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Carl Jung: “When you dream of a savage bull, or a lion, or a wolf pursuing you, this means: it wants to come to you.”

    When you dream of a savage bull, or a lion, or a wolf pursuing you, this means: it wants to come to you. You would like to split it off, you experience it as something alien, but it just becomes all the more dangerous. . . The best stance would be: ‘Please, come…

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The Green Lion

In alchemy the lion, the “royal” beast, is a synonym for Mercurius, or, to be more accurate, for a stage in his transformation. He is the warm-blooded form of the devouring, predatory monster who first appears as the dragon. Usually the lion-form succeeds the dragon’s death and eventual dismemberment. … The lion has among other…