Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Samhain (pronounced sow-en) Glorious celebration of the Ancestors!
October 31st - SAMHAIN A Cross-Quarter Sabbat All Hallows comes; the time when the veils between worlds are pierced, there is neither past nor present and there is no world of living nor dead…Samhain.
Harvest is celebrated.
Tonight we feast and fill ourselves.
Tonight we journey to our Ancestors and explore the limitlessness of worlds everlasting. We celebrate our continuity as the darkness of the year approaches us. At Samhain the mists swirl into your sacred space to invite you to penetrate the veils. Our Ancestors await us on Samhain, our Celtic New Year. Samhain is the Traditional Celtic celebration of harvesting and giving thanks to our Ancestors for having paved the way before us. A time of deliberate euphoria and feasting against the fear of winter’s threat, the ancient Celts gave over to jubilation, upliftment while the guardians of a community’s Spirit approached the Ancestors in journeying to the Netherworld to ask for their care and for help to divine the events in the coming year. Journey into Nether regions for recognition and development of your relationships with your Ancestors. As a subtle penetration between worlds, Samhain is a time to restore your feeling for continuity during fearful times or at new, uncertain beginnings. During your Dreamtime, this part of the year provides an opening into Netherworld gaining wisdom through communion with your Ancestors. The answers eluding you during waking hours are obtainable through dreamwork. As a celebratory sabbat, Samhain subtly shifts you for circle and prepares your senses to allow your natural psychism; so bountiful during this Sabbat.
[Toxic botanicals are translated into essential oil blendings.]
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE OIL available from DOI in 5ml
(Atropa belladonna) SABBAT - VISIONARY - CONSECRATIONS
Deadly Nightshade takes you into the darkness of the Underworld to rediscover the GrandMother and GrandFather Ancestors who wait there to teach and guide us.
Belladonna has the mercurial ability to activate astral journeys, scrying (remote viewing techniques) and clairvoyance...instilling a skill for the visionary arts.
Belladonna is one of the most traditional Witches’ herbs’ under the feminine guardianship of Saturn and influenced by of the element of Water. Nightshade’s are preferred consecration herbs’ for Divination tools; gifting a great bonding, holding your steadfast charge and enlivening your tool! Use it on all of your blades or energy directors.
With its resolute Netherworld connections, Deadly Nightshade Oil will assist you through the veils on Samhain into communion with your Ancestors. Belladonna is a most potent visionary oil in your cubbard; often the balm of needless suspicions or the initiator of the truth.
DITTANY OF CRETE OIL - available from DOI in 5ml
(Dictamus origanoides) BEGINNING VISIONARY WORK − RITUAL - SABBAT - DIVINATION – TAROT READING Dittany is a feminine herb under the guardianship of Venus, influenced by the element of Water. Here is the sure activation of your Third Eye with skill and accuracy! We’ve included some smoke in the blending of this oil to infusethe Olde Ways securely within. Its traditional use is in its ability to help manifest our psychic vision. Often associate to the Sphinx in ability to ‘cross’ in-between worlds, Dittany is the teacher or guide’s good tool of new awareness, connective enLightenment and understanding.
Use Dittany Oil to clarify your psychic ability and to assist you as a beginner with any divination techniques. Here’s an excellent oil for the instructor to use when teaching the symbolis synthesis of the Tarot. A good choice for all beginners and adepts alike.
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR - available from DOI in 5ml
(Ipomoca Jalapa) SUCCESS & OPPORTUNITY - SELF – ESTEEM - PROTECTION - STRENGTH High John the Conqueror root is a very yang / masculine root under the guardianship of Mars influenced by the element of Fire. A High John root impresses you with a large humming in the palm of your hand! It’s common properties include success, love, happiness…by far this root can be utilized best to empower yourself! When you’re looking for confidence and self- assurity, use High John!
Use High John to give your success candle spell an added boost or charge your healing candle to work quickly. High John is an excellent vision oil when contemplating how to achieve your goals or to inspire you in what actions to take in the
achieving.
When you feel or intuit the malefic or nasty thoughts of others directed at you, a form of psychic attack, High John will assist you in repelling this energetic intrusion by initiating your strong sense of self awareness and esteem. High John’s long reputation is for this feat. Using a black candle dressed with High John can dissipate negative or nasty focus directed at you! This is one of those all purpose oils readily able to empower, repel negativity, attract the positive, assist your imagination and open your awareness to fortunate timing in your life. Use it instinctively!
MANDRAKE OIL - available from DOI in 5ml
(Mandragora officinale) CLAIRAUDIANCE - HELAING - TRUTHSAYING - LUNAR - ESBAT - INSPIRATION & CREATIVITY - PASSION SPELLS Mandragora is an ancient root of use under a Mercurial – Plutonian guardianship. The element of Fire is invoked by it naturally. European Mandrake roots holds the ground that sustains them. Approaching them is an art of persuasion and harvesting the vitality held in the Mandrake requires a quality of self-honesty. The name of Mandrake comes from ancient Summer and Egypt where it was called NAM – TAR, meaning ‘plague of god’. When Mandrake is employed, the individual ceases to blindly listen to the priest or politic and looks within for deeper truths! Through European antiquity it was used as a magical poppet in love enchantments; it appears as entwined human bodies. The Mandrake will accept a charge of passion into itself! Mandragora is the essential Earth deva’s wisdom! The same heat
of passion transforms to the heat of healing the body Mandrake reflects. Mandrake is a powerful healing medicine able to flush all manner of toxins from the body. It can initiate a euphoric sense of ease when applied by the adept.
With the help of Mandrake, we face our true self to hear our inner truths. Mandrake will help you focus to clairaudience, hearing your guides and spiritual guardians. The more you practice listening with the guidance of Mandrake, the more adept you can become at discerning it without the filters of personality that tend to glamour it. Mandrake can help you to hear the guidance of the Oldest of the Old, Hecate. Under her influence we grow wiser and more forgiving of those who suffer intolerance and ignorance.
Reciprocally, the properties of this oil assist you in discerning the truth. Mandrake Oil can be very useful to the Tarot reader. Keep a large white candle at your hand dressed with Mandrake whenever you prognosticate using Tarot, Runes, cowries, Medicine cards (all varieties of divination cards or casts) and scrying techniques including magical mirrors or Mayan black glass. A compatible use of Dittany, Henbane and Mandrake is formidable empowerment for the working reader or medium!
Mandrake Oil is a fine celebratory compliment to your Esbat, or monthly lunar ritual. Dress your center candle with Mandrake to align with the essence of the Goddess in Lunar receptivity or alignments.
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