Forwarded from SAS527
What a Beautiful day to be Alive!
Something’s been moving quietly beneath the surface lately, not just for me, but for many. And it’s not some big, flashy breakthrough or a burst of inspiration. It’s something softer and slower.
It’s this mellow feeling. A kind of gentle calm that shows up after years of personal and collective upheaval. It’s not that everything’s fine now, the world is still heavy, uncertain, often chaotic. But I've realized that something inside has shifted. There’s a beautiful peace, not from everything being fixed, but from no longer needing to fix everything.
I've seen many people walk through their own inner fires over the past five years. Deep losses, ego deaths, burnout, the collapse of beliefs, identities, even entire worldviews. It hasn’t been easy to experience it myself and witness it in others. And yet, something else is quietly emerging in the wake of all that unraveling. Something more grounded, more spacious, and more real.
I decided to research this whole process and found that there’s actually a name for this kind of transformation in the esoteric tradition of alchemy. It’s not just about turning lead into gold, it’s about the soul’s journey of death, purification, and integration.
That process unfolds in three main stages: nigredo, albedo, and rubedo. And for me it explains this mellow feeling that I feel rising right now.
Nigredo - The Blackening
This is where it all starts, or more accurately, where everything falls apart. Nigredo is the phase of breakdown, of decomposition. Life stops making sense in the ways it used to. Old identities start to crumble, beliefs crack open, structures collapse. It can feel like depression, disorientation, grief, or just an overwhelming sense that something is ending, but you're not yet sure what’s beginning. It’s the dark night of the soul that no one schedules but everyone eventually encounters. And though it feels messy and painful, this stage is sacred. It burns away what’s false. It brings the unconscious to the surface. It strips things down to the bones. In the chaos, a deeper truth is preparing to emerge, but first, everything that isn't real has to go.
Albedo - The Whitening After the storm, there’s a kind of strange, gentle clarity that starts to rise. Not all at once, and not always in obvious ways. But there’s a feeling that something lighter is moving in. Albedo is the purification phase, a washing away of the soot left behind from Nigredo. It's where space opens up. There’s less noise. Less attachment. People in this stage often begin to feel a quiet kind of peace, even if their external circumstances haven’t radically changed. They’re seeing things differently. There’s a return to simplicity, more time in silence, more moments of awe, more acceptance of not knowing. It’s a very inward phase, where the soul regathers and reorients. Things become clearer, not because the mind figured it all out, but because the heart softened. This is where new light starts to touch the parts of you that have long been in shadow.
Rubedo - The Reddening
This is the stage where everything begins to come back together, not as it was before, but in a deeper, more integrated form. Rubedo isn’t about perfection or being “done” with healing. It’s about showing up to life as you are, fully present, fully embodied. It’s the return, not to your old self, but to your true self. There’s a sense of wholeness, not because nothing hurts anymore, but because you’ve made peace with the hurt. You’re no longer trying to escape the messiness of life, you’re walking with it, with grace. In this phase, action becomes aligned. Words come from a deeper place. You care more than ever, but you no longer carry the world on your back. There’s compassion without codependence, purpose without pressure. This is where the fire becomes light. Where presence becomes power. And where the soul finally gets to move freely in the body, no longer striving, just being. (I LOVE this part)
Something’s been moving quietly beneath the surface lately, not just for me, but for many. And it’s not some big, flashy breakthrough or a burst of inspiration. It’s something softer and slower.
It’s this mellow feeling. A kind of gentle calm that shows up after years of personal and collective upheaval. It’s not that everything’s fine now, the world is still heavy, uncertain, often chaotic. But I've realized that something inside has shifted. There’s a beautiful peace, not from everything being fixed, but from no longer needing to fix everything.
I've seen many people walk through their own inner fires over the past five years. Deep losses, ego deaths, burnout, the collapse of beliefs, identities, even entire worldviews. It hasn’t been easy to experience it myself and witness it in others. And yet, something else is quietly emerging in the wake of all that unraveling. Something more grounded, more spacious, and more real.
I decided to research this whole process and found that there’s actually a name for this kind of transformation in the esoteric tradition of alchemy. It’s not just about turning lead into gold, it’s about the soul’s journey of death, purification, and integration.
That process unfolds in three main stages: nigredo, albedo, and rubedo. And for me it explains this mellow feeling that I feel rising right now.
Nigredo - The Blackening
This is where it all starts, or more accurately, where everything falls apart. Nigredo is the phase of breakdown, of decomposition. Life stops making sense in the ways it used to. Old identities start to crumble, beliefs crack open, structures collapse. It can feel like depression, disorientation, grief, or just an overwhelming sense that something is ending, but you're not yet sure what’s beginning. It’s the dark night of the soul that no one schedules but everyone eventually encounters. And though it feels messy and painful, this stage is sacred. It burns away what’s false. It brings the unconscious to the surface. It strips things down to the bones. In the chaos, a deeper truth is preparing to emerge, but first, everything that isn't real has to go.
Albedo - The Whitening After the storm, there’s a kind of strange, gentle clarity that starts to rise. Not all at once, and not always in obvious ways. But there’s a feeling that something lighter is moving in. Albedo is the purification phase, a washing away of the soot left behind from Nigredo. It's where space opens up. There’s less noise. Less attachment. People in this stage often begin to feel a quiet kind of peace, even if their external circumstances haven’t radically changed. They’re seeing things differently. There’s a return to simplicity, more time in silence, more moments of awe, more acceptance of not knowing. It’s a very inward phase, where the soul regathers and reorients. Things become clearer, not because the mind figured it all out, but because the heart softened. This is where new light starts to touch the parts of you that have long been in shadow.
Rubedo - The Reddening
This is the stage where everything begins to come back together, not as it was before, but in a deeper, more integrated form. Rubedo isn’t about perfection or being “done” with healing. It’s about showing up to life as you are, fully present, fully embodied. It’s the return, not to your old self, but to your true self. There’s a sense of wholeness, not because nothing hurts anymore, but because you’ve made peace with the hurt. You’re no longer trying to escape the messiness of life, you’re walking with it, with grace. In this phase, action becomes aligned. Words come from a deeper place. You care more than ever, but you no longer carry the world on your back. There’s compassion without codependence, purpose without pressure. This is where the fire becomes light. Where presence becomes power. And where the soul finally gets to move freely in the body, no longer striving, just being. (I LOVE this part)
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Forwarded from SAS527
And that mellow feeling that’s showing up for so many people right now? That’s rubedo. That’s the soul finally settling after a long, intense journey. Not because everything’s resolved, but because something deeper has been remembered.
There’s no longer a need to chase meaning, or fix everyone’s problems, or rush to be someone else. There’s just this: breath, presence, awareness, and a willingness to be here, as we are.
If this resonates, consider sitting with some gentler questions:
Who am I now that I’m not who I used to be?
What if peace is not the absence of struggle, but the absence of resistance?
What does it feel like to love without needing to control?
Can I let life be enough, even if it’s imperfect? Can I trust this calm, even if it’s unfamiliar?
We’re not meant to live in the fire forever. But we are meant to be shaped by it, and then step out, softer, clearer, wiser.
If you’re in that space now, if you’re feeling mellow, unhurried, strangely okay in a world that still seems chaotic, maybe it’s not that you’re disconnected. Maybe it’s that you’ve just come home to yourself.
With so much love,
Jane
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There’s no longer a need to chase meaning, or fix everyone’s problems, or rush to be someone else. There’s just this: breath, presence, awareness, and a willingness to be here, as we are.
If this resonates, consider sitting with some gentler questions:
Who am I now that I’m not who I used to be?
What if peace is not the absence of struggle, but the absence of resistance?
What does it feel like to love without needing to control?
Can I let life be enough, even if it’s imperfect? Can I trust this calm, even if it’s unfamiliar?
We’re not meant to live in the fire forever. But we are meant to be shaped by it, and then step out, softer, clearer, wiser.
If you’re in that space now, if you’re feeling mellow, unhurried, strangely okay in a world that still seems chaotic, maybe it’s not that you’re disconnected. Maybe it’s that you’ve just come home to yourself.
With so much love,
Jane
XO
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Forwarded from The Yorkshire Lass
🚨BIG WEEK NEXT WEEK FOR CRYPTO.
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a market structure bill, a stablecoin bill and a bill banning a U.S. central bank digital currency next week. Perhaps it's premature to suggest the industry will notch a major win - but all signs indicate that U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a stablecoin bill into law before the August recess, as his team has sought since February.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/07/11/state-of-crypto-previewing-congress-crypto-week
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a market structure bill, a stablecoin bill and a bill banning a U.S. central bank digital currency next week. Perhaps it's premature to suggest the industry will notch a major win - but all signs indicate that U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a stablecoin bill into law before the August recess, as his team has sought since February.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/07/11/state-of-crypto-previewing-congress-crypto-week
Coindesk
What Crypto Week in Congress Means for Stablecoins, CBDCs and Market Rules
On deck: Stablecoin, market structure and central bank digital currency bills.
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Forwarded from Free4all (Mary)
Tonight Chris & I will unpack the action comedy, American Ultra (2015).
It is the story of a man who was a MK Ultra experiment that was placed into society without any knowledge of the experiments run on him. He is unknowingly marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Grab your popcorn this one is a fun ride!
6pm EST
https://rumble.com/v6w4s5y-hidden-noscript-ep-15.html
https://pilled.net/topic-detail/1208656
https://pilled.net/topic-detail/1208719
It is the story of a man who was a MK Ultra experiment that was placed into society without any knowledge of the experiments run on him. He is unknowingly marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Grab your popcorn this one is a fun ride!
6pm EST
https://rumble.com/v6w4s5y-hidden-noscript-ep-15.html
https://pilled.net/topic-detail/1208656
https://pilled.net/topic-detail/1208719
Rumble
Hidden Script ep 15
Tonight Chris & I will unpack the action comedy, American Ultra (2015). It is the story of a man who was a MK Ultra experiment that was placed into society without any knowledge of the experiments run
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Has anyone else been dealing with a doozy of an headache today, or is it just me?
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And be serious about it bc Hypatia was horrendously killed because she refused to think wrongly.
Forwarded from SORA @ Uncensored Source Monologues
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA
She held the remnants of Atlantean knowledge before the Christian empire erased esoteric science, separating the spirit from science.
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She held the remnants of Atlantean knowledge before the Christian empire erased esoteric science, separating the spirit from science.
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@sorasyncs
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