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Alyssa Polizzi
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Writer + Educator exploring Jungian psychology, inner work & archetypal studies | Join The Artemisian for classes + educational content -> http://theartemisian.com
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I write and teach about inner work through the lens of archetypal studies and Jungian psychology, exploring how myth, dreams, alchemy, and tarot can build a deeper relationship with the psyche.
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May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Then comes coniunctio — a true joining.

Not a loss of self, but a deepening of it. A paradoxical wholeness, where difference is not dissolved, but honored.

This is the alchemy of relationships.

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May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Separation brings clarity of selfhood.

By withdrawing projections, setting firm boundaries, untangling intense emotions, we begin to see the other more clearly.

Not as a mirror of our unmet needs, but as their own distinct being.

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May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rather than a sign of failure, alchemy sees these ruptures as necessary to transformation.

The originating condition is never pure.

Our attachments are woven with shadow and expectations, longings we place upon a partner.

Now we’re called to unravel them.
May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The alchemists say that only separated things can be joined.

Meaningful union requires a pulling apart, a process of differentiation. Without this, we risk a monstrum, a distorted fusion of projections, unmet needs, and unconscious patterns.

Not intimacy, but confusion and enmeshment.

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May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM