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Making Rose Oil

The Oil Way

This is the recipe or formula for the process. Any necessary ritual, you will have to provide since this dissertation is not meant to supplant your path but to add to your scientific knowledge. As like attracts like; soaking leaves and petals
in oil will extract the oil of those leaves and petals.

*In a clean glass crock, pour in one half cup extra virgin olive oil.
* Add to the oil enough freshly picked rose petals to cover the oil.
* Let stand 24 hours.
* Strain oil through cheese cloth pressing all oil from rose petals.
* Discard rose pressed petals.
* Add fresh rose petals to this oil and repeat.
* Repeat the process until desired strength of scent(various with fragrance of roses used).


The Alcohol way
Another option, particularly suited for human consumption, is solvent distillation. In this method an alcohol is used to extract the essential oils from the plant. Leaves and petals (and sometimes thorns) are use for Magikal purposes. DO NOT USE RUBBING ALCOHOL!!!

* In one cup of un-flavored Vodka (or other denatured alcohol)
* place enough plant matter (petals, leaves, or thorns) to cover the liquid.
* Let stand covered tightly for two weeks.
* Press the oil from the plant matter through cheesecloth.
* The oil and alcohol product you now have is natural rose perfume.
* Freeze the liquid you now have for 24 hours.
* The oil will freeze, the alcohol will not.
* Remove the frozen rose oil from your freezer and store in tightly sealed container.
* Reserve the remaining alcohol for use again.
This is not the easier of the two methods but does deliver a nearly pure essential oil.

Perfumes and Baths

MOON PRIESTESS PERFUME:
1 Drop Queen of the Night Oil
3 drops rose oil
1 drop lemon verbena oil
4 fl. oz (120cc) white spirit
Blend the three oils in a bottle. Add the white spirit, and shakevigorously. A cologne can be made by adding another 1 FL. oz (30cc)of white spirit and 3 fl. oz (90cc) of distilled water.



MOON PRIEST COLOGNE:
1 fl.oz (30cc) lemon verbena or Lime oil
2 fl.oz (60cc) coriander oil
1/2 fl.oz. (15cc) camphor or myrrh oil
1/4 fl.oz. (7cc) white spirit
3 3/4 fl.oz. (105cc) distilled water
Blend the oils in a bottle, add the spirit and water and
shake vigorously. Increasing the myrrh oils gives a darker perfume; increasing the camphor, a lighter and more spicy one. All perfumes 'behave'differently on different skins, so it is worth experimenting to find your own balance.



EARTH MOTHER PERFUME:
Musk oil
Patchouli oil
Rose Oil
Blend in equal parts, bottle and shake well.



ISIS PERFUME:
Rose oil
Blue Lotus Oil
Blend equal parts, bottle and shake well.



SUN GODDESS PERFUME:
Cinnamon Oil
Lemon Verbena Oil
Ylang-Ylang Oil
Blend equal parts, bottle and shake well.



OIL FOR THE DARK OF THE MOON:
2 fl.oz.(60cc) tincture of myrrh
1 fl.oz.(30cc) oil of cinnamon
1/4 fl.oz.(7cc) Queen of the Night Oil
1 fl.oz.(30cc) oil of rose
Blend, bottle and shake well.



OIL FOR THE RITES OF ISIS:
7 drops oil of rose
2 Drops oil of Camphor
2 drops tincture of myrrh
3 drops oil of blue hyacinth
Blend the oils of rose, camphor, and blue hyacinth during the waxing moon. Bottle and keep till the Moon wanes. Add the Myrrh



KALI INCENSE:
This is an individual and personalized incense, for attunement to your own Dark of the Moon.
1 oz (30gm) sandalwood chips
1 oz (30gm) Dried jasmine flowers or 6 drops jasmine oil
1/2 oz (15gm) dried rose petals
2 drops of your own menstrual blood
Blend and use for private meditation during the onset of your menstruation.



MORRIGAN INCENSE:
1 oz (30gm) musk amberette
1/2 oz (15gm) dragon's blood (resin used in violin staining)
4 drops patchouli oil
4 drops civet oil
4 drops of blood from your own finger
Blend at the dark of the Moon, put in a jar and bury in the earth for 6 weeks (a flower pot of peat in a cool cupboard will do).



ATHENE OIL & INCENSE:
The olive is sacred to Athene. Use pure olive oil as ananointing oil in particular, rub between the palms of your hands and anoint your feet, forehead and lips.



For the Incense:
1 oz (30gm) cedarwood chips
1/2 oz (15gm) camphor
7 drops musk oil
Female sweat (as much as possible)
6 olives unstuffed and preferably black
Blend the first four ingredients well, at the full moon,and addthe olives. Put in a jar and leave for one month to mature. Thenremove the olives (Which will have imparted their essence to the rest) and throw them away.



Stuffed olives, both black and green, are an obvious food for a ritual of Athene, also stuffed vine leaves, a very Athenian dish.If possible, of course, the wine should be Greek - especially retsina, though that is an acquired taste.



PRE-RITUAL BATH SCENTS:
To cleanse and relax the body before a ritual, and to energizethe psychic centres. Fill small sachets of muslin cloth with equalamounts of the following herbs:
Basil (for psychic energy)
Borage (to strengthen the inner self) Lavendar (to banish mental and emotional stress)
Centuary (a traditional witch herb)
Rue (a traditional bathing herb)
Put a satchet into your bath five minutes before you get in,
togive the aromatics time to work.



DIANA OF THE MOON INCENSE:
It is recommended that it be made in the hour and the day of the Moon - i.e. the first or eighth hour after sunrise, or the third or tenth hour after sunset, on a Monday.
Thoroughly mix equal amounts of the following:
Gum mastic
Jasmine
Mandrake
Orris root
add a few drops of wintergreen oil and moisten with a little clearmineral oil.



AINE of KNOCKAINE INCENSE:
1/2 oz (15gm) meadowsweet flowers and leaf (gathered when the plant is in full bloom and dried)
1/2 oz (15gm) finely chopped pine needles
1/2 fl.oz. (15cc) lemon verbena oil



Recipe for Cone Incense...
6 parts powdered sandalwood, cedar, pine, or juniper
2 parts powdered benzoin (frankincense, myrrh etc.)
1 part ground orris root
6 drops of essential oil
3 to 5 parts loose incense mixture
Mix all ingredients in the order given and weigh. Add 10% of total weight of saltpeter, mix and add gum arabic "glue" one teaspoon at a time - it's a bit messy and sticky. Roll cones thin and shape approximately 1 3/4" long. Cones will shrink and dry in two to seven days. Continue to turn cones to assure even drying without cracking. Start drying in upright position. Cones will burn 10-25 minutes.


Stick incense involves dipping bamboo sticks repeatedly into your cone incense mix until your desired thickness is achieved, changing the mixture between dippings. Are there "rules" for making combustible incense? YES: Never add more than 10% saltpeter of total incense weight, keep woods and gum resin in proportion--use twice the amount of powdered woods as resin. Frankincense, myrrh etc. should never be more than a third of the final mixture.