Secret Fire Apothecary
  • Home
  • About
  • Products
  • Services
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Staff & Partners

the great work ALWAYS starts in the spring...

6/10/2018

3 Comments

 
Picture
Welcome to the Secret Fire Apothecary Blog!

Before getting into some of the important workings of the Alchemist in Spring time, we'd like to thank all of you first visitors of our new website with a gift! Use the discount code MAYDEW to receive 15% off of your first order.

The Spring is a very busy time for the practicing Alchemist as it is the season of collecting the famous "May Dew". During the Waxing Moons of Spring, different methods are used to capture dew that carries the essential life giving Celestial, Invisible and Secret Nature's Fire that is most prevalent at this time of year, waking everything from the depths of Winter. From this special dew, many different types of Water Works can be performed such as deliquescing salts, the creation of many different solvents, extraction of powerful salts such as Nitre (potassium nitrate), distillations and more. All efforts to extract, utilize, potentiate and evolve this "Fire".

This year my focus was on deliquescing of plant salts, leading to numerous other works. The process uses very hydrophilic (water attracting) plant salts extracted from calcined ashes to capture the dew overnight, determining the previously neutral Celestial Fire to the Vegetable Kingdom and creating an oily liquid called the Oil of Tartar. This liquid can be used as is, as a type of Secret Fire (also known as a Chemical Fire) to be used as a natural plant based alkali solvent.

This salt saturated solution is perhaps most famously known for it's use in a Spagyric process called an Ens, which means Entity. This caustic liquid drives the essentials of the plant being worked with very quickly into the solution, and is particularly useful for targeting alkaloids and plants containing minimal amounts of oil such as Lemon Balm. Of course with such a high Ph this solution is not suitable for ingestion so the extracted principles are removed with a Vegetable Magnet, normally Ethyl Alcohol. The alcohol floats on top of the Oil of Tartar and can either be gently shaken/mixed or heated from below to collect the desired substances before being decanted for use or further processing.

Oil of Tartar can also be evaporated and calcined again to repeatedly collect the Fire contained within the dew, creating extremely potent salts. Sometimes the Oil is left to evaporate in the Sun to also capture Solar energies alongside the Lunar Light while deliquescing during the night. Distilling the Oil of Tartar creates a very pure water laden with the Invisible Secret Fire and is called Angel Water. One can even attain a Stone with nothing but this especially charged dew, a stone that is said to easily melt thin slices of Gold and extract it's Blood Red oil.

All of the above mentioned is barely scratching the surface of May Dew and Water Works in general...one could truly spend a lifetime working only within this realm.
3 Comments
Rover
8/30/2018 08:18:03 am

Nice read thanks

Reply
Ravenking link
3/17/2019 05:42:38 pm

Great Read on the Water works with Dew, perfect timing since spring is just around the corner here. Would love to do an ens out of lemon balm, she has been growing for quite a few years in our garden :)

Would be awesome if you posted more blog posts such as this! :)

Reply
JOANN H ROZBROJ
4/23/2019 01:09:44 pm

Hello,

Trying to connect with Daniel Wiseman. Disappointed to discover that my favorite restaurant in Nova Scotia, the Blue Apples Arts and Wellness Center is no more.
Enjoyed sharing esoteric interests with Daniel when my 85 year old brother (International lawyer) and myself were considering moving to Halifax about the time Trump was running for president.
I am currently writing an autobiographical novel based on our family's history as first Canadian immigrants form Europe, then American immigrants from Quebec. We were also in Nova Scotia so I could make peace with a magnificent Buck with an 11 Point crown who was shot by my father on the day I was born.
I an 71 now and this autobiography will be my swan song. I wanted to reconnect with Daniel to do some networking and support on some history I need to explore on the immigrant experience. If this is being read by Daniel, I really resonated with your world view and the perspective you have on life's mysteries. I am an intuitive astrologer with psychic tendencies and I remember your communication well as having a lot of integration between the logic and scientific side of higher mind, Uranian insight as represented in the masculine principle and the more intuitive, capacity for connecting with nature and a heart centered feminine principle. Please if you are still accessible from this site, let's email and I can share what is on my mind.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Daniel is a practicing herbalist, farmer, medicine maker and educator in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

    Archives

    September 2020
    June 2018

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Site powered by Weebly. Managed by Rebel.com
  • Home
  • About
  • Products
  • Services
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Staff & Partners