Cibation

Purify, Cleanse, and Release

Feed your newly formed soul with restorative healing. Reflect, and release the pain and shadows from the past.

Like a bountiful freshwater stream feeding into the depths of a river, you are continuing to empower the gold of your sun as you move toward obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone. Without this natural process, the large bodies of water on Earth would completely dry up. When the Cibation card appears in an oracle reading, your inner transformation requires clean fuel to stay embodied in your light.

Just when you feel you have moved on, difficult or painful memories of the past can appear during this part of the process. Now is the time to sit with these emotions and allow them to be released from your consciousness. Taking time to practice self-care, physically crying, and displaying your anger are all powerful ways to work through this phase. While emotional displays can be frightening at times, this is what is needed to stay on your path toward ascension.

Fifteenth-century alchemist Sir George Ripley stated that Cibation is called a feeding of our dry matter with milk and meat. In other words, Cibation is the process of continuously feeding your alchemical vessel with pure material in order to continue embodying your light. Alchemy gets practical during this stage. This is where new habits, thought processes, and ways of being are implemented into your life. This is done by feeling negative emotions from past challenges and alchemizing them through release. Mind over matter is key.

Cibation Phase Shadow Work: Processing difficult memories is a powerful form of shadow work. This phase also can be completed with the help of tools like talk therapy and energetic healing work like Reiki, pranic healing, meditation, or breath work.