The Serpent

Hermetic Studies & Living Alchemy

Wisdom coiled in silence, truth moving like water.

Across temples and deserts, among philosophers and healers, the Serpent appears as guide—not to command, but to awaken. In Hermetic thought, it is the living glyph of transformation: shedding what is spent, transmuting poison into medicine, revealing the spiral path where beginning and return are one.

What follows are seven coils—reflections shaped by Hermetic principles—offered as practical lenses for a creative, sovereign life.

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Serpentine patterns, colors, and practice →

Daily Serpent Practice
Today: Drink water, step outside for light.
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Breathe in a circle; let the tail meet the mouth. Continuity reveals origin.

Mentalism

All emerges from mind. Curate your inner language and your world learns a new grammar.

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Correspondence

As above, so below; as within, so without. Patterns rhyme across scale—learn one, decode many.

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Vibration

Nothing rests. Tune your frequency through breath, attention, and the music of your routines.

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Polarity

Opposites are gradients. Travel the spectrum and discover synthesis where argument dissolves.

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Rhythm

Tides rise and fall. Build rituals that ride the wave rather than resist the sea.

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Cause & Effect

Reality keeps accounts. Act with authorship; let your choices compose the myth you inhabit.

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Gender

All creation marries reception with projection. Balance receptivity with decisive expression.

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Practice: Three Turns of the Coil

Observe

Journal the pattern. Name the current. Honesty is alchemy’s first fire.

Transmute

Breathe, reframe, re-compose. Transform charge into choice.

Align

Act symbolically. Let your daily ritual tell the story you wish to live.

The Serpent is a study in living Hermetics and creative transformation. No dogma—only practice, perception, and the courage to shed what no longer serves.