Death in the waters — transformation through depth
Dead + Water
When These Symbols Appear Together
Death — transformation — occurs in or emerges from the waters of the unconscious. This is the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld via water: the journey into the deepest possible level of the self in order to emerge genuinely changed. Osiris floated in the Nile; Jonah was swallowed by the sea.
Key Themes
the deepest possible transformationdescending into the unconscious to be rebornthe ancient motif of death by waterwhat must die in the depths?emergence from the underworld of feeling