Child
The child denotes innocence, natural beginnings, and unrealized possibility, but also ignorance; spiritually it represents the self reborn toward perfection and seasonally the year’s renewal.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Alchemical tradition (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Homunculus is Alchemical tradition
why
… grow into a small human child, tiny in stature but reportedly …