11-02-2026, 11:07 AM
The Crucible: Exploring shadow-work, mid-life passages, grief, and the necessary descents of any psycho-spiritual journey.
Geraldine Matus PhD
"In the ancient sacred art of alchemy, the crucible (alembic) contained all the processes that led to the transformation of matter. Carl Jung and Marie Louise von Franz (Jung, 1953; von Franz, 1980), among others, noted that alchemical processes have symbolic correspondence to the psychospiritual transformation of the personality, which Jung called Individuation."
https://geraldinematus.substack.com/p/th...e-crucible
Geraldine Matus PhD
"In the ancient sacred art of alchemy, the crucible (alembic) contained all the processes that led to the transformation of matter. Carl Jung and Marie Louise von Franz (Jung, 1953; von Franz, 1980), among others, noted that alchemical processes have symbolic correspondence to the psychospiritual transformation of the personality, which Jung called Individuation."
https://geraldinematus.substack.com/p/th...e-crucible