We are living through a polycrisis — a time when multiple global and psychological crises interact and amplify one another. The old world is dissolving. Yet historically, such breakdowns often precede rebirths — just as the European Renaissance emerged from the ashes of the medieval world.

A polycrisis is a state wherein multiple crises — ecological, economic, political, technological, psychological — become interconnected and mutually reinforcing, creating conditions no single system can solve.

Tonight, we will explore the polycrisis as both collective and psychological initiation – a contemporary nigredo, or darkening of the world soul, that precedes re-patterning and renewal. Through a Jungian lens, incorporating alchemy, astrology, and Renaissance humanism, we trace how crisis becomes a vessel for transformation; a chrysalis from which new symbolic imagination may emerge.