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possessed and can think of nothing else,
day or night. It is in our mind the moment
we wake up and the obsession does not
let up. Anyone who has ever experienced
being deeply in love with someone who
has rejected them knows what that feels
like. Sulphur in this way is the active
part of the psyche. The part which has a
definite goal.
“The true or philosophical sulphur is
the regenerate desire. It changes you on
the inside. If you can say to yourself Yes,
I desire him or her and I will go for it
and try to get it but I can walk away if I
cannot have it. You are free of possession.
Of course, it is still hurtful but if you get
still and go inside, you will get quiet and
change. Then you will discover there is a
stone growing in the bottle (they called
it the philosophers stone).” — Edward F.
Edinger, Mystery of the Conuinctio
Has this happened to you? How
many times has it happened?
When this takes place repeatedly, and
you reflect on the experience, you will
discover parts of you that were previously
unconscious. In my Shadow Dance & 7th
House Workbook, I wrote about a man
named Craig. I remembered the extreme
hate that I felt emotionally when this
relationship ended. I literally burned up
one night with a fever. In the middle of
the night, I went to get the cassettes of
my first classes in analytical psychology
with Pittman McGehee, D.D. and listened
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to two of them. Listening to his words
soothed me. They helped me analyze
my experience. By morning, the fever
broke and I was at peace. I was able to
go on, determined to see what Craig
represented to me and the meaning of
our experience. I sent him love instead.
In retrospect, studying Alchemy/
Astrology and Jungian psychology, it was
so interesting to understand the meaning
of what those relationships were about
and the transits involved. With Craig,
the outer planets Uranus and Neptune
were squaring my Venus. Again, there is a
timing involved with our transformation
and internal process. Uranus and Neptune
are transpersonal energies which are
involved in our assimilating higher states
of consciousness.
Even if your projections land on someone
and you marry them, the euphoria is
limited in time because no one can
carry our projections indefinitely. It can
end with varying degrees of animosity
between the two people because it is
inevitable that projections are going to
fall off. They must so that we can see who
the other person actually is and relate to a
real person instead of a God or Goddess (a
symbiotic extension of oneself).
When a relationship reaches that stage of
familiarity, many people addicted to this
kind of high start looking outside their
primary marriage or partnership if their
maturity level is still in the puella or puer