Mayan Temple essences oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint the brow and the soles of the feet before a guided journey or astral work.
• Dress a purple candle while studying an old text, asking that its meaning open to you.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the candles of a ritual held to seek hidden knowledge or to contact the masters of a tradition.
• Dress a scrying stone or dark mirror before a session.

A Simple Working

• Choose a quiet night and a room you can darken.
• Anoint a purple candle and your brow with the oil.
• Light the candle, lie down and slow your breathing.
• Picture a great stone temple and see yourself climbing its steps.
• At the top, enter the doorway and let whatever is there show itself.
• Come back down the steps slowly, count to ten and open your eyes.
• Write down what you saw before you put the candle out.

Pairs Well With

• Copal resin, the temple incense of Mesoamerica, burned while you work.
• Purple candles, for psychic and astral work.
• Patchouli leaf, to deepen the earthy side of the blend in a charm bag.
• Amethyst, held during trance.
• A dream or working journal, because what you see fades fast.

What You Receive

Mayan Temple perfume oil with patchouli and rose notes, in a 1/2 oz bottle, blended in cosmetic-grade oils.

Origin & Lore

The name calls up the stepped pyramids of the Classic Maya, but the oil itself is a blend of patchouli and rose rather than any Maya formula. Patchouli brings earthiness and depth, rose a softer heart. It is used for trance, astral travel and the patient study of hidden or half-lost traditions.

The ancient Maya burned copal resin in their temples, and the same incense still rises in Maya villages and churches in Guatemala and Mexico today.

The Maya wrote folding books on bark paper, and almost all of them were destroyed by Spanish missionaries; only four are known to survive. The Popol Vuh, the creation story of the K’iche’ Maya, was written down in the Latin alphabet in the sixteenth century and later copied by a Dominican friar, which is how it reached us.