The value of a spiritual emblem

[Jon_88]

Hmm almost like alchemist associations with planets (wich is also assoiated with metals)

Saturn : Blocking ,protection,slowing down procesess(including life and mood processes, so despair and gloom is also saturnine qualitys).
Jupiter:Jovial ,lust ,practility.
Mars : Energy  ,strenght,masculinity.
Moon :Fantasy ,dream ,pureness(also mirroring the sun but moons pureness is  antiseptic rather than burning of sun ).
Mercury : Swift thinking ,spirit ,combining opposing elements togheater.
Venus : Beauty ,tranqulity ,feminity
Sun  : Abundance ,hearth , Pureness(by burning)

Seems prettymuch the same exept for Saturn and perhaps Mars . Saturn definitions are pretty much opposing.Wonder why this is so . Isnt Rosecrusian a offshot from alchemy?

[Mathias Jonsson]

Nice addition.
Yes, several of these planetary powers have similarities, such as Jupiter and Sol.
If the Rosicrucian tradition was an alchemical offshoot? Well, it's hard to know what was first the hen or the egg.
In my opinion magick and alchemy are both hermetic sciences/arts, they are two sides of the same coin.

And the use of alchemy in dealing with psychic problems have started to interest me more and more, as it seems more of a harmonising way.

The question is where negs fit in the alchemical scheme of phases, probably as part of nigredo, which corresponds to Saturn.
The blackening part of the Great Work.

The chymical marriage of the lower self with the higher self produces the newborn adept.

[Mathias Jonsson]

Something that I've found to be of value (in combatting negs, or strengthening oneself whatever you like, if you do not believe in negs) is the use of a spiritual emblem.

This should be a symbol that encompasses the spiritual ideal for the person in question and one uses it as a focal point in meditation as well as in other spirtual exercises.
It is very similar to the use of the Mandala in Tantric practices.

It is most effective if the symbol bears a meaning that is special for the person, such as an Ideal that is worth striving for.
It should a positive value, that is not have a negative outlook.
Also the symbol should be of an abstract design, not too complex.

For example for the Rosicrucian magician it is the Calvary Cross with the circle of seven roses in the center, signifying the seven planetary spheres.
When plagued under attack - of not too severe kind - the magician can visualize the Rosy Cross and transfer the negative inner qualities to the Cross.
Then he/she should imagine these to be alchemically cleansed or made golden/harmonized. Also he/she can imagine the seven roses to be seven planetary qualities that are filled with sublime spiritual qualities, for instance:

Saturn: Faith, Motherly love.
Jupiter: Fatherly love, Divine kingship, Generosity.
Mars: Courage, Protection.
Sol: Harmony, The Vision of the Higher Self.
Venus: The Beauty of Nature, Grace.
Mercury: Understanding, High Analysis.
Luna: Inner Strength, Healing.

Imagine then these luminousd qualities to rotate like a wheel and project over into your heart chakra and fill and encompass your whole inner being.
A Rosicrucian magician also told me that one can use a flower and use it's purity to heal in a similar way.

Personally, as I study the Ogdoadic tradition of Aurum Solis, I use the Tessera, two interlaced squares, that form an Ogdoad, signifying Regeneration and New Life.
I put this symbol over a neg I saw with my inner eye, and this disturbed it like a Hexagram would.

It is also helpful to contemplate  art that is spiritually inspiring.
Do not use Expressionist art, like Edvard Munch!
Italian Renaissance art is the best choice.
Remember that many of the Italian Renaisasance artists were influenced by Platonism/Neoplatonism and Esoteric beliefs, Michelangelo Bunarotti and Dante Alighieri for instance were members of the Occult group Fedeli d'Amore (an Italian offshoot of the Muslim Gnostic Ismaili Order of the Faithful Ones of Love).Another member was the great Platonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino.

I understand that some Sufi mystics used similar healing techniques, where the dark parts (metaphorically called The Devil) were confronted and cleansed in a series of inner visions.
I'm going to delve into Henry Corbin's books on the Sufis so I'll have to return to this angle of this subject later.