Daria Stan

  • Journaling: The Ultimate Tool for Inner Alchemy

    Journaling: The Ultimate Tool for Inner Alchemy

    In our fast-paced world, journaling often gets reduced to the simple act of recording daily thoughts or events, but what if I told you it could be much more? When used intentionally, journaling becomes a powerful tool for personal alchemy—a way to not only understand your inner world but to transform it. Journaling isn’t…

  • Beyond Strategy and Authority: Why the Mind Still Matters in Human Design

    Beyond Strategy and Authority: Why the Mind Still Matters in Human Design

    uman Design has a powerful message: follow your Strategy and Authority. This simple instruction can lead to greater alignment and more ease in decision-making. The system gives immense importance to the body, urging us to let our Design, the unconscious aspect, guide us through life, instead of letting the mind take control. But while…

  • The Balance We’ve Forgotten: How Shadow Work Can Heal the World

    The Balance We’ve Forgotten: How Shadow Work Can Heal the World

    The world we live in is a place of immense beauty, mystery, and potential, yet it’s also undeniably a world dominated by control—control that has gradually shifted us further from our true nature. While this isn’t a conspiracy but a simple observation of how human history has unfolded, it’s critical to understand how this…

  • The Dualistic Nature of the World and the Power of Integration

    The Dualistic Nature of the World and the Power of Integration

    The concept of balancing forces is at the heart of many spiritual systems, and it is essential in understanding the duality that governs our lives. Duality shows up everywhere: light and dark, hot and cold, feminine and masculine, conscious and unconscious. In the Hermetic principles, it is represented through the Principle of Polarity, which…

  • The Creative Power of Conscious Intention and Unconscious Potential

    The Creative Power of Conscious Intention and Unconscious Potential

    Creation is not about constantly fixing or healing yourself; it’s about aligning your conscious intentions with the power of the unconscious. When we talk about manifestation, it’s often misunderstood as simply “thinking positive” or focusing hard enough to make something happen. But real creation, true manifestation, works much deeper than that. The unconscious mind…

  • How I Lost Myself in the Haze

    How I Lost Myself in the Haze

    For as long as I can remember, my childhood memories have been vivid, almost photographic. I was diagnosed with hypermnesia, meaning I could recall events from as early as two or three years old with striking clarity. Yet, in stark contrast, my life between 18 and 31 feels like a blur. It’s a strange…

  • Midnight Adoration: Where Ritual Became Connection

    Midnight Adoration: Where Ritual Became Connection

    By the time I reached the monastery at age 13, I was already a spiritual explorer. My early experiences with seeing beyond the material world at ages 5 and 7 had left me with a deep, unshakable curiosity about the hidden world that exists within. What was once a personal journey—finding meaning in dreams,…

  • My Early Years – Curiosity, Questions, and a Path Less Traveled

    My Early Years – Curiosity, Questions, and a Path Less Traveled

    Even as a child, I was always curious, always questioning, always searching for something beyond the surface. I suppose that was just part of who I was. One of my earliest memories of this was when I was about five years old, gathering the kids from the neighborhood together. We were out in the…

  • My Spiritual Lack of Awakening

    My Spiritual Lack of Awakening

    I’ve never really understood the concept of a “spiritual awakening.” You know, that moment when someone wakes up to a deeper truth or suddenly sees the world in a new light. It’s not that I’m against the idea—it’s just that I never experienced anything like that. For me, there was no grand revelation or…