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back, I was amazed when I scrutinized “Everything that is unconscious in us, we
some photos taken of me and a man I discover it in our neighbor and treat him
became obsessed with during a Pluto Venus accordingly.”
transit. These photos came out in RED — Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a
shades and hues. The aura around us was Soul, pg 142
so strong that it changed the photo. This
phenomena occurred using two different Sulphur as Projection
cameras! When this relationship began, I The Alchemists believed there are two
obtained my first Astrological consultation. kinds of Sulphur: a crude or vulgar
The Astrologer described exactly what I sulphur and a true or philosophical
was going through and this transit lasted sulphur. Only the true sulphur can help us
five years. After that consultation, I became enter the conuinctio — which is essentially
obsessed with a desire to learn even more. a lifetime goal to marry our inner or
The planetary timing involved indicated a invisible partners.
process of self-actualization through a death
and rebirth (Pluto) experience of an intense Crude sulphur is ego driven desirousness
love affair (Venus). and is of an unconscious, infantile nature.
Our will demands to have what it wants
How can we retrieve or get to know and turns vicious when it can’t possess
unconscious parts of us? the object of our desire. Feeling intensely
One major way is through projection. driven and compulsive, we will want
Projection is described as becoming either to destroy the other person. The movie
intensely fascinated or extremely repulsed Titanic showed what this scenario looks
by certain people. The affect is either too like. The fiancé Cal wanted to kill Kate
high or it’s too low. Jung says, Winslet (Rose Calvert) when she was
running away with Leonardo DiCaprio
“Hence, unless we prefer to be made fools who played Jack Dawson. As the plot
of by our illusions, we shall, by carefully unfolded, we learned that he wanted to
analyzing every fascination, extract from destroy both of them rather than suffer
it a portion of our own personality, like a the defeat of his intense ego driven desire.
quintessence, and slowly come to recognize
that we meet ourselves time and again in a That is the crude sulphur which is an
thousand disguises on the path of life.” unregenerate desire. This desirousness
— Carl G. Jung, The Practice of is driven by pride and the intent is
Psychotherapy, par 354, pg 318 on possessing an object. We become
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