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By now, we know that I am an enthusiast of triadic harmonics; if you have read my other work, you will see that I see them as oscillating and tesseracting harmonics (folding into one, touching the beginning and the end in the same moment) of completion. Seeing the patterns and alchemical principles in a similar way that the mother of alchemy, Mary the Jewess, expresses them in her own philosophy, as the axiom of Maria, before I even knew it through her lens:

"One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth."

By viewing the triadic harmonics of unity, polarities are not a field of two poles in opposition but are triadic vectors of a relational field (sometimes tension or separation), magnitude, and direction. Think about a dipole moment created by two equal but opposing charges: the field of their separation and the relation between the two create a relational field that symbolically allows for a dipole moment, a measure of potential interaction.

These personal philosophies are foundational to understanding this alchemical framework, outlined more academically here and more personally below.

I had way more fun putting this piece together than I did writing the academic framework to more academic standards. I hope you enjoy it and find it illuminating.

This framework, in my intuitive knowing, completes a soul harmonic that was previously left unsaid and unseen. It also restores a harmonic of the divine body and the feminine matrix to alchemical understanding. I can’t say it's a scientific understanding or chemical because it's not; it’s unified and whole, and emergent. Symbolic, philosophical, and relational.

This share is still long, with some jokes along the way. You can scan and take what you need. I don’t mind.

The Backdrop

I would say that my work with completing the triadic harmonic of the Tetramorphic Brain and the Zodiac, my understanding of unifying the field of sidereal and tropical astrology, as well as just my own purpose of restoring triadic order as key foundational pieces that allowed me to know that placing the natural periodic elements (1-94) into triads should, at some point, be done.

While I was working on the Tetramorphic Brain article on Substack, I already knew the foundations of the elemental path of the Sistra, and I already had a personal intuitive insight into Matias De Stefano’s Alkhemia path.

When I was putting the brain and the Zodiac signs into their triads, of mind, heart, womb, cardinal, fixed, mutable — I had a thought that just won’t quit. “This can be done with the periodic elements.” “Someone should really do this.”

And then me, because I always assume everything is going to take longer than it actually does, and there are 94 naturally occurring elements, I thought someone else would do that, or maybe later.

Looks like someone else was me all along, and the later is right now. (although I probably could have started it a bit earlier)

A similar occurrence happened with an intuitive feeling strongly directed toward correspondences. I thought I needed to buy a tome of known correspondences through folk magic, alchemy, and witchcraft. FYI: the witches know best.

It took a few weeks to realize, oh, right, I was feeling the need to make my own.

So here it is, an oscillating triadic matrix of correspondences of the natural elements, the tria prima, the four universal elements, and the 12 constellations of the Zodiac.

A Little Background

Before we go further, a few threads sit underneath this work.

Walter Russell, in partnership with Lao Russell, proposed that matter behaves like a wave system rather than a collection of static objects. In his view, elements appear as positions along repeating harmonic octaves of motion, not isolated units. His model also explores the gendered dances of the elements and their rhythm. He leaves space for unidentified elements and acknowledges the generative creative fields in continuous exchange and relation, the above or alpha, and the below or omega. The core idea that matters organizes in rhythmic, recurring patterns is the important part here.

Alchemy, much older, says something similar but in a different language. Instead of talking about atoms, it speaks of process. The tria prima — Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt — are archetypes of matter, emergence, and alchemical processes. They are not the base materials like table salt, but universal principles that contain the essence of each; all things contain the essence of the three.

Through my own cosmology and work in alchemy and triadic harmonics, I noticed a pattern of confusion between Mercury & Salt predominantly, but sometimes other threads get crossed. It is the same confusion that I see with the energetics of the heart and divine body, as principles of triadic unity of mind, heart, and body, and the same that I see with the divine feminine and the heart.

While masculine and feminine both hold the axis of the heart, the divine feminine, the divine mother is the body, not the heart. And while mercury is receptive, it is not the feminine principle in dominance but the unifying relation that always precedes transmigration.

Here is my personal perspective of the Tria Prima that may help with your own resonance:

• Sulphur | Gold | Sun | Mind | Logos | Transmutation: Ignition, direction, fire, light, the spark of initiation
• Mercury | Quicksilver | Heart | Chronos | Transmigration: The mediator, the mover between worlds, translation, the unifying principles, the pulse, the rhythm
  • Here heart is not emotion, but the universal field of rhythm that creates and unifies, and mediates dimensional awareness with physical form
• Salt | Silver | Moon | Body | Sophia | Transduction: The crystallization into matter, the receiver & holding of light, memory, and stored information, that which unifies into being to expression.
  • This is the body, the cistern of water and salt, the mother that provides the matrix and holds the experience in continuity.

Through this framework of elements, this is expressed simply as -

• Sulphur -Drive, heat, ignition, transformation
• Mercury - Exchange, mediation, circulation, incarnation
• Salt - Form, memory, expression, or dissolution

Then there are the four universal elements — Fire, Air, Earth, Water — which, again, are not literal elements of a candle flame or water in a bowl, but universal principles in which all things contain the four. Through this system, they represent elemental behaviors

• Fire - Transmission, gradients, excitation
• Air - Reorganization, signaling, exchange
• Earth - Stabilization, structure, crystallization
• Water - Incorporation or dissolution, embodiment, living systems

Now here’s where the number 108 enters.

Honestly, when I was arriving at the Sistra path and knew there would be 10 journeys and that we would also work with unknown elemental agents. I asked myself, well, how many natural elements are there, and my soul said 108.

Now, I am not claiming there are 108 elements that can fit cleanly into the periodic table, or 14 unknown atomic elements, but maybe there are 14 elemental bridge agents, or “ghosts” that precede atomic structure and dissolve with it into the substrates below?

Just because we haven’t discovered them, just because they are unseen, does not mean they are not there.

Plainly, 108 shows up in astronomy, sacred architecture, harmonic systems, and cyclic counting traditions.

Twelve sectors of time multiplied by nine phases gives 108.

If each zodiac sector carries nine positions, a full spiral of process can be mapped. Our known 94 elements fill most of this pattern, and the remaining 14 act like boundary or transition positions in the architecture.

What I Actually Did

Instead of rearranging the periodic table randomly, which I might have tried to do initially, even though my soul already told me I wasn’t recreating the wheel, I kept atomic order intact and did three things:

1. Placed the 94 natural elements into 12 zodiac sectors, 9 per sign, following their original atomic numbers beginning with Aries and ending with Pisces.
   1. Placing the ghost elements at the beginning and the end for a 7 above, 7 below bridge dynamic, and for coherent grouping of 3-6-9 resonance.
2. Assigned each group of nine into their natural internal triads, creating 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 positions.
3. Mapped those triads through three overlapping systems:
   • Tria Prima (Sulphur, Mercury, Salt)
   • Four Elements based on the Zodiac Traits (Fire, Air, Earth, Water)
   • Modal phases (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable)

This results in a relational geometry structure of how different behaviors cluster and self-organize into a spiral substrate.

There are more triads within this, but let’s keep going.

What Started Showing Up

Once the structure was in place, patterns began to appear almost too naturally, aligning with alchemical and cosmic principles.

The Triadic Beat

Inside every sign, the elements move through a three-step cycle:

Sulphur → Mercury → Salt
or
Drive → Mediation → Form

You can see this as: ignition → exchange → stabilization
spark → pulse → body
light → rhythm → memory
initiation → incarnation → coherent expression

This pattern appears repeatedly as the elements progress, like a heartbeat within the table.

The Four Pillars of Expression

The triads keep emerging the further you look.

When we look through the four elemental lenses, the Zodiac signs are then grouped into larger triads, not of 3 elements but 9. The triads fall into cardinal, fixed, and mutable expression In the previous share on the Tetramorphic brain, I related the symbols of cardinal to Alpha, fixed to Theta, and mutable to Omega. Similar principles to Sulphur, Mercury and Salt that act differently depending on the pillar:

• Fire -Ignition → transmission → sustained radiance
• Earth- Formation → stabilization → structural continuity
• Air- Signaling → mediation → system reorganization
• Water-Potential field → concentration → embodiment

Fire moves. Earth holds. Air connects. Water becomes.

The Substrate Spiral

So, I knew I needed to put this into the Zodiac wheel, to unify the wheel and the feminine spiral, but I couldn't figure out elementally why. When I was reflecting on this, trying to test it and figure it out, my higher self yelled the word “substrate,” which led to the right investigational lens.

Through the spiral, there is a material progression:

→ field-dominant and nuclear states
→ structural endurance
→ magnetic and electronic interaction
→ catalytic and bonding capacity
→ light-element chemistry compatible with life

This mirrors how matter evolves in the cosmos, materially, while also corresponding to the Zodiac elliptic. From stellar nucleosynthesis to transition metals to biochemistry.

• Inner spiral → Below (Water–Salt) → generative material substrate
• Middle spiral → Heart (Mercury) → mediation, exchange, coherence
• Outer spiral → Above (Fire–Sulphur) → directional ignition, ordering light

A Few Examples

Just to make this less abstract, here are some samples from the different triad types, but I can’t list them all!

Triad within the Fire Pillar through fixed Leo

• Zinc (30) → Sulphur → Protective ignition, energetic interface, activating gradients
• Gallium (31) → Mercury →Phase mediation, fluidity between states, conductive transition
• Germanium (32) → Salt → Semiconductor structure, crystallized intelligence, patterned form

Fire expresses as activation → mediation → structured radiance.

Triad within the Earth Pillar through cardinal Capricorn

• Rhenium (75) → Sulphur → Extreme heat endurance, directional structural force
• Osmium (76) → Mercury → Dense mediation, internal structural cohesion
• Iridium (77) → Salt→ Stability, resistance, continuous crystallized form

Earth expresses as formation → internal coherence → enduring structure.

Triad within the Air Pillar through Gemini

• Magnesium (12) → Sulphur → Light reactive ignition, signaling through combustion
• Aluminum (13) → Mercury → Structural mediation, conductivity, light exchange
• Silicon (14) → Salt →Crystal lattices, information structure, electronic embodiment

Air expresses as signal → mediation → information structure.

Triad within the Water Pillar through Scorpio

• Lanthanum (57) → Sulphur → Catalytic initiation within complex systems
• Cerium (58) → Mercury → Oxidation mediation, transition between states
• Praseodymium (59) → Salt → Magnetic memory, stable integration into alloys

Water expresses as potential activation → transformative mediation → embodied integration.

This shows a pattern where the elements correspond to the tria prima principles.

Sulphur always initiates
Mercury always mediates
Salt always stabilizes

But the motion environment changes how that role looks in matter.

The Modal Layer Inside a Pillar (Water Example)

Inside each elemental pillar, the triads move through another rhythm: Cardinal → Fixed → Mutable.

These positions describe how embodiment unfolds.

And in this framework:

Water is the generative field below the womb of matter, where form condenses and returns. Or in the realm of the Return of the Sistra, the below is the Cistern of memory and time waiting in stillness to awaken into becoming.

Fire is the generative field above the initiating light-field that sparks motion and direction. The field above is the Style of the solar fire.

So, water shows us how matter comes into being from below, the Cistern.

Let’s look at the Zodiac signs within water.

Cardinal Water — Emergence of Embodiment (Cancer)

This phase builds the structural foundation of lived matter.

Sulphur role elements → Scandium, Chromium, Cobalt
Mercury role elements → Titanium, Manganese, Nickel
Salt role elements → Vanadium, Iron, Copper

The system is laying down structural metals, catalytic capacity, and magnetic foundations for water to take form.

Fixed Water — Circulation and Deep Identity (Scorpio)

Now embodiment stabilizes and circulates internally.

Sulphur → Lanthanum, Neodymium, Europium
Mercury → Cerium, Promethium, Gadolinium
Salt → Praseodymium, Samarium, Terbium

These elements support magnetism, catalytic transformation, and energetic coherence inside matter, so water can hold depth and memory.

Mutable Water — Dissolution and Transition (Pisces)

Now the system refines and prepares to cross a boundary.

Sulphur → Neptunium, Ghost 9, Ghost 12
Mercury → Plutonium, Ghost 10, Ghost 13
Salt → Ghost 8, Ghost 11, Ghost 14

Here we enter radioactive transformation and threshold states, so water can dissolve back toward the field or move back toward emergence.

What this shows

Each element carries two rhythms at once:

• a functional role (Sulphur, Mercury, Salt)
• a phase behavior (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable)

The Mythic Journey of the Substrate Spiral

The spiral reveals two generative poles.

The innermost region carries the quality of the below, the dense, unstable, raw substrate, the womb of material potential. The chaotic void of becoming that holds light, birth, and emergence. Below, deep in the cistern, matter exists close to its nuclear roots, before refinement into stable relational systems.

The outer boundary carries the qualities of the above: light, mobile, and capable of rapid exchange. Here, matter behaves more like a field, enabling chemistry, interaction, and life.

Between them lies the heart, the mediating field where structure, exchange, and coherence emerge.

This spiral is a loop of emergence with a story. It is a breathing field between the womb and the spark.

If this spiral were one being, it would be the story of a soul learning how to be matter.

The Hero’s Journey of the Substrate

It begins in the deep, dense interior of pressure, in the deep salty cistern of Earth, where the unknown circulates and stirs below. In the inner rings, the being exists as raw potential, unstable, powerful, unshaped. This is the dark womb, the place before form, where identity has not yet crystallized. It is heavy with possibility but cannot yet relate. This is the stage of pure substance without story.

As it moves outward, the being begins to take structure. Bones form. Framework appears. It discovers endurance, boundaries, and the ability to hold itself together. Then something new happens, it begins to interact. It discovers its magnetism, how to exchange, how to signal, and the first awareness of “other.” It is no longer just mass; it is a relationship. Catalysts awaken, pathways open. The being is learning circulation, learning to mediate, learning to feel its own coherence.

Further still, it becomes light enough to move, to combine, to breathe. Bonds form easily. Patterns repeat. Complexity becomes possible. This is where chemistry blossoms, where life can arise. The being now carries memory, responsiveness, and the capacity to participate in larger systems. It has become a living field.

And at the outer boundary, where the spiral opens again, the being becomes almost light itself — simple, mobile, ready to dissolve back into the greater field that first called it forward. It does not end. It returns. The hero’s journey was not to escape matter, but to become capable of relation, and then to re-enter the field with the wisdom of form.

The spiral is not a climb upward. It is a becoming, a learning to hold, to relate, and to return.

The Elemental Correspondence with the Zodiac

Okay, dear readers, I hope you are in this for the long haul, because now we are breaking down the 12 Zodiac archetypes and their 27 elements within.

Through mapping the periodic elements through the constellations of the Zodiac, it was clear that their traits correspond and give us a shared understanding of the unified harmonics of creations, the archetypes and the elements, and how they intuitively communicate and share the field in relation.

The Fire Signs — The Above, the Spark, the Direction of Becoming

Fire signs in this system express initiation, radiance, and directional force.
They are less about holding form and more about setting motion into being.

Aries — Primordial Ignition

Mythic tone: The first spark, the impulse before form, the breath before the body.

The elements here sit at the threshold between field and matter. They are light, foundational, or not yet crystallized into a stable structure.

• Ghost positions — boundary states before atomic form
• Hydrogen — the first stable atom, ignition potential
• Helium — radiance, stellar birth, pure excitation

Aries holds the beginning of differentiation, where direction exists before complexity.

Leo — Radiant Identity

Mythic tone: The Sun at noon, presence, coherent expression, selfhood.

Fire becomes stable radiance and organized expression.

• Zinc — protective interface, energetic boundary
• Gallium — phase-shifting mediation
• Germanium — structured intelligence (semiconductor)
• Arsenic, Selenium — transformative chemistry
• Bromine — volatile interaction
• Krypton — luminous inertness
• Rubidium, Strontium — reactive energy carriers

Leo Fire says: “I am here, I shine, I hold identity.”

Sagittarius — Directed Force and Reach

Mythic tone: The arrow in flight, expansion of purpose, the will that travels.

These are dense, high-performance elements — Fire as focused endurance and trajectory.

• Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium — magnetic strength and precision
• Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium — rare earth refinement
• Hafnium — neutron absorption, threshold control
• Tantalum — corrosion resistance, resilience
• Tungsten — extreme heat endurance

Sagittarius fire is the sustained journey of will.

Even elementally, Aries is the ignition, Leo is the radiance, Sagittarius is directed endurance

Spark → Sun → Arrow.

The Earth Signs — Structure, Holding, and Material Coherence

Earth signs express stability, containment, and the architecture of existence.

Capricorn — Structural Authority

Mythic tone: The mountain, the crown of matter, endurance under pressure.

Here we meet some of the densest and most resilient elements. Earth has foundational strength and long-term coherence.

• Rhenium — extreme heat endurance
• Osmium — densest naturally occurring element
• Iridium — corrosion resistance, cosmic resilience
• Platinum — noble catalytic stability
• Gold — coherent conductivity and persistence
• Mercury — fluid mediation within density
• Thallium, Lead, Bismuth — heavy structural anchors

Capricorn Earth says: “I endure.”

Taurus — Inhabiting Nature

Mythic tone: The field, the soil, the breath of life in form.

These are foundational elements for chemistry and biology. Earth here becomes a living structure.

• Lithium — reactive foundation
• Beryllium — lattice hardness
• Boron — structural intermediary
• Carbon — backbone of organic life
• Nitrogen — atmospheric cycling
• Oxygen — combustion and respiration
• Fluorine — bonding precision
• Neon — stable presence
• Sodium — life chemistry mediator

Taurus Earth says: “I am the body inhabited.”

Virgo — Refinement and Functional Order

Mythic tone: The artisan, the weaver, the one who perfects.

Here Earth becomes precision, catalytic refinement, and technical coherence.

• Yttrium — rare earth structural support
• Zirconium — corrosion-resistant stability
• Niobium — superconductive alloying
• Molybdenum — high-temperature strength
• Technetium — unstable transitional chemistry
• Ruthenium — catalytic efficiency
• Rhodium — reflective, catalytic precision
• Palladium — hydrogen absorption, mediation
• Silver — conductive purity

Virgo Earth says: “I refine and align embodiment.”

Together, the Earth signs show us that the elements of Capricorn endure, Taurus embodies, and Virgo refines.

The Air Signs — The Oscillating Field of Mind

Air is the pillar of exchange, signaling, and reorganization, but unlike the other elements, Air behaves like a current. It moves back and forth. It doesn’t just rise like Fire or settle like Earth. It pulses. It’s kind of the mercurial asshole that can transform everything when you don’t want to or rebalance it like magic.

Air mirrors Fire in directionality, but it oscillates in flow.

Libra — The Air Mind (Balanced Exchange)

Mythic tone: The scales, relational intelligence, conscious balance.

Here Air becomes coordination and equilibrium between states.

• Cadmium — interface mediation
• Indium — fusible relational metal
• Tin — stabilizing mediator
• Antimony, Tellurium — bridging categories
• Iodine — volatile signaling
• Xenon — luminous inertness
• Cesium, Barium — high-reactivity carriers

Libra Air says: “I harmonize systems.”

Aquarius — The Air Heart

Mythic tone: The sky-bearer, the electric field, the systemic rewrite.

These elements live at thresholds of stability — Air acting at the scale of fields.

• Polonium, Astatine — unstable boundary states
• Radon — radioactive noble gas
• Francium, Radium — extreme reactivity
• Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium, Uranium — nuclear-scale transformation

Aquarius Air says: “I change the whole pattern.”

Gemini — The Air Womb (Foundational Signaling)

Mythic tone: The twins, the first language forming inside the field.

These are light, reactive, communicative elements — Air learning to take form as a signal.

• Magnesium — energetic ignition through reaction
• Aluminum — lightweight structural mediation
• Silicon — crystal intelligence, semiconductor structure
• Phosphorus — luminous, metabolic signaling
• Sulfur — bonding versatility
• Chlorine — reactive exchange
• Argon — atmospheric presence
• Potassium — cellular communication
• Calcium — bridge between structure and signal

Gemini Air says: “I generate connection and express.”

The Water Signs — The Generative Field Below

Water in this system is not passive. It is the womb-field of embodiment, the matrix that receives, concentrates, and returns. It is where structure becomes lived experience and where form dissolves back into potential.

If Fire is the Style above, Water is the Cistern below.

Cancer — The Formation of Embodied Structure

Mythic tone: The mother, the vessel, the first holding of form.

Here Water is laying the framework for stable, relational matter. These are transition and structural metals — the bones of embodiment.

• Scandium — foundational transition support
• Titanium — strong, corrosion-resistant backbone
• Vanadium — catalytic oxidation bridge
• Chromium — hardening, protective surface
• Manganese — alloy mediator
• Iron — structural and magnetic core
• Cobalt — magnetic and pigment identity
• Nickel — corrosion-resistant mediator
• Copper — conductive lifeline

Cancer Water says: “I hold the body.”

Scorpio — Deep Circulation and Memory

Mythic tone: The underworld, depth, the keeper of hidden coherence.

These rare earths carry magnetic, catalytic, and luminous properties. Water here becomes internal circulation and memory.

• Lanthanum — catalytic initiation in complex systems
• Cerium — oxidation mediator
• Praseodymium — magnetic alloy behavior
• Neodymium — strong magnetism
• Promethium — radioactive transformation
• Samarium — control and magnetism
• Europium — phosphorescent light memory
• How— magnetic resonance
• Terbium — luminous phosphors

Scorpio Water says: “I remember and transform.”

Pisces — Dissolution and Return to Potential

Mythic tone: The ocean, the boundary between worlds, the place where form unravels.

These elements sit at thresholds — radioactive, unstable, or boundary states.

• Neptunium — transuranic transition
• Plutonium — a transformative fissionable state
• Ghost positions — symbolic boundary thresholds

Pisces Water says: “I dissolve back into the field.”

And it’s just too perfect that Plutonium and Neptunium end up in water, and Pisces.

This is Water returning form to the generative matrix. The water elements are the cosmic oceans, the vessel, and the memory. I love the below.

Through the academic framework, you can test and explore more elemental triads and spirals.

How This Moves With The Sistra

While those who align with the Return of the Sistra do not need to know the full details of this framework. The triad, the Zodiac sectors, and the spiral inform how we move with the elements and embody them over the elemental journeys through the planetary grid.

It provides a container of correspondence to the grid of the Earth, to the stars, and to the elements, known and unknown. It orders them based on relation, structure, and harmonic compatibility, allowing us to mediate the field, feel the vibration, and access their archetype, conscious and unconscious, to awaken the field of becoming in our bodies, being, the Style above, and the Cistern below.

Returning the Mother, Divine Body, Back to Alchemy

At its roots, alchemy was a system of cosmic and elemental correspondence, a way of understanding the universe as a whole, but recently it wasn’t allowed to become a spiral emergence and form. It wasn’t moving and dancing as one.

And along the way, it fractured as things grew larger and evolved, leaving it to be put back together when the time came.

The body, nor the mind, nor the heart in truth, does not want to be back together without understanding the substrate of emergence, from what is birthed from the Cisterns of becoming. The mother wants to dance, or oscillate with others, as she spirals during gestation and becoming, and to feel the vibration of relational harmony.

While others have shown us that harmonic waves — the mind and the heart — move together, the body was left to return.

It is not just to unify the field. It is return to reveal the hidden order, to remember that all emergence begins not just from force or fire, but from holding, gestating, ripening in the unseen, from rising from the depths and the dark, in between silt and the stone.

Alchemy, for all its brilliance, often moved in straight lines and vertical ladders, spirit ascending, matter transmuting — yet the spiral, the womb, the rhythm of oscillation between poles was often forgotten, the methods of transduction that allow your inhabited form to express creation.

The spiral of the substrate reveals that emergence is not linear. It is not merely from base to noble, from lead to gold. It is born in the in-between, the space where tension is bridged in harmonious relationships, where polarity becomes a pulse that sustains.

This is where the Mother lives.

Not only the heart, although she meets you there, but the substrate itself — the field of form, the resonance beneath matter, the intelligence of gestation.

The substrate spiral emerges from the field, cultivating a readiness for birth, spins and weaves the field back to wholeness, and relational coherence.

This is the mother, the matrix, and the body of alchemy, of transformation.