Steam Distilling Floral, Resin & Citrus Essential Oils
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Distilling essential oil can be used for aromatherapy, in cuisine, beauty, healing or to set a mood. Here's the methodology to capture...
Sylvia Rose
- Sep 20
- 4 min
Natural Colors: How to Extract Plant Pigments
Artists and craftspeople have used plant pigments as a source of color for millennia. Works of art and textile dyes using vegetable...
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Sylvia Rose
- Sep 12
- 3 min
Galls & Gall Nuts: Black Ink, Dye, Medicine
Galls and gall nuts are growths on plants, particularly oak trees, used for a number of purposes throughout history. They form due to...
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Sylvia Rose
- Aug 21
- 4 min
Urine in Medieval Alchemy & Medicine
In the medieval world, urine is a surprisingly versatile body fluid with a wide range of applications beyond the obvious disposal...
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Sylvia Rose
- Aug 21
- 6 min
Phosphorus, Uroscopy & Power of Pee
Urine has medical and practical applications though history. Renaissance alchemist Hennig Brand discovers phosphorus by boiling his...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jul 23
- 4 min
Calcination Process: Alchemy at High Heat
Calcination is a crucial process in sciences such as metallurgy and chemistry. A process of ancient alchemists, it's used allegorically...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jul 16
- 6 min
Anima Mundi: Soul of the World
The anima mundi, world soul or soul of the world is an analogy used to explain the interconnectedness of all things. This idea suggests a...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jul 16
- 2 min
Alchemy Symbols: Tail of the Peacock
Cauda Pavonis (Tail of the Peacock) is a crucial phase in the intricate process of alchemy, symbolizing the transition from putrefaction...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jul 15
- 4 min
Tria Prima: Birth & the Power of Three
In alchemy, triads, threes, triangles, trinities and trios have strong spiritual significance, often associated with mystical number...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jul 2
- 6 min
Synchronicity: Psychology of Coincidence
Synchronicity describes thoughts and occurrences with apparent relations in meaning, yet without an obvious causal connection....
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Alchemy & Psychology: Hidden Meanings
The essence of alchemy transcends chemical experiments. Alchemists seek to experience psychological processes, conveyed through mystical...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Psychoid: Secrets of the Unconscious
The psychoid is a metaphysical and enigmatic concept of the archetype, existing in a dimension beyond the reach of consciousness. This...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 29
- 6 min
Depth Psychology: Search for Meaning
Depth psychology is the science of the unconscious, covering psychoanalysis and psychology. It's defined as the psychological theory...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Psychology: the Conscious Ego of Self
In psychology the ego is part of the Self, with a crucial role in personality. It helps balance conflicting desires and societal norms....
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 29
- 5 min
Psychology: the Personal Unconscious
The personal unconscious is the part of an individual's psyche or personality storing all the aspects of experience hidden from conscious...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 26
- 3 min
Archetypes: Psychology of the Shadow
The shadow is a complex and intriguing concept deep in the realms of the human psyche. It is a chthonic representation of the personal...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 26
- 3 min
Spiritual Alchemy: Process & Philosophy
Spiritual alchemy goes beyond the surface of human psyche and delves deep into the intricate realms of perception of Self. It's created...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 26
- 4 min
Archetypes - Personality & the Persona
Archetypes help define how the person sees the overall Self and how one interacts with the world in intimate, communal, universal or...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 26
- 8 min
Common Archetypes & Spiritual Ascension
Various archetypes recur in human psychology and play significant roles in shaping the behaviors and perceptions of a person. These...
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Sylvia Rose
- Jun 25
- 4 min
Mad Hatter's Disease: Mercury Madness
Mad Hatter Disease is also called erethism, erethismus mercurialis or mad hatter syndrome. Caused by progressive mercury poisoning it's a...
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