Oleum of Yggdrasil
Bark, leaf, fruit, bud, root and blood of all the Forest’s sacred trees with skin of serpent, Odin’s Toadstool, stone of adder, and herbs of the crossroad. This oil was buried at the foot of a great tree, half Cedar half Maple (the World Trees of the Pacific Northwest Coast), between three three-way crossroads and blessed with the witch’s stang of Hawthorn. This oil has felt the cold earth of the underworld, the warm chinook winds, and the touch of rain and spring water – blessed by the realms of earth, sea, and sky.
Use to anoint yourself before ritual at your third eye and the top of your spine to align yourself with the World Tree and its associated gods (Odin, Dionysus, Hermes, Hecate, Osiris, Artemis, Diana, Prometheus, Esus, Legba, etc). To align with the World Tree, known as Yggdrasil in the Norse tongue, is to be able to speak to gods and spirits. Anoint yourself and your wooden wand, staff, stang, or besom to aid in your otherworldly journeys and your sabbat rites.
Oleum of Shades
This reddened oil has been crafted to aid in communication with the spirits of the dead and is an essential ingredient in an ancestor worshipper, medium, or necromancer’s tool kit. Use Oil of Shades to anoint yourself, a spirit vessel, urn, bones, spirit offerings, or a gravestone.
A dandelion root wild harvested from a three-way crossroad, black henbane, and barks of willow and yew trees blended with native herbs of the dead and natural red ochre pigment infused in North American oils and charged with a rock crystal. Each botanical has an association with the dead and manifesting spirits.
Oleum of Saining
Wild harvested Cedar, Sagebrush, Hemlock, Blue Spruce, Blessed Herb, Propolis resin, and a touch of honey infused in hand blended North American oils for anointing, blessing and consecration. To “sain” means to bless. Each botanical has a long history of being used for purification and blessing in North American and European lore.
Use to anoint oneself before rituals and ceremonies of magic, worship, and healing. Use to anoint and bless altars, ritual tools, candles, statuary, and gem stones or to consecrate magically crafted charms and talismans.
Oleum of Amanita
White-speckled blood red caps of Fly Agaric toadstools locally wild harvested from the Forest infused in a blend of North American oils with a touch of natural red ochre. The mushroom is not poisonous when infused in oil and is safe to apply directly to the skin.
This light red oil fragrant of earthy mushrooms is perfect for connecting to divine inspiration or the gods of ecstasy, intoxication and madness such as Dionysos, Odin, Pan and Medb. As Amanita Muscaria is only found growing at the roots of trees – especially Birch, Pine, and Beech – this magical oil is designed to work with the World Tree as tree of knowledge and inspiration. Our Ancestors made the same connection and a mural of Fly Agaric as Tree of Knowledge can be found on a wall of Plaincourault Abby in France painted in 1291.
Fly Agaric toadstools are sacred to Odin, to Baba Yaga, to Ravens (one folk-name is “Raven’s Bread”), to Deer, and of course, to Toads. Fly Agaric mushrooms belong to the trees, the wild forest gods and the spirits of nature. Anoint your third eye and your throat to work with them, to receive visions when hedgecrossing or dreaming, or before embarking on a creative project.
I’m also selling two limited edition ancient incenses. As I’m switching over to using North American botanicals these will be the last batches I make of these ancient European recipes. The first is Hekate Smoke, a fume from ancient Rome for spirit work, crossroads work, travelling between worlds, and invoking & giving offering to Hekate. Pungent resins of myrrh and frankincense with chocolatey black storax bark, the herbal spice of rue and laurel, and the sting of three of Hekate’s Solanaceae: black henbane, black nightshade, and mandrake (mandragora officinarum).
The second is Spirit Smoke, Cornelius Agrippa’s 450-year-old recipe from The Philosophy of Natural Magic for necromantic rites of summoning and seeing spirits. Burn this incense during the dark half of the year, the dark of the moon, or after sunset to summon and see spirits of the dead in order to work with them more easily. Asafoetida and galbanum resins blended with red sandalwood, mullein leaf, black poppy seeds, and poisonous black henbane.
I’m loving the direction you’re taking your products. Lovely work as always
Sweet, you make some really interesting products… I think I’ll be looking into the Shade and Saining oleum on my next paycheck ^_^
Angelina
I find these updates very interesting..can!t say I know alot about them but I have been reading as you send..I do use the usual incenses and sweet grass I am familiar with..If I was interesting in ordering anything how do I do this??
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Does the Raven’s Bread oil produce the lifting normally associated with oil infusions?
Do you mean as a lifting salve? Scientifically, no, as it’s difficult to absorb it’s constituents through the skin, but magically I’ve found it still has an effect especially if you whisper your desires to oil or salve made with the mushroom before using it.
I’ve already said this on Etsy, but for real – you’re what I want to be when I grow up.
Well, I’m halfway there, I guess, but you are a source of true and constant inspiration to me and I’m so glad to have an opportunity to share in what you create, not just by buying it – though that is admittedly awesome, and thank you for offering it for sale in the first place – but by reading about the process of its creation. Thank you.