Oils for Protection

These oils are tools to support your boundaries. They also smell delicious.

Each of these recipes began with an explicit offering from a guide in the dream space. The plants in these oils belong to lineages of protection. The message from my guides is twofold: use these ingredients for self-protection, and protection is needed as much in liminal spaces as in waking life.

The body oils are subtle, the ritual oils concentrated. The body oils, with a sunflower oil base, were created for you to apply them generously. The ritual oils are paired with a sigil for application, and offer more concentrated scent.

Body Oil 4 fl oz

smoke: cade, fir, grapefruit

earth: apple, chaparral, clary sage

Perfumes 1/2 fl oz

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