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restorative powers.
A citrus oil, it mixes well with eucalyptus and lavender.
Mandarin: Mandarin oil restores confidence self-love and self-esteem, offering
protection against the barbs of unfair criticism, spite and gossip. It enhances
inner beauty and radiance.
A citrus oil, it mixes well with Cedarwood, geranium, and ylang-ylang.
Marjoram: Marjoram is an oil that relieves loneliness and a sense of isolation and
alienation, awaking empathy with others. It is an oil of enduring love and
fidelity.
It mixes well with lavender and rosemary.
Mimosa: Mimosa is an oil of the night, for secrets and secret love, bringing love
and friendship, especially for older people.
It calms anxiety and over-sensitivity to criticism and brings harmony and
happiness, melting away opposition and hostility.
It mixes well with bergamot and Chamomile.
Myrrh: This is a sacred ceremonial oil, like frankincense, and is burned in healing
and purification rituals.
It mixes well with mandarin, pine and patchouli.
Neroli: This is orange-blossom oil, symbol of marriage, committed relationships and
fidelity, fertility, sensuality and self-esteem. It prevents moods swings, crises
of confidence and panic attacks.
It mixes well with geranium and jasmine.
Orange: Orange is the oil of abundance, joy and fertility, attracting happiness,
giving confidence and individuality, and calming anxiety and restlessness in
children and adults.
A citrus oil, it mixes well with lavender and ylang-ylang.
Patchouli: Patchouli is the oil of prosperity and is used in money rituals, to
bring employment and increase business opportunities. It is also frequently used in
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ceremonies to heal the planet, as it is a natural restorer of balance.
It mixes well with geranium, myrrh and pine.
Peppermint: Peppermint offers protection against illness, accident, hostility and
theft or damage to the home and also attracts money.
It mixes well with eucalyptus.
Pine: Pine is a purifier of all forms of negativity, hostile atmospheres and
dishonesty, protecting particularly against emotional blackmail. It is an oil of
courage and perseverance under difficulty, of integrity and clear focus.
It mixes well with juniper, lemon and marjoram.
Rose: This is an oil of fidelity, happiness, partnerships and gentle healing, love
and especially self-love.
It mixes well with almost every other oil.
Rosemary: Rosemary is an oil for enhanced memory, concentration, justice, career
and success.
It mixes well with Cedarwood, frankincense and geranium.
Rosewood: Rosewood calms mind, body and soul, creating a setting conducive to peace
at home or work, especially if there are difficult negotiations, or potentially
hostile visitors or phone calls; it will also clear away existing conflict.
Rosewood soothes hyperactive or restless children, and in adults brings acceptance
of life as it is and the frailties of others. It is good for energising all forms
of natural magick.
Rosewood mixes well with jasmine, neroli and geranium.
Sandalwood: Sandalwood is an oil of passion and sensuality; it also heightens
meditative abilities and increases spiritual awareness, offering a path to make
contact with the higher self and angelic or spirit guides.
It mixes well with many other oils, especially Chamomile, lemon, patchouli and
rosemary.
Tea tree: Tea tree is an oil of healing, especially absent healing; it will remove
blockages in energy, and banish negativity, replacing it with optimism and
channelling restlessness into positive aspects of life.
It mixes with sandalwood, but is usually best used alone.
Ylang-ylang: The oil of poets, ylang-ylang is associated with inspiration and love,
especially self-esteem. It counteracts a sense of frustration when things cannot be
changed or achieved, and increases confidence and pleasure in possibilities that
can be realised within the limitations of the present circumstance.
It mixes well with clary sage, geranium, lemon and Chamomile.
An Oil Ritual To Increase Prosperity
As I have said before, magick is part of life and there is nothing wrong with
carrying out rituals for your personal needs and a little more. However, you must
make an effort, when you are financially more secure, to share your good fortune
with those who are genuinely in need. As long as you bear in mind the cosmic
'balance sheet', this will ensure that there are sufficient energies to go
round.You can, of course, pay in kindnesses and help, as well as in monetary terms.
It is unlikely that you will receive an unexpected cheque in the post the morning
after this spell (though I am getting rather good at bewitching one of my financial
directors at a firm I work for). Instead, you may suddenly find that you are given
the opportunity to earn money through extra unexpected work. Or you will hear of
someone who wishes to sell a reliable car or a serviceable computer in a hurry -
just at the time when you need one. It would be churlish to demand a computer with
a built-in DVD player from the cosmos, but under the psychic exchange system, all
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manner of good things that are no longer needed by one person can be directed to
someone whose old model has just crashed. It goes without saying that you should
also remember to redistribute items that are surplus to your requirements to keep
the process moving.
Rituals for personal prosperity tend to be practised alone, as group prosperity
rituals tend to work better with a more global focus (see page 275 for a mid-winter
solstice light and abundance spell).
First, you need to define the purpose of the ritual. In this case that will
probably not be difficult if you have been lying awake at night, panicking that you
can't pay for a school trip for your child or new tyres for the car.
Oils and Incenses in Magick
Once you have established what you require for your needs, find the right oils,
using the list above, together with the list of herbs starting on page 110 and the
incenses that you may also find in oil form (see page 139).
The ritual is to be carried out over three consecutive nights. Work on the two days
before the full moon and the night of the full moon if you can, as this is the best
time for energies of increase (see page 233 for magical times and use a diary or
check in the weather section of the newspaper). It is also a traditional planting
time for herbs and vegetables that grow above the ground.
However, if you need money urgently you cannot sit around waiting for the moon to
be right, so burn silver lunar candles on each of the three evenings and picture
the lovely ripening Moon we see at this period in the sky, if the weather is clear.
You can carry out the ritual at any time of day, but you should try to choose a
time that is quiet. If you can only work during daylight hours, allow the natural
light to add to the candle energies or draw the blinds.
You will need:
* An oil burner, the kind with a small nightlight underneath.
* Three prosperity oils. Good examples are patchouli, peppermint, ginger and sage.
If you are pregnant, use frankincense, orange and lavender. (Note that lavender is
an all-purpose herb that can be substituted for any other.)
* Symbols of prosperity, such as jewellery (golden-coloured for the Sun, and silver
for the Moon), and some copper-coloured coins for Venus, planet of growth, to add
to your money jar.
(Keep a collection of foreign currency left over from holidays for such prosperity
spells. You can often also buy from garage sales or museum shops old or
reproduction coins in the traditional metals - such as the US silver dollar - and
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