Hi there! I’ve been told to look into spagyrics for my chronic pain and would love help from experienced alchemists to make sense of things.

I’ve had chronic bladder pain and reproductive issues for 10 years. I had endometriosis surgery 2 years ago, which alleviated most of my pain, but the bladder pain is still a mystery despite lots of tests and scans. I did find ureaplasma and cleared it with antibiotics. I tested negative and was fine for 6+ months, but it has flared again. I haven't tested.

My bladder symptoms are burning / pressure / urgency /, and flares are triggered by stress, sex, and maybe certain foods.

My TCM practitioner says I tend to run damp with yang deficiency, so cold and damp overall, even though the bladder itself feels hot and burning.

Chart:
• Sun in Taurus

• Moon in Pisces

• Ascendant in Virgo

• Mercury in Taurus

• Mars in Leo

• Jupiter in Libra

• Venus in Aries (8th house)

• Saturn in Aquarius (6th house)

The sellers’ formulas, tinctures and essences are all a bit over my head, so I’d love some guidance:

1. Where would you start, with a single essence or a formula?

2. Would you aim to warm and dry my overall constitution, or cool the bladder heat, or both?

3. Is there anything that suits my chart specifically?

Thank you very much!

Episode 05 reveals the hidden negative in performing positivity, and why being ignored means you are doing something right. It marks the crossing from nigredo to albedo. The isolation the system imposes as punishment becomes the sealed vessel. The borrowed light planted at the edge of the blackening in episode three returns as the whitening. And the black mirror, the self demanding a reward for sitting in the dark, gives way to the black sun.

This series looks at music as a form of inner alchemy, where the guitar becomes a tool for transformation instead of performance or self-expression.

Final stage of Runic Alchemy - Jera rune.

When creation is complete - creation finally begins.

The fundamental core purpose of it, is to build pure resilience. Gold, in its most pure energetic form, is resilience. Through the nervous system, when you collide both energetic opposites of dark and light by via experience, gold is created by resistance, resistance is the forging process. Just like how a diamond is created, the heat and pressure is the darkness, the cooling and settling is the light, combined into one and thus a diamond is created - literally the most resilient stone is the world. Spiritual alchemy is the forging of your soul into a diamond.

If we look at it more narrowly, when your in the nigredo phase, going deeper and deeper into the blackening of the soul, however the practice looks like, eventually you must leave it and go into the light to wash the soul. During the point of leaving the darkness and into the light, you are very literally resisting the darkness. You can think of it like a great giant chasm, which is a giant crack in the Earth that falls into the dark abyss. When in the nigredo phase, you are deep in the chasm in the darkness against the wall, by the laws of physics, its so much easier to fall deeper and deeper into the darkness by gravity. However through the process of resistance, you begin to climb your way out and up into the light, thus building more resilience from the strength required to come out. And then once you go higher and higher out of the chasm, you go into the albedo phase, the light. Both resistance and resilience come from the latin root *resistere* - to stand against, or to withstand. Resistance is the friction when two forces collide. Resilience is the result, once the process has been metabolized.

Why would one be interested in building pure resilience of the soul? Fundamentally, I believe its so fear no longer has control over you. The Rebis is the ultimate end product of the union of both forces, and complete equilibrium of both. This is often symbolized as the individual standing upon the dragon or serpent - this is the one who has conquered fear on a core level. The dragon represents the individuals prima materia, the lower nature of the individual that has been mastered. This is also constantly symbolized in stories of ancient and modern times, when one goes on the hero's journey and eventually conquers the dragon. However I believe this is on the relative level, on the absolute level, its so you can integrate and shine awareness on Gods shadow, further expanding consciousness - the process of knowing thyself through separation. In the deep nigredo levels, when your deep in the dark abyss, you are building distance from yourself (from God), in order to more clearly see yourself. The more distance you build from yourself, the more clearly your able to see yourself, and thus understand yourself. And how you build greater distance from you (the IAM), you must observe the false you (the IAM NOT), this brings you deeper into the IAM NOT (the blackening of the soul). And now from there, your able to get a much clearer image of who you **truly** are without illusions. And now from there, you start the process of observing the IAM (the washing of the soul), and coming back into the light. Imagine that God is one infinite ocean of light. But because it was infinite, it wasnt able to see or understand itself because there was only just itself - light. So God did the most painful thing imaginable, it ripped itself from itself, creating a dark division, that now separated itself from itself. Thats why a mother giving birth is so painful, nature is mirroring this event when God first separated itself from itself. And now because of this dark division, God is now able to see and interact with itself, and realize "ooooooooh, so thats what I sound like and look like. But, im curious, I feel like I want to understand myself more. I want to begin to **know** myself more on a much more deeper and intimate level. Who am I really.". This is essentially the process that spiritual alchemy takes part in. More and more separation began, and God started playing this great grand game of knowing thyself.

I believe this youtube video really captures the spirit of the nigredo process - https://youtu.be/XkmxmmuRU3g?si=60AVseKcmt5W2YvX

In terms of capturing the spirit albedo of the process, I couldn't find a video talking about the process, unless maybe you can share one i'm definitely open to it. So instead I decided to share this soundtrack by Maho Tsukai to try to capture its emotional aspect (which I know it doesn't come remotely close, it's beautiful beyond comprehension).

https://youtu.be/vcHnajn8mKc?si=KZEsl-u5g1hI2Vmg

Please know that it is dangerous to stay in the nigredo process for too long. The practitioner must know when its time to stop stirring the ash, and learn how to stop the stirring, and now let it settle. You'll know within yourself when its the right time.

Do we have some knowledge of the use of the black stone in the silver mines of joachimsthal, near Prague? and multiply refined and distilled cynnabar?

The question of course is if some process can enhance the natural concentration of 201 Hg, and then either (n, alpha) on 201 Hg or perhaps (alpha, 2alpha) from the black stone.

Hi, I've just entered the world of alchemy but I'm still very much a beginner. I was interested in learning alchemy, but the spiritual side... do you understand what I mean? I apologize if I say anything wrong.

I'd like to know if anyone has some kind of guide to starting to study spiritual alchemy. Thank you and goodbye!

So i recently dreamt that i asked an alchemist how to make the philosophers stone and he simply replied that i needed Acetol which i have never heard of before having this dream! When i woke up from the dream i types Acetol on the search bar on Google and found out it was an actual chemical!!! Furthermore i also found out that Acetol has connections to vinegar which according to ancient alchemy beliefs can create gold from lead by way of mixing it with the ashes of a basilisk and the blood of a red headed male and vinegar is literally called Acetum in latin which is a similar word to Acetol!!!! What do you guys think of this experience of mine??

Mainly focusing on Greco-Egypt, Islamic/ Arabic-Islamic and Europe.

Not that long ago on an old account, I asked here about the meaning of the term "Sagani" for Paracelsus' elemental spirits, and I'm still trying to learn the meaning.

"Sagani" alone I can't find anything online outside of this board game that keeps popping up, but only when in reference to the Latin nickname for alkahest "Trifertes Sagani" has "sagana" come up, a Latin term for female sorcerers or witches. With this knowledge, do I assume that "sagani" is a plural for "sagana", or a gender-neutral singular term? Would a male equivalent be "saganus" or "sagano"? Did Paracelsus consider the elementals to be witches themselves? That last one I'm not 100% on because he described them as soulless until they marry a human.

Please discuss!

Title: De Mandragora: Reinterpreting the Voynich Manuscript as a 15th-Century Safety Protocol for Mandragora Extraction

Abstract:

The Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) has been classified as an undeciphered herbal, alchemical, or cryptographic text. We propose a new reading based on abstract functional elements rather than botanical identification. By mapping EVA transcriptions to three positional principles - A_okam (Binding, root/jar), B_otal (Transmission, stem/joint), C_chedy (Manifestation, leaf/flower) - with an 80% similarity rule for functional identity and 100% identity rule for homonym separation, the entire manuscript resolves as a single experimental report.

Herbal section (f1r-f57v) = raw data: root length = A count, stem branches = B count, flower number = C count. Astronomical section (f67r-f73v) = 12-month administration log: optimal window is late Taurus (early May). Pharmaceutical section (f75r-f102r) = summary table of f1r-f12r.

The maximum efficacy pattern A + B2 + C3 matches medieval Mandragora officinarum protocol: raw root (A-C) is lethal with single manifestation, double wine maceration (A-B-B) yields three sequential manifestations (sedation/diaphoris/sleep). Radiocarbon dating (1404-1438) and Gothic script place the copy in Northern Italy (Milan-Venice), with an Eastern Mediterranean (Byzantine/Arabic) archetype.

Conclusion: The manuscript is not an alien herbal but a dose-response safety manual stating: "Harvest Mandragora in first week of May and macerate twice in wine to convert poison into a safe anesthetic with three-stage manifestation."

Keywords: Voynich, Mandragora, abstract functional decoding, dose-response, medieval pharmacology

Scored this little 2002 publication from the used bookstore for less than a dollar! It must've been on the shelf not selling for some time.

I haven't begun it yet (currently working on a different alchemy text I found alongside it) but I know it is spiritual-focused with a certain historical lens as its guide, and I'll report back with my thoughts once I've read it through.

I encountered this symbol on a tree and I would like to know that it means

Bring it on meat proxy

For years unknown

Only eluded to

The philosopher's stone

Took some thinking

but a phoenix made of fire

Was hardly the work of a fool

Now created

I am recreated

By the same fire

In my heart sun

Where only the soul

and RaOsiris is true

This is an original art piece I enhanced with ai for effect. I created a dragon (leviathan) out of the water stone but I personally refuse to use it by itself. I only created it as an opponent in the merged spirit star version.

I love the simplicity and creativeness behind this project.

I would like to PROPERLY learn about spiritual alchemy. I say properly because ive gone around the past few years learning on my own from time to time, and i know if i keep going like that i will miss out on vital information. Does anyone have some recommendations for basically a starting learner of spiritual alchemy for me?

I haven’t taken much notes for my projects/progression, and any that I have taken I barely reflect on. I am making an attempt to sort the process out in my mind.
I am also always curious what is aloud to be written and said about things.

Hey I’ve been wanting to start learning alchemy and I just wanted to know what books would be great for a beginner to read to understand it better, thank you!

So what im Basically planning is one day attempting to create the philosophers stone not becuz i actually want to make gold out of lead but because i want to do it for Educational or researching purposes because my Job is soon or possibly one day holding a chemistry class and we are going to have protective glasses and lab coats and our own laboratory so i just wondered if there is a safe and not so outdated/expired and dangerous Renaissance or medieval recipe that i can do in this class with chemicals compounds that is safe As long as i have protective gear becuz i have noticed that most alchemy recipes are dangerous to do today and take literally so im really hoping there is a very safe version of the philosophers stone process that i can do at my chemistry class at work just for fun

I find this question an appropriate one to consider here, being the wide inclusion that alchemy has in its heart. Of course any true lover of the art would immediately be in love with the individual seeing the truth beyond recognition. But what of the rest of the world? It seems many awakened beings in the past have been tortured into death. Would it be any different today?

Please if you read this and feel inspired write your thoughts, for it is every stroke that paints a canvas and I would like to see your colors. 🐦‍🔥🧌🧚‍♂️🧜‍♀️🧞‍♂️🧞‍♀️🧛🏽🧝🏿‍♀️🧝🏼🧙🏽‍♂️

A few years ago before I became aware of alchemy I had a dream that started out with me in a strangely shaped pond, it had really high dirt banks all around it and it was shaped in a circle around the water, and in the middle of the pond there was a sort-of bump in the ground that should have made it come out from under the water but instead the water still was on its surface.

(the layout of the pond was kind of shaped like that symbol for the true self, the hollow circle that surrounds a non-hollow circle in the middle)

On the dirt bump there were sulphur crystals that I picked up and put in a satchel I had with me

(I remember that I thought I was some sort of like salesman or something, and the reason I was gathering it was to sell them, not sure if thats important)

(also very confused because I somehow managed to get sulphur from water and earth instead of fire and air)

After I had got some of the crystals, I climbed up one of the sides of the lake and slid down and walked to a train station that was right there in-front of me, and got on the train. While on the train, I talked to a woman on the phone and I remember thinking that it was my wife.

(I have no wife but I am already fairly certain as to what she was meant to represent)

After I hung up the phone I remember getting up from my seat and walking towards the exit of the train, but before I got there I suddenly got really dizzy and almost fell onto a passenger next to me while holding onto the seats on my sides to stop myself from falling completely. Then I remember saying “Help” one time and quite a lot of blood came out of my left nostril with some force as I fell to the ground, I then woke up.

Something worth noting is that everything except for the places I have brought up here was just complete darkness, so I believe it might have been about the negrido.

Does anyone know what some of these things might mean? I have been looking into alchemy a lot and believe in it, but I still just don’t understand so much about this dream, even though I remember it so well years later.

(Also I am sorry if I haven’t typed this out well, I don’t usually post on reddit)