01/09/2026
What is alchemy?
In Chinese medicine we are weaving ourselves, through our meridian matrix, with the morphogenetic field of our personal and collective vibrations, our living story. This is our living record of creative life force energy, it is the frequency we send out into the world.
When we are consciously engaged in practices that support the evolution of our creative life force, we are working in an alchemical process. When we begin to be able to see in the dark, to bring light through the dense layers of form and projection, and begin to see more clearly within the mysterious mirror of life, when we learn to know ourselves deeply, healing our wounds, and learn to differentiate ourselves from others and projections, we can learn to tune our frequencies and come into a harmony that supports our unique expression, to vibrate in our unique, authentic energy signature that is our gift of service to the whole.
What does it mean to see in the dark?
To be able to witness how we might consciously or more likely, unconsciously sending out a frequency or projection onto the world around us, that is coming from a wounded or distorted perspective that we may have inherited or developed from a difficult experience that we did not have the tools at the time to integrate in a healthy way. When we are still enough to see how this shadow aspect is reaching out from our blind spot, we can begin to alchemize to a more growth oriented perspective.
The less time we take to know ourselves, the more distorted and shattered the mysterious mirror is, it can be like a distorted funhouse mirror experience, with many “not self” destructive stories going on in our head, an anti-self experience of not enoughness, of not being able to express our gifts in an expansive, generous, creative way, of heavy, dense, negative emotions that are overlayed on our reality and projected onto others.
The is a lack of personal belief or responsibility that we can create change, opportunities, meaningful connections, enough care for self to flourish and have overflow of the results of that self care. This distortion can be from inherited beliefs and distortions, from and overwhelming inundation of others untended distortions and projections and from trauma that was not immediately addressed with soul retrieval and repair.
In the Living Spiral of Inner Alchemy, we learn tools, cultivation practices, move through self inquiry and somatic exploration, energy cultivation, through the different energetics and rhythms of the natural reality that allow us to see the multidimensional ways our frequencies can transform and alchemize, so that we can flourish through all of life’s different challenges and experiences. As we cultivate and integrate, the Mysterious Mirror of life begins to reflect the harmony and alignment that we are nourishing from the inside out.
Reach out if you would like to join us in the next opening of the spiral early February.
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Today’s writing Inspired by chapter 1 of alchemy of the extraordinary by Peter shea
I’ll share more about the Living Spiral framework soon, but first, I invite you to notice:
Where are you behaving in ways that don’t feel aligned with how you would like to be showing up? Please be gentle and compassionate with yourself, no judgement, just notice and maybe write one small practice that could support a shift
If you feel inspired, reply and share your one small step, or your longing for one. I’d love to witness what’s unfolding for you.
With warmth and gentle encouragement,
Sonja Alina
An initiatory transformative journey through The Living Spiral of Inner Alchemy. Learn earth based, animistic & Daoist wisdom blended with modern practices for deep, authentic integration and personal transformation.
