For the woman, Nigredo emerges through rupture in intimacy, trust, or belonging. Her shadow calls when what once offered safety fractures, when betrayal, loss, or abandonment strips her of the illusions of union. She is led not into the fall of power but into the abyss of vulnerability, where the masks of dependency dissolve. Her initiation is the undoing of the false bride: the surrender of illusion so the true vessel of love may awaken from within.