Alchemical Reflections
From Carl Jung to Astrology to Synchronicity
When the Centre Goes Dark
“They discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness... the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness...
Frozen Figures: How We Keep People Trapped in Amber
"It is .(also) . . understandable that their will-power weakens and their self-control becomes slack and begins to lose its grip upon circumstances, moods, and thoughts. It is quite consistent with such a state of mind if some particularly unruly parts of the...
The Myth of the Extraordinary
"None of us stands outside humanity's black collective shadow." - C.G. Jung Introduction Sometime in the last month, I came across an article in the New Yorker Magazine with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: “Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?” I paused on it longer...
The Crisis of Values
"We are not here to fit in, be well-balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are...
When Action Becomes Initiation
“You cannot individuate, for instance, by locking yourself up in a cell; you can only individuate in your concrete life, you appear in your deed; there you can individuate and nowhere else. Real consciousness can only be based upon life, upon things experienced, but...
The Desert Is Calling Again: Neptune, the Soul, and What This Moment Is Asking of Us
“They went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that the place of the soul is a lonely desert. There they found the abundance of visions, the fruits of the desert, the wondrous flowers of the soul." - The Red Book (p. 236) C.G. Jung We are lost and searching ....
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: What AI Reflects Back (and What It Can’t)
“Most of us, most of the time, change very gradually, bit by bit, day by day. But it also can and does happen sometimes that people are transformed suddenly and permanently by a highly memorable experience... It was like passing through a one-way door." - William R....
Soul-Making: The Inner World and Spiritual Life
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - C.G. Jung Many people are starving for meaning and purpose. Does this resonate? Yet, we look for it in the wrong places. We...
The Line: A Psycho-Spiritual Map of Responsibility and Growth
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - James R. Sherman When I had my first business coach a long time ago, he introduced me to a simple, conceptual framework that resonated with my understanding of...
The questions to guide . . .
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." - Eugene Ionesco We must become who we are . . . The acorn must grow into an oak. This trajectory is in its very DNA. The acorn can’t grow into an elm tree or a maple tree. It must grow into an oak tree. We...
Karma and the Ripple Effect: The Science of Conscious Living
“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama Science and spirituality are beginning to dance. For centuries, science focused on measuring the material...
Circles and Paradoxes – Tension of the Opposites
“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.” - Carl Gustav Jung As so many of the outer planets are changing signs, we are reminded of earlier times and the circularity of life. The conflict that we are witnessing shines a light on the inherent duality...