Inks

Inks

Inks have always been important in magick. However, sometimes inks can cause problems if you do not know of a local occult shop or they do not carry magickal inks. As well as that as you may have discovered occult tools can be pricey. Making your own inks could very possibly save you money. Aside from being cheaper there is another advantage to making your own ink. This is that you can charge it with your own personal energy and do not need to worry about with what energy the maker of the store bought ink infused it with.

If you run into problems with inks that are too watery and runny then use a little gum arbic to thicken them.

Simple Herbal Inks:
For Red - Beet juice
For Redish-Brown - Dragon's Blood resin. This is difficult to dissolve but it can be done in alcohol.
Purple - Grape juice
Purple - Pokeberries (Be careful, pokeberries are exteremely poisionous)
Yellow-Orange - Saffron

Besa Ink:
Blood of a crow, blood of a white dove, myrrh, black ink, cinnabar, mulberry tree sap, rain water, wormoon, and vetch.

Hermaic Ink:
4 drams Myrrh, 3 figs, 7 date pits, 7 small dried pinecones, 7 piths of wormwood, 7 wings of the hermaic ibis, and spring water. Burn ingredients, and then mix with spring water to use to write.

Typhonian Ink:
Red poppy, artichoke juice, acacia seed, red typhonian ocher, asbestos, quicklime, wormwood, gum arabic, and rain water.

Bats Blood Ink:
2 parts dragon's blood resin, 1/2 part myrrh resin, 2 drops cinnamon oil, 2 drops indigo colour, 12 parts alcohol, and 1/2 part gum arabic.

Black Ink:
Cinnabar, mulverry tree spa, rainwater, vech, and wormwood.

Dove's Blood Ink:
1 part dragon's blood resin, 2 drops cinnamon oil, 2 drops boy oil, 10 parts alcohol, 1 part gum arabic, and 2 drops rose oil

Dragon's Blood Ink:
1 part dragon's blood resin, 15 parts alcohol, 1 part gum arabic.

Traditional Ink:
Take some albumen (egg white) and mix thoroughly with soot. Then add honey and mix into a smooth paste.

Magickal Ink:
10 oz Gall nuts, 3 oz Green Copperas, 3 oz Rock Alum or Gum Arabic. Reduce all ingreidents to a powder and place in glazed earthen pot with river water (just enough to moisten). Make a fire of sprigs of fern gathered on St. John's Eve (Midsummer) and vine twigs cut on the full moon of March. Add virgin paper to the fire and set the pot over it. When the water boils the ink is done.