Carry your Spagyrics in Style!

After lots of searching, we finally found a source for some great carrying bags that fit our Spagyrics perfectly!
These cotton bags are padded all around, with a sturdy three-sided zipper closure and a loop that makes them easy to fish out of a purse or case. Inside, they have padded dividers to hold bottles snugly [...]

Tools for Transmutation - new Magistery Kit

You may have heard us talk about an interesting way of working with our Magisteries by taking one Magistery each day according to its planetary rulership, bringing insight and balance over the course of several weeks. It is a powerful way to uncover your own personal relationship with each of the planet’s archetypal energies, showing [...]

Valentine’s Sale : Spagyrics for Romance

Valentine’s Day is just a couple of weeks away, and although it can be a silly and perhaps shallow holiday of candy and cards, it can also carry meaning and be a chance to energize your love life.
Spagyrics of supportive herbs can help increase libido, support energy and function, or just connect with your love [...]

Flight : Our Spagyric Offerings

Welcome to the conclusion of our series on the spiritual practice of flight and the plants that support it!
In our first article, we talked about the legends and truths behind the witches’ flights, their brooms and ointments, and the tricky chemistry that practice entailed.
In our second article, we discussed Eastern legends of gravity-defiance, including flying [...]

Flight : Magic Carpets & Kung Fu Leaps

In our first article, we were inspired by the season, and talked about witches as practitioners of shamanic flight in Europe. We looked at their legendary flying ointment from a chemical perspective, and learned about its properties and dangers.
Shamanic flight is not confined to archaic Europe, however, and examples of the phenomenon are common around [...]

Flight : Witches on Brooms

This time of year, we see many Hallowe’en decorations showing the classic witch figure, hunched over a bubbling cauldron of flying ointment, or crossing the skies on her broom. Most of these images are fanciful and fun, and part of the ritual of the season. But there is some interesting truth to the legendary flying [...]

New Precious Woods Spagyrics

We’ve been really enjoying working with all the precious woods lately, and we have a new variety of Agarwood to share, as well as another Sandalwood Spagyric.
If you’re new to the intricate and wonderful world of Agarwood, take a look at our first article about this special wood, and this followup about the last set [...]

Upcoming Lecture : Body, Spirit and Soul

Later this month, I will be presenting a lecture at the International Alchemy Conference in Los Angeles, October 23-25. The title is “Body, Spirit, and Soul: an Alchemical Philosophy of Nature”, and we will be discussing the three levels of being in Alchemical and Spagyric philosophy as well as our own work.
Modern science and philosophy [...]

Mercury : the Spirit of Spagyrics

This level of being is often the hardest to understand, as befits its Mercurial nature, but it plays a literally vital role in our Spagyric work.
As we discussed in our previous article on the Salt level, Spagyrics works with three different aspects of being in plants, each corresponding to a level of being in us. [...]

Fall Sale : Jing Tonics (ended 1/31/10)

Note that this sale has expired; we’re leaving the post up so that the information about these Spagyrics is available. To see what’s currently on sale, click here.
Our three treasures sale series continues with discounts on Jing tonics, support for the life essence in its many manifestations.
Unlike Shen, which can be cultivated through meditation and [...]

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