I would prefer to translate it 'The journey of the Cinnabar'. Remember Dante: "In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a forest dark".
That is not an autobiography, but refers to the development of the ideas rather than of the physical life. Think of the enigmatic title; what is CINNABAR? Cinnabar is sulphide of mercury. I assume we can see here the lunar-mercurial force and the solar-golden one of the sulphur, and not the salt of the physical body.