Summary available at the bottom of the article for greater clarity. Introduction The aim of this article is to present an original body symbolism that links the anatomy of the body with great precision to a 9-step model of alchemy. It’s a symbolism based on the...

Poetic body symbolism of the Mystic – archetype linked to the top of the skull. ………   I’d like to hide my name. It doesn’t define me.   In the bath of the stars are celebrated threads of links that an anxious mind will...

Poetry of the Weaver – poetic symbolism of wrists and hands Threads of lace, tears stretched into beauty, Radiant web of the heart, you stir the bonds.   We are that tipping point before we sink to the other side. We’ve done as much as we can. We have...

We passed the pass, we got lost in the dark, we went to the end of what was possible… here we are! We snuck in as best we could. We have passed through the scents and charms, tasted the contacts, met the crystal clear stars. We walked to participate in the...

I am the sacred bone the mysterious stone at the back of your pelvis, that strange, rough thing, inverted cornerstone. Riveted in the arch of your cup, I do not show myself, but everything starts from me.   That’s where you come to rest. Settle down,...

Winter is coming. Like the point that marks the moment of death or rebirth, I am the sudden change in the universe of night and the leafless trees.   I am the radicality that without transition plunges into the deepest depths. Everything has unfolded, the...

I am the curious organ, the famous meeting point, where words end in the silent junction of mandibular branches.   I am the androgynous truth. Ultimate point of the spirals that descend from Heaven, after me will be winter.   The Celts call me Samhain. The...

I am the Bard whose lyre is the teeth. You see me appearing in the branches as the leaves fall in the shock of autumn colours. My smile has the bite of ivory. I chant the breaths that flow through us to create the rhythm of inspiration.   I am intense, because...

The awakening of the Bear In the Basque Country, as in other regions, we are now entering the carnival period. This is the awakening of the Bear. Popular wisdom knows that the movement of the sap that goes up the stems and vertical trunks begins under the earth, in an...

A time of affirmation The days are getting longer, but spring is still a long way off: this is a time when we are already on our way to the rest of the year, and things have certainly already been decided. Every beginning of the year carries a particular essence or...

The sacred suspension There is a big smile at the beginning of the year! Everything is contained in the depths of winter. We know that the buds and seeds are already ready for spring: under the layer of ice a sacred intensity awaits the great unfolding. The cold...

The beginning of all things Perhaps you have felt it? Those stirrings that make us feel the importance of taking new paths, new resolutions? There may be fear, fatigue, uncertainty… because we are leaving a cycle and living days where night dominates… And...

The closing of the year The cycle is closing. Everything that has been encountered since the previous winter solstice is now finding its quintessence. The loop of alchemy is almost complete : we have experienced the erection from the roots of spring, the opening into...

The time of good questions This period at the end of November often brings existential questions. This is normal, after the sudden swing into winter with the Hermit which made us « touch the bottom » of our condition of incarnated beings, the energy continues its way,...

Alchemy and the entry into Winter In Celtic traditions, the New Year now begins after this Samain. I have asked myself and others, why?…when clearly the days do not begin to grow again until December 25th, initiating a new solar cycle? The best answer lies in...

The Cycle of Alchemy and the Embodied Master In the cycle of body zones described by the Nine Breaths, the chin is the point where the energy, after having risen from the earth through the different centres (pelvis, chest, head) and having been linked with the forces...

What are teeth for? This area of the body, the horizontal part of the lower jaw, leads us to question the meaning of chewing. This line of mobile teeth that moves back and forth against the upper ones ensures that food is reduced to digestible fragments. By destroying...

The relaxation of balance Around the equinox, when day and night are equally important, the known and the unknown come together and the boundaries between these two spaces are tenuous. Clearly, the evenings spent together take on greater importance, a form of rest...