Fermentatio · Albedo
A ferment is added to the decayed matter and quickens it, as leaven raises bread. In the images a green lion devours the sun.
Fermentatio · Albedo
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.
A question to carry
What is quickening you, and from which direction did it come?
The Twelve Operations
Each operation of the Great Work, with its laboratory meaning, its reading in a life and a question.