The Green Lion Catches its Prey

 

The alchemical Green Lion devours the Sun.

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My interpretation of this enigmatic emblem goes:
green consciousness tries to digest the higher meaning and
energy of the symbolic Sun; but, being green, he makes a meal of it, 
spilling the holy blood or holy wine down to Earth, where 
it seeds as the watery Spirit divine, made immanent in the prism 
of life in diversity, and begins the alchemical and gestational
journey back to the Heavens, water into Wine! The
up-pointing tail indicates the way home to the completion 
of the circulatory process of alchemical distillation.
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Rubedo: the Green Lion catches its prey!

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Alchemical Rubedo

more deeply reddens in my mind.

I am become a blood sacrifice
to Dionysus!

Holy Wine refines,

from circumcision to crucifixion,
birth to death inclined.

The Sun, from black to white,

then to red, fuses

golden in my psyche.
Serpent puts on Lion's face,
green turned Gold refined. 

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Chnoubis, the gnostic sun-god and monstrum,
whose archetypal and quantum function is to reconcile
the play of opposites into singularity.