Scorpio 24

The coca bush yields substances which, if ingested, help one to sustain oneself physically at high altitudes, signifying that you know how to maintain energy at a high level, and how to survive and thrive as you go to even higher levels.

In the Omega Symbol the lead that has been transmuted into gold cannot sustain the vibrational level of gold – it obviously has not been stabilized at that level – and so it drops back down into the vibration of lead. The point is, when we make changes we cannot live in that changed state until we can bring enough of ourselves into it to be in it more than in the old state. That’s where chewing the coca leaves comes in – to help us attune to a new atmosphere and a new way of being.

In traditional alchemy when there was a failure all the old texts tell the alchemist to go back and do it again – to keep trying, because as you get better and better at making any transformation eventually the change will steady itself and hold to the new way. This is a very persistent degree, a degree of hope, and of knowing that whatever it takes is exactly what it’s going to expend to move forward.