Use in a base of 30ml of almond oil or any other base of your choice.
4 drops oak moss oil
2 drops cinnamon oil
1 drop bay oil
2 drops allspice oil
Cinnamon oil may irritate the skin, so this oil is best used for anointing candles
Monday, 16 March 2009
Sunday, 15 March 2009
GOD OF SPRING INCENSE
You Will Need:
Matches
Charcoal Blocks
Censor or heat proof bowl.
Place charcoal blocks in censor and place a combination of any of the following on top:
Matches
Charcoal Blocks
Censor or heat proof bowl.
Place charcoal blocks in censor and place a combination of any of the following on top:
Ceder Chips
Ginger
Wormwood
Mullein
Poppy Seed
Clove
Skullcap
Cinnamon
GODDES OF SPRING INCENSE
You Will Need:
Charcoal Blocks
Matches
Censor or Heat Proof Bowl
Place charcoal blocks in censor or bowl and place a combination of any of the following on top:
Clover
Vervain
Hibiscus
Briony
Lemon Verbena
Sweet Pea
Jasmine
Myrtle
OSTARA: SPRING (VERNAL) EQUINOX
This Sabbat occurs in Mid March when night and day are equal. This Sabbat is considered one of fertility, and is the second of the spring celebrations. Seeds are blessed for future planting. Eggs are coloured and placed on the alter as Magickal talismans. The Easter Bunny and baskets of flowers are also Pagan in origin and symbolic of Ostara. The colours light green, lemon yellow and pale pink are colours of this Sabbat.
It is traditional at this time of year to buy or make oneself a new broom (or a new staff if you are male). Both should be ritually consecrated. Brooms are given names in the same way as Familiars and a naming ceremony may be incorporated into the Ostara ritual.
Breads and sweet cakes should be served at dusk and a breakfast feast should coincide with the sunrise on this day.
It is traditional at this time of year to buy or make oneself a new broom (or a new staff if you are male). Both should be ritually consecrated. Brooms are given names in the same way as Familiars and a naming ceremony may be incorporated into the Ostara ritual.
Breads and sweet cakes should be served at dusk and a breakfast feast should coincide with the sunrise on this day.
Saturday, 7 March 2009
MAGICKAL OILS
AMBER - Used to harmonise the Aura, bring Yin and Yang into balance with one's self.
APPLE - Best worn between the Autumn Equinox and Yule for its high energy and wisdom.
BASIL - Used to sooth tempers between lovers in troublesome times, good for love potions, wealth, floor washes, protection spells.
BAY - Best used for clairvoyance and to enhance psychic visions, also good for protection.
BERGAMOT - Is said when rubbed on money, will ensure the return of riches.. Prosperity spells, wisdom.
CARNATION - Used to ensure strength, good health and for protection.
CEDERWOOD - Used in magick for wealth and prosperity.
CHERRY - Used in love magick. Promotes love, friendship.
CINNAMON - In oil form is known to raise spiritual vibrations, draw money and stimulates psychic powers.
CITRONELLA - Attracts friends and customers. Protection from insects.
CLOVE - Worn to attract the opposite sex. Used to gain prosperity.
COCONUT - Worn to ensure chastity.
CYPRESS - Also known as the tree of death, this oil is used in times of requiem, mourning. Worn for longevity of life. Healing of life. Healing.
EUCALYPTUS - Promotes healing of any hurt, depression or illness. Especially good for colds and flu.
FRANKINCENSE - Sacred to the Egyptians, this oil is worn to protect against negativity and is used as a sacred anointing oil.
GARDENIA - Sacred to the Goddess, this oil is used to bring peaceful vibrations, to attract good spirits into the circle.
GERANIUM - Used to attract others in the matters of love.
HELIOTROPE - Increases clairvoyance, assists meditation, protects from physical harm.
HONEYSUCKLE - Wear to increase psychic abilities and also increase in clairvoyance. In candle magick, use it to increase money and prosperity.
HYACINTH - Stops and prevents nightmares.
JASMINE - Worn at night to induce sleep, causes prophetic dreams.
JUNIPER - Used as an aid in meditation and spiritual enlightenment.
LAVENDER - Used in healing and to bring peace into a troublesome relationship. Peace happiness and calmness.
LEMON - Evokes protective spirits.
LILAC - Used in candle magick as an aid in mental development and past lives, recollection. Keep away from baneful spirits.
MAGNOLIA - This oil is used to maintain a faithful relationship.
MUSK - This oil is used as a sexual attractor and also stimulates the psychic body. Magickally it is used to anoint the Censor.
MIMOSA - Prophetic dreams, getting to the truth, making decisions.
MYRRH - One of the sacred oils, it is worn for blessing, protection and concentration. Purification and meditation.
NARCISSUS - Good for overcoming restlessness, creating harmony.
ORANGE - Brings harmony and raises power.
ORCHID - Worn to attract love, used for mental clarity, psychic perception and creativity.
PATCHOULI - This rich, earthy smell is used to cleanse the aura and is known for capabilities to raise high sexual energy.
PINE - Cleansing aura. In candle magick to increase prosperity.
ROSE - Used to promote thoughts of love and affection.
SAGE - This oil is best used for purification of self and home. Known for longevity, wisdom and power.
SANDALWOOD - Known to be a most spiritual oil, healing, meditation.
SWEET GRASS - Invokes spiritual blessings, aids transformations.
VANILLA - Soothing scent, increases loving and lustful energy.
VETIVER - This is worn to attract a lover. Used in candle magick to repel negativity.
VIOLET - Used in healing. Ward off evil, helps smooth out tensions in a love affair.
YLANG YLANG - Soothing, used in all aspects of healing. Used in sex magicks.
APPLE - Best worn between the Autumn Equinox and Yule for its high energy and wisdom.
BASIL - Used to sooth tempers between lovers in troublesome times, good for love potions, wealth, floor washes, protection spells.
BAY - Best used for clairvoyance and to enhance psychic visions, also good for protection.
BERGAMOT - Is said when rubbed on money, will ensure the return of riches.. Prosperity spells, wisdom.
CARNATION - Used to ensure strength, good health and for protection.
CEDERWOOD - Used in magick for wealth and prosperity.
CHERRY - Used in love magick. Promotes love, friendship.
CINNAMON - In oil form is known to raise spiritual vibrations, draw money and stimulates psychic powers.
CITRONELLA - Attracts friends and customers. Protection from insects.
CLOVE - Worn to attract the opposite sex. Used to gain prosperity.
COCONUT - Worn to ensure chastity.
CYPRESS - Also known as the tree of death, this oil is used in times of requiem, mourning. Worn for longevity of life. Healing of life. Healing.
EUCALYPTUS - Promotes healing of any hurt, depression or illness. Especially good for colds and flu.
FRANKINCENSE - Sacred to the Egyptians, this oil is worn to protect against negativity and is used as a sacred anointing oil.
GARDENIA - Sacred to the Goddess, this oil is used to bring peaceful vibrations, to attract good spirits into the circle.
GERANIUM - Used to attract others in the matters of love.
HELIOTROPE - Increases clairvoyance, assists meditation, protects from physical harm.
HONEYSUCKLE - Wear to increase psychic abilities and also increase in clairvoyance. In candle magick, use it to increase money and prosperity.
HYACINTH - Stops and prevents nightmares.
JASMINE - Worn at night to induce sleep, causes prophetic dreams.
JUNIPER - Used as an aid in meditation and spiritual enlightenment.
LAVENDER - Used in healing and to bring peace into a troublesome relationship. Peace happiness and calmness.
LEMON - Evokes protective spirits.
LILAC - Used in candle magick as an aid in mental development and past lives, recollection. Keep away from baneful spirits.
MAGNOLIA - This oil is used to maintain a faithful relationship.
MUSK - This oil is used as a sexual attractor and also stimulates the psychic body. Magickally it is used to anoint the Censor.
MIMOSA - Prophetic dreams, getting to the truth, making decisions.
MYRRH - One of the sacred oils, it is worn for blessing, protection and concentration. Purification and meditation.
NARCISSUS - Good for overcoming restlessness, creating harmony.
ORANGE - Brings harmony and raises power.
ORCHID - Worn to attract love, used for mental clarity, psychic perception and creativity.
PATCHOULI - This rich, earthy smell is used to cleanse the aura and is known for capabilities to raise high sexual energy.
PINE - Cleansing aura. In candle magick to increase prosperity.
ROSE - Used to promote thoughts of love and affection.
SAGE - This oil is best used for purification of self and home. Known for longevity, wisdom and power.
SANDALWOOD - Known to be a most spiritual oil, healing, meditation.
SWEET GRASS - Invokes spiritual blessings, aids transformations.
VANILLA - Soothing scent, increases loving and lustful energy.
VETIVER - This is worn to attract a lover. Used in candle magick to repel negativity.
VIOLET - Used in healing. Ward off evil, helps smooth out tensions in a love affair.
YLANG YLANG - Soothing, used in all aspects of healing. Used in sex magicks.
Saturday, 28 February 2009
MOON CAKES
Ingredients
8oz Plain flour
4oz Butter
2oz Sugar
2 tbs Honey
Pinch Salt
Plus any of the following:
Soft fruit
Dried fruit
Mixed candied peel
Almonds
Walnuts
Cream the fat and the sugar and work in the sifted flour, add the honey and salt and work into a creamy paste. Roll out into a flat pastry sheet approx. 1/2 inch thick. Cut into little Moons with a shaped cutter or use a round one and and move the cutter about until you have a cresent shape.
Place on a greased baking tray, prick all over and bake in a moderate oven 350'f, Gas Mark 4 for approx 20-30 minutes or until brown.
You can add any or a combination of any of the optional extras to the basic mixture to add a little diversity to your Moon cakes.
8oz Plain flour
4oz Butter
2oz Sugar
2 tbs Honey
Pinch Salt
Plus any of the following:
Soft fruit
Dried fruit
Mixed candied peel
Almonds
Walnuts
Cream the fat and the sugar and work in the sifted flour, add the honey and salt and work into a creamy paste. Roll out into a flat pastry sheet approx. 1/2 inch thick. Cut into little Moons with a shaped cutter or use a round one and and move the cutter about until you have a cresent shape.
Place on a greased baking tray, prick all over and bake in a moderate oven 350'f, Gas Mark 4 for approx 20-30 minutes or until brown.
You can add any or a combination of any of the optional extras to the basic mixture to add a little diversity to your Moon cakes.
THE CEREMONY OF CAKES AND ALE
This is part of the Wiccan meeting rites held at every Sabbat and Esbat and is a thanksgiving for good things to eat and drink. The cakes represent the good things from the goddess such as wheat, plus the gifts of the Goddess of the Underworld and the Goddess of the sea, the salt, and also the gift of honey. The wine represents the gifts from the Horned God - the vine, or wine!
The Cakes and Ale ceremony is a very old ritual and is mentioned in Aradia - The Gospel of the Witches by G.C. Leland.
HOW TO CONSECRATE THE SUPPER
Here follows the supper, of what it must consist, and what shall be said and done to consecrate it to Diana.
You shall take meal (Flour) and salt, honey and water, and make this incantation:
I conjure thee, O meal!
Who art indeed our body, since without thee
We could not live, thou who (at first as seed)
Before becoming flower went in the earth,
Where all deep secrets hide, and when ground
Didst dance like dust in the wind, and yet meanwhile
Didst bear with thee in flitting, secrets strange!
And yet erewhile, when tough wert in the ear,
Even as a (golden) glittering grain, even then
The fireflies came to cast on thee their light
And aid they growth, because without their help
Thou Couldst not grow nor beautiful become
Therefore thou dost belong unto the race
Of Witches or of fairies, and because
The fireflies do belong unto the sun....
Queen of the fireflies! hurry apace
Come to me now as if running a race,
Bridle the horse as you hear me now sing!
Bridle, O bridle the son of the king!
Come in a hurry and bring him to me!
The son of the king will ere long set thee free;
And because thou for ever art brilliant and fair,
Under a glass I will keep thee; while there,
With a lens I will study thy secrets concealed,
Till there bright mysteries are are fully revealed.
Yea all the wondrous lore perplexed
Of this life of our cross and the next.
Thus to all mysteries I shall attain,
Yea, even to that at last of the grain;
And when this at last I shall truly know,
Firefly, freely I'll let thee go!
When earth's dark secrets are known to me,
My blessing at last I will give to thee!
CONJURATION OF THE SALT
I do conjure thee O salt, lo! here at noon,
Exactly in the Middle of a stream
I take my place and see the water round,
Likewise here besides the water and the sun:
For all my soul is turned in truth to them;
I do indeed desire no other thought,
I yearn to learn the very truth of truths,
For I have suffered long with the desire
To know my future or my coming fate,
If good or evil will prevail in it.
Water and sun, be gracious unto me.
Then shall follow the Conjuration of Diana.
Your shall make cakes of meal, wine, salt and honey in the shape of a crescent moon, and then
put them to bake and say:
CONJURATION OF DIANA
I do not bake the bread, nor with it salt,
Nor do I cook the honey with the wine,
I bake the body and blood and soul,
The soul of (great) Diana, that she shall
Know neither rest nor peace, and ever be
I cruel suffering till she will grant
What I request, what I do most desire,
I beg it of her from my very heart!
And if this grace be granted, O Diana!
In honour of thee I will hold this feast,
Feast and drain the goblet deep,
We will dance and wildly leap
And if thou grant'st the grace which I require
Then when the dance is wildest, all the lamps
Shall be extinguished and we'll freely love!
And thus shall it be done, all shall sit down to the supper and after the feast is over they shall sing, dance and make music in Diana's praise.
The Cakes and Ale ceremony is a very old ritual and is mentioned in Aradia - The Gospel of the Witches by G.C. Leland.
HOW TO CONSECRATE THE SUPPER
Here follows the supper, of what it must consist, and what shall be said and done to consecrate it to Diana.
You shall take meal (Flour) and salt, honey and water, and make this incantation:
I conjure thee, O meal!
Who art indeed our body, since without thee
We could not live, thou who (at first as seed)
Before becoming flower went in the earth,
Where all deep secrets hide, and when ground
Didst dance like dust in the wind, and yet meanwhile
Didst bear with thee in flitting, secrets strange!
And yet erewhile, when tough wert in the ear,
Even as a (golden) glittering grain, even then
The fireflies came to cast on thee their light
And aid they growth, because without their help
Thou Couldst not grow nor beautiful become
Therefore thou dost belong unto the race
Of Witches or of fairies, and because
The fireflies do belong unto the sun....
Queen of the fireflies! hurry apace
Come to me now as if running a race,
Bridle the horse as you hear me now sing!
Bridle, O bridle the son of the king!
Come in a hurry and bring him to me!
The son of the king will ere long set thee free;
And because thou for ever art brilliant and fair,
Under a glass I will keep thee; while there,
With a lens I will study thy secrets concealed,
Till there bright mysteries are are fully revealed.
Yea all the wondrous lore perplexed
Of this life of our cross and the next.
Thus to all mysteries I shall attain,
Yea, even to that at last of the grain;
And when this at last I shall truly know,
Firefly, freely I'll let thee go!
When earth's dark secrets are known to me,
My blessing at last I will give to thee!
CONJURATION OF THE SALT
I do conjure thee O salt, lo! here at noon,
Exactly in the Middle of a stream
I take my place and see the water round,
Likewise here besides the water and the sun:
For all my soul is turned in truth to them;
I do indeed desire no other thought,
I yearn to learn the very truth of truths,
For I have suffered long with the desire
To know my future or my coming fate,
If good or evil will prevail in it.
Water and sun, be gracious unto me.
Then shall follow the Conjuration of Diana.
Your shall make cakes of meal, wine, salt and honey in the shape of a crescent moon, and then
put them to bake and say:
CONJURATION OF DIANA
I do not bake the bread, nor with it salt,
Nor do I cook the honey with the wine,
I bake the body and blood and soul,
The soul of (great) Diana, that she shall
Know neither rest nor peace, and ever be
I cruel suffering till she will grant
What I request, what I do most desire,
I beg it of her from my very heart!
And if this grace be granted, O Diana!
In honour of thee I will hold this feast,
Feast and drain the goblet deep,
We will dance and wildly leap
And if thou grant'st the grace which I require
Then when the dance is wildest, all the lamps
Shall be extinguished and we'll freely love!
And thus shall it be done, all shall sit down to the supper and after the feast is over they shall sing, dance and make music in Diana's praise.
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