Tag: Essential oil
Candle Burning for Specific Intentions
Simply lighting a candle can be a magickal ritual unto itself. You might like to burn a candle to help with any number of intentions, including but not limited to intentions regarding any of the following:
Banishing
Career
Creativity
Fame/Reputation
Focus
Health
Intuition/Psychic Abilities
Joy
Manifesting
Prosperity
Romance
Spirituality
Once you’ve chosen your intention, you’re ready to begin preparing for your candle ritual.
1. Clarify
Write down your intention in one sentence, as if it’s already happened. For example, you might write “I am wealthy beyond my fondest dreams” or “I am vibrantly healthy in every way.”
2. Select a Scent or Scents
Look at a list of oils and choose a scent or scents to help manifest your intention. Write down you selection.
3. Select a Color
Here are some color ideas:
Black: banishing, releasing, dissolving
Deep Blue: intuition, psychic, abilities, success, harmony, peace
Green: health, healing, wealth, heart opening
Lavender: physical beauty, spirituality, harmony
Orange: harmony, warmth, harvest, fruition, sexuality
Red: passion, fame, strength, courage, success, vibrant health, victory, connection with the Earth.
Robin’s Egg Blue: communication, joy, lightness, self-expression
Violet/Purple: spirituality, inner beauty, magick
White: purity, protection, manifestation, healing
Yellow: energy, clarity, joy, courage, personal power
4. Obtain Your Candle
Choose or make a soy or other vegetable wax candle.
If you make it, color it and scent it with your chosen color and scent(s). If you purchase it, you can either find a candle with your chosen color and scent or just a candle with you chosen color. You can then anoint your candle with your chosen scents later.
As an alternative to getting a colored candle, you can get a white or off-white candle and place it in a colored glass jar or candleholder.
5. Prepare Your Candle
Carve the words of your intention into the candle with a pencil, mail or something else that works. You can use the entire sentence or you can just choose a word that summarizes your intention, such as “romance,” “wealth,” “release,” or “health.” If you’re going to anoint your candle with essential oil, put a few (or more, according to your preference) drops of your chosen oil(s)in a carrier oil such as sunflower or olive oil. Then lightly smooth this oil over the entire surface of the candle (except the bottom and the wick) with your fingers. Alternatively, use a paper towel to apply the oil if you’re not sure if the essential oils will irritate your skin.
6. Empower Your Candle
Use one of the following two ways (a) hold it in both hands and visualize and/or feel your intended outcome as if it has already manifested, then mentally direct the energy generated by this visualization into the candle, or (b) use the three secrets empowerment.
7. Light Your Candle
If you’re burning the candle to manifest something, burn it during the waxing moon. If you’re burning it to release or banish something, burn it during the waning moon. Once you extinguish it, you can just burn it casually whenever you’re home and feel like having some candlelight. Or, if you’d like to speed its magick, burn it whenever you’re home until it burns all the way down. Every time you light it, say a quick prayer or do a quick visualization of your intended outcome.
Herb of the Day for May 11th is Lemon Grass
Herb of the Day
Lemon Grass
This herb is a native of Southeastern Asia growing in tropical climates all over the world. From a distance it may be mistaken as Johnson grass, but this herb is very useful. It yields the finest commercial lemon oil and make the best culinary herb for lemon lovers. The bulb helps digest fatty meats and its’ leaves flavor teas, seafood and vegetable. Grow me in full sun with lots of water. Propagate the herb from root division or buy a bulb at the Chinese vegetable market, root it in potting soil and it will be producing new leaves in three weeks.
Magickal Goody for May 10th: Lighten Up Sparkle Spray
Lighten Up Sparkle Spray
This one is a good one to have on hand for after an argument or for anytime things get too serious, heavy or overwhelming. It’s also a great support in times of grief or trauma. It creates perspective, loose stuck energy, lifts the spirits and enhances harmony and joy.
Ingredients:
Lepidolite essence or an actual lepidolite
Apophyllite essence or an actual apophyllite
Bach Rescue Remedy
Essential oil of Lavender
Essential oil of peppermint
Essential oil of spearmint
Rose water in a mister
Put 3 drops of lepidolite essence or the lepidolite, 3 drops of apophyllite essence or the apophyllite, and 4 drops of Rescue Remedy in the mister. Put 4 drops of lavender, 3 drops of peppermint, and 4 drops of spearmint in the mister. Shake. Hold the bottle in both hands and visualize very bright, sparkly, robin’s egg blue light filling and surrounding the bottle.
Herbal Moisturizer
Here is a handy-dandy moisturizer that you can make at home:
1 tablespoons herbal infusion (rose, lavender, marigold mint)
1 teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon vegetable glycerine or 2 tablespoons cocoa butter
A few drops essential oil (any kind), optional
To an herbal infusion, add honey and vegetable glycerin or cocoa butter. You can add a few drops of essential oil of your choice. Choose a herb that appeals to your senses and that you find pleasing.
Fast Money Wash
1 teaspoon cinnamon
5 cloves
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon nutmeg
3 drops pine essential oil
Combine all ingredients, empowering them one by one by stating aloud the specific function each will perform. For example, if you were to use rosemary as an ingredients in a memory potion, you would need to say, “the rosemary will serve as a memory enhancer, ” or something of that nature. Then bless the ingredients on your altar. Let the mixture rest in a dark area for a week. Take it out once a day, shake it, bless it and then return it If possible, change this potion under a full moon during its week of rest, to magnify the magickal properties it contains. The power of a full moon is present for three days before and three days after the actual of the full moon. After a week, add the mixture to a bucket of warm, clear water for washing. Important note:This wash seems to have the side effect of making those that come into contact with it hungry. It smells wonderful.
Magickal Goody for April 29 is Healing & Uplifting Body Soak
Healing & Uplifting Body Soak
2 cups dead sea salt (can improvise with sea salt)
2 cups of fine sea salt (crushed not the large granules)
2 cups epsom salt
1/8 cup pulverized orange rinds
1/4 cup crumbled peppermint (the leaves not the candy)
2 tbsp of these: Myrrh, sweet orange, and sandlewood essential oils (easy to get and pretty cheap)
Begin on a Friday during the waning moon. Mix salts in large nonreactive bowl. Recite:
“Precious gift from the Mothers of river and sea,”
Grind orange rinds and say:
“Uplift my spirits with your blessed fruit.”
Add to salts and mix well. Stir in crushed peppermint saying:
“In honor of Mother Earth, please hear my plea.”
In seperate bowl blend essential oils, then pour over salt mixture. Put into a screw top container, mixing well. Shake all ingrediants for three days, mixing them well. Do you have a crystal ball or something like one? Try to find something to concentrate on, a mirror, or maybe a shiny object. Focus intently on conjuring up healing power as you mix the soak.
Use two cups per bath. Use cool water. If possible place a gardinia petal or plant on silver or white silk cloth by window or table. Take bath in the evening of the Friday of a waning moon. Burn soothing incense in a sea shell over a hot charcoal.
Now, open your spirit and release your grief, sorrow, despair, whatever you are feeling into the water and into the smoke. As you watch the tub drain when finished, visualize your anguish, pain, sorrow leaving along with the water.
Joy & Fun Oil
Joy & Fun Oil
Need some fun in your life? Try this oil for an added boost of enjoyment.
1. Place a GINGER ROOT and some SUNFLOWER SEEDS in JOJOBA OIL.
2. Let the HERBS soak for 3 DAYS.
3. Strain the OIL.
4. Bottle the OIL in a dark glass bottle w/lid.
5. Before you leave the house, apply the OIL behind your knees, elbows, ears and wrists.
Passion Oil
Passion Oil
Try you hand at this oil for attracting a sexual partner and engaging in an erotic and sensual time!
Take an 1/8 cup of a base oil (almond or olive works great) and blend with it equal parts of: patchouli, jasmine, cardamon, vanilla, ginger and ylang ylang (use at least 3 drops of each) into a small ceramic or glass bowl.
When you add each essential oil to the mix, blend it by moving the bowl and swirling the oil in a clockwise and/or counterclockwise motion.
Apply the oil externally to your genitals, chest, neck and wrists. Store what you do not use in an airtight container and place out of the reach of sunlight (not in the bathroom).
Magickal Goody for 4/2 – INSECT REPELLENT
INSECT REPELLENT
2 oz. vegetable oil or vodka
1/4 tsp each citronella and eucalyptus essential oils
1/8 tsp each pennyroyal, cedar and rose geranium essential oil,
Combine ingredients and apply mixture directly to all exposed skin. Keep oil
away from eyes and mouth – take care not to rub your eyes right after applying
the repellent with you fingers
Herb of the Day for 3/29 is Rosemary
Herb of the Day
Rosemary
The remedy for quickening the senses and increasing memory. The leaves and branches were burned in house to clean the air. Rosemary tea was a remedy for gallstones and jaundice and was often cooked with meats to make them more digestible. Rosemary leaves were used in preserving meats as an antioxidant preservative. The flower water was sprinkled on the head “to cool the brain” and relieve headaches.
Essential Oils
These may be rubbed on a candle for the appropriate goal for spell work by rubbing it on from center to either end to “dress” it or from top to bottom to draw, and bottom to top to banish , add to contents of a pouch of herbs to enhance the energies, dab on pulse points (cinnamon will burn), oils are flammable, so use with care.
Bay: attain desires; success; clarity of visions or dreams.
Basil: intuition; optimism, psychic awareness.,
Cedar: cleansing; strength, meditation.
Cinnamon: energy; courage, gain goals, gain money.
Citrus Lemon/Lime: invigorate: joy, energy.
Cypress: calmative: soothes emotions: stability, Underworld.
Frankincense: cleanse aura; enhance psychic power, energies.
Jasmine: love; intuition, spirituality, confidence, sexuality.
Lavender: balance; calming, cleansing, exorcism, Otherworld.
Orange: visions; psychic dreams, restfulness.
Patchouli: Earth energy; sexuality, strength, power, Underworld.
Peppermint: alertness; action, mental clarity.
Pine: energy; cleansing strength, clarity, action, protection.
Rose: energy; love; gentleness, peace, happiness.
Rosemary: mental clarity; memory, protection, invigorate, blessing
Sage: purify; cleanse; spiritual visions, inspiration.
ALL PURPOSE CANDLE ANOINTING OIL
ALL PURPOSE CANDLE ANOINTING OIL
–1 cup rose petals 1 cup violets 1 cup water 1 cup olive oil 1 tbsp clove oil
–2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon 1 tablespoon powdered myrrh 1/4 cup wild fennel seeds
Gather rose petals and violets at sunrise. Place them in a clean ceramic crock.
Cover with water (fresh rain water, preferably) and let crock sit in a sunny location for
three days until an oily film (the essential oil of the flowers) is seen floating on top of the water.
Remove oil from water by carefully absorbing it into a small cotton ball.
Squeeze out oil into a clean, long-necked glass bottle. Add olive and clove oils, and swirl
gently in a clockwise direction to slowly agitate oils. Next, add cinnamon, myrrh, and fennel seeds.
Seal bottle tightly and store it in a dark, cool place.
After four weeks, strain through cheesecloth and use to anoint candles.
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