Abraxas

Artemis
Aug 21, 2025
2 min read

A name murmured through the ages, from ancient Alexandria to the visions of mystics and dreamers. Neither god nor demon, but something stranger — Abraxas is the shifting world-spirit, the living paradox where light and shadow meet. To speak his name is to touch what defies language: a force that contains both truth and lies, good and evil, in equal measure. Esteemed depth psychologist Carl Jung described him as a being who draws from both God and the Devil, embodying the blinding splendor of light and the deepest darkness of night. The mind resists him, for Abraxas lives beyond human duality. He unravels comfort, demands wholeness, and reveals the terrible beauty of a world forever in motion.

Oracle Message

Abraxas is the unseen engine of life–death–rebirth. When he appears, it is not to offer comfort, but truth. He is the force behind entropy and eruption, behind beauty that devours, behind creation that demands sacrifice.

Pulling this card is a call to shed outdated illusions, to release the binaries that bind you: good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, self vs. other. To embrace Abraxas is to let the ego die a little — and in that death, birth something real. This is the archetype of integration, not balance. The fire and the ash. The divine and the profane — braided into one pulse.