Basic Tincturing: Your First Herbal Spagyric is an introductory, practice-focused program designed to teach you how to create your first herbal spagyric tincture with clarity, care, and traditional Hermetic context. Guided by the Temple of Mercury’s rigorous yet accessible approach, you’ll learn the essential foundations of tincturing—plant selection, menstruum choice, ratios, timing, filtration, and safe handling—while understanding how tincturing becomes the first doorway into spagyric work. Across the program, you’ll move step-by-step through a complete tincture workflow, building confidence with the tools, terminology, and decision-making that determine quality and consistency. You’ll also be introduced to the philosophical “why” behind the method: how tincturing relates to extraction, purification, and the disciplined observation that underpins authentic laboratory practice. By the end, you will have produced a finished tincture and gained a repeatable method you can apply to future herbal preparations—along with a grounded understanding of how this foundational craft supports deeper spagyric study. This course is a mixture of a lecture, practical video demonstrations, written content and a final assessment for completion.