Alchemical art sun moon

I'm still writing, writing, writing for my online Art of Botanical Perfume course. Today I realized the challenge getting these modules and lessons done, is that as I translate them from a live course to one online I find more interesting bits to include. I'm tumbling further and further down the rabbit hole of Alchemy, and wow it sure smells good here, I don't want to leave. It's a problem from the point of finishing up the course, but not so much as an artist. Today, during my wonderings…

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Alchemical - Sun/Moon Ouroboros.

Download free image of Nuremberg chronicles - Sun and Moon (LXXVIr) (1440-1514) illustrated by Hartmann Schedel. Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. about sun, moon, sun moon, sun and moon, and public domain sun drawing 10184806

Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon coloured

This image from Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752) represents an alchemical process with seven planetary figures in an order relating to its ingredients actions and elements. It also references a poem Trevisans Fountain and the many layers of the earth. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind

The Sun - Ancient Tarot of Lombardy

This alchemical dragon diagram from Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun & Moon by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752) gives clues on how to transmute solids to liquids to gasses using the elements of fire & air. The 7 indentations on the wings represent the 7 steps of the process.