer… Continue reading
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🌒 The Alchemy of Real Suffering
“The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering.”— Helen M. Luke 🌑 The Paradox We Resist We live in a culture that treats suffering like an infection to be cut out or numbed… Continue reading
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