When lighting the Beacon there is first Fire then Reddish-Black Smoke.

🔥 First Light: The Fire
* This is Ignis, the Act of Will.
* The Conscious Intent of the exile, a spark in the darkness.

It reflects the initial stage of the Great Work—Calcination.
The Ego is burned. The falsities are purged. The path begins.

🌫 Second Click: The Reddish-Black Smoke
* This is Fumus Nigredo, the Dissolution into Shadow.
* Red + Black: Blood and Shadow—the raw matter and the void.

This mirrors Putrefaction, the second Hermetic phase:

“In Blackness, the Seed is hidden. In Smoke, the Spirit ascends.”