From the Aurora Consurgens medieval manuscript
The Union Of Opposites
By Patrick Salway
“We say ‘you can’t get something for nothing.’ But I would say you can’t have something without nothing. To be or not to be is NOT the question. Because you can’t have a solid without space; therefore, you can’t have an “is” without an “isn’t”; a something without a nothing; a figure without a background.” –Alan Watts
A solar eclipse is rich in symbolic meaning. An event that unites the Sun and Moon in a rare moment of cosmic harmony where these celestial bodies are perfectly aligned in space. The Sun is the flame that lights and gives life to our world, while the Moon is a mirror reflecting light, enabling us to find our way through darkness. Like Yin and Yang, the Pisces fish, the eternal battle between good and evil, or the myriad illustrations of our dualistic reality found across spiritual traditions, the Sun and Moon represent extremes that unite both ends of the spectrum of human existence.
A solar eclipse is a representation of “the alchemical marriage” or “the union of opposites,” where masculine and feminine energies resonate together as one. Alchemically speaking, the masculine aspect of the universe is represented by the Sun while the Moon symbolizes the feminine. Several enduring alchemical archetypes originated in the sixteenth-century text The Rosary of The Philosophers, which can be applied symbolically to the solar eclipse to shine light on deeper truths.
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A solar eclipse is rich in symbolic meaning. An event that unites the Sun and Moon in a rare moment of cosmic harmony where these celestial bodies are perfectly aligned in space. The Sun is the flame that lights and gives life to our world, while the Moon is a mirror reflecting light, enabling us to find our way through darkness. Like Yin and Yang, the Pisces fish, the eternal battle between good and evil, or the myriad illustrations of our dualistic reality found across spiritual traditions, the Sun and Moon represent extremes that unite both ends of the spectrum of human existence.
A solar eclipse is a representation of “the alchemical marriage” or “the union of opposites,” where masculine and feminine energies resonate together as one. Alchemically speaking, the masculine aspect of the universe is represented by the Sun while the Moon symbolizes the feminine. Several enduring alchemical archetypes originated in the sixteenth-century text The Rosary of The Philosophers, which can be applied symbolically to the solar eclipse to shine light on deeper truths.
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