Helping Yourself with Magickal Oils A-Z by Maria Solomon
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- Primary Spiritual Use: Wisdom
- Secondary Spiritual Use: Healing
- Element: Air
- Planet: Mercury
- Zodiac: Gemini, Virgo
- Chakra: Third Eye
- Ruling Day: Wednesday
- Tradition: Wiccan/eclectic
- Intent: Wisdom, Healing
Helping Yourself with Magickal Oils A-Z by Maria Solomon is a 180-page Original Publications paperback workbook with more than 1,500 spells, recipes, and rituals for love, money, luck, and protection, arranged alphabetically by oil. It suits anyone who owns condition oils and wants plain instructions for each one.
At a glance
Key Features of This Book
1000+ oils, A to Z. The condition-oil tradition's most thorough working catalog.
Purposes and workings. Each formula's traditional uses, plainly given.
The botanica classic. An Original Publications standard of the spiritual-supply shelf.
The particulars
Product Details
- Author: Maria Solomon
- Format: paperback workbook
- Publisher: Original Publications; ISBN: 9780942272499
The Spiritual Significance
Condition oils are one of the great vocabularies of American folk magic: the named formulas of Hoodoo, conjure, and the botanica trade, Fast Luck, High John, Come to Me, Van Van, and their thousand kin, each a purpose bottled, dressed onto candles, petitions, mojo hands, and doorways in the tradition's practical grammar. Solomon's A-Z belongs to the working literature of that world, the botanica-counter genre Original Publications built its name on, written not as history but as a user's manual: look up the oil, learn its purpose, work it accordingly.
Its honest office is the reference shelf beside the oil cabinet: the decoder for the names on the bottles, the browse that turns up the right formula for the matter at hand, and the working companion whose entries send the reader back to the shelf with intention. The tradition it serves is a living African American and pan-Caribbean practice; its deeper instruction belongs with that tradition's own teachers, and this catalog keeps the vocabulary meanwhile.
Step by step
How To Use This Book
- Look up the oils you already own; the entries decode the labels.
- Browse by need when a matter arises; the A-Z rewards wandering.
- Keep it beside the oil cabinet, where references earn their keep.
- Note your own results in the margins; workbooks expect it.
- For the tradition's depths, follow it with the rootwork shelf's teachers.
It pairs with every dram in the store, which is rather the point.
Good company
Pairs Well With
- High John the Conqueror Oil with Root, 4 Dram the catalog's most famous entry, bottled.
- Helping Hand (Mano Poderosa) Oil, 4 Dram the petition register at hand.
- Fast Money Oil, 4 Dram the money chapter, working.
- Come to Me Oil, 4 Dram the drawing register's classic.
- Deliverance! Hoodoo Spells by Khi Armand the tradition's deeper working instruction.
Before you buy
Frequently Asked Questions
What are condition oils?
The named purpose-formulas of Hoodoo, conjure, and botanica practice, dressed onto candles, petitions, and mojo hands: the vocabulary this A-Z catalogs at over a thousand entries.
Who is Maria Solomon?
An author of the botanica-counter working literature, whose oils A-Z became an Original Publications standard of the spiritual-supply shelf.
Is it a beginner book?
It is a reference: immediately usable at any level, decoding the oil shelf entry by entry, with the tradition's deeper instruction living in its teaching texts.
How is it organized?
Alphabetically, oil by oil, each with its traditional purposes and workings: the phone-book method, and the right one.
Does it cover the oils this shop carries?
Extensively: the classic formulas on our shelves, High John to Fast Luck, all keep entries here.
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