yeah that's interesting! I think personally, I have a low interest in cryptidish things - which is no judgement on people who do. Symbolic of an alchemical process?

(I'm also not super into dragons, say - I do like dragons, but I'm not in the 'Buying a Dragon Energy Oracle Deck' group or conceptualising the things I experience as the presences of dragons, either imagining them literally as worms and beasts or spiritually in the way one might use angels as higher energy consciousnesses. Or even like, whatever term we use for animal spirits nowadays - it's just not how things seem to manifest for me)

I suppose the Phoenix has Lightbringer stuff going on - there's a sort of holy-light-destruction-and-renewal-purge to the image - which is a poor fit for the typically earthy and murky mood I try and cultivate.