Astral Travel oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Bedtime anointing: dab the temples, the brow and the soles of the feet before sleep on nights set aside for projection or lucid dreaming.
• Dream pillow: add a drop to a small cloth bag of mugwort and tuck it inside the pillowcase.
• Return and recall: touch a drop to the brow on waking and write the dream down before moving.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Rising on the planes: anoint the brow before Golden Dawn-style scrying in the spirit vision, using a tattva card or tarot trump as the doorway.
• Protection before departure: dress a white candle and perform a banishing ritual before lying down, so the body is left in a sealed space.

A Simple Working

• Choose a night when you can sleep undisturbed, ideally near the full moon.
• Perform a simple banishing or sprinkle a little sea salt around the bed.
• Light a white chime candle and let it burn while you prepare.
• Anoint your temples and the centre of your brow with Astral Travel oil.
• Lie on your back and relax the body from feet to head, breathing slowly.
• Hold the image of yourself standing beside the bed, looking back at your body, for as long as you can.
• On waking, record everything before getting up, and pinch out the candle if it is still lit.

Pairs Well With

• Mugwort: the traditional dream herb for pillows and teas before sleep.
• A white chime candle: a short burn while preparing the space.
• Sea salt: to seal the room before projection.
• A dream journal: recall fades within minutes of waking.

What You Receive

Astral Travel oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz sizes.

Origin & Lore

Astral Travel oil is a modern formula oil made for projection and visionary work. The idea it serves is old: a subtle body that can leave the physical one in sleep or trance, a belief found in many cultures and given its modern vocabulary of “astral body” and “astral plane” by nineteenth-century occultists. The oil is used as a ritual signal: the same scent, the same anointing, every time.

Practitioners describe the moment of separation as a hum, a roll or a slow lift out of the body. The oil is worn for the hour before, when the body is being taught to lie still and let go.

The term “astral body” was popularised by Theosophy and by the ceremonial orders of the late nineteenth century, though the idea of a soul that travels in sleep is found from ancient Egypt to Siberian shamanism. The Golden Dawn taught “rising on the planes” and “travelling in the spirit vision” as formal techniques. In 1929 Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington published The Projection of the Astral Body, one of the first detailed practical manuals in English. The blend itself is a modern formula.