Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist and astrologer. She is the author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, and various book chapters, articles and poems. A graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center with cancer patients, investigating dreams of the dying. She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.org, The Center for Alchemical Studies. Monica lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico.