DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: archetypal alchemy

Negredo
This perilous place
Deep existential terror
The dark night of the soul

To rise
We must collapse
To evolve
There must be pain

We face our shadow
Staring at hollow relationships
Abandoned by pretense
Alone above the void

Immersed in this darkness
We find archetypes
We drown in the flood
Consumed by the collective unconscious

We face salt, sulphur and mercury
Keystones of alchemy
We find the elements
Earth, air, wind and fire

Their sum seven
Their product 12
Mathematical logic
Directing destiny

Hemetic truths
Traversing time
Resurgent and insurgent
Illuminating collective liberation

This alchemy transforms
Molding the base lead of collapse
Refining the gold of divine awareness

Embodying a tryad of gestation
Base matter, transformation, and illumination
Embodying all three all at once

The dark night of the soul
That demon we must face
The shadow we must integrate

This is my prayer
A prayer for resilience
A prayer for fortitude
A determination to survive this dark portal

The vortex manifests as depression
Or emerges as addiction
Suicidality a potent possibility

We rise through fire
Integrating the darkness
Illuminating consciousness
Growing stronger
Surviving the dark night of the soul

art by @themeloart on X
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2025

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