Litha
June 24th, 2001, 10:47 PM
All-Purpose Blessing and Annointing Altar Oil
2 parts Sandalwood
1 part Clove
2 parts Myrrh
2 parts Frankincense
Sun Self Oil
-- To find the confidence to know and to follow your own path
1 part Sandalwood
2 parts Frankincense
3 parts Orange
Stone Circle Power Oil
-- for banishing and protection
1 part Rosemary
2 parts Frankincense
1 part Vetivert
Flower Faerie’s Fancy
-- to enhance beauty and musical/artistic skill; beware its enchantment!
4 parts Rose
1 part Jasmine
2 parts Clary Sage
Use this spell to charge it:
"Grant me your favors, Fair Ones I pray/
your tales I shall tell, your songs I shall play!
With harm to none, no secrets betray/
Lend me the might of your talents today/
So Mote It Be!"
Dragon’s Hoard Oil
-- helps you find opportunity and resources.
1 part Clove
1 part Patchouli
3 parts Frankincense
1 part Pine
1 part Bergamot
Healer’s Helper Oil
Aromatheraputic properties include fever reduction, analgesic relief from
arthritis
and overexertion and the power to calm headache, including migrane. Healers
can rub this on their hands before performing healing services; those who
need to be healed may wish to annoint the temples and back of neck, or the
body part which is hurting. Not to be used instead of medical treatment.
6 parts Lavender
1 part Rosemary
3 parts Pine
1 part Clary Sage
Witch Blood anointing oil
1/4 oz. artemesia (wormwood)
1/4 oz. valerian root
1/4 oz. vervain
1/4 oz. madder root
1/2 oz. English mandrake root (white bryony)
1 pint olive oil
9 drops oakmoss oil
7 drops elder oil
10 drops pine oil
5 drops chamomile oil
pinch sugar or sweet sap
pinch rock salt
This formula was given to use by Chris Bray of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice. He suggests that if it is for use solely by a High Priest
one should leave out the vervain, or if used solely by a High Priestess
one should leave out the oakmoss oil. So for a specifically male-god
ritual, you may prefer it without vervain. But as it is difficult to
make in small quantities, most people will find the complete recipe
perfectly satisfactory for general use.
As Chris's method of preparation is rather complex, we give it here in
his own words:
"On the day of the Full Moon, bruise and break the valerian root, madder
root and English mandrake root into small pieces. Add to a large mixing
bowl or pestle and mortar. Mix in the wormwood and vervain. Add a
palmful or two of the olive oil and beat into a mushy consistency
(recite charm at this stage if you wish). Pour the mush into an
oven-proof dish. Fit a lid and put in the oven for 15-30 minutes on a
very low, gentle heat.
Remove from oven and allow to cool. Stir the mush (recite again) and
scrape into a wide-necked glass jar (preserve jar, jam jar or the like).
Stopper and leave on a warm south-facing windowsill (so that the mixture
can soak up the sunlight and the moonlight) for about a fortnight.
Shake well each morning and evening (recite charm if you wish).
When you see the New Moon appear, shake the mixture and strain through
muslin into a clean jar. Add the rest of the oils listed and the pinch
of sugar and salt. Stopper and agitate vigorously. Replace the jar on
the windowsill and agitate vigorously morning and evening until the Moon
reaches the First Quarter phase. Leave on the windowsill (untouched in
order to allow the mixture to precipitate) until the night of the next
Full Moon. Decant the clearest liquor off the precipitation and into
the amphora/bottle you will use for ritual purposes."
Masculine Planet correspondences:
(from Lid off the Cauldron, Pat Crowther)
Sun- Heliotrope, orange blossom, cloves, frankincense, ambergris, musk,
mastic, paliginia, sunflower oil.
Mercury- Sweet pea, lavender, mastic, cloves, cinnamon, cinquefoil.
Mars- Hellebore, carnation, patchouli, lingnum aloes, plantain.
Jupiter- Stock, lilac, storax, nutmeg, henbane.
Saturn-Hyacinth, pansy, pepperwort, asafoetida, black poppy seeds,
henbane, lodestone, myrrh.
(Note: henbane is poisonous of eaten and asafoetida is highly unpleasant
unless used in very small quantities.)
2 parts Sandalwood
1 part Clove
2 parts Myrrh
2 parts Frankincense
Sun Self Oil
-- To find the confidence to know and to follow your own path
1 part Sandalwood
2 parts Frankincense
3 parts Orange
Stone Circle Power Oil
-- for banishing and protection
1 part Rosemary
2 parts Frankincense
1 part Vetivert
Flower Faerie’s Fancy
-- to enhance beauty and musical/artistic skill; beware its enchantment!
4 parts Rose
1 part Jasmine
2 parts Clary Sage
Use this spell to charge it:
"Grant me your favors, Fair Ones I pray/
your tales I shall tell, your songs I shall play!
With harm to none, no secrets betray/
Lend me the might of your talents today/
So Mote It Be!"
Dragon’s Hoard Oil
-- helps you find opportunity and resources.
1 part Clove
1 part Patchouli
3 parts Frankincense
1 part Pine
1 part Bergamot
Healer’s Helper Oil
Aromatheraputic properties include fever reduction, analgesic relief from
arthritis
and overexertion and the power to calm headache, including migrane. Healers
can rub this on their hands before performing healing services; those who
need to be healed may wish to annoint the temples and back of neck, or the
body part which is hurting. Not to be used instead of medical treatment.
6 parts Lavender
1 part Rosemary
3 parts Pine
1 part Clary Sage
Witch Blood anointing oil
1/4 oz. artemesia (wormwood)
1/4 oz. valerian root
1/4 oz. vervain
1/4 oz. madder root
1/2 oz. English mandrake root (white bryony)
1 pint olive oil
9 drops oakmoss oil
7 drops elder oil
10 drops pine oil
5 drops chamomile oil
pinch sugar or sweet sap
pinch rock salt
This formula was given to use by Chris Bray of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice. He suggests that if it is for use solely by a High Priest
one should leave out the vervain, or if used solely by a High Priestess
one should leave out the oakmoss oil. So for a specifically male-god
ritual, you may prefer it without vervain. But as it is difficult to
make in small quantities, most people will find the complete recipe
perfectly satisfactory for general use.
As Chris's method of preparation is rather complex, we give it here in
his own words:
"On the day of the Full Moon, bruise and break the valerian root, madder
root and English mandrake root into small pieces. Add to a large mixing
bowl or pestle and mortar. Mix in the wormwood and vervain. Add a
palmful or two of the olive oil and beat into a mushy consistency
(recite charm at this stage if you wish). Pour the mush into an
oven-proof dish. Fit a lid and put in the oven for 15-30 minutes on a
very low, gentle heat.
Remove from oven and allow to cool. Stir the mush (recite again) and
scrape into a wide-necked glass jar (preserve jar, jam jar or the like).
Stopper and leave on a warm south-facing windowsill (so that the mixture
can soak up the sunlight and the moonlight) for about a fortnight.
Shake well each morning and evening (recite charm if you wish).
When you see the New Moon appear, shake the mixture and strain through
muslin into a clean jar. Add the rest of the oils listed and the pinch
of sugar and salt. Stopper and agitate vigorously. Replace the jar on
the windowsill and agitate vigorously morning and evening until the Moon
reaches the First Quarter phase. Leave on the windowsill (untouched in
order to allow the mixture to precipitate) until the night of the next
Full Moon. Decant the clearest liquor off the precipitation and into
the amphora/bottle you will use for ritual purposes."
Masculine Planet correspondences:
(from Lid off the Cauldron, Pat Crowther)
Sun- Heliotrope, orange blossom, cloves, frankincense, ambergris, musk,
mastic, paliginia, sunflower oil.
Mercury- Sweet pea, lavender, mastic, cloves, cinnamon, cinquefoil.
Mars- Hellebore, carnation, patchouli, lingnum aloes, plantain.
Jupiter- Stock, lilac, storax, nutmeg, henbane.
Saturn-Hyacinth, pansy, pepperwort, asafoetida, black poppy seeds,
henbane, lodestone, myrrh.
(Note: henbane is poisonous of eaten and asafoetida is highly unpleasant
unless used in very small quantities.)