#twin flame alchemy

[consciouspearl]

This message was channeled in the past and posted on 8th March 2019 on another media site. This is a message from the Elohim directly warning twin flames on the journey to keep moving forward and briefly talks of mission. It also warned that Gaia is in danger before the pandemic and other global events and catastrophes have occurred. Do not doubt your path as a twin flame, all is revealed over time and everything will slot into its rightful place. If you receive messages that don’t make sense at the time they will in the future.

Pear inci

[idkwhyyouaskingm3-blog]

Tmagp 22 spoilers:

This episode they talked about the separation of the two sides of the brain. 1 side still working and talking fine the other one trapped and unable to communicate. Did this remind anyone else of Dr Webber? He talked about how he still could feel a part of himself that was scared but he didn't know why.

There might be other examples I'm not thinking of but it's the first thing I thought of when they talked about the splitting of the left and right brain.

[animatormentata]

Interlinked

Soul tie

[spiritsurfers]

"The Alchemical Marriage" as portrayed in Johnathan Larson's "almost" musical "Superbia:

You won't understand this symbolism unless you go through this post first!: https://spiritsurfers.substack.com/p/video-decoding-the-blue-ray-through

[connectingwithsoul]

And nothing could ever stop them. But together they could stop the whole world.

@connectingwithsoul

[suuneater33]

(((((((divine (re)union))))))))

[ingahealingradiance]

We can have soul contracts with people, entities, places and even substances and foot. How can we work with these contracts in the Akashic Records?

[magdalene-spirit]

ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕠 𝕨𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖?

ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝟙

🦜At first, through our falling in & out of what we think & want love to be for us, is our learning of what love is 𝘯𝘰𝘵. We slowly discover, that love is, always has been & always will be, a recognition & remembering of something we can’t quite pin down in our experience & expressions.

🦜 In this world it flits in & out of our awareness. Flutters into our experience & then it goes, flies away from us. We glimpse it, but can’t hold onto to it. It is always only a moment in time. 𝘌𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭. However, this moment, is an eternal moment. But in time, it seems to pass. By its nature it has to be fleeting, it has to 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 us.

🦜 We ought to learn, we need not cage & grasp at love, but to always set it 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦, to let it go— it has to fly free, it has to always flow.

In the letting go, we learn that love is & was never ours to own or have. It never came from us, nor from the persons, pets, places or things we thought we loved so.

🦜 We caught a reflection of our true, but 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 face, we recognised & remembered what always already is. However, from our perspective of separate persons relating, this eternal & universal love, descends on us from a higher plain, emanates from on high, & is therefore felt to be in the 𝘪𝘯-𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 spaces, between myself & the other, in mystery places I can sense, but can’t enter or touch physically. As a mirage, it evaporates as I clutch it.

🦜 We then mistake the source of this sublime love to be the persons, we displace it. We kiss & we hug to close the gap between ourselves & the other, in touching, we relate, in relating we have the opportunity to fall, to glimpse, sense, perceive the deeply real, but higher. This is what we truly long for when we come into contact with the other, the one we love so.

𝔼𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤

ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝟚

🌹 𝟷—When we first learn that love is not so personal, we may interpret it to mean we must turn away from the world or persons, in favour of only universal love, but this is also misunderstanding.

🌹𝟸—When recognition of love shines between persons it does not mean we should deny or ignore or overlook the persons & places & things where such sublime love calls to us, we need not avoid placing ourselves in the vicinity of what makes our hearts sing.

🌹𝟹—The 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 of love, is such that, even though it is our 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 & 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 face & birthright— in time, where our bodies & feet are planted right now in & on Earth, we experience the real in reflection, as beauty, as mystery, as the perfumes & tastes of varieties of our human love, as body & mind states of felt-awareness or 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, as 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺, as 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘺, as 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

🌹𝟺—𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 is 𝘰𝘯𝘦, but as our knowing of love & our 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 capacities mature & deepen, it can take on hues & distinctions on a spectrum of pinkish sweetness to blood-red intensities. None of which are wrong.

🌹 𝟻—We partake of the eternal 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 – desire & beauty & intimacy are pure vibrations of being, & is our 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨-recognition of the 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦/𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 forms, the 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘦𝘴 of 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨.

🌹 𝟼—The pure forms— 𝘐𝘚 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 arising in 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. What we crave is to know our very own 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦-𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, which is never static, nor bland, nor dry, but ever-transforming to shine as the 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 with all its colours & flavours.

[consciouspearl]

Her fingers danced on the piano in efforts to perfect romantic tunes signifying their love,

her heart danced every time she caught his secret glance,

in the deep of the night,her mind danced restlessly reminiscent of the short lived memories,

her eyes danced in the crowd in search of any essence of him,

her whole body danced existentially to match his melody,

the gift of his very existence made every part of her soul dance…

and boy did she dance,

she danced hard on the hot coals demons threw under her delicate feet,

his dance was left pale in comparison to the unrequited melody of her love song.

This is true love, this is true life, a never ending dance on an endless journey until they dance their way creating a great symphony as their notes collide once again.

Pearl inci

[talonabraxas]

Archangel Zadkiel Talon Abraxas

Archangel Zadkiel and the Angels of the Violet Ray

Archangel Zadkiel is known as the Angel of Transmutation and Freedom. Zadkiels name means “Righteousness of God”. He helps us to find love and acceptance in our hearts, as we willingly release lower vibrations and soar to a higher plane of being. This Archangel assists us in living our full potential from the higher vibration of compassion, understanding and acceptance.

SEVEN RAYS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

The Archangels serve on the seven rays of spiritual light which correspond to the light focused within the 7 chakras in Man. Archangel Zadkiel works on the seventh ray, the violet ray of purification and transformation. The energy of this ray is most strongly felt on Saturday. The angels of the seventh ray are associated with the seat of the soul chakra, which is situated at the top of the head.

The etheric retreat of Archangel Zadkiel is in Cuba in the Caribbean. Here Zadkiel (the energy of elevated unconditional love) and his twin flame Holy Amethyst (the energy of faith) shine their love over the earth from the Temple of Purification. Archangel Zadkiel and Amethyst assist humanity in finding freedom through tolerance and forgiveness. These Archangels carry the flame of liberty, joy, forgiveness, alchemy, transformation, justice, mercy and tolerance. These qualities help to liberate the soul and assist humanity in ascending to a higher level of consciousness.

WORKING WITH ARCHANGEL ZADKIEL AND THE ANGELS OF THE VIOLET RAY

The beautiful crystal amethyst is said to symbolize the violet ray. Holding or wearing this crystal can help align our thoughts and actions.

Archangel Zadkiel’s message to humanity is one of Love. He wants to help us evolve to a higher state of love. We can only reach this through forgiveness. When we ask Zadkiel for help, he willingly intercedes on our behalf with God/Goddess to transmute lower energies. This helps us to let go of fear, of restricting and limiting beliefs, pain, anger, frustration, resentment and negative thinking. Archangel Zadkiel helps us to transform fear into love. With this heart healing we can then experience the depth and fullness of life. Call on Archangel Zadkiel whenever you feel upset, and then visualize yourself in the violet flame of purification. Allow your negativity to be transformed and your troubles to dissolve and be replaced with tranquility and harmony.

INVOCATION

“Archangel Zadkiel please help me now. I ask that you assist me in releasing any feelings of unforgiveness towards myself or another that I may be holding onto. Please help me to replace these feelings with compassion and mercy. Please help me to see this situation from a higher perspective. I willingly surrender this situation to you, and know that All is well, perfect and complete. Thank you.”

[santoschristos]

Merkabah, also spelled Merkaba, is the divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. "Mer" means Light. "Ka" means Spirit. "Ba" means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another. Sacred Sexuality The sexuality of Twin Flames is different than that of soul mates in many ways. Due to the shared higher self, tantra comes very easy to them in a loving melding and melting of deep passionate lovemaking. Once they learn to slow down, they become one in movement and can edge and crest in the orgasmic pleasure together becoming multi orgasmic and coming as one. The energy of orgasm can be used to visualize manifestations and co create their healing, their mission and union and bring down what is created above. The sexuality of Twin Flames is alchemy and will also bring trauma and dysfunctions to the surface for clearing. Their sex both brings up and transmutes dark energies within them both. Their sexual union of divine love heals them both and strengthens their connection in all energy bodies and gives off vast amounts of light which also sends out beams of healing energy into their immediate surroundings, healing both flora and fauna, people and places in a vast radius surrounding them both. They are serving the world through their love and sexual union in unimaginable ways. As they are aligned through all lower, middle and upper chakras through their 12 chakra connection they merge energetically and create a joined merkabah and unified field. This enables them to reach higher dimensions of consciousness together and become even more connected. This is in no way an easy feature however as it brings a lot to the surface of what has yet to be healed, but then it also heals what has already been brought up. This is true sexual healing and integration of alchemy. Sacred sexuality is the template they carry and what they have longed for all their lives and may have tried to create with former partners, yet not successfully as the two carrying the same consciousness and higher self can connect by divine design in ways a set of soul mates simply can't, it is like coming home. Home to divine love, the way they always knew love was meant to be. - Ulf Haukenes

[spiritsurfers]

Hee hee, many color rays at play in this new musical "Maybe Happy Ending". The green // pink w a pot of pink flowers...the blue //red star-crossed lovers ✨

The color ray patterns can be spotted in art, movies and yes, even musicals. Click the link below to learn about this spiritual phenomenon.

For more on color rays in art:

https://spiritsurfers.substack.com/p/video-decoding-the-blue-ray-through

[roachymochi]

The Red Queen and the One True Flame : an analysis

Preamble

The Gloam-Eyed Queen might be the most discussed mystery of Elden Ring, almost always with a bottom-up approach. "What other lore element can I link to her to flesh her out" is an enticing approach, but considering the lack of result, it may be misguided.

In this post, I will reach for understanding from a top-down view, by describing the inner working of the world and the more general context were the GEQ comes from.

This analysis goes way beyond the scope of a GEQ lore post. The character I will describe here may or may not be the Gloam-eyed Queen. She will be referred to has the Red Queen to avoid confusion.

long post ahead

The Holy Trinity

The Lands Between are built around the principles of alchemy, and the adventures of the Tarnished might be reminiscent of the Magnum Opus. Has such, many core aspects of the world are threefold. Each part of these trifecta can also be linked to parts of other trifecta. The connections will be highlighted with 🟡, ⚪ and 🔴.

Gold and its alloy : Gold🟡 and Silver⚪ are central to the game lore. Gold take various forms, with the simple gold of the Golden Order, Miquella's unalloyed, gold, and the reddish gold of the Crucible. this red tint comes from the Gold being alloyed with Copper🔴, unnamed but as important to the games world as gold and silver. IRL, silver and copper are the two metals that can alloy harmoniously with gold (other alloys exist, giving the gold a blue, green or purple color, but they are brittle and impossible to work with). In game, the main attribute of Copper is its red color and its ability to rust/become verdigris. While this is not scientifically accurate, iron🔴 will be considered interchangeable with copper in this post for thematic purposes.

The three queens : Each of these metals is connected to a mystical queen. Gold is Marika🟡, Silver is Rellana⚪, and Copper is the unknown Red Queen🔴 this analysis is about. It may be the Gloam eyed Queen, but it is uncertain.

The three mothers : Motherhood is a mystical thing in ER, with the three mothers seemingly being the single progenitor of an entire lineage. Marika🟡's kingdom is one of fertility and abundance after all, and the silver mother⚪ is said of having birthed both the albinaurics and the blue silver of their armor. The red mother🔴 is the mother of monsters. she has no identity but she is present, in spirit, all through the Lands Between. I'll come back to it later.

The parts of a day : the day is divided in three parts - day🟡, dusk🔴, and night⚪. The day is obviously linked to the Erdtree and the night is the time of the moon and the stars, therefor linked to Caria/the eternal city. Dusk is the time of the GEQ, but most importantly it is deep red and quickly changing.

The three stars : there are three finger ruins in the Land of Shadow. Each of them is speculated to be the crash site of a meteorite bearing an envoy of the Greater Will. There is the Elden Beast🟡, Metyr⚪ (prominently linked to Caria and sorceries), and a third unknown star🔴. This third star is most likely the blood star, but there is nothing to confirm it.

The three mystical attributes : Intelligence⚪, Faith🟡, and Arcane 🔴. It's noteworthy that Incantations, linked to Faith, are often themed more around 🔴 than gold mostly the Crucible and all the flames.

The structure of the Cosmos

The stars, the moon(s) and the sky are were all destiny is written. There is no proper sky map to look at, but we have something close

picture taken by user Alphagravy

Astel is a fallen star, and his body seems to be made of many stars. Each part of it correspond to a known important part of the cosmos. Starting from the tip of the tail :

The long cluster of small blue pebble is the primordial current

The two dark conjoined sphere are the two moons, confirmed to be twins in the dlc.

The three amber sphere are the three stars mentioned earlier. Amber stars are said to bear the fate of the gods, so it would make sense for them to be the Elden Beast, Metyr, and the third one (the color trifecta doesn't apply here, for clarity reasons).

The two rings of light are the Elden Rings, old and new. IRL, many alchemical texts described god as a circle with the entire creation at its center. This could be used to interpret the many outer gods as the parts of creation that was rejected by the Elden Ring : they are literally out of God's circle.

The outer gods, the flame, and the Red Queen

Here is what we can deduce from the above context : Since the Gods are born of divine amber stars, three such stars fell to earth, and outer gods are parts of creation rejected by the Elden Ring (or in other words the Greater Will scriptures), then it means all gods and demi-gods got their godhood from one of those three stars.

As such, this means every single outer gods are envoys of the forsaken red star🔴. This would explain why so many of these sinful powers have so many similarities. Especially the flames, who seems like broken fragment of an original whole.

Here i will explain what i understand to be the original, core myth surrounding the red star, the flame and the red queen, using emojis to identify each of their aspects. Then i will list all red themed thing from the game and see how many of these aspects they bear.

Their is a primordial red 🔴 power of fire 🔥 constantly reshaping the world and its lifeforms through death 💀, birth 🌱, and transformation 🦋. Its great work took place in a primordial crucible 🏺, heating and purifying all its material in a bloody🩸, violent way. Its vassal was the Red Queen, the mother 👶 of many monsters 👹, often snake-like🐍, conceived in sin 😈.

and now the list :

the Gloam-Eyed Queen : 🔴🔥💀🌱🩸👶👹🐍😈. Gloam is Red🔴, she had the flame🔥 of Destined Death, motherhood🌱👶 is a significant part of her character (Godskin swaddling cloth). Her children have snake-like qualities 👹🐍, are swaddled in the flayed skin of demigods 😈, and are made to bring death to the gods 🩸.

The Formless Mother : 🔴🔥💀🦋🏺🩸👶👹😈. Most likely linked to the blood star🔴, her blessing make the heat of the blood so extreme that it catch fire when spilled🔥. Her cult is incredibly violent and is centered about draining as much blood as possible💀 and drenching an entire region in endless blood🩸🏺. She is called a mother 👶, and her blessing help the Omens👹 reject the Grace of Gold😈.

The Scarlet Rot : 🔴🔥💀🌱🦋🏺🩸👶👹😈. Scarlet's in the name🔴. It's not technically fire, but the alchemical fire can also take the form of a stomach acid, a womb, or compost, so the Rot is thematically a fire🔥. It is deadly💀, but it also create many new lifeforms🌱🦋 in the vast lakes where it pools 🏺. The process of transformation is however definitely gory🩸. The Rod Goddess is called a mother👶 in all her forms (Malenia, Romina, the foraging brood mother too), but their children are not human👹, and this life cycle goes against the golden order😈.

The fell god of the flame : 🔴🔥🦋🏺🩸😈 (not gonna do every single flames). The giants hair and his eyes are orange-red🔴, he is THE fire god🔥 in the Lands Between. His domain is the forge🏺, a place where metals are purified and refined🦋 through the heat of the flame and the beating of the hammer🩸. Forging these raw materials into items🌱 was considered sacred by the giants. Visions of the flame is considered a cardinal sin 😈.

Mount Gelmir's serpents : 🔴🔥🌱🏺🩸👶👹🐍😈. This one is a bit all over the place. the volcano manor, the manserpents, and Daedicar's woe all have a coppery reddish hue to them🔴. the serpents come from the volcano and are immune to fire 🔥. The Serpents Crucible of transformation seems to be the primordial serpent itself, transforming the flesh of the soldiers he devour into more of himself🏺🩸. Daedicar (and to a lesser extent Tanith) were the mother👶 to monstrous children 👹🐍. Tanith opposed the Erdtree, Daedicar indulged in every form of wicked pleasure😈.

Dragon Communion : 🔥💀🌱🦋🏺🩸👶 👹🐍😈. The power of dragon communion is acquired by killing💀 and devouring🩸 the hearts of dragons. Has stated earlier, digestion is an alchemical fire 🔥 and a stomach is a sort of crucible 🏺. the dragon communion transforms 🦋 its adepts. Greyoll, the mother👶 of all🌱 dragons, gave birth to children that were considered monstrous👹 and against the order of Placidusax😈.

Conclusion

I could continue on and on but you probably get the idea. The numerous foes of the Golden Order are actually incredibly similar and seem to all work under the same core principles. Since they are outer gods, that is to say gods that were rejected by a remade Elden Ring, they must still exist under the power of one of the three divine star. Therefore they most likely were part of the ancient Elden Ring, before it was remade into an order of Gold.

Since SotE, we know that aspects of divinity can be scrapped and abandoned. Therefore, when Marika created the Golden Order, she killed the Red Queen and broke apart her divinity, scattering all her aspects outside of the Elden Ring.

This means all the flames and outer Gods we meet are just scattered remnant of this Red Queen and the powers she wielded. She may have been the Gloam Eyed Queen, But the GEQ may also just be the what was left of the RQ after her divinity was shattered. It is said, after all, that the flame of the Godskin is a mere shadow of what it used to be.

[longitudinalwaveme]

Fictober 2024

Day 8: Are We Happy? 

Wally had been having a wonderful day at the hockey rink with Linda, watching the first big game of the season. While he wasn’t really that big of a hockey fan, Linda adored the Keystone City Combines, and if she was happy, he was happy. 

And then Dr. Alchemy had shown up. Because there was some sort of law which stated that a Flash’s nice night out must be interrupted by at least one creep in a mask. 

“Tremble in fear, Keystone City! For I, the nigh-omnipotent Dr. Alchemy, have returned to rule over you all!”

The rest of the people in the rink seemed even less impressed that Wally felt by the not-so-good doctor’s inconvenient arrival. 

“Boo! Get off the ice!” 

“Yeah, we paid good money for these tickets!” 

“Come on, team! Let’s get the creep!” the Combines’ team captain yelled. Almost as one, the team skated forward, hockey pucks raised. Dr. Alchemy cackled madly. 

“Fools! Let’s see how well you skate when I turn the ice into hydrochloric acid!” Just as Dr. Alchemy raised his Philosopher’s Stone, Wally changed into his Flash costume, darted out on the ice, and managed to spirit all twelve of the players who were currently on the ice to safety, mere milliseconds before the ice underneath them turned into a potent acid. 

“Why, if it isn’t Kid Flash! I see you’re as fast as ever—but are you fast enough to outrun a cloud of magnesium?” Suddenly, the air around Wally was ablaze; so hot that it was actually impairing his vision. But this wasn’t Wally’s first rodeo with Dr. Alchemy. He rotated his arms at super speed and was quickly able to extinguish the flames.

“Come on, doc! You didn’t really expect me to be taken out by that old chestnut, did you?” Wally asked—only to completely lose his footing and go careening uncontrollably across the ice. He finally came to a stop when he collided violently with a pole of one of the nets. 

“Amateur! You were so busy focusing on putting out the fire that you didn’t notice I was coating the ice with polytetrafluoroethylene—a material with one of the lowest friction coefficients known!” Wally tried to struggle to his feet, but found that his head didn’t want to stop spinning just yet. 

“Now, just to make sure you stay put—here’s some specialized acrylic adhesive to keep you running in place!” Suddenly, a sticky substance covered Wally, binding him to the pole he’d collided into. He used several vibratory tricks in the hopes of escaping, but quickly discovered that Dr. Alchemy had done his homework. Whatever this stuff was, he was stuck fast. 

“Now, where’s the real Flash? I didn’t make my grand comeback just to face the Twin Cities’ second-string hero!” If Wally had been a few years younger, comments like that would’ve caused his admittedly short temper to explode. Now that he was secure in his powers, though, it was just a mild annoyance. Really, he was a lot angrier about the fact that his nice night with Linda had been hijacked by the ego trip of a man wielding the world’s most powerful potato. 

“Isn’t that the real Flash?” someone in the audience asked.  

“It sure looks like him.” 

“Maybe it’s Impulse?”

“No way. Impulse has bigger feet than that. And a different costume.” 

“Could be the old Flash.” 

“The old Flash has a hat!”

“Perhaps I just need to provide the Flash with a little more…incentive. Once you’re all trapped in here after I turn the doors to solid titanium, he’ll be forced to come and rescue you—and that will be his doom!” And with a wave of the Philosopher’s Stone, all the exits were transformed into solid blocks of gleaming metal. If Uncle Barry had been on Earth, Wally knew that such a display would get him to come running—but he was off with Superman and Green Lantern in space, fighting off another wave of face-hugging starfish. It didn’t matter what Dr. Alchemy did; it wouldn’t summon the Flash that he wanted. 

“As for the rest of you—start handing over your valuables. The prodigious Dr. Alchemy demands tribute–-which he will accept in jewelry, cash, and all major credit cards.” Wally tried to vibrate loose again, but to no avail. This was so embarrassing…

Dr. Alchemy started collecting loot from the crowd, only to pause in front of a very pretty young woman. 

“Hello, there, you gorgeous doll. How’d you like for me to show you a whole new type of alchemy?” he leered as he caressed her cheek creepily. 

Aaand that cinched it. Wally had been pretty sure which Dr. Alchemy had crashed the hockey game from the start, but the really obnoxious pervert behavior meant that it was definitely Alvin. 

In response, the woman shrieked and grabbed the hand of the young man next to her, who was probably her boyfriend. 

“Get your filthy hands off my girlfriend!” the young man exclaimed. Alvin frowned. 

“You’re her boyfriend, eh? A minor setback—-but one that’s thoroughly surmountable for a man of my vast powers!” He waved the stone, and suddenly the young man was transmogrified into a solid jade statue. The young woman screamed.

“Andrew!” Alvin, seemingly oblivious to the young woman’s horror, gave her a big, creepy grin. 

“You’re single now, honey—and considerably richer, now that you have that nice jade statue. So, what do you say? You wanna go out with me now?” The woman understandably responded by slapping Alvin across the face. 

“You killed my boyfriend! Why would I ever want to go out with you?” Alvin didn’t seem deterred. 

“I can always turn him back if you really want me to, babe. Though I don’t know why you would. He’s much less annoying as a jade statue. So, what do you want for dinner?” 

“Dinner?” 

‘Yeah. I’m takin’ you out tonight—right after I kill the Flash, of course.” 

“Are you nuts? I wouldn’t date you if you were the last man on Earth!” To emphasize her point, the woman slapped him again. 

“Wrong answer, sweet cheeks.” Alvin waved his Philosopher’s Stone, and suddenly the woman was transformed into what looked like a ruby statue. 

“Ahem! Now that that little romantic interlude is out of the way—let’s get back to the issue of my tribute, shall we?” 

For the next twenty minutes, Alvin made his rounds through the crowd, collecting the money, cards, and jewelry in two large bags that he had materialized out of thin air. Once both bags were filled to the bursting point, he made his way back over to Wally, who was still struggling to free himself. 

“It’s a travesty, really. I go through all this time and effort to rob the entire stadium blind—and what do I get? Not only does the real Flash not bother to show up, but my romantic overtures are rejected, too! Why does no one respect me?” 

“Maybe because you’re a creepy sewer-dwelling gremlin?” Wally suggested. 

“How dare you! I’m the most powerful villain on the face of the Earth!”

“Funny. For someone who’s that powerful, you sure don’t seem very content being yourself. Are you really happy with your sad, creepy little life, Alvin?” 

“Am I happy? I’m overjoyed!” Then Alvin looked down at his Philosopher’s Stone. 

“Tell me, my precious: are we happy?” Amazingly, the stone actually seemed to respond; it started to glow more brightly and turned the walls of the stadium to solid gold. 

“That’s what I thought. We’re very happy together.” 

“Whatever you say, Gollum.” Alvin scowled. 

“I am not Gollum! I am Dr. Alchemy, and I am—-” Suddenly, one of the solid blocks of titanium that had once been a door hissed and turned into steam. 

“You are nothing but a pretender! A fraud, who decided to cash in on the identity I tried so hard to leave behind!”  Mr. Element exclaimed as he stepped through the new gap in the wall. A big grin spread across Alvin’s face, revealing some inhumanly sharp teeth. 

“Hello, brother Al! It’s been a long time!” 

“Not long enough.” 

“You wound me, brother Alvin—so I’ll just have to return the favor. Eat HClO4!” Alvin waved the Philosopher’s Stone, and a wave of acid went flying towards Mr. Element, who transmuted it into what looked like it might be orange juice seconds before it could make contact. 

“Alvin, I’m a reasonable man. I don’t want to have another element duel. I’m forty-five years old, the Mr. Element suit doesn’t really fit me properly anymore, and I’ve been trying to put this costumed nonsense behind me for the past twenty years of my life. Why don’t you just surrender quietly and save us both the trouble?” Dr. Alchemy laughed. 

“You’ve gone soft, brother Al! Maybe a hailstorm of diamonds will toughen you back up!” Dr. Alchemy waved his stone, and dozens of large diamonds started to fall out of the sky. Mr. Element responded by using his Element Gun to transmute the diamonds into feathers. 

“You want to do it the hard way? Fine. We can do it the hard way,” Mr. Element said as he continued to approach. As he came closer, he fired a beam from his Element Gun, which turned the floor around Dr. Alchemy into what looked like it might be quicksand.

“Nice try, brother Al—but your little tricks can’t stop me!” He waved the Philosopher’s Stone and was instantly freed from the quicksand, which transmuted into water. In response, Mr. Element fired a beam from the Element Gun past the gloating Dr. Alchemy. It hit the glue that Wally had been struggling against, and suddenly it didn’t seem quite so sticky. Wally grinned. 

“You missed! Clearly, you’ve been out of the game for too long!” Mr. Element gave a quiet chuckle. 

“I didn’t miss, Alvin. I was just distracting you.” Alvin’s eyes went wide, and he spun around in horror—just in time for Wally to vibrate out of the glue and sock him right in the nose. The momentum of the punch sent Alvin flying, and his bags of stolen loot flew out of his hands. He hit the side of the ice rink a few seconds later, and then one of the bags of loot clunked him right on his head. As Dr. Alchemy went limp, Mr. Element took off his silly-looking gas mask to reveal the care-worn face of Dr. Albert Desmond. 

“I’m sorry I wasn’t here sooner, but Alvin made a point of visiting Rita and me and trapping us in our bedroom yesterday. He was hoping that he would be able to frame me for the crime—again.” 

“Hey, no problem. You made it here in time to help me stop the bad guy. That’s all that matters,” Wally replied. 

“You have no idea how tired I am of dealing with him. Every time I think he has to be gone for good, he pops up again—and this time, he dumped beer cans and disgusting magazines all over our floor and ate everything in the fridge but the vegetables! It’s a good thing I can transmute things, because if not, it would take weeks for Rita and me to clean the place up,” Albert said wearily. 

“In speaking of transmutation, I need you to save a couple of people Alvin turned into statues.” Wally pointed in the direction of the young couple Alvin had transmuted earlier. 

“What happened to them?” Albert asked, sounding horrified. 

“Alvin was hitting on the woman, and wouldn’t take no for an answer.” Albert groaned. 

“Why am I not surprised?” Albert walked over to Alvin’s unconscious body, knelt down next to him, grabbed the Philosopher’s Stone out of his hand, and then walked over to the transmuted couple. He touched the stone to the woman, and then to the man, and a few seconds later both of them were once again flesh and blood. 

“Andrew! Are you all right?” 

“Yes, Sasha, I’m all right. I’m just glad you’re okay.” The two of them kissed, and then the woman turned to Albert. 

“Thank you so much!” she said. 

“It was the least I could do, really,” Albert replied quietly. 

“You saved our lives, man. We really owe you one,” the young man said. Albert ducked his head.

“Just pay it forward, and we’ll be more than even.” With that, Albert made his way back to Wally and looked at him hopefully. 

“Would you mind getting me back home? I have a wife who’s worried about me and a huge mess to clean up.” Wally grinned. 

“Sure, Dr. Desmond! Just give me a sec.” Wally grabbed the two bags of loot, distributed the contents back to their rightful owners, and was back at Albert’s side in less than ten seconds.

“All aboard the Flash express!” Two seconds later, Wally and Albert were at a cozy house in the suburbs of Central City, where they were promptly greeted by Rita Desmond. 

“Albert! You’re home! I was so worried about you!” 

“I’m sorry, Rita. For…for everything.” 

“What are you apologizing for? You’re not the one who locked me in a bedroom, emptied my kitchen, and ruined my floors! It’s that disgusting little gremlin who should be apologizing! I’m so tired of him showing up and upending our lives!” 

“You and me both, Rita—but I don’t know what to do. We send him to prison and he breaks out. We destroy the Philosopher’s Stone, and it just reconstitutes itself and finds its way back to him. I turn him to granite, and he pops up again in the flesh two months later like nothing happened. How do you stop something you can’t contain?” Suddenly, Rita glanced at Wally and grinned wickedly. 

“You’re friends with Hartley Rathaway, aren’t you?” she asked. 

“Piper? Of course! I just talked to him this morning.” 

“Well, it still might not be enough to get rid of Alvin for good, but I think the Pied Piper’s music might be just what I need to make sure he stays away from Albert and me for a long, long time.” Wally grinned as he realized what Rita had in mind.  

“Rita, you are an evil genius, and I love it.” 

************************************************************************

Two days later, Wally, Linda, Irey, Jai, Wade, Albert, Rita, and Hartley were enjoying a lovely backyard party at the Desmonds’ house. Jai and Irey were splashing in the heated above ground pool, Wade was crawling around on the grass under Wally’s watchful eye, Linda and Hartley were commiserating over the lousy season Central City’s baseball team had had this year, and Albert and Rita were holding hands and enjoying both their drinks and the state of their newly pristine house. 

“Alvin, would you mind filling my glass? I’m getting low on lemonade,” Rita said. Alvin scowled, but the small MP3 player that was clipped to his shirt and chirping out a merry little tune ensured that he would cooperate with her request. 

“Of course not,” he muttered glumly, as the Pied Piper’s hypnotic music forced him to pour her another drink from the bottle of lemonade that was resting on the tray he was holding. 

“Of course not what, Alvin?” Rita asked. 

“Of course not, ma’am,” Alvin ground out as he secured the lid back on the bottle. Wally snickered. He had to hand it to Rita—using Piper’s hypnotic music to force Alvin to pay off the rather considerable debt he owed to her and Albert by working as their servant was a surefire way to keep him from annoying the Desmonds for a long, long time. After all, there was nothing Alvin hated more than work. 

“That’s better. Now, why don’t you get started on cleaning out the junk in our basement? I’ve been wanting that mess sorted out for years, but we’ve just never had the time to get around to it,” Rita said. Alvin’s shoulders slumped. 

“Whatever you say, ma’am.” As Alvin wandered off towards the basement, Albert shook his head. 

“You know,  I almost feel sorry for him.” Rita took a sip of her lemonade. 

“I don’t. We’ve been putting up with his nonsense for what, ten years now? I think brother Alvin—as he insists on calling himself— owes us a few favors.” Wally laughed.

“You know, I’m really starting to wonder which of the two of you used to be the supervillain.” Rita smiled. 

“Well, you know what they say. Mr. Element hath no fury like a very frustrated astral sister-in-law.”

[tayfabe75]

What are your thoughts on The Alchemy? All the football references make you think it's about Travis, but if you take them away, the rest of the song just doesn't make sense for him in my opinion. Especially with “this happens once every few lifetimes” from it and “once in 20 lifetimes” from cardigan. 

Hey, anon! Honestly, I'm so glad you asked about this song. When I first heard 'The Alchemy', I was cackling at what I believed were obvious football-related red herrings… This suspicion grew exponentially when Taylor decided to mash it up with 'Treacherous' of all things!

And of course, it's "touch down", not "touchdown":

Which implies some sort of aircraft… an airplane? (Perhaps a UFO? 🛸)

Even if it is a sports reference, who's to say it's not rugby? Especially when paired with the word "blokes"… Also, what's with the word "blokes" anyway? Americans don't say that! lol And Taylor sang it with a heavy accent during the acoustic set…

Now, I know what you might be thinking, since I've seen a few 75 fans get upset with Taylor over this song, assuming it's super petty and she's making fun of Matty. Well, part of my personal ethos is to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than automatically assume malintent. So, my thinking is that even if Matty truly did ditch Taylor because he couldn't take the heat of her fan's burning pitchforks and he thought he was doing her a favor by leaving… the absolute last thing she would do is write songs making fun of him for it. The woman who wrote 'Peace'?! Nah, I don't buy it!

I firmly believe that Matty gave TTPD his blessing. I think it's chiefly an album reflecting an earlier time in Taylor's life, a time she couldn't write about any of that stuff without giving away Matty's identity and personal details of his life that he did not want to be public (it was not just her story to tell). Now, though... Matty has since shown incredible vulnerability and bravery in discussing his past addictions, and frankly, humanizing addicts for his impressionable young fans! Taylor, too, has great empathy for those struggling with addiction - something she spoke about a few times throughout the 1989 tour (gee, I wonder why…) usually preceding the song 'Clean'.

And though they have at least a decade-long public history, Matty was only recently "inducted" as a muse into the "Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe". If I had any, I'd bet money that Taylor had the green light to write this album from Matty, himself (and that he's been easter egging the hell out of it leading up to its release!)

Like you, "once every few lifetimes" immediately reminded me of 'Cardigan'. Of course, you have a reference to heroin (see above), and someone getting out of a hospital… making this song almost sound like it's, at least in part, from Matty's perspective. Ditch the clowns, cut the amateurs...

And, whoever's heart is reserved, the sign is not still there for someone they just met, right? If it is about someone new, then it sounds more like a restaurant reservation or something. Not the most romantic metaphor (and frankly, a strange one if you ask me!)

Further, the song is from 2023:

Anon, I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to hear this as a song written for someone she just started dating (way more "unhinged" than the exchange of "I love yous" with someone you've known for ten years, anyway...) But! I very well could be wrong. Hopefully time will tell.

Lastly, there's something called an "alchemical marriage", which is a sacred union that transcends the physical realm into the spiritual, joining twin flame souls together. Do with that what you will...

Thanks for the ask! 🤍

[ingahealingradiance]

Twin flame dark night of the soul is a part of a journey in the twin flame separation stage when the worst wounds, fears and loneliness come to surface. The emotional and even physical responses to separation go beyond anything previously experienced in relationships. It feels as if the very ground has been knocked out from under your feet.

You feel like you are being operated on without anesthesia, and the torture seems to be never-ending, all-encompassing, so profound it sometimes knocks the living breath out of you. Why does it hurt so much? And how to make the pain go away?

The pain drives you to look for answers, to try and understand why it hurts so much, and to find ways of feeling better. It is at this stage of grasping for remedy, something, anything to make the pain go away, that many come across twin flame teachings. But the experience of pain, separation and lack of spiritual light to follow has been known for centuries also outside the modern twin flame context. This sense of profound spiritual disconnect is called the dark night of the soul.