Hello,

Am not someone versed in alchemy but copper is my favorite metal. I'm curious about what copper and sulfur symbols combined would mean in alchemy? Was trying to find ligature symbols involving copper and sulfur but not finding any, was wondering if you all have examples of that pairing?

TIA!

From 2023 until the end of 2025, I was stuck in what felt like a constant state of depersonalization/derealization. I completely lost my sense of self. My mind was blank, I had no inner monologue, no internal chatter, nothing. It went on for almost two years.

Then, towards the end of 2025, I started doing something that I honestly didn’t think much of at first. I would write affirmations on a piece of paper, almost like petitions, read them out loud over a glass of water, and then drink the water.

The strange part is that almost everything I affirmed seemed to manifest within 3–4 days.

For example, I once wrote something along the lines of, “Everyone who did me wrong is getting their karma.” Within the next few days, I started hearing about people who had wronged me getting into car accidents. This happened with five different people. I wasn’t specifically wishing for car accidents, and that wasn’t my intention, but the timing genuinely shocked me.

That’s actually what got me interested in magick in the first place.

I was also making petitions about my own health, and eventually, I came out of that depersonalization state. My sense of self returned, I got my inner monologue back, and my mind started feeling normal again. I still have aphantasia, but that’s a different thing.

During that period, it honestly felt like everything I asked for was happening. If I asked Archangel Michael for something, it seemed to manifest. If I asked a planetary intelligence or a deity, I would get results too.

I wasn’t using sigils, visualization, or any complicated rituals. I would simply speak out loud with certainty, and things seemed to happen incredibly fast, sometimes within just two or three days.

The weirdest part is that I was basically on autopilot the entire time. I wasn’t consciously trying to enter a trance or altered state, and I had never even heard of the concept of gnosis back then.

Fast-forward to 2026, and it’s like everything has suddenly stopped working. My petitions and affirmations don’t seem to produce the same results anymore.

I only discovered the concept of the gnosis state about two weeks ago, so now I’m wondering whether I was unknowingly experiencing some kind of altered state back then.

I genuinely thought speaking affirmations over water was the key because of the idea that water can hold or carry information. I never considered that my mental state might have had anything to do with it.

So here are my questions:

• How could I have experienced such rapid results without doing any formal magickal techniques?

• Could the subconscious mind somehow be connected to the universe, or is there another occult explanation for what I experienced?

• Is it possible to enter a state similar to gnosis without deliberately trying to induce it?

• Why would something that seemed to work so consistently for me suddenly stop working?

I’m not looking for someone to tell me that magick is fake or that everything was just a coincidence. I’m genuinely interested in hearing occult perspectives, especially from people who work with the subconscious, gnosis, manifestation, or planetary and spiritual intelligences.

I know how unusual this sounds, but the experience was very real to me, and I’d like to understand what might have been happening.

I'm stumped. Any friends here that can help me?

Anyone know the explanation about the meditation involving closed eyes crossed legs breathing full breaths while pumping the stomach and eventually in the darkness you see while you're eyes are closed a light start's getting brighter and brighter until your body starts feeling ecstasy and bliss then the light gets so bright but not blinding at all. Then everything you start thinking about feels more physical and emotional than normal life like imagineng eating an apple feels more real than normal stubbing your toe actually hurts to just the thought feels super real. I've done it twice and it's just something I'm super curious about is that physical alchemy on a sense? . Posted everywhere but no answers so far.

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I’ve been exploring the historical relationship between astrology and alchemy, particularly why Saturn became associated with lead. In traditional planetary symbolism, Saturn represented time, limitation, and structure, while lead was considered a heavy, base metal.

What’s interesting to me is how these associations developed within alchemical traditions, especially when transformation became associated with both physical processes and spiritual interpretations.

I’m curious whether the Saturn-lead connection was originally based on the metal’s physical properties, earlier planetary correspondences, or a combination of both?

I’m also interested in historical examples of how Saturn’s meaning changed between mythology, astrology, and alchemical traditions. Your thoughts?

All of the elements of our solar system to the ancient world. Hatched from he philosopher's egg.

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p.s. Before you ask - I broke a few pieces to coagulate with the rest of the symbol.

So im pretty Much New to Spagyrics and Alchemy and the only difference i know between the philosophers Stone and the plant stone is that the latter is supposed to be for lead to gold transmutation and the plant stone is supposed to be for healing or medicinal purposes but are there other differences between them? Just Asking and im curious

So one day while posting on this community somebody recommended me the path of Alchemy by mark stavish but then i was thinking no i dont want to buy that book not even for my birthday for personal reasons so thats why id rather have you guys recommending me one of the recipes from the path of Alchemy by mark stavish instead of me ordering the book so i really really want to pursue Alchemy/spagyrics and the first thing i want to do is make a basic plant stone so please help?

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.

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

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??

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!

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!

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