About making your own Oils starting with Banishing Oil~~~

Dear Readers,

I have been getting requests from some of you (well a number of you) who are “crafty” that is you know how to put things together to make things and you “crafty” folks have been asking me for various oil and incense recipes that cover a number of “conditions or situations”.

So I’m going to start with oils so from time to time I will publish the recipe for an Oil and what its used for and how to use it, but the one thing I’ve found out in going through my Granny’s notes and the notes from other ladies in her group as well as my researching is that there is no one exclusive formula, although you will see much the same ingredients some will be eliminated and some other things will be added. 

So first I’m going to start with what is known as the carrier base oil.   The Base Oil is what your essential oils and herbs will be suspended in, that which you will “marinate” the essential oils and herbs.

In the old days (I’m talking way back)  Granny would pick the herbs just after the dew had dried and heat them up in the carrier oil which for her was usually Olive Oil, later Safflower Oil but keeping it was tricky because you had to be careful it didn’t go rancid.  And she used an enamel pot to avoid picking up any metal from the tin pots, now cast iron wasn’t a problem, but she found that enamel pots worked very well.

I have here a list of the Carrier oils, those with * at the top of the list are the easiest to come across, either at a grocery or a health food store. The others may be found online and in metaphysical/Occult shops or gourmet shops for the nut and specialty oils.

They are:

Olive Oil*

Sesame Oil*

Sweet Almond Oil *

Apricot Kernel Oil *

Peanut Oil*

Evening Primrose Oil *

Fractional Coconut Oil *

Jojoba *

Mineral Oil * (mostly for hexing or jinxing or destruction work not edible)

Castor Oil*  (for banishing, hexing, destruction work not edible)

Sunflower Oil

Macadamia Nut Oil

Avocado Oil

Meadowfoam Oil

Borage Seed Oil

Kukui Nut Oil

Camellia Seed Oil (Tea Oil)

Cranberry Seed Oil

Pecan Oil

Pomegranate Seed Oil

Rose Hip Oil

Seabuckthorn Berry Oil

Hazelnut Oil

Hemp Seed Oil

Watermelon Seed Oil

Do not use Corn Oil, nor sewing machine oil, nor motor oil, I know that the last two sound silly but I have known people who mistakenly use them.  You will find that you will fall back on 2 to 4 basic oils for your work.

For the Dosage /Measurements for ingredients: Equal Parts refers usually to 1 drop, 1 gram, 1 cup, 1 tsp. or 1 oz. Unless otherwise noted.

 For oil to raw material ratio here is a basic start point. 2 ounces oil per 2 tablespoons herb or flower. (so if the recipe calls for 1 tbsp the carrier oil would be 0.5oz)

Some recipes only say 1 part this and 1 part that because they feel that the person making the oil will have a sense of what is just right.   I have found that it’s best to write down your exact measurements and if it doesn’t seem right the first time you can get a sense of how to adjust it.  

It’s like cooking something or baking something, one time I was baking pound cake and my youngest added without my knowledge two teaspoons of lemon extract, after I had put in vanilla extract, it tasted better!  So I adjusted the recipe.  And that is how I share my recipe with the rest of the family.

When working with a batch, mix the oils into a larger container and then transfer into the smaller storage bottles. Using droppers to add or a pipette. Always label the batch working  or Master Bottle with this information:

The Name of the Oil

The Oil Ingredients

The Date you worked it.

The Batch of oil that you make is also called “The Master Bottle”   now I’ve seen Master Bottles at Metaphysical Shops and they would pour the oil into smaller bottles (much smaller bottles) when they sell the oil.

Now there are other things to consider, availability of herbs and essential oils.  Some you can find in grocery stores, food markets, health food stores (great for most essential oils),  some herbs you can grow yourself, even in a window box, or a garden,  some you may have to order on line so tracking down a good mail order resource is essential.  

And you need to be aware of some things, certain herbs and oils can burn the skin, cinnamon is one of them, cayenne pepper is another, so be careful about applying to skin, wear gloves when you’re making it and wash your hands after making it.

How do you use these oils, there are a number of applications, if you read my blog and comments section and make notes you will discover what can be done, but I’ll give you a list to make it easier on you.

The most common use is “dressing” a candle, they can be applied (very lightly) to petition papers, a few drops on mojo or gris-gris bags, some can be used to anoint amulets, or put onto a poppet, certain specific oils are used to anoint one’s altar, this is done in wicca, witchcraft, some hoodoo altars, and catholic altars but not in voodoo unless it is specific to the Orisha.  That is to create a form of sacred area, they are also used to anoint working tools especially in wicca.  

 Certain oils can be added a drop at a time into a cleansing bath.   

 And on work to get rid of someone on door handles to a home or car or where a person walks depending upon the work to be done.   A few oils but not all so be careful, can be applied to the skin but test first for sensitivity. 

One of the first request I got was for a “Banishing Oil” recipe,  it has several main ingredients but I’ve known a few people who come up with their own version.

Banishing oil should be made during the dark of the Moon to use in any rite of banishing, undoing, annulment, release or minimizing, getting rid of.   You could also use this oil to anoint a black candle for use in operations of exorcism. It could be added to mop water to drive out unwanted spirits, malevolent entities, poltergeists, negative energy, etc.

Banishing oil can be used to get rid of a harmful person in your life. For this you could anoint a black image candle representing the person and burn it, or a poppet or voodoo doll and either bury it or send it in the mail to an undeliverable location, which in a form of sympathetic magic will cause the person to leave (there is more to this I’ll explain later)

You can add a few drops of the oil to the bathwater to rid yourself of harmful energy cords, anger, jealousy, addictions or any negative thought patterns that need to be released.

THE RECIPES:    

 As I said there are a number of variations of this oil and I will post here those that I’ve found and you, Dear Reader, can find which one will work for you best.

# 1

1/2 oz. olive oil

15 drops pine essential oil

12 drops rue essential oil

10 drops peppermint oil

7 drops pepper oil

Add crushed black pepper corns and an obsidian or black onyx chip.

Mix during a waning moon for best result.

# 2

    Black Pepper

    Cayenne Pepper

    Cinnamon

    Sea Salt

    Sulfur  or Garlic ***WARNING: SULFUR IS HAZARDOUS please read up on potential health hazards and safe handling before use, or better yet: substitute Garlic for Sulfur

    Castor Oil

Mix all dry ingredients together. You will note that there are no measurements here. Use your intuition and judgement in this. Mix these items well and then begin to add castor oil until you reach a desired viscosity,  the amount of Sulfur should be minimal and Cinnamon and Cayenne pepper will burn the skin, handle with care.

# 3

Ingredients:

-1/2 oz olive oil,

 7 drops pepper oil (add cayenne pepper to olive oil if you wish)

-10 drops peppermint oil - or peppermint essence from icing part of a grocers plus olive oil.

-12 drops of rue or rosemary oil. You can add rue or rosemary to olive oil and put in a warm place for 3 days and strain or buy the essential oil.

-Some crushed black peppercorns

-15 drops of pine oil or some pine needles stepped in olive oil or pine essential oil for 3 days in warm place and strained.

One obsidian or black onyx stone or a small black pebble.

Blend together in an cup and put in a clean brown or dark medicine bottle. Some of these oils are volatile. Do not anoint yourself with Banishing oil, you could burn yourself. Wash your hands after using. Charge the stone or stones used after adding it and focus on the person and your intent pouring in energy and emotion. As you dress the candles you make them your magical tools. Charge again as you massage away from you that is massaging in banishing oil from middle to the ends of the candle but away from you

# 4

Black pepper

Cayenne pepper

Cinnamon

Dragon’s blood incense powdered from a cone or stick not burned

Olive oil

Let it sit in the waning moonlight with an unlit candle in it to absorb whatever energy it can for your spell, the candle to be of your choice depending upon the working you’re doing.

# 5

    3 measures Sulfur Powder (Brimstone)

    2 measures Sea Salt

    1 measure Black Pepper

    1 measure Cayenne Pepper

    ½ measure Rue

    Carrier Oil (e.g.: Olive Oil, Castor Oil, Mineral Oil, Almond Oil, Jojoba Oil)

 For a powder for this one  Optional: Arrowroot Powder for bulk

To be made  on the night of a Waning Moon or a Dark Moon.

# 6

2 parts Cinammon

2 parts black pepper

2 parts cumin

1 part cayenne

Cover with Castor Oil, allow to sit for 1 week, shaking daily, strain into a clean glass jar that had a lid, use as necessary.

Bella’s Recipe:

Bella’s was the same as Granny’s except she added  ground dried lemon peel, angelica, wormwood, dried ground basil, and  dried ground rue and she’d make hers the same way.

Granny’s Recipe:

Do on a night when the Moon is dark,

Put in salt

Black Pepper,

Caynee (Cayenne) Pepper

A rotting Garlic clove

Scraped powder (be careful) from the head of a wooden match

Dried leaves from the cypress tree from the cemetery

Mix it with either Castro (Castor) oil or mineral oil don’t waste the good oil.

Heat gentle till just warm, take off flame, let cool down, pour in sick bottle (she meant a medicine bottle that was used on a sick person) keep in the dark for 3 nights when moon is dark.   Don’t put on skin, burns.  Drain off a few drops of  oil to use, keep fixings in bottle to use again.

Granny didn’t give any measurements, I had to use a single edge razor blade to carefully and slowly scrape the powder from a wooden match head.    

 Bella would get match books from a restaurant and cut the heads off of the cardboard sticks and put those match heads into her bottle with the other stuff, but only after the oil had been heated and set aside to cool, otherwise might have a fire. 

When you compare the recipes you do see similarities as well as differences.  Which would give you an idea if you want to make your own.

Banishing oil is a powerful Hoodoo and Witchcraft  blend that  should be in every practitioners cabinet it can help you get rid of those annoying habits, and harmful people, unhealthy situations, and negative energy that you do not need. It can also take care of blocking undesirable visitors.

Banishing Oil is not a jinxing oil. It merely gets rid of any negative influence that may be affecting you. It can also remove hexes, spells and curses. If someone is trying to send you a negative energy, you can send it right back their way.   Some folks use it in divination rituals, I think to banish unwanted spirits.

Wearing rubber gloves, rub some of this oil onto your floors, doors, and your (wooden or metal) furniture to get rid of any energy you do not want around your home. You can get rid of any negative influences at work as well by applying some on your desk or in your office.  (But make sure the garlic is not overwhelming)

Here is a simple banishing spell you can do with a black candle:

Put the oil onto the candle by rubbing the oil down and away from you.

Write on a slip of paper the object of your petition (this is whatever you want to get rid of).

Make the shape of a cross with some oil on the paper.

Place it under the candle, and recite first Psalm 7 and then Psalm 9 (depending upon belief either King James Version and New Revised Catholic Version, or  Douay-Rheims Bible ) when you  light your candle.

 After the candle has finished burning, take what is left of it and your petition and leave it somewhere at a crossroads.

That is what I have for now for Banishing Oil. 

Enjoy.

Bright Blessings,

Ms. Q

Protection from Psychic or Energy Vampires and other Living Spirits~~~

Dear Ms Q and Anonymous,

Once again I find myself talking about how to protect yourself from spiritual invasion, not by the dead or demons but by the Living or Negative People.

No one question regarding how to dislodge such a being can be answered with a simple and pat remedy.  Each situation is unique and equally difficult---and a good part of it is how much and how far are you willing to go to dislodge such a disagreeable living spirit.

Part if it maybe impossible especially if it is someone you have to work with or is part of your family.

Part of it maybe difficult if the person is a stalker both physically and psychically.

So you have to do things that will require you to move, cut yourself off from the real person, get a court order, change your home address and phone number warn your friends and other family to not give out your new information, change jobs, move out of state or to a new city...Which works if you're dealing with a stalker and a family member.

But no matter what you will always run into the psychic vampire or energy thief, but by then you will be better prepared.

Let us deal first with being "haunted" by the spirit of a living person.

I was recently asked a question by a reader of this blog, how does one dislodge the ghost or spirit of a “Living Person”?

Without much more information it is a very hard question to answer because there are a lot of different speculations about this ghost of a living person.

First have you actually seen or heard this person or only felt them?

Second in terms of dislodging is the actual physical person a family member, ex-spouse, ex-partner, current or former co-worker that you do not have a good relationship with?

Is this someone who is still living but lived in your home or apartment before and had to vacate it for whatever reason?  Is it someone who is jealous of you?

Is this person someone that you only casually met but now has an obsession about you.

Does this person that you’ve concerned with practices magic or hoodoo or other occult workings.

Do you come into contact with the actual person and feel physically and mentally drained for a day or several days.

What is the age of that person and what is their physical health.

What is that person’s mental outlook?

These are all very important questions because each basic one is handled slightly differently and who they are what they do and their own personality and health determines the type of haunting.

But there are two basic ways to handle this, and I will describe what happened and what to do.

In generally thought among most people to believe that ghosts do exist and as a matter of fact a lot of theories as to why and for what reason they exist has been bandied about.   The Main thought is that only a deceased person can project their ghostly images amongst those who are alive.

However as early as 1913, some people have conceived that living people as well may have the ability to move their spirits about the planet. I am one who believes that people can be haunted by spirits of other living persons, though this may sound strange to many others.

So what can cause this to happen?  Well if a person has strong psychic abilities or has trained themselves to heighten their abilities they can project their spirit at will to another location, this is not unusual.  And there are people who do it naturally or have done it under a crisis situation.

Emanuel Swedenborg born on 29 January 1688 and died 29 March 1772.  was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and, in the eyes of some, a Christian mystic. He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in True Christian Religion.

On Thursday, July 19, 1759 a huge well-documented fire broke out in Stockholm, Sweden.  The high and increasing winds caused it spread very fast, consuming about 300 houses and making 2000 people homeless.

When the fire broke out Swedenborg was at a dinner with friends in Gothenburg, about 400 km from Stockholm. He became agitated and told the party at six o'clock that there was a fire in Stockholm   that it had consumed his neighbor’s home and was threatening his own. Two hours later, he exclaimed with relief that the fire had stopped three doors from his home. In the excitement following his report, word even reached the ears of the provincial governor, who summoned Swedenborg that same evening and asked for a detailed recounting.

A few days later word came which confirmed Swedenborg’s “viewing”, as a matter of fact some people in Stockholm during the crisis were surprised to see him there, when he was in full view of his friends at the same time.

In the case of people doing remote viewing there has been records of the person which they are seeking actually projecting themselves to another person to give information or receive information.

This can be called bi-location and a theory on this states that a person can appear in two places at the same time, either at will or under stress.   In a book called "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death", a parapsychologist details a story in which two young girls see an image of their father in two separate locations. It is believed that these "doubles" can be seen when a person whose image is projected, is under some kind of extreme duress, or right before actual death (though that wasn't the case with the two girls.

This is completely different from the phenomenon called a doppelganger in which you see your own double.

The most easily understood notion behind the idea of "living ghosts" lies in the concept of astral travel (or out-of-body experiences.)  In which people have the capability of leaving their physical bodies--either consciously (that is at will) or subconsciously (when they are asleep)--then it might be fair to assume that other people can see/experience the spirit of the living person wandering about. In fact, experts in this field of study sometimes refer to astral projection as the liberation of the double (sometimes called the astral double.)

I have to admit there is much controversy surrounding the topic of astral projection.  But if we're to imagine that one's spirit can temporarily separate from the body at will, would it not be feasible for other people in different parts of the world,  to see that person in this state?

So it is dependent upon the situation,  in some cases you may be dealing with someone who can bi-locate at will, someone who can in their sleeping or meditative state project their aura self, someone who is projecting their physical image onto your mind deliberately in hopes of making you ill, and if it is someone you come into contact with but leaves you physically drained then that is a psychic or energy vampire.

Once you answer any of the above questions either yes or no, the next question is this---are they doing anything that is harming you either mentally or physically, or just frightening you.   Or is this someone one you do care about but their sudden unexplained appearance startles and frightens you.

That is the next set of questions to answer.

Once you have narrowed it down then you can pretty much have an idea how to deal with them, through some of these examples that I’m going to relate to you.

First off---the technique to close your chakra’s that I posted in an earlier post,  will help you from not seeing or sensing this person a great deal, this is especially true if you are being visited by someone who is ill and is desperately trying to hang on by attaching themselves to your survival chakra.  Most of the time this will work with someone who does not realize what they are doing.

But in some cases you make have to take it a step further.

I mentioned that my Mother was doing that without realizing it after she had her third stroke, she subconsciously realized that she was going to die the question was when, but she was hanging on, and in doing that was putting herself in great pain and I was feeling drained and because of my love for her I was actually feeding her energy.

I had to stop that, she had to go onto her journey herself, so I closed down my chakra’s and through meditation I saw the psychic cord connecting to her, once I got to the base chakra I envision my hand as being a white light sword and sliced it through the cord.  I then said a prayer asking God and the Angels to put my Mother into their hands, not mine.

The next few weeks were hard, I had to be compassionate and yet close off my heart, I made sure she was well taken care of and then the final steps happened and at that point my Mother accepted the fact she was dying in her one moment of lucidness.

To make sure that in her final hours she did not try to attach herself to me again, I put up a white light of protection around me and called upon God and his angels to help my Mother make the transition.

But what if you’re being “haunted” by someone who is doing this at will, deliberately?  This is where you may have to take far more determined and drastic steps.

A friend of mine had that problem with her own Mother----I know I seem to be picking upon Mother’s but there is some sort of psychic bond between mothers and their children----there are Mothers who are wonderful loving and giving people and may the Devine Presence Bless and Keep them well always

But there are some who you can only say are just their biological mother, never that really loving supportive person you had hope to have---and the same can be said for children and fathers as well.

 My friend, whom I will call Jan, had a mother whom I wished I’ve never met,  the woman was a narcissist, very controlling, manipulative---well I cannot say the word here.  

This woman would do her best to intrude into Jan’s life, even going so far as to have Jan lose her chance of getting a very good job that would pay well. 

That was the final straw for Jan and she moved as far away as she could from her Mother, but it was hard, she had several siblings who also had to deal with the woman, but somehow managed to have the mental strength to get far, far away. Jan was last and admittedly the weakest in having the strength because she always felt sorry for her Mother, but eventually that changed after she came to me to help her.

Knowing about her mother’s general personality, Jan told me about some of the strange things her Mother would do and that her Mother always had an attraction to paranormal stuff, the occult, would visit psychics and even would take trips 2 or 3 times a year to New Orleans and would be in touch with people there.

I suspected that her Mother was doing negative magickal workings in order to keep Jan close to her and in essence live off of her, even though the Mother had a good inheritance income.  But also it seemed that her Mother enjoyed inflicting upon Jan a form of emotional abuse.

I asked Jan if she had noticed any changes in her Mother’s personality, not that it was any good in the first place, but did it get worse?  Jan said yes, after a boyfriend of her mother’s died in a car accident, he was at fault.  And the Boyfriend was into dark magik, after his death she became more abusive.

While Jan was still living with her Mother her Mother remarked to Jan that she was able to make people do her bidding by some occult method.  It was after that remark that Jan lost her chance at getting that good job that led Jan to leave her mother’s place, moved out of town, and changed her phone number to avoid all contact with her. 

Several months after that strange things would happen to Jan in her new place and sometimes people would be talking to her when suddenly their voice would change and they’d say strange things to her, then seemed to awaken and were surprised by what transpired.

Then Jan started seeing her Mother in her new home, especially at times when she knew her Mother was far away.  She’d never been afraid of her Mother in regards to her claims of being able to do paranormal or occult things before but now she was very upset

I told Jan that she had to make both herself and her home uncomfortable for her Mother’s Astral spirit to not want to hang around.

The first thing Jan did was clear away all clutter and organize her home, a spring cleaning of sorts.

2^nd she went to a metaphysical shop and purchased sage bundles to burn,  oil of Frankincense,  Church blessed Holy water, print out off the internet a picture of the Sacred hearts of Mary and Jesus, a black figure candle in the shape of a woman, 2 Iron rail road spikes,  pins used in sewing, a black cord used in crafts not made of polyblends but natural fibers, sea or Kosher salt, and shot glasses, figure 4 shot glasses for the bed room, 2 for each of the other rooms including bath rooms and closets, kitchen and storage areas, and make a small packet of salt from a brown paper bag tied with twine.

First she had to take a quick shower, and rub some of the salt on her body to clear any negativity, then put on clean comfortable clothes.

Then she was to sage herself and apply oil of frankincense to her forehead and heart area, not much just a drop or two.

Then she was to open all the doors and drawers to all the rooms including closets and smudge with the burning sage bundles, taking care to not allow any burning embers to fall.  She also had to unplug the smoke alarms as well and not re-plug them until she was done.

She was to start smudging from the back of her home to the front door opening the front door last and saying in each room and finally at the front door  “Spirit or projection of (name here) be gone, you are not wanted here, this is not your place and you do not have any hold on me, I divorce you, I disown you, I deny your existence, You are dead to me, You no longer exist!!  BE GONE!!”

Then go around your home sprinkling the Holy Water, place some Holy Water in a small bowl, next to your front door on the inside, so that each time you come home from work you can bless yourself with it.

Now with the picture of the Sacred Heart of Mary and Jesus put that above your bed, I told Jan that if she has a boyfriend over for the night and he objects to that picture tell him it’s staying, if he continues to object then you don’t need that boyfriend in your life.

In the 4 corners of your bed room put a shot glass of salt in each corner,

In the rest of her house, put two shot glasses of salt in the corners across from each other, this includes kitchen, bathrooms and closets---if you have a garage, storage shed do it there too.

Put a Railroad spike at the front door and the back door of your home if you do not have a back door but a balcony or patio as some condo’s or apartments have, put the 2^nd railroad spike there.

Then with the black figure candle in the shape of a woman, using a sturdy pin or needle on the back side of the candle Jan was to write or print the name of her mother, first, middle and last, if she didn’t know the middle name not to worry, it is envisioning the woman while inscribing the name that helps.

Then taking the black twine Jan was to wrap up the figure candle completely from the neck all the way down saying “I bind thee (say the name) that you will no longer have any hold over me, that you will no longer be free to haunt me or harm me or in any way influence me or anyone human or animal that I love or am in contact with, I deny you your powers over me” repeat that until you’ve tied off the twine.

Then taking a pin thrust it into the forehead of the figure candle and say “You have no power over me I take it away”.

Although it sounds harsh, this is to prevent this person from using any form of psychic ability to project her image or will onto Jan.

I told Jan she will need to smudge herself two or three times a week when she comes home to keep herself protected so the combination of blessing herself with the Holy Water when she comes home, a touch of frankincense oil on her forehead and smudging herself before bed time and keeping the energy in her home uncomfortable for her Mother’s projected spirit from invading.

She also smudge and sprinkled Holy Water in her car and put the packet of salt in the glove compartment to protect her while she drove her car.

About a month later I got a call from her and she said that ever since she did what I recommended she had not been in anyway haunted by her Mother’s projected spirit, in essence she dislodged her.  But that one of her siblings was now having problems and she suggested what she did, to her sibling.

Now this was done to a cognizant person who was trying to invade Jan’s life, deliberately, in the case of my Mother my mother was not aware of what she was doing, so I had to do something far gentler.

Those are the two processes that I suggest, now if Anonymous is being haunted by the living spirit of a man you can use a figure candle in the shape of a man but the process is the same.

There is a caveat, it is best to avoid drinking alcohol or doing recreational drugs as this will lower your own personal energies to repel the spirit invader. Should you indulge especially in recreational drugs then it will happen all over again.  A glass of champagne at a celebration is fine but its best to stick to sparkling water.  

Also do not think of that person, or spend any mental energy on them as it might re-create the link again and undo what you’ve done, and will have to repeat it.

In another post I will describe what to do with a psychic or energy vampire as well as several books to read to explain what else you can do for psychic protection.

Blessings Ms. Q and Anonymous