You know, I’ve always had similar thoughts about the mineral content perhaps altering the coloration of the salt. I too have desired to have the constituents tested. Alas, I’ll have to wait till I have my full lab developed after my degrees.
Another couple of questions..
Do you keep your tinctures warmed using perhaps a sand bath or electric blanket over the time of maceration? It is something that I do and have found greater success and extractions.
Also, I’ve done extensive research to the 40 nights of maceration and have always come up empty handed. The only thing I can find is repetitive use of 40 nights throughout multiple religious and philosophic texts. The only other thing I’ve found was that another more studied Spagyricist mentioned that was the time it requires for a complete transformation, but never clarified further. Have you ever understood the meaning of the 40 nights?
@alchemage If we both had similar intuitions it just might be true ;)
I use this to incubate my salts and macerate! Between 37°-40°C.
I do believe it correlates with the act of transformation, but I have yet to find myself a clear indication about the reason for that exact number. If you do stumble on some interesting sources regarding it, it would interest me highly as well! But numerlogically I also see a connection personally to 13=1+3=4 which is Death in the tarot. 40 is the fifth iteration sequentially of the number 4, so perhaps it represents the death and transformation and purification of each element. If that makes sense?
The 5th iteration since it includes the quintessence or fifth element in that process.
But that is a personal theory due to my playing around with the tarot and numerology!
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Perhaps this might be a time to study in your self and the time it takes for a specific thing you realise in yourself the need of to change. For a long time the problem is there, yet no solution presents itself. Then all of a sudden by having made space in yourself (Finishing other stuff any and everywhere you have begun projects) you have space to see one further of your own unnoticed behaviours. This would be the first day to mark down on your study calendar. Often you might just have a conversation with someone, and their behaviour might be, for an example I have had: A woman came talked to me that I knew only from seeing. Wasn't very communicative to others back then, and when she went to smoke, she would go clean her teeth afterwards and exclaim she doesn't like the taste of smoke. Then I made the cognition that I behave in such a way. I smoke tobacco indirectly, mixed with other substances but don't like the taste.
Scroll 3 months forward and I am buying real tobacco to smoke in my pipe. Just received the order. This represents for me an actual change. There were many single steps in between, like tasting tobacco from ravenking, getting a pipe, finding a book about sacred pipe use and smoking. This is a gradual unfolding of me becoming a person that works with an actual pipe. An actual being in a pipe helping me and vice versa, for that being the way to use it's power. Every 3 till 6 months further bits and pieces unfold, for me to piece together.
So those 40 days are about our own personal transformations, that you work out on the outside in a flask. Coded message to spell the rhythm of change.
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