Summary
@BlissAdventurer — yes, a full run of Khan Black can help with both the grounding and the fire to act. It reaches joy more indirectly, so for that part I would add a title built for joy.
What a full run looks like
Stage I helps clear what has been muting your own warmth: shame, numbness and old hurts. For a spiritual person, The Same Fire matters most here. It helps close the old split between the sacred and the sexual, so you may sit in meditation without leaving half of yourself at the door, and the energy you spent guarding that border can come back for use. The Thaw helps wake feeling back up in ordinary life, so food, touch and sunlight may start to register again.
Stage II is the grounding stage. The Way Down helps everything that stirs in you settle low, so in a tense moment you may think with your weight beneath you rather than from the top of your head. Reading the Depths helps you feel your own energy in plain body terms and tell a day for pushing from a day for recovery. That supports the move out of your head and into your body that you are describing.
Stage III is where the drive comes in. Where the Fire Goes and The Fire Finds the Work help your energy lean in behind whatever you choose: the project, the training, the hard conversation. Gathering the Depth helps the afternoon slump loosen its grip, so you may still have something left at the end of the day.
Stage IV helps all of it keep going on its own. Relighting develops the will to strike the spark again after any slump, which speaks directly to the fire you feel you have lost.
What Khan Black is and is not built for
Khan Black is an energetic development title. It works on your sexual and vital energy, and drive, presence and groundedness grow out of that. It is not a joy or purpose title. Joy may show up along the way as a by-product of a fuller body and clearer energy, but it is not the aim. You mentioned that Summertime gave you more fun going out without the passion to act. Khan Black is built for that second part.
For the joy itself
Genesis: The Art of Happiness and Joy is the title built for exactly this, and it is free. It helps you find joy in small daily moments, reclaim play, set down old emotional weight, and connect what you do each day to what matters to you.
PEACE is also worth knowing about. It is the partner Khan Black recommends for Stage I, because it keeps you steady while the clearing runs. Its Clear Room helps a crowded mind empty itself, which suits someone who lives in their head, and PEACE does not reduce drive.
A custom idea
If you would rather carry it in one build, start from the Khan Black Stage 1 Core and the Genesis: The Art of Happiness and Joy Core, then add:
- Synergy: Semper Praesens, which helps you stop overthinking and brings your attention into the present
- Machine: Action, which helps the pull of empty activity fade while your motivation to create and work grows
- Productivity Unleashed, which builds your desire to work and helps you get into the zone
- Endgame Drive, which turns hesitation into momentum so tasks get finished
- Synergy: Winner Overdrive, which develops motivation that keeps going through setbacks
That is seven slots, with room to grow, and it follows Khan Black’s own advice that a first Crucible custom starts on the Stage 1 Core.
Khan Black is an Artisan-line title for experienced listeners, so start slowly. Listening guidance is in the official instructions: https://instructions.subliminalclub.com