The Becoming: In Poetic Alchemy

The Becoming is the debut poetry collection by Julia Monard exploring personal transformation through the lens of alchemy, psychology, and symbolism. Written over four charged years, these poems spiral through the four classical stages of alchemical change:

• 🜂 Nigredo (Blackening) – The Breaking

• 🜄 Albedo (Whitening) – The Aching

• 🜁 Citrinitas (Yellowing) – The Healing

• 🜃 Rubedo (Reddening) – The Making

Each stage mirrors a part of the human experience – grief, longing, rebirth, embodiment. Illustrated with original photography that serve as visual emblems, this collection weaves symbols, inner reckoning, and sacred truths into poetic form.

This is a book for those who have known heartbreak, liminality, and the hunger for meaning – for those who sense that becoming isn’t linear, but cyclical.

Healing is not the end point – it is a passage. Many misunderstand healing as the final destination, when in truth, it is one step in a sacred pattern. If we only seek to be healed, we risk missing the wild beauty of the ache, the fertile depth of the breaking, and the electric magic of creation.

The Becoming is an offering to anyone learning how to remake themselves – again and again – one sacred fragment at a time.