The Alchemist Sees the Shadow:
Carl Jung said: "The shadow is the thing a person has no wish to be."
But here's the alchemical truth: Your shadow isn't garbage to be thrown out—it's raw material to be refined.
The parts of you that you judge, reject, exile? Those are the parts with the most POWER locked inside them.
The Alchemist doesn't run from shadow. He puts it in the crucible and applies heat until it transforms.
Your prompt:
"What part of myself have I been avoiding, judging, or trying to fix?"
Not the surface stuff. The REAL shadow:
- The rage you won't let yourself feel
- The neediness you're ashamed of
- The ambition you hide because it feels selfish
- The vulnerability you armor against
- The grief you've been running from for years
Name it:
"The part of me I've been avoiding is..."
Share if you're brave enough. This is raw material. This is where the gold is hidden.
The fire doesn't judge what you put in the crucible. It just transforms it.
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Note: This is shadow AWARENESS work. In the Sacred Fire, we go deeper—we actually ENTER the crucible through facilitated journey work. We don't just name the shadow, we transmute it. That's the difference between learning about fire and stepping into it.