Air Seed of Fire: Harmony

6.13.10

Coming further into the deepening of the alchemical process, fire and air meet in an awakening experience of what each has to give to the other. Air feeds fire and fire is radiant because of it and gracious to the appreciation of air's generosity.

Fire's pallette is expanded and their interdependent relationship begins to create a harmony that neither has known before. Fire and air's creative collaboration bridges the enthusiastic doer with the idealistic conceiver. The fire of the unconscious creativity is given air and the air of the conscious mind is given fire of opportunity. This is what happened when my husband, Robert, & I met. We became this collaborative pallette that took our creativity into realms we always longed for, but never knew fully.

A delicate alchemical balance is maintained as we have learned to travel deeply together, but withdrawing alternately, as each rests, while the other merges deeper with the passage. We never enter alone, but we help each other, like a caver spelunking, one holding the rope, while the other deepens the passage, so we can help the other back out, and not both be lost at once. This way we can journey into patterns, make new maps, but not get caught in the trapping ways of very old patterns that seem to have no way out.

Air seed of fire is the harmony of supported movement, as the alchemical  fires move toward transformation. The cauldron moves closer to the philosopher's stone, like the Grail Vessel.