Mercurius

“I am the true green and Golden Dragon without cares,
In me all the secrets of the Philosophers are hidden.
I devour the Sun”

The green dragon is mercury, also the role of psychopomp, guide of souls and the sun is gold, the twice-born virgin birth of the true self. Someone undergoing deep transformative processes is allowing the green dragon to devour them in order to be purified — to die to their old selves and be reborn anew with the golden glow of purification. This is Jungian individuation, the process of discovering your higher Self.

On our journey of transformation,
We are invited to surrender our present self to the alchemical fires of change
That our impurities may evaporate into the ether
Leaving behind what has always been from the beginning –
Our divine self:
The innocent child giggling at the absurdity of the material world,
Wailing at the ever-returning distance
Between expectation and reality

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Mercurius is a chimeric alchemical figure with dragon-like heads featuring the sun, moon, and a third with bull horns representing the passage into the "House of Venus," or the unity of Mercury/ Hermes and Venus/Aphrodite: the hermaphrodite.

Together as one body, the three become a fourth; symbolized by the god Mercury and his winged boots and representing the liquid metal element of the same name. However, this "fourth" form is said to remark on the unity of the three dragon heads' disparate heavenly elements, as quoted from a German alchemy manual from circa 1600 that refers to the picture below.

The spiritus mercurialis and his transformations represented as a monstrous dragon. It is a quaternity, in which the fourth is at the same time the unity of the three, the unity being symbolized by the mystagogue Hermes. The three (above) are (left to right); Luna, Sol, and coniunctio Solis et Lunae in Taurus, the House of Venus. Together they form ☿= Mercurius.