Pisces Secrets - Crystal Clarity & the master Key

Crystal clarity & The Master Key

The imagination and imaginal knowledge is described by German writer Ernst Junger⁠ as “A master Key that allows one to penetrate to the heart of a problem immediately and without the common routes of the intellect.” This master key of the the imaginal is the true language of the poets, he says, distinguished through words and images which act in a secret harmony unfolding like flowers and radiating with immaculate luster and colorful music.” a remarkably Piscean tableau from Ernst whose Mercury and North node are both in Pisces.⁠

He regards the imaginal process as the act of “stereoscopy” which is a type of double vision in which both depth and surface are simultaneously and instantaneously perceived giving way to  “Grasping things with inner claws” a quality more fitting for Zodiacal Cancer, his Rising sign.

He compares this union of surface and depth with crystals in which both appear simultaneously.

 A crystal, he says, can “generate inner surfaces” and can “ turn it’s depth outwards” wondering if the very world around us was itself is like a crystal. This process of steroscopy, like paralax, requires two planes and their intersection, like the two fish and the tie that unites them.

Crystals are often  brought up as a somewhat toung-in-cheek, pop-culture example of Pisces but it’s correspondence has, like crystals themselves, both depth and and surface.

Crystalomancy & Astrology

Each Zodiac has a corresponding crystals and  gemstones, a tradition still popular in India and Asia but rather out-of-fashion in the west since the 1970s.

Even if dated the new-age penchant for collecting of Crystals and the old-age tradition of skrying them for visions or capturing spirits within their confines is thoroughly Piscean.

Both crystals and the transformative power of the sign is found in the meaning of “Crystal” which shares the root for Chrysalis from Khrysos meaning a hard outer case, like ice. Like crystals they sometimes allow perception of both surface and depth.

The Chrysalis is a protective outer shell in which it transmutes itself from catapillar to butterfly much like the alchemists transmuting lead into Gold or the mystics progressive refinement of the spirit and spirit bodies.

Both the chrysalis and the idea of housing spirits within crystals reflects back to the 12th house of imprisonment, confinement and transition. It is here where we come to conclusion in our personal lives and where the Zodiac empties out onto the hot shores of Aries and the spiral of time continues.

 This process of rebirth, even when one is not elevating but merely reincarnation, is a kind of immortality. This theme of immortality, reincarnation or apotheosis⁠, lies at the heart of all mystery traditions and it is where we our adventure continues.