Spiritual oils are not just for physical wellness; they are powerful tools for deepening your spiritual practices, including ancestor veneration, spirit guide communication, and deity devotion. When used with intention, these oils help create a sacred atmosphere, enhance your connection with divine beings, and align your energy with your spiritual path. In this post, we will explore how you can use oils in your rituals, on your altar, and during divination practices to honour and strengthen your spiritual connections.
Spiritual Oils in Ancestor Veneration, Spirit Guide Work, and Deity Devotion
Spiritual oils are used across many traditions as offerings, anointing oils, and tools to connect with the divine. Each oil carries its unique energetic imprint, and when used intentionally, they can help elevate your spiritual rituals. The vibrations of these oils support a deeper connection with your ancestors, spirit guides, and deities, opening the pathway for clearer communication and enhanced spiritual experiences.
Anointing Your Altar and Offering Oils
One of the most profound ways to use spiritual oils is as offerings to your ancestors, spirit guides, or deities. By placing a few drops of a carefully chosen oil into a vessel on your altar, you are honouring these spiritual entities and creating a space that invites their presence.
For example:
Eros or Allure Oil for Venus: Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, is associated with Friday (Venus' day) and the energy of affection and connection. By offering Eros or Allure oil to Venus, you invite love, harmony, and gratitude into your spiritual life. You can also use these oils to honour your ancestors, showing them affection and appreciation for their guidance.
Celestia Oil for Divine Guidance: If you are calling on your higher self, spirit guides, or ancestors, Celestia oil can be an offering to strengthen your connection to the spiritual realm, allowing clearer messages and guidance.
Anointing Tools, Crystals, and Candles
Anointing your spiritual tools with oil is a practice that aligns their energy with your intent, making them more effective conduits for your work. Here are some ways to use oils with your sacred items:
Anointing Candles: Before using a candle in a ritual, especially one dedicated to a specific intention (such as love, protection, or divination), anoint it with oil to infuse the energy of the oil into the flame. For example, using Guard Oil to anoint a candle during protection rituals or divination practices will ensure that the flame burns with the intention of shielding you from negative influences.
Anointing Crystals: Crystals are already powerful tools, but when paired with spiritual oils, they can enhance their potency. Anointing your crystals with oils like Celestia (for intuition) or Guard (for protection) allows the crystals to amplify these energies during meditation, ritual, or divination.
Enhancing Your Spiritual Connection
One of the most direct ways to connect with your spiritual guides, ancestors, or deities is by anointing yourself with spiritual oils. This can be done during your personal practices to create a sacred space for deeper connection and communication.
Celestia can be applied to the Third Eye or Crown Chakra to open your mind to divine wisdom, encouraging intuition and clarity.
Prospera can be applied to attract abundance and prosperity from the spirit realm or ancestors, helping to manifest their support and guidance in your life.
Protection During Divination
Protection is an essential part of spiritual work, especially when engaging in practices like divination, mediumship, or spirit communication. Using oils like Guard can help shield your energy field, creating a protective boundary around you while you work with spiritual tools like tarot cards, pendulums, or runes.
Before engaging in divination, you can apply Guard Oil to yourself or your hands as a protective layer. This ensures that any messages you receive are not influenced by negative energy and that your energy remains clear and intact.
You can also place a few drops of Guard Oil on any fabric you use to store your divination tools, such as tarot cards or pendulums. This helps create an energetic boundary that keeps your divination items cleansed and protected from outside influences. Please do your research before applying to fabrics as oil can ruin silks.
Example Protection Ritual Affirmations: “With this oil, I call upon protection from the divine. May my energy remain clear, my mind remain focused, and may only positive forces be present as I engage with my spiritual tools.”
“I surround myself with a shield of light and protection, ensuring that only truth and clarity flow through as I work with my divination tools. May I be kept safe from any negative energy.”
Offering Oils for Devotion and Gratitude
Just as you would offer food, prayers, or incense to your deities and ancestors, offering oils is another powerful way to honour them. By placing a few drops of oil onto your altar or adding it to a candle during a devotional ritual, you show your reverence and commitment to your spiritual path.
Eros or Allure for Venus: As mentioned earlier, these oils are excellent for honouring Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and attraction. Offer these oils to her on Fridays (Venus’ day) as a symbol of affection, devotion, and gratitude.
Celestia for Spirit Guides and Ancestors: Use Celestia oil to honour your ancestors or spirit guides, inviting their wisdom and guidance into your life.
Guard for Protection: Guard Oil is perfect for offering protection during your spiritual practices, ensuring that your space and energy remain clear and secure.
The Upcoming Deity-Specific Spiritual Oils
At Shadow & Sage, we are working on a small range of deity-specific spiritual fragrances designed to enhance your connection with the divine. These oils will offer unique blends that align with the energies of various deities and will help deepen your spiritual practices, whether you are honouring your ancestors, working with spirit guides, or devoted to a specific deity.
Keep an eye out for these exciting new offerings, which will support your devotion and connection to the divine.
Spiritual oils are powerful allies in your practice of ancestor veneration, spirit guide work, and deity devotion. They can be used as offerings on your altar, as anointing oils for candles, crystals, and tools, or applied directly to your body to enhance spiritual connection.
Whether you’re seeking protection during divination, calling on your ancestors, or offering devotion to your deities, these oils help you connect more deeply to the energy you are working with.
Use these oils with intention and mindfulness, and allow them to support you on your spiritual journey. And don’t forget to stay tuned for our upcoming range of deity-specific oils, which will further help you enhance your connection to the divine.
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