The Twelve Operations · Operation 6 · Albedo

Fermentatio Fermentation

In the vessel. A ferment is added to the decayed matter and quickens it, as leaven raises bread. In the images a green lion devours the sun.

In a life. New life entering what had died. It is lived as unexpected inspiration, energy returning from a direction you did not anticipate: something growing in the soil where something else rotted.

What is quickening you, and from which direction did it come?

The silence after the collapse →