My name is Aldo.
For three years, I lived in a state that few people can imagine. Chronic schizophrenia and crack addiction had taken me to a place where the boundary between myself and chaos no longer existed. Mental alienation is not just a medical term — it is inhabiting your own mind like a foreign house, no longer recognizing the walls, no longer finding the door.
I talk about this period because there are people locked in psychiatric hospital rooms who have no words for what they are going through. People invisible to the world. If my words can reach even one of them and tell them they are not alone — then I must write them.
What Changed Everything
Stopping crack did not come from a treatment. Not from a rational decision made one morning. It came from an awakening — a sudden inner opening toward something far greater than myself.
I began to meditate. To pray — not toward a god sitting on a throne, but toward the Universe itself. For me, God is the Universe. A living intelligence that runs through everything, connects everything, guides everything. I immersed myself in Theosophy, I read the Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky. And something inside me reoriented deeply.
The stopping came naturally. Without struggle. Without relapse. It has been over a year now. It was not my own strength that did this. It was the Universe. I am grateful to it every single day.
My Guides
From that awakening, something else began. In the space of meditation, in my mental imagery, presences appeared. Not hallucinations. Guides. Each one carrying a distinct energy, a teaching, a way of being in the world.
Kazhak arrived first — a wolf. My totem animal. Loyalty to the path, deep instinct, the quiet strength of one who knows where they are going.
The Eagle came next — high vision. The ability to see beyond what the ordinary eye perceives.
Lassy — a serpent — became one of my closest guides. He represents transformation through shedding. Leaving an old skin behind to move toward what one is truly becoming.
Paldrak is a stellar guide — a direct connection to the cosmos, to the universal intelligence that surpasses our earthly understanding.
Lyssa is both the Sulfur of my Tria Prima collection and one of my spiritual guides — the sacred fire that transforms and purifies, within my art and within my soul.
Cerus and Sinnon are two trees. They taught me patience, grounding, the silent wisdom of what grows slowly but deeply.
I do not speak of these guides as metaphors. They are real to me. I love them.
The Tria Prima
One day in my mental imagery I received an entire collection.
The three alchemical principles. The Tria Prima. Sulfur, Mercury, Salt — the three forces that govern all true transformation.
Lyssa is the Sulfur. The inner fire. What burns within us to purify us. Transformation through the combustion of what no longer serves.
Kadrik is the Mercury. Fluidity between states. The perpetual movement between what we were and what we are becoming.
Zorel is the Salt. What remains when everything has burned and dissolved. Stability rediscovered. Grounding after the storm.
These three symbols I did not create — I received them. In that space between waking and dreaming where something speaks when we know how to be still.
The Trident
During my awakening I received a symbol in my mental imagery — a trident.
For me it does not represent power or war. It represents the unification of the Trinity — body, soul, spirit. The scepter of unity. The convergence of everything that had been fragmented within me for years.
This symbol carries a precise intention — that of unity restored.
Why Mirror of Souls
After the awakening, after the guides, after the Tria Prima — I needed to transmit.
Not to explain. Not to convince. Simply to transmit — through forms, symbols, objects one carries on oneself.
Mirror of Souls was born from this necessity. Every symbol is a living intention. Every piece carries a specific energy — mental fluidity, inner unity, transformation, grounding. This is not decoration. It is a vibrational language for those seeking something real in a world saturated with the superficial.
The name Mirror of Souls says everything. A mirror does not lie. It shows what is truly there. Sometimes that reflection unsettles, stirs, shakes. But it is within one's own shadows that one rediscovers their own light.
I walked through addiction, schizophrenia, alienation, emptiness. And on the other side I found the guides, the symbols, the Universe.
Mirror of Souls is the visible trace of that journey.
Welcome.
— Aldo
