The Making of an Alchemist

To be an alchemist is to sit at the window of death and life. I was told this in an energy reading almost 8 years ago when I had just started my business. They didn’t know I had began this work, yet it was felt. I had experienced this physically in my body a few years after that— at a window of completely uncertainty and faith, then emotionally a few years after that in distilling that experience. This year, I was told that exact thing again in a reading by a new energy worker I was working with…coincidence? In the last decade of my life, the two points met into a circle. To be an alchemist is to allow yourself to be alchemized. Being a distiller is a commitment and journey into letting the fire and ether, matter and mind become anew.

To be comfortable with the harvest (death) of plants, to the transformation and emergence from the the still (life), is to be curious by our own shedding. When we choose to invest in the things that make us resonant, that vibration creates the energy that transforms our life and those we share it with.

So here is a simple Sunday practice for you that I like to do at the start of each week. Take 5 minutes of your day today and stand in the grass, the dirt, or in the water. Be a conduit for the land you’re on and allow it to move through you as if you're a vessel. The wind, the waters of your body, the heat of the sun; they all are in symphony here. Can you feel that thing that dims you? Imagine it being carried away to the heat of the sun as it burns away. Can you feel the thing that makes you feel living, breathing joy? Breathe it in from your crown to your toes as if you were taking a big gulp of light or rushing water that reached the top of your head to the tip of your toes. Whatever that thing is, it is meant for you. Let it emerge from you and may we be lucky enough to share in those waters. You are a distiller too.