Welcome to the fourth and final episode of our four-episode arc exploring the Magnum Opus, the famed Great Work of the ancient alchemists.

Throughout this series, we have travelled through the four classic alchemical stages: Nigredo (Blackening), Albedo (Whitening), Citrinitas (Yellowing), and finally Rubedo (Reddening); tracing their reflections in personal transformation, psychology, myth, and the lived reality of inner change.

In this culminating stage of the Magnum Opus, we move from illumination to integration: from recognising the light to living it.

Rubedo is the reddening, the fire of coherence, where the union of opposites becomes stable, embodied, and quietly sovereign.

In this shorter, ten-minute closing episode, I explore what it means for consciousness to anchor into form; how the Work matures from insight into behaviour; and how Rubedo signifies the end of inner division and the return to a self that is whole, honest, and real.

Music: From Stardust by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen

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Welcome to the third episode of a four-episode arc exploring the Magnum Opus, the famed Great Work of the ancient alchemists.

During this series, we are journeying through the four classic alchemical stages: Nigredo (Blackening), Albedo (Whitening), Citrinitas (Yellowing), and Rubedo (Reddening); tracing their echoes in personal transformation, psychology, and collective myth.

In this third stage of the Magnum Opus, we move from Albedo’s awareness of the light to Citrinatas, where we learn to become the light, where we experience the beginning of integration and the union of opposites.

Citrinitas is the dawning of solar consciousness, where illumination matures into embodiment and the gold begins to reveal its glow within the self.

In this episode, I explore what it means to carry light without owning it; the reconciliation of spirit and matter, body and soul that personifies Citrinatas; and how to recognise wholeness within both our darkness and our light.

Music: Silent Sun by Anna Landström

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And for weekly articles and conversations, join me on Substack at

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Welcome to the second episode of a four-episode arc exploring the Magnum Opus, the famed Great Work of the ancient alchemists.

During this series, we are journeying through the four classic alchemical stages: Nigredo (Blackening), Albedo (Whitening), Citrinitas (Yellowing), and Rubedo(Reddening); tracing their echoes in personal transformation, psychology, and collective myth.

In this episode of the Magnum Opus series, we move out of the darkness of Nigredo into Albedo, the first light of dawn, the first silvery shimmer of a new consciousness.

This is Stage Two of the alchemical journey, where we are no longer what we were, yet not fully what we will become.

In this episode, I explore how clarity can be both a revelation and a reckoning, and how Albedo's light is not salvation, but a pathway to integration.

This is the stage where what remains after dissolution is gently washed clean: where honesty replaces illusion, and the self begins to see without the distortion of the ego. Albedo is the quiet renewal that comes when we stop striving to rebuild and instead learn to listen to what is being born in the silence.

Music: Dawning Light by Victor Lundberg

You’ve been listening to The Alchemy of It All with Fiona Meiklejohn. If this journey resonated with you, please share it, subscribe, or simply carry the conversation forward in your own life.

You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wolf_and_birch/ where you’ll discover links to my fortnightly newsletter, free meditations, health guides, and my eBook The Art of Self-Empowerment.

And for weekly articles and conversations, join me on Substack at

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