dk-thrive:

“Alchemy begins before we enter the mine, the forge, or laboratory. It begins in the blue vault, the seas, in the mind’s thinking in images, imaging ideationally, speculatively, silveredly, in words that are both images and ideas, in words that turn things into flashing ideas and ideas of little things that crawl, the blue power of the word itself, which locates this consciousness in the throat of the visuddha cakra whose dominant color is a smoky-purple-blue.”

~ James Hillman, “Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis” from 

The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire (Routledge, Oct 31, 2013)