23/04/2026
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek…”
Joseph Campbell
Delve into dragon lore!
🐉 In Europe dragons are often associated with the devil. They are greedy and voracious terrorising villages, devouring maidens until a brave-hearted young knight comes to a virgin princess’s rescue. Thank you, Saint George!
Dragons are chaos and destruction, good hearted knights brings order and peace.
Some argue that dragons are really great Earth womb energies. The dragon-conquering myths can be read as indigenous matriarchal power and spirituality being overthrown by new patriarchal orders…
🐉 Carl Jung definitely delved into the rich symbolism of dragons. Read his observations on dragons and alchemy:
“The dragon in itself is a monstrum—a symbol combining the chthonic principle of the serpent and the aerial principle of the bird. It is, as Ruland says,’ a variant of Mercurius. But Mercurius is the divine winged Hermes, manifest in matter, the god of revelation, lord of thought and sovereign psychopomp. The liquid metal, argentum vivum—‘living silver,’ quicksilver—was the wonderful substance that perfectly expressed the nature of the στίλβων*: that which glistens and animates within. When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver, but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit concealed or imprisoned in matter. The dragon is probably the oldest pictorial symbol in alchemy of which we have documentary evidence. … Time and again the alchemists reiterate that the opus proceeds from the one and leads back to the one, that it is a sort of circle like a dragon biting its own tail. … Mercurius stands at the beginning and end of the work: he is the prima materia, the caput corvi, the nigredo; as dragon he devours himself and as dragon he dies, to rise again as the lapis. … He is metallic yet liquid, matter yet spirit, cold yet fiery, poison and yet healing draught—a symbol uniting all opposites.“
C.G.Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW vol. 12, par. 404
The ouroborus power of eating your own tail!
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