Mixing Essential Oils for Magic: Aromatic Alchemy for Personal Blends

by Sandra Kynes

Overview

The Ultimate Guide to Mixing, Matching, and Making Essential Oils

Choose the best essential oils for your creative and magical mixing with this straightforward, hands-on guide. Through step-by-step instruction on how to measure, mix, and assess blends, you'll move beyond following others' recipes and into creating your own oil combinations.

Mixing Essential Oils for Magic offers everything you need to understand not only how to blend but also why specific blends work together. Learn how to mix oils by botanical family, scent group, and perfume note. Discover an encyclopedic listing of essential and carrier oil profiles, as well as thorough cross-references for the oils and their magical associations. With guidance on the historical and present-day uses of essential oils, you'll make personal blending an integral part of your spiritual and magical practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738736549
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	11/08/2013
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sandra Kynes (Mid-coast Maine) is a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids and the author of nineteen books, including Star Magic, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences, Mixing Essential Oils for Magic, and Sea Magic. Additionally, her work has been featured in Utne Reader, The Portal, and Circle Magazine. Sandra's writing also appears regularly in Llewellyn's popular almanacs and datebooks. Visit her at Kynes.net.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Aromatic Alchemy 1

Alchemy Instead of Therapy 7

Section 1 Background and Blending

Chapter 1 Scent in History and Modern Magic 11

Historical Background 11

Modern Magical Uses of Essential Oils 15

Chapter 2 Getting Started 21

About Essential Oils and Their Extraction Processes 21

Let the Blending Begin 27

Safety Guidelines 32

Chapter 3 Blending by Botanical Family 37

Botanical Families and Names 37

Getting Started with Botanical Family Blending 40

Chapter 4 Blending by Scent Group 47

Fragrance Classifications 47

Three Ways to Blend by Scent Group 48

Chapter 5 Blending by Perfume Note 63

Scents and Musical Notes 63

Blending with Notes 64

Chapter 6 As Above, So Below 77

The "So Below" Oils 81

The "As Above" Oils 90

Chapter 7 Carrier Oils for Magic 101

Background to the Carrier Oils 101

Now for the Magic 104

Extending Botanical Family Selection to Carrier Oils 107

Extending the As Above, So Below Selection to Carrier Oils 108

Summary 111

Section 2 Oil Profiles

Chapter 8 Essential Oil Profiles 119

Chapter 9 Carrier Oil Profiles 235

Appendices

Appendix A Cross-Reference by Magical Intent 257

Appendix B Cross-Reference by the Elements 279

Appendix C Cross-Reference by Zodiac Signs 281

Appendix D Cross-Reference by Planets/Solar System 285

Appendix E Cross-Reference by Sabbats 287

Glossary 289

Bibliography 293

Index 301