Here is the recipe for a new moon/new year oil I made in January:
14 drops of sandalwood essential oil
14 drops of jasmine essential oil
14 drops of lavender essential oil
14 drops of myrrh essential oil (I always try to use myrrh when doing moon-focused spells and charms)
Top it all off with a base/carrier oil of your choice. (I used grape seed oil).
Shake it 14 times while thinking of newness and change and beginnings. Or chant and sing or dance. What ever works for you!
Leave it outside during the new moon to charge up.
Adjust and specialize according to your needs and desires - change the oils, change the number of drops, etc. There are no limits!
Here are the ingredients for some incense I made recently:
Red
sandalwood
Cinnamon
Red
wine
Spring
tree blossoms
Basil
Bay
Rosemary
Benzoin
Chamomile
Dill
seed
Cedar
oil
Pine
resin
Orange
peel
Rose
petals
Willow
bark
I made it with many associations in mind. Here are just a few:
January/February
New
moon
Black
moon
Dark
moon
Hecate's deipnon
Imbolc
Brigid
Late
winter/early spring
This incense can be used for creative
inspiration, change, cleansing, arts, crafts, work, Brigid, honoring Celtic
ancestors, health, healing, Goddess worship, winter, spring, dark moon, new
moon, black moon, initiation, newness, Imbolc, etc. or any other associations
with late winter/early spring, Brigid, Imbolc, and the dark/new moon.
Last
night with a sparkler in each hand, I drew huge banishing spirals into the air,
thinking about the year that had just passed.
“Out with the old” I whispered,
over and over again.
When
the time felt right, I reversed my spirals, spinning inward, with the hopes to
bring luck and love to me in 2014.
“In with the new!”
As
the sparklers began to burn out out I went crazy with my magic, dancing and looping
large streaks of burning color into the air.
“Out with the old, in with the new, out
with the old, in with the new, out with the old, in with the new!”
When
the light finally died, I released my intentions into the cosmos with a cheer. “Happy New Year!” My friends, enjoying
their own magical moment of sparklers and nighttime joy, shouted with me. “Happy New Year!”
That
was my last bit of magic for 2013, and my first bit of magic for 2014. Not bad
for a year of intense ritual experiences and divine revelations… I’m not much
of a resolution type person, but I really hope 2014 has just as much magic as
2013, if not more. 13 is a witch’s number, and I’d really say that 2013 was the
Year of the Witch for me, but 4 is my number, and I’m really hoping that 2014
is The Year of The Space Witch.
Last
night, home and slightly tipsy from champagne, I drew a card from my new deck,
gifted to me from a dear witch friend. For this first reading of a brand new
deck, Le Tarot des Femmes Erotiques, I drew the seven of pentacles. “Wait for
the Moment” it tells me. Whereas 2013 Space Witch would have been annoyed and
impatient, 2014 Space Witch is wise and understanding. I recognize the advice
to wait wait wait as the current
theme in my life.
Wait.
The Cosmos have been telling me for months. For years. Wait. Now is not the
time.
So
I get my seeds and soil ready and I wait and do all the work I can for when the
time is right, because I know when the time comes I need to be ready.
Wait.
So
I started the day of 2014 with some more magic, making monkey bread and bacon
and drinking champagne. (The Space Witch is a classy witch, for sure.) As I
roll balls of dough I whisper into the food “Out
with the old, in with the new, out with the old, in with the new, out with the
old, in with the new!” I add a pinch of nutmeg for divine inspiration,
cloves for a spicy kick, and cinnamon for an extra oomph. I can’t wait for this
hot, goey, breakfast treat. So of course I take it out of the oven too quickly.
The inside is still raw. “Wait!” the
Cosmos remind me with my uncooked breakfast.
Oh
yeah. Right. Maybe I still have some work to do on this whole patience thing, after all...
And
later we get to enjoy pork loin, cabbage, and black eyed peas. I do live in the
South, after all, and I can use all the luck I can get, and black eyed peas are
lucky indeed. I’ll probably give some to the nature and land spirits later, or
to the house wights.
But
today isn’t just the New Year. No! It’s the new moon as well! How fortuitous!
So I’m thinking about making some incense or oil later today, too. Maybe
tonight with the darkness is deep and the night is cold.
The
oil will be a mix of lavender, jasmine, sandalwood, cypress, and myrrh. The incense
perhaps a bit complicated as I work out the perfect recipe. But I’m hopefully
for the magic of this day to carry me through the next year, to capture it into
a little jar of scent and energy.
2013
was rough for many people, and 2014 won’t be without its challenges. But aren’t
you so excited?
14 drops of sandalwood essential oil
