alchemy, n.All

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

Alchemy is to astronomy... namely, the ignorant parent of a learned offspring.

The male/female symbols are the alchemical symbols for Iron and Copper respectively, and originally they referred to the Greek gods of Mars and Venus