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ENKI

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•Daylesford, Australia

30/10/2026

In alchemy, you don’t add. You remove, and then recombine the purified parts.

This is calcination, a step rarely taken in making herbal and mushroom extracts. The plant is taken to fire again and again until only ash remains. It’s hot, slow, repetitive work, and it can’t be rushed. The ash is then washed and purified into fine white mineral salts, which return to the tincture the plant came from. The result is a spagyric preparation.

Jesse sees the same process inside as outside. As above, so below. Alchemists of the inner tradition describe calcination as burning away the superfluous in yourself, until only what’s essential is left. What we hold in the internal is but a reflection in the external.

Calcination is one step of our 40-day spagyric cycle, and part of every herbal and mushroom extract we make in our laboratory.

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27/10/2026

Step inside the Enki Garden and be immersed in the philosophy and rhythms of nature 🌿

Distillation with Jesse: learn to distil your own hydrosols and essential oils, guided by the tradition of Esoteric Alchemy. You’ll harvest an astrologically appropriate herb together, run a live distillation and take home your own sample.

Art & Nature Immersion with Maya: slow down and learn to read plants as living signatures through pen and watercolour, drawing on Western herbalism, biodynamics and astrology. No drawing experience needed, only a willingness to look and see.

Both workshops are held at Enki Apothecary & Farm in Musk, near Daylesford, in the garden that grows our spagyrics and skincare.

Spaces are limited.
Book through the link in bio.

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24/10/2026

Join Jesse for a day of distilling local botanicals. A very special in-person experience held at The Enki Farm in our Laboratory and Apothecary in Musk, Victoria, Australia 🍃

Jesse’s Spring time ‘Introduction to Botanical Distillation and Aromatics Workshop’ is now live.

The class will take place around an experiential distillation, harvested as a group from the Enki biodynamic farm for the greatest opportunity to be immersed in the magic of laboratory practice.

Apothecary drinks and treats will be offered, and you will return home with a journal full of practical laboratory knowledge and a sample of the final Hydrosol.

This is a one day workshop, with two dates available: Saturday 5th or Sunday 13th December 2026.

We look forward to welcoming you to The Enki Apothecary & Farm for a day of distilling.

Link in bio

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Jesse Leith

21/10/2026

In spagyrics, the plant isn’t finished after the liquid is poured off. We calcine the plant matter, repeatedly taking it to fire until only plant ash remains. That ash is then washed and purified further, until it becomes fine white crystalline mineral salts.

Those salts are returned to the tincture the plant came from. As alchemists would say, make it whole again. Spirit, soul and body: separated, purified, and brought back together.

This is calcination. It’s one of the slowest and most hands-on steps in our 40-day manufacturing process.

The old alchemists called it solve et coagula: dissolve, then bring together.

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Our small-batch, garden-grown spagyric tinctures are linked in our bio.

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17/10/2026

The three explained. Soul, spirit & body. Sulphur, mercury & salt.

Jesse Leith, founder and formulator at Enki Apothecary has been practicing laboratory alchemy for over a decade.

The time is now here to share his discoveries into the occulted arts of alchemy.

Keep an eye out for his dive into calcination

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08/10/2026

A standard tincture is a soak. A Spagyric takes 40 days.

Instead of steeping the herbs, alchemists took them apart. Separated them. Purified each part on its own. Then brought them back together as one.

Forty days of separating, purifying and recombining. It’s this ancient alchemical method that Jesse, Enki’s founder and formulator, has spent 10 years in the lab developing and perfecting.

Is it slower? Completely. That’s the point. The plant’s full character, including its delicate aromatic compounds, is preserved and evolved through the process.

Spagyric processing extracts and purifies the broadest array of actives in a plant, and then preserves the mineral, water-soluble and alcohol-soluble compounds. Nothing is left. Nothing is forgotten.

The final stage in Spagyric laboratory alchemy - and long lost process in botanical manufacturing - is calcination. A process in which the physical and philosophical body of the plant is purified and transformed into a crystalline structure.

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05/10/2026

Do you know where the mushrooms in your extract are grown?

At Enki, the purity of the herb or mushroom is necessary to ensure the quality of the final product.

Our Spagyric manufacturing processes the complete formation of the botanical, so that all the bio active compounds are extracted and preserved in the bottle.

What’s growing around the mushrooms you’re consuming?

Nothing exists in isolation, especially not nature.

Turkey Tail is back in stock, harvested from this ancient oak tree and others like it in a secluded area with no agrochemicals or contaminants.

Welcome to the Botanical Renaissance
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01/10/2026

Have you tried our skin food?

Skin is our largest organ - what we put on it matters, as we don’t have much control on what happens around it.

Enki Skincare is made from botanicals grown on our farm in the pristine climate of Daylesford, Victoria, and then delicately extracted in our laboratory, and carefully wrapped for you to enjoy.

You won’t find any preservatives or synthetic compounds in these bottles,
You will only find plants.

This is the Botanical Renaissance.

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25/09/2026

A real Apothecary and herb farm.
Growing, distilling and making skincare, herbal teas, extracts and essential oils

Visit Enki Apothecary & Biodynamic Farm

7 minutes from Daylesford
1 hour from Melbourne

Est 2017

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21/09/2026

What if when a plant is harvested matters just as much as what is harvested?

Working with plants means paying attention to rhythms larger than our own.

The season. The weather. The movement of the sun and moon. The planetary correspondences of the plant. The moment of harvest.

These are all aspects of the laws of nature. Nature has timing; and this timing extends far beyond us.

At Enki, these considerations form part of the way we work; as it did in ancient times and traditions.

With the Full Moon approaching, our attention turns to the aromatic plants growing throughout the farm.

In traditional alchemical practice, the volatile / aromatic nature of a plant was understood as an expression of its soul — the part that rises, moves and escapes most readily from matter.

So at particular moments within the lunar cycle, we harvest fresh aromatic plants and carry them directly from the garden into the laboratory for distillation.

This Full Moon, we will harvest Boronia.

From living flower on the plant, to harvest, to still, to the aromatic waters that is a key botanical in our Botanical Hydrosol.

For us, this is what Garden to Glass really means.

Not simply knowing where an ingredient came from, but considering the life of the plant at every stage of its transformation.

What we harvest. Where it grows. And when we harvest it.

All part of the preparation. Under the Full Moon.

Live freely, choose nature
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