Apple Blossom oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: anoint a pink candle with the oil on a Friday and burn it with a written description of the partner or the relationship you hope for.
• Beauty: add a few drops to a ritual bath or a dish of rosewater to dab on the face before a glamour working.
• Home harmony: wipe a drop on the frame of the bedroom door to sweeten the mood between partners.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Venus workings: apple and its blossom are classic Venusian materials, used in talismans and rites of love, art and beauty on Venus days and hours.
• Spring rites: the oil suits Beltane and spring equinox altars, dressed onto green or pink candles.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday during a waxing moon, run a warm bath.
• Add a handful of pink rose petals and five drops of apple blossom oil.
• Light a pink tealight at the side of the bath.
• Soak, and pour water over your head five times, naming one quality you want others to see in you each time.
• After the bath, let yourself air-dry if you can.
• Gather the petals and leave them at the foot of a tree.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals: Venus’s other great flower for love baths.
• A pink tealight: for soft, affectionate love work.
• Rose quartz: to hold on the altar during Venus rites.
• Dried apple slices: for offerings to Aphrodite or Pomona.

What You Receive

Apple Blossom oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

The apple tree has been cultivated across Europe and Asia for thousands of years, and its pink-white blossom marks the turn of spring. In folk custom apple blossom was gathered for brides and May garlands, and the tree itself was honoured with wassailing to bless the coming harvest.

Paris handed the golden apple to Aphrodite, and the fruit has belonged to the goddess of love ever since.

Pomona was the Roman goddess of fruit trees and orchards, courted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Vertumnus, god of the changing seasons. Geoffrey of Monmouth called Avalon the Insula Pomorum, the “Isle of Apples”, where Arthur was carried after his last battle.