Creative Alchemy Workshop
The Royal Art as a Spiritual-Creative Process
Taught by Marlene Seven Bremner
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
1-4 pm MST
3-Hour in-person workshop
Electra Gallery
825 Early St. Suite D
Santa Fe, NM 87505
free parking
Description
Known as the “Royal Art,” alchemy teaches us how to transmute our life into a masterpiece through the profound interplay of consciousness and matter. Whether we are working with materials in an alchemical laboratory, writing poetry, composing music, painting, or simply wanting to live a more creative life, alchemy is a powerful key to unlocking the vast potential and unlimited imagination that lives within us.
This three-hour workshop will explore Hermetic Alchemy as the practice of bringing something to its final perfection. Students will learn how this royal art unifies the inner and outer worlds and provides a process to integrate spirit and matter.
We begin with the legendary Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus and developing an understanding of alchemical creation, and the miraculous transmutations of the “One Thing.” From here we will cover alchemical theory and cosmology, including the prima materia or mysterious “first matter,” the anima mundi or “world soul,” the four elements, the tria prima or “three principles,” the seven planetary metals, and the legendary philosopher’s stone. We will discuss the principle of correspondence and the relationships between the macrocosm and microcosm, and how to work with these relationships in a creative alchemical practice.
Finally, we’ll look at the four color phases of the Great Work (black, white, yellow, red) and how they can be understood and navigated for spiritual growth, deeper self-knowledge, reconciliation of the opposites, and the liberation of your full creative potential.
This workshop will include a slideshow and presentation, as well as meditations, group discussion, and introduction to practices to integrate into your creative process.
In this course you will learn:
The basic philosophies and theories of Hermetic Alchemy
The 4 stages of the Great Work as a spiritual & creative process for self-transformation
The qualities and influences of the 7 traditional planets
How to integrate alchemy into your life and artistic process
Tools for personal empowerment & transmutation
Cost: $125
Contact Electra Gallery to register today!
505-231-0354
https://www.electragallery.com/contact