Back in May 2018, a post on Tumblr (now deleted, I wonder what it was?) triggered me to do some lab work around the New Moon. I was given freshly-laid eggs laid that morning and suddenly I could sense that one of those bouts of magickal formulation was about to happen. Saffron and chamomile (both grown by me), and a variation on Oil of Egg, all infused together. It takes gold to make gold. I dream in clumps, not singularly.
The eggs came from my body worker, who lives just a dozen or so blocks away, and were hard-boiled Sunday evening (Sun day, Moon hour). I set an alarm for early Monday morning to wake up just ahead of the actual new Moon at 4:47am. I went from sleep to performing alchemical processes in just over 20 minutes with no shower or breakfast. I wake up like a light switch.
I got the saffron into the vodka and into the cordial maker and the egg yolks into the oven at the start of the new moon. The cordial maker was set to run for 24 hours. After just a couple hours, the saffron released all it’s color and bleached out completely.
The egg yolks spent a few planetary hours in the oven at a very low temp, drying out. I turned and crumbled them once per planetary hour. They released water content and got discernibly oily, which is the point.
At the first hour of the Sun on Tuesday, the chamomile was added. After that, the yolks went into the fridge, and I went back to sleep for a couple more hours. The infuser runs on a timer, so it just kept infusing right along.
Just after 3:30pm, when the next hour of the Sun started, I added the cooked, dried yolks to the mix, and left the blend to complete the timer cycle.
Post-active crafting thought: Citrinitas, duh. Yellow, yellow and more yellow occurrences and while it has been saffron for a while I didn’t really think Citrinitas until NOW. Okay, okay, clue-by-four received.
I filtered the blend and put it back into the cordial maker for another six hours to get sweetened and mellow a bit, and become a cordial instead of a tincture.
The unsweetened taste has too much bite and the chamomile and saffron should reappear a bit flavor-wise with sweetening. Oil of Egg quality readily apparent in the mouth of it. That is some wildly oily fluid.
And it’s the absolute most yellow thing I’ve ever made too. May Moon Citrinitas Cordial.