ATHANOR | A Guidebook and Workbook for the Inward Season

Athanor A Guidebook and Workbook for the Inward Season $24 · Digital Download

There comes an evening each autumn when the light goes thin. The sun sets earlier behind the pines and the air on the porch carries a new edge. For many of us the days shorten and we go down with them.

Athanor offers another way through. The old alchemists kept a furnace by that name, built to hold a low fire for weeks without going out, so the work sealed inside could ripen slowly. This book treats the months from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice as that kind of fire. The outer light wanes and something inward is asked to keep burning.

Rudolf Steiner taught that the earth breathes in at this season and that the human soul is called to wake as nature falls asleep. Carl Jung found in the old alchemical books a picture of the soul's own changing, from the blackening through the washing to a gold that was never metal. Athanor walks with both of them, and with the plain work a soul can do at a kitchen table on an ordinary Tuesday.

What's inside

• The Opus: the four colors of the alchemical work, mapped onto the season
• Sky, Ground and Creature: harvest moons, turning leaves and the animals going to ground
• Feasts of the Waning Light and the Old Ways: holy days across many traditions, along with Norse and Gaelic customs
• The Descent and the Washing: Jung's shadow work and the tending of grief
• The Night Book and the Soul's Exercises: Steiner's evening review and other inner practices
• Kindling the Inner Sun: Advent to the solstice
• The Thirteen Weeks: a four-page spread for every week, with the Calendar of the Soul
• Gleanings: a glossary, an index and pages for your own notes

The details 234 pages across fifteen sections. Formatted for US Letter, with watercolor plates throughout. Print the whole book or only the pages you need, and reprint any page as often as you like. It's a digital download, so nothing will be shipped.

Keep the fire low. Keep it steady. Come back to it each evening, and let the work ripen in its own time.

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