Oils for Protection

These oils are tools to support your boundaries. Boundaries are vital. Without boundaries we struggle to know ourselves, our needs, our desires; where we stop and others begin. There are many ways to discover, build, fortify, and protect our boundaries.

Plants introduce themselves to me when I am in need of their medicine. But each of these oil recipes began with an explicit plant offering from a guide in the dream space. Each recipe began with ingredients that carry lineages of protection. The message was twofold: use these ingredients for self-protection, and protection is needed as much in liminal spaces as in waking life.

Explore with these oils. The body oils are subtle, the ritual oils dense. The body oils, with a sunflower oil base, were created for you to apply them generously, maybe after a bath and before heading out to engage with the human world. The ritual oils, in fractionated coconut oil (often used as a carrier in natural perfumery), are paired with a sigil for application, and offer more concentrated magic for time at your altar, or for dreaming spaces. Both are sweet just for sensory love.

smoke: cade, fir, grapefruit

earth: apple, chaparral, clary sage

chronos: oracular grove, ancestor oaks.

A lineage, the structure of reverential tradition. Slow aging: the solidity and fullness that grows with time and devotion.

hemlock, hinoki, cedar, rosemary, bay, oak, orange, petitgrain, orris

cambria: alchemical symbol for salt; earth and sea.

The ancientness underneath us. The wisdom of roots and salt and mud. It is the earth as our ancestor: rich, rank, and vital.

seaweed, boletes, tobacco, mugwort, fennel, magnolia, oak, dill, cistus, lavender

cloak: double furka/furca, a forked cross.

The recipe of a matriarch. It offers warmth and sweetness wrapped in moveable shelter. It is quiet ferocity and love.

vanilla, caramel (copaiba balsam, tonka, benzoin), cinnamon, clove