Welcome to stage three of my Slave Alchemy series: Fire. It’s time to burn.

In this stage, we endeavor to take all the unwanted matter and purify it with fire. In alchemy, this process is called calcination. Calcination is the process of heating and decomposing raw matter – or in other words, breaking down parts of ourselves that are in the way of our own happiness. Often, we’d rather be right or fulfill an idea of “perfection” than be genuinely happy, so we continue neglecting the exploration of ourselves.

The stage of Calcination repre... Show more