Attraction oil
3oz. Apricot or Almond oil base
2dr. Allspice oil
2dr. white musk oil           Color: Topaz
1dr. citrus oil (lemon and lime, and orange)
1/2dr. Sweet pea
Place an amber stone in the master bottle and a corriander seed in the
dram bottles for sale.
 
Magnet oil
2oz each Apricot and sesame oils as a base
1dr. Cinnamon
1dr. Rose            Color: Dark red
2dr. Rose Geranium
A lodestone in master bottle with iron filings
 
GODDESS RECIPES:OILS, PERFUMES ETC
       
[From 'The Witches' Goddess by Janet & Stewart Farrar (C) 1987
and published by Phoenix Publishing Inc., Portal Way, P.O.
Box 10, Custer, Washington USA 98240. Presented here to help
encourage the continuance of The Craft and to encourage those
who find it of interest to acquire the books written by the
selfsame authors. Uploaded Into computer BBS circulation by
the MYSTERIA MAGICIA BBS of Des Moines, IA.]
 
 
MOON PRIESTESS PERFUME:
  1 Drop Queen of the Night Oil
  3 drops rose oil
  1 drop lemon verbena oil
  4 fl. oz (120cc) white spirit
Blend the three oils in a bottle. Add the white spirit, and shake all
vigorously. A cologne can be made by adding another 1 FL. oz (30cc)
of white spirit and 3 fl. oz (90cc) of distilled water.
 
MOON PRIEST COLOGNE:
  1 fl.oz (30cc) lemon verbena or Lime oil
  2 fl.oz (60cc) coriander oil
  1/2 fl.oz. (15cc) camphor or myrrh oil
  1/4 fl.oz. (7cc) white spirit
  3 3/4 fl.oz. (105cc) distilled water
Blend the oils in a bottle, add the spirit and water and shake all
vigorously. Increasing the myrrh oils gives a darker perfume;
increasing the camphor, a lighter and more spicy one. All perfumes
'behave' differently on different skins, so it is worth experimenting
to find your own balance.
 
EARTH MOTHER PERFUME:
  Musk oil
  Patchouli oil
  Rose Oil
Blend in equal parts, bottle and shake well.
 
ISIS PERFUME:
  Rose oil
  Blue Lotus Oil
Blend equal parts, bottle and shake well.
 
SUN GODDESS PERFUME:
  Cinnamon Oil
  Lemon Verbena Oil
  YlangYlang Oil
Blend equal parts, bottle and shake well.
 
OIL FOR THE DARK OF THE MOON:
  2 fl.oz.(60cc) tincture of myrrh
  1 fl.oz.(30cc) oil of cinnamon
  1/4 fl.oz.(7cc) Queen of the Night Oil
  1 fl.oz.(30cc) oil of rose
Blend, bottle and shake well.
 
OIL FOR THE RITES OF ISIS:
  7 drops oil of rose
  2 Drops oil of Camphor
  2 drops tincture of myrrh
  3 drops oil of blue hyacinth
Blends the oils of rose, camphor, and blue hyacinth during the
waxing moon. Bottle and keep till the Moon wanes. Add the Myrrh
 
KALI INCENSE:
  This is an individual and personalized incense, for attunement
to your own Dark of the Moon.
  1 oz (30gm) sandalwood chips
  1 oz (30gm) Dried jasmine flowers or 6 drops jasmine oil
  1/2 oz (15gm) dried rose petals
  2 drops of your own menstrual blood
Blend and use for private meditation during the onset of your
menstruation.
 
MORRIGAN INCENSE:
  1 oz (30gm) musk amberette
  1/2 oz (15gm) dragon's blood (resin used in violin staining)
  4 drops patchouli oil
  4 drops civet oil
  4 drops of blood from your own finger
Blend at the dark of the Mon, put in a jar and bury in the earth
for 6 weeks (a flower pot of peat in a cool cupboard will do).
 
ATHENE OIL & INCENSE:
  The olive is sacred to Athene, so use pure olive oil as an
anointing oil in particular, rub between the palms of your hands
and anoint your feet, forehead and lips. For the Incense:
  1 oz (30gm) cedarwood chips
  1/2 oz (15gm) camphor
  7 drops musk oil
  Female sweat (as much as possible)
  6 olives unstuffed and preferably black
Blend the first four ingredients well, at the full moon, and add
the olives. Put in a jar and leave for one month to mature. Then
remove the olives (Which will have imparted their essence to the
rest) and throw them away.
  Stuffed olives, both black and green, are an obvious food for
a ritual of Athene, also stuffed vine leaves, a very Athenian dish.
If possible, of course, the wine should be Greek  especially
retsina, though that is an acquired taste.
 
PRERITUAL BATH SCENTS:
  To cleanse and relax the body before a ritual, and to energize
the psychic centers Fill small sachets of muslin cloth with equal
amounts of the following herbs:
  Basil (for psychic energy)
  Borage (to strengthen the inner self)
  Lavendar (to banish mental and emotional stress)
  Centaury (a traditional witch herb)
  Rue (a traditional bathing herb)
Put a sachet into your bath five minutes before you get in, to
give the aromatics time to work.
 
DIANA OF THE MOON INCENSE:
  It is recommended that it be made in the hour and the day of the
Moon  i.e. the first or eighth hour after sunrise, or the third or
tenth hour after sunset, on a Monday.
  Thoroughly mix equal amounts of the following:
     Gum mastic
     Jasmine
     Mandrake
     Orris root
  add a few drops of wintergreen oil and moisten with a little clear
mineral oil.
 
AINE of KNOCKAINE INCENSE:
  1/2 oz (15gm) meadowsweet flowers and leaf (gathered when the
         plant is in full bloom and dried)
  1/2 oz (15gm) finely chopped pine needles
  1/2 fl.oz. (15cc) lemon verbena oil
By the way, meadowsweet blossom also makes a delicious wine.
 
Witches often ask about how to make essential oils.
I don't know exactly how you produce essential oils from herbs. What I
do know is that it's a laborious process, and that most of the time you
will want to dilute the essential oils anyway, so that fragrant,
blended oils consisting of a carrier oil and a herb are often more
versatile. In addition to that they are quite easy to
manufacture. This is how I do it.
 
oils & herbs
 
 
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/religion/neopagan/Herbs/Uses/Pleasure/fragrant_oils
 
Copyright Ceci Henningsson 1994. This article may be freely copied and
distributed, provided this copyright notice is included.
 
The Kitchen Magic School's Fragrant Oils
 
This is what you need
=====================
A carrier oil. The intended use decides which one. Edible oils are
sold in supermarkets everywhere, and can often be used for other
purposes than just eating. In herbal cosmetic shops like the Body Shop
you can buy pure or blended oils for special purposes like bathing and
massage. You can experiment with different oils for different
purposes, but never ingest any oil that wasn't specifically made for
the purpose. It's important that you use new oil with the best before
date well ahead, as fragrant oils don't keep as well as essential
oils. Wheatgerm oil can be used as a preservative if you find that
your oils don't keep well.
 
The herb. For this purpose it doesn't matter if it's fresh, dried or
even frozen. Herbs are sold in many places. Occult shops often have
quite an assortment, but the supermarket in your area may sell some
of these much cheaper. Supermarkets often have herbs in either the
spice department (notably fennel and cardamom the health food
department (notably rosehips and buckwheat) or even the hot drinks
department (notably chamomile and cocoa). Specialized health food
stores and natural cosmetics boutiques often have herbs too.
 
Growing your own herbs can be a very satisfying experience, and it
doesn't take a lot of skill to do with the most common ones. You can
buy plants at a nursery or raise your own from seeds. Seeds are
available in supermarkets, garden centers and nurseries. There are
often quite adequate instructions on the seed envelope. If you are new
to growing things, start out with easy growers like mint, heartsease
and dill and grow them in pots.
 
Which herb to choose is a science in itself. If you want to use the
oil for magickal purposes, you will probably want to choose it
according to its correspondences. At the end of Starhawk's
_Spiral_Dance_ there is a substantial list of common correspondences,
and the classic Culpeper's Complete Herbal lists herbs and their uses
and correspondences. Of course if you follow a specific tradition you
will want to consult it, so you don't use inappropriate herbs. Many
eclectic witches like to make up their own correspondences following
their intuition. If you will use the oil on your skin, make sure that
it won't irritate or cause allergic reactions. You may want to consult
a book on aromatherapy if you are using fragrant oils for
healing. Some oils are considered aphrodisiacs, and can be quite fun
to use for massage.
 
A practical consideration is the availability of a given herb. Herbs
may be unavailable for many different reasons. Maybe it isn't
traditionally used in your part of the world, it may be illegal for a
number of reasons, it could be surrounded with superstition or it can
simply be out of season.
 
A bottle. Fragrant oils are sensitive to light so try avoiding crystal
clear bottles. You will often want to use just a spoonful of the oil,
so a squirt cap is useful. Shampoo bottles can often be used, as they
are generally about the right size and have caps which are made so you
can easily take a small amount without having oil run down the outside
of the bottle. Plastic bottles will often be found to take on some of
the aroma of the contents, so you may want to throw them away after
one use, or always keep the same oil in the same bottle. Some occult
shops sell amber glass bottles, too. Of course it's neat to have all
your oils in identical bottles instead of having an array of brightly
colored shampoo bottles, but they're a lot more expensive than saved
up shampoo bottles. Label all your bottles carefully with the name of
the herb, carrier oil and date of manufacture!
 
This is how to do it
====================
The basic principle is easy: put the herb in the oil, and wait.
 
If you are bothered by herb particles in the finished product, you can
use a tea egg or a small bag of muslin or nylon suspended by string in
the bottle, and remove them when you find the fragrance strong
enough. This requires a bottle with a wide opening. If you don't have
such a bottle, you can strain the oil in a wiremesh tea sieve
instead. If you aren't bothered by herb particles, you can often leave
the herb in the oil until you've used it all up. This works
particularly well with antiseptic herbs like peppermint, but can in
other cases make the oil go stale.
 
The time it takes for an oil to become pleasantly fragrant depends on
the herb and the oil, what you consider pleasant and the conditions
you keep them under. You will have to experiment with concentration,
stirring, and time to find out which works best under your
circumstances. With some herbs crushing can speed up the process.
Seeds like fennel are among those. Many herbs vary quite a lot in
strength depending on a range of factors, so sometimes you will have
to adapt your recipes. The best thing is probably to develop your
intuition with regards to herbs. As a rule of thumb, two weeks to
three months should be adequate.
 
Suggested uses for fragrant oils
================================
Bathing: Many oils can change your mood when used in a bath. Try out
       different ones, like thyme and heartsease. Caveat 1: Some
       herbs are skin irritants, and you may be allergic to some
       without knowing this. If your skin gets irritated during or
       after a bath, immediately take a shower and wash yourself all
       over with hypoallergenic soap.  Then dry yourself and use a
       hypoallergenic body lotion. This should take care of most skin
       irritations. If it doesn't, seek a doctor.  Carefully note
       which herbs cause skin irritations in you, and avoid
       them. If you know that your skin is sensitive, avoid herbs
       which are known to cause skin irritations or allergic
       reactions in many people. Some of the more common ones are
       mint, vanilla and of course all hot spices like pepper. Caveat
       2: Never use psychoactive herbs in a bath, this includes sleep
       inducing herbs.  You can drown yourself quite easily that way.
 
Anointing Fragrant oils are much milder than essential oils, and can
       often be used directly for anointing on your skin. If you are
       using fragrant oils for magickal purposes, you may want to
       take into account the correspondences of the carrier oil,
       too.
 
Vaporising: Vaporising means that you heat the oil so that it
       gives off its fragrance. This is useful in its own right, but
       can also serve as a substitute for incense when you or members
       of your household object to incense for medical or other
       reasons. Vaporisers can be bought in occult stores, shops for
       herbal cosmetics, interior decoration boutiques or even in the
       department store. The most common ones are a terracotta ring
       that you suspend on a lightbulb, and more elaborate structures
       with a ÓhouseÓ for a teacandle and a shallow pan
       suspended above it. The fragrant oil has to be quite strong
       for this purpose.
 
Massage: Massage is a fine art and healing in many ways. You may want
       to experiment with using edible oils for this purpose. Caveat
       1: The oil used for massage enters the skin even more
       forcefully than the one used in a bath. Make sure you
       aren't allergic beforehand.  Vigorously rub in a tad of oil
       on a sensitive place like the inside of the arm just above
       your wrist. If the skin is irritated after an hour, don't
       use that oil on your skin again. Caveat 2: Massage is often a
       part of lovemaking. If you use a condom for birth control,
       don't use massage oils. The reason for this is that the oil
       makes microscopic holes in the rubber, and renders it useless.
 
Cooking: Fragrant oils of spices like oregano or basil can be used in
       cooking. You can use it as a marinade, or to brush on meat
       before you grill it. How about making your own curry oil?
       Caveat: Use only oils specifically made for ingestion for this
       purpose.
 
Libations: We often use wine or water for libations, but we know that
       for instance the Minoans on Crete offered their deities oils
       as well as wine and honey.
 
Further suggestions
===================
You can use this method with other mediums than oil; shampoo and
liquid soap for instance. Find fragrance free products, and make your
own herbal cosmetics. I like to use chamomile shampoo, so I blend 100
ml of fragrance free shampoo with 1 gram of chamomile flowers from
a teabag. After one week the liquid starts to turn yellow and smell of
chamomile and is ready for use. I use a hair conditioner (again
fragrance free) to make sure I rinse out all chamomile particles from
my hair. The same can be done with rosemary if you have dark hair, and
other herbs if you have problems with your hair or scalp. Lavender
produces a soothing soap, and pine needles an invigorating one. Again,
make sure you aren't allergic to herbs used on the skin or in the hair
in this way.