Our Third Gateway and Another Precious Eye of Discernment and Initiation is Lord Lead. Saturn. He is the opposite spectrum of the sun, while also being the womb and tomb of the noble metal. This is easily recognized by the fact that the symbol for the sun is a circle with a dot in the center, which is what Saturn looks like if viewed from above.
Saturn being the leaden womb of the seed of gold. In alchemy this makes Saturn a great candidate for transmutations, since while his manifest form is a leaden shell, it carries a great proportion of the original seed of gold within its prison.
He is the One of The Three Initiators for he is valuable tool of growth, if we are willing to consider the leaden challenges/limitations we face in life as nothing but the necessary trials in which the seed of gold is gestated in the womb of Saturn, the womb of limitation, he reflects back to us that this physical vessel is but a womb to a secret seed, that same physical vessel itself is nothing but a tomb though as well, since its only function is to expand/grow and nurture the seed that is your Self, ideally you will burst out of it.
He is a womb in exaltation, but only a tomb in his fall.
He is Chronos who eats Noble Princes that fail their initiations into Sovereignty. He is the Grim Reaper reminding us that it is through his Gates that we passed into this realm and through his Gates we will leave, and that the purpose was not to get lost in ephemeral details, but to explore the very essence of things.
He clothes you in a garb of mortality, offering you a chance to learn about the essence of your immortal nature. Choose to fatten up your mortal nature by getting attached to his leaden limitations& he will take pleasure in consuming all of the accumulated dead matter when he recycles your aborted seed for a restored attempt at your royal initiation.
He is serpentine, primordial, cold, dark, he is the vulva opening to receive seed, and the tomb closing on a dead corpse.
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