Intimacy is born from slowly stripping back our projections and seeing the other for who they really are.

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I write and teach about inner work through the lens of archetypal studies and Jungian psychology, exploring how myth, dreams, alchemy, and tarot can build a deeper relationship with the psyche.

Then comes coniunctio — a true joining.

Not a loss of self, but a deepening of it. A paradoxical wholeness, where difference is not dissolved, but honored.

This is the alchemy of relationships.

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Separation brings clarity of selfhood.

By withdrawing projections, setting firm boundaries, untangling intense emotions, we begin to see the other more clearly.

Not as a mirror of our unmet needs, but as their own distinct being.

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Rather than a sign of failure, alchemy sees these ruptures as necessary to transformation.

The originating condition is never pure.

Our attachments are woven with shadow and expectations, longings we place upon a partner.

Now we’re called to unravel them.

The alchemists say that only separated things can be joined.

Meaningful union requires a pulling apart, a process of differentiation. Without this, we risk a monstrum, a distorted fusion of projections, unmet needs, and unconscious patterns.

Not intimacy, but confusion and enmeshment.

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Relationships have an intrinsic alchemical nature.

They begin with the desire to merge, to pour ourselves into another. Sparks fly, fires run hot, we feel as if we are lifted on high. And yet, these relationships often end in a bitter unraveling we don’t fully understand.

Why might that be?

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I see divination as the art of activating the archetypal psyche and interpreting its forms. This process serves as a catalyst, energizing and drawing up unconscious knowledge.

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"The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate." - C.G. Jung

Connecting Personally to Archetypes via the major and minor arcana of the tarot

Today’s post explores how to connect to archetypes, to see how they influence and show up in our lives, via a tarot spread and the principles of the major and minor arcana.

If you try out the spread, let me know in the comments :)

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