James Hillman

We are speaking, therefore, of psychic change, which appears as “something going wrong,” and going wrong in two particular ways. First, when things corrupt, rot, decay; second, when they become physically hyperactive because sulfur is defined as the principle of “combustibility” – flaring up, “easily kindled to violence or passion”

Brighter, more coagulated and more combustible, the yellowed intellect is complicated with emotions, as one is indeed acutely aware and alive when in the grips of jealousy, cowardice, fear, prejudice, aging, or decay.

yellow at this moment is nothing other than the visible presence of the black in its depth.

There, where the yellow spot is, to where I point with my finger, there it hurts.

Hermes is the best communicator. The god of op‍

And Clio, as first daughter, has a special relation to the mother of muses, Remembering. Clio’s name signifies gloria, honor, celebration, and she remembers best the actions of heroes. Her interest is hardly in the daily news of the world’s case history, or what Mircea Eliade calls “profane time.” Rather her interest lies in those unique nuclear moments, the heroic moments through which the archetype at the soul’s core is revealed, redeeming events from the blindness of mere fact.