Part 6b: Resurrection - what remains after the stripping away…
Initiatory themes: At this final stage constituting resurrection, in the initiation rite/journey as alchemical process, I first had to...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 28, 2021
- 9 min
Part 6a: Resurrection - what remains after the stripping away…?
Following from Parts 1 to 5 in previous blog posts... My story At the end of May 2021, shortly after the roads around the Forest of...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 18, 2021
- 11 min
Part 5: Born and baptised again – the great flood!
Following from part 4, my previous blog post. My story We as community members all breathed a sigh of relief, as our nervous systems...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 10, 2021
- 10 min
Part 4: The hero/heroine’s journey - no cauldron, no alchemy
(Continued from previous blog posts, Part 1, 2 and 3) My story: Life in the forest on the farm continued peacefully for me up until the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 10, 2021
- 8 min
Part 3: The hero/heroine’s journey – no fire, no alchemy
(Continued from previous blog posts, Part 1 and 2) My story Then, at the end of February 2021, I suffered another loss in the form of an...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
Part 2: The vision, the descent, the dying…
(following from Part 1, the previous blog post) My story: I have been (and still am, to some extent) going through the most advanced rite...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 7, 2021
- 4 min
Dancing with the cycles of death and resurrection – a scholarly and a personal take.
Part One: The initiation rite as the alchemical process, sensuality as the alchemical elixir. As we are collectively finding ourselves,...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Apr 15, 2021
- 10 min
The Handless Maiden - living the myth
The handless maiden – venturing off into the woods The following deep share forms the basis of an invitation to a women’s retreat, in the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
What lies beneath the surface of every day consciousness...
.... is our own underworld: A metaphor, as well as a reference to the landscape of our unconscious mind. Here we find both our limiting...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Apr 15, 2020
- 5 min
What do rebirth, transfiguration and resurrection look like in these times?
Just before the pandemic chaos hit the globe, I wrote a blog about how I was making a metaphorical descend into the underworld, in the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Mar 17, 2020
- 7 min
Inanna (and our) descent into the Underworld...
In these trying times, especially now in the context of the Crown virus, I cannot but help to want to harvest the meaning of and make...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Feb 14, 2020
- 6 min
Look to your childhood, for healing and your life purpose
In many ways this piece is one of the most difficult and vulnerable pieces for me to share, and it took me a long time to finally make...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Nov 25, 2019
- 3 min
Allow me to ignite a flame for gardening!
In our little garden in the Southern Suburbs, is where I sun bathe, where we earth every morning while we do our pranayama practices and...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
- Sep 12, 2019
- 2 min