Category: Oils & Ointments

Your Essential Oils

Your Essential Oils

 

Oils are an easy way of using plants and herbs in magical workings, particularly when space is at a premium. Below are some oils that we think should be part of every magical practitioner’s way of working. All of them are simple to acquire and, if stored according to directions, will last for some time even though the initial expense may seem to be prohibitive.
CINNAMON

With its warm vibration, it brings love from higher realms, transforming sadness into happiness.
CLARY SAGE

Lifts the spirit and links with eternal wisdom. teaching us to be content with what we have, and that most problems arise in our imagination.
FRANKINCENSE

Holds some of the wisdom of the universe. Able to cleanse the most negative of influences, it works far beyond the auric field, affecting the very subtle realms of energy and adapting the spiritual state. Frankincense is sometimes called olibanum.
GERANIUM

Resonates with Mother Earth and all that is feminine. It comforts, opens our hearts and heals pain.. It typifies the archetypal energy of Goddess culture. Its energy is transformational and as such it must always be used with respect.
JASMINE

Provides us with access to a greater understanding of the spirit. It is said that jasmine brings the angelic kingdom within our reach. It gives understanding and acceptance of the true meaning of spirituality.
LAVENDER

Is caring and nurturing. It will not allow negative emotion to remain present, bringing about healing by allowing the heavenly energies close to the physical.
MYRRH

Brings realization that we no longer need to carry our burdens, releasing them from deep within, allowing us to let go when the time is right. When combined with other oils, it enhances – and is enhanced by – them.
NEROLI

Is one of the most precious essential oils, its vibration being one of the highest. It brings self-recognition because it allows development of a new perspective, allowing us to develop unconditional love.

 

NUTMEG

When the spirit is affected by disappointment, spiritual pain and displacement, nutmeg works to bring hopes, dreams and prayers back into focus.
ROSE ABSOLUTE

Said to be the perfume of the guardians or messengers who guide us in times of need, it is a fragrance which allows us to access the Divine mysteries. It is associated with the true needs of the human heart.
ROSEMARY

Reminds us of our purpose and of our own spiritual journey and encourages confidence and clarity of purpose. It cleanses the aura.
SANDALWOOD

Allows us to make contact with divine beings and brings us into balance with the cosmos. It clarifies our strength of conviction.
YLANG YLANG

It balances the spirit so that we can be open to pleasures of the physical realm while still appreciating spiritual passions. Used magically, it achieves a balanced manifestation.

WOTC Extra (b) – Oil Storage

I can be tough, I can be strongOil Storage

 

It is very important to understand how to store magical oils properly.　 Basic essential oils tend to be expensive. Once you have created a magical oil blend suited to your specific purpose, it is in your best interest to store it properly, saving you time and money in the long run.

When you are ready to create your magical oil blend, assemble your tools.　 All tools, and especially the bottles that will be used for storage, should be boiled for at least ten minutes before use.　 This will ensure that there isn’t dirt or bacteria on anything that could contaminate your supply.

You will need to store your oil in glass bottles.　 Never store oil in a plastic bottle, even though plastic is much cheaper.　 Using a glass bottle will ensure you are able to utilize your magical oil blend as long as possible, while using plastic will simply hasten its going bad.　 Your glass bottle should also be made of colored glass, as this will help block out light.　 Green or brown are good colors for storing magical oil.　 Some people will prefer to store each magical oil blend in a glass bottle with a color that corresponds to its purpose.　 This is a good idea if you can manage to locate small glass bottles in a variety of colors.　 Once your blend is complete, it should be marked by its name and date, and then stored in a cool, dark place.　 Oils will generally last for six months.

 

 

Gianne’s Grimoire of Personal Power

Lady Gianne

 

WOTC Extra (b) – Carrier Oils

Autumn

Carrier Oils

 

Carrier oil is the base oil which you start with.　 Carrier oils are as follows: almond, olive, safflower, and sunflower.　 You can use any carrier oil you prefer.　 Olive oil is perhaps the cheapest one on the list, depending on the type and brand.　 It is also probably the least attractive smelling to many people.

When selecting carrier oil, keep in mind the purpose to which you will use your magical oil blend.　 If you are creating a blend to anoint candles or other objects, olive oil is probable fine and is cost efficient.　 If you are creating an oil rub for your body, you might want to select almond oil, something many people like on their skin.

 

 

Gianne’s Grimoire of Personal Power

Lady Gianne

 

 

 

WOTC Extra (a) – Combining Your Own Oil

UN AIR D'AUTOMNE
Combining Your Own Oil

 

Many witches prefer to create their own magical oils.　 By creating the oil blend personally, their own power and intent will be transferred to the blend, which cannot happen when buying premade blends.　 It can also be more cost efficient to create your own blends.

Recipes are based on essential oil, not synthetic.　 While synthetic oil is generally much cheaper than essential oil and might smell similar, synthetic does not hold any magical properties as it is missing the root and essence of the plant.

Please beware some essential oils can be toxic, harmful to skin, harmful to ingest, or cause allergic reactions in some people.　 Always use caution and good judgment.　 If you are creating a blend that will be worn on the skin or added to a bath, it needs to be tested before you get it all over yourself or someone else.　 An easy way to test is to dab a small amount of the oil on your arm or elbow, and wait a few hours.　 If nothing happens, you probably aren’t allergic.　 Always, if you are unsure whether or not an essential oil can be ingested, don’t ingest it or else do good research beforehand.　 With a good bit of common sense everyone can practice magic safely.

 

 

Gianne’s Grimoire of Personal Power

Lady Gianne

 

Let’s Talk Witch – Uses of Magical Oils 　

Autumn

Uses of Magical Oils

 

Magical oil is very useful to practitioners of all types of magic.　 It can be used:

To anoint candles for candle burning rituals

To anoint, consecrate, or bless ritual objects

To wear to increase certain powers or talents you would like to enhance, with an added bonus of having a pleasing scent.

As a substitute for burning incense to experience a particular scent if you are in a place where incense is frowned upon.

 

 

Gianne’s Grimoire of Personal Power

Lady Gianne

 

Fall Sabbat Oils

Haunting Wishes Pictures

Fall Sabbat Oils

Fall Sabbat Oil #1

3 parts Patchouli

2 parts Musk

1 part Carnation

Wear to the Samhain to promote communion with the deities.

 

Fall Sabbat Oil #2

2 parts Frankincense

part Myrrh

1 part Allspice

1 drop Clove

Use as the above formula.

—Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Scott Cunningham

 

Full Moon Oil

FULL MOON OIL

13 drops of sandalwood essential oil
9 drops of vanilla essential oil or extract
3 drops of jasmine essential oil
1 drop of rose essential oil

Mix prior to a full moon. Charge in a clear container or vial in the light of the full moon. Use to anoint candles or yourself for full moon rituals or just when you feel like you need the moons energy.

Banishing Oil

BANISHING OIL


1/2 oz olive oil

7 drops pepper oil (add cayenne pepper to olive oil if you wish)

10 drops peppermint oil – or peppermint essence from icing part of a grocers plus olive oil.

12 drops of rue or rosemary oil. You can add rue or rosemary to olive oil and put in a warm
place for 3 days and strain or buy the essential oil.

Some crushed black peppercorns

15 drops of pine oil or some pine needles stepped in olive oil for 3 days in warm place and strained or pine essential oil.

One obsidian or black onyx stone or a small black pebble.

 

Blend together in an eggcup and put In a clean brown or dark medicine bottle.
Some of these oils are volatile. Do not anoint yourself with Banishing oil. You could burn yourself.
Wash your hands after using. Charge the stone or stones used after adding it and focus on the person and your intent pouring in energy and emotion. As you dress the candles you make them your magical tools. Charge again as you massage away from you massaging in banishing oil from middle to the ends of the candle.

Magickal Goody of the Day for September 17th – Make Your Own Truth Oil

Magickal Goody of the Day for September 17th

TRUTH OIL

You can buy this is Occult shops but why not make it!

You will need:
3 drops Clary Sage
3 drops Lavender
2 drops Pine
3 drops calamus roots or use (marigold leaves)
Optional: Roll candle in Mugwort and/or Nutmeg

 

Blend and swirl and anoint candle in spell. Wear near the person you want the truth from.

They do not stand a chance of lying so it is so handy to have.

Banishing Oil

 BANISHING OIL



1/2 oz olive oil

7 drops pepper oil (add cayenne pepper to olive oil if you wish) 

10 drops peppermint oil – or peppermint essence from icing part of a grocers plus olive oil

12 drops of rue or rosemary oil. You can add rue or rosemary to olive oil and put in a warm
place for 3 days and strain or buy the essential oil. 

Some crushed black peppercorns 

9 drops of pine oil or some pine needles stepped in olive oil for 3 days in warm place and strained.
Or pine essential oil

One obsidian or black onyx stone or a small black pebble

 

Blend together in an eggcup and put In a clean brown or dark medicine bottle. Some of these oils are volatile. Do not anoint yourself with Banishing oil. You could burn yourself. Wash your hands after using. Charge the stone or stones used after adding it and focus on the person and your intent pouring in energy and emotion. As you dress the candles you make them your magical tools. Charge again as you massage away from you massaging in banishing oil from
middle to the ends of the candle.

 

Magickal Goody of the Day for August 20 is John the Conqueror’s Oil

Magickal Goody of the Day

witch potion 001
JOHN THE CONQUEROR OIL

John the Conqueror Oil traditionally consists of broken pieces of John the Conqueror root (Ipomoea jalapa or I.purga) steeped in Almond or another vegetable carrier oil that has been tinted purple (or yellow); it is customary to add essential oils as fragrance to suit. The oil can also be made with powdered I. jalapa root. Some folks strain it afterward. To enhance the actual weird scent of John the Conqueror root, from which no essential oil can be extracted, Incompound a “woodsy blend” scent, such as Cedarwood and Vetivert, which smells quite a lot like the John the Conqueror root itself. This fragrance is NOT part of the “Magick” in the oil, but it does serve as a re-enforcer of what the real root smells like.

Let the root fragments and/or powder sit in the oil blend at least a week before use — a month is better. The root is traditionally left in the bottle as it is used. If you are making up small bottles (e.g. a dram vial or 1/2 oz. bottle), you should put two or three pieces of root in each bottle. If you work out of a large stock bottle (e.g. 4 oz. or 16 oz.) be sure to refresh the root with new pieces each time you top up the bottle.

BEWARE commercial John the Conqueror and High Conquering oils! They rarely have the root in them. all you have to do is look in the bottle: If there is no root in it, and it was made in a factory, it’s very likely a fake.

New Moon Oil Recipe


Moon & Witch Comments & Graphics

New Moon Oil Recipe

 

4 drops patchouli essential oil

3 drops cedar wood essential oil

4 drops sweet orange essential oil

Add to a base oil such as sweet almond or grape seed

(about 15mls of carrier oil should be about right).

 

—-Moon Magic – Pagan Portals

Rachel Patterson

Come To Me Oil

Come To Me Oil



Recipes vary from person to person. They are generally floral in tone and usually red in color. Scents used in such an oil may include sweet pea and narcissus (usually only available as synthetic fragrances, not as essential oils), rose (available as a real essential oil — called otto or attar of roses — but so expensive as to be prohibitively costly for most people, who therefore use a synthetic fragrance instead), rose geranium (a real essential floral oil that has a very good rose scent), and other floral synthetics, such as wistaria, honeysuckle, violet, and the like.

Herbs mixed into in the finished, fragranced oil may include catnip leaf (to entice a lover), saffron stamens (for love-drawing), rose petals, (for love-drawing), Damiana leaf (to increase passion) and/or patchouli leaf (ditto). Queen Elizabeth Root (used to attract men) may be added to the mixture if the person using it is a female.

One difficulty many folk-magicians have with floral scents as a basis for magical perfume oils is that so many of our favorite flowers do not produce a great deal of essential oil.  When this is the case, the oil is very expensive. But that is not the greatest hurdle we must overcome. Some flowers, no matter how lovely they smell, do not produce stable essential oils at all.

Whenever that is the case, essential oils from these flowers are unavailable at any cost and synthetics are the only recourse one has.

The question then becomes one of deciding whether to go with an artificial fragrance that mimics a given floral scent to a greater or lesser degree — or to forgo that scent in favor of one that is available in actual flower-derived form.

Making Ointments

Making Ointments



When the subject of Witches’ ointments is mentioned, the infamous “flying ointments” immediately come to mind, at least to those with some interest in the history of Witchcraft and magick. These salves, consisting of psychoactive plants steeped in a fatty base, were rubbed onto the skin to aid in what is known today as astral projection.

These are not the only types of ointments known to Witches and magicians, however. Many others have more earthly uses that correlate to those of oils. In fact, any of the oils mentioned in our Oil and Ointment section can be converted to ointments simply by adding them to melted beeswax, lard or (in today’s world) vegetable shortening.

However made, ointments should ideally be kept in crystal or porcelain containers. Realistically, any jars with tight-fitting lids will do fine. Keep ointments away from heat and light. These ointments form a part of herb magic of long-gone days, and so are included here solely for their historical interest.

MAKING OINTMENTS

Ointments are easily made. They consist simply of herbs or oils and a base. In the past, hog’s lard was the preferred base because it was readily available, but vegetable shortening or beeswax produces the best results.

The base must be a greasy substance that melts over heat but is solid at room temperature. Some herbalists actually use dinosaur fat (I.e., Vaseline, which is prepared from petroleum)!

There are two basic ways to create magical ointments.

THE SHORTENING METHOD

Gently heat four parts shortening over low heat until liquefied. Watch that it doesn’t burn. Add one part dried herbal mixture, blend with a wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed, and continue heating until the shortening has extracted the scent. You should be able to smell it in the air. Strain through cheesecloth into a heat-proof container, such as a canning jar. Add one-half teaspoon tincture of benzoin to each pint of ointment as a natural preservative.

Store in a cool, dark place, such as the refrigerator. Ointments should last for weeks or months. Discard any that turn moldy, and lay in a fresh batch.

THE BEESWAX METHOD

This process creates a more cosmetic ointment without a heavy, greasy feeling. It is best to prepare it with oils rather than herbs, as it is difficult to strain. If possible, use unbleached beeswax. If not, use what you can find.

Chip it with a large, sharp knife so that you can pack it into a measuring cup. Place one-fourth cup or so of beeswax in the top of a double boiler (such as a coffee can set into a larger pot of water). Add about one-fourth cup olive, hazelnut, sesame or some other vegetable oil. Stir with a wooden spoon until the wax has melted into the oil.

Remove from the heat and let cool very slightly, until it has just begun to thicken. (This step is taken so that the hot wax won’t evaporate the oils.) Now add the mixed oils to the wax. Stir thoroughly with a wooden spoon and pour into a heat-proof container.

Label and store in the usual way.
In the recipes that follow, the recommended method of preparation will be mentioned.

EMPOWERING OINTMENTS

Once the ointment is made and has cooled in its jar, empower it with its particular magical need.This vital step, remember, directs the energy within the ointment, readying it for your ritual use.

USING OINTMENTS

Ointments are usually rubbed onto the body to effect various magical changes. As with oils, this is done with visualization and with the knowledge that the ointment will do its work.

Youth Ointment

YOUTH OINTMENT

4 parts Rosemary

2 parts Rose petals
1 part Anise

1 part Fern

1 part Myrtle

Make with shortening.


For preserving or re-attaining youth, stand nude before a full-length mirror at sunrise and lightly anoint your body, visualizing yourself as you would like to be.