Frankincense & Myrrh oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Blessing: dress white candles with the oil for house blessings, new babies and new homes.
• Spiritual cleansing: add to a bath or floor wash to clear away heaviness and invite peace.
• Church work: the oil suits Psalm work and candle prayers alongside a Bible.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Ancestor altar: anoint candles and photographs for the beloved dead, honouring myrrh’s ancient link to burial.
• Consecration: rub a drop onto tools, jewellery and altar cloths to bless them before use.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Balanced rites: frankincense is given to the Sun and myrrh often to the Moon or Saturn, so the blend is used where solar and lunar or Saturnian forces are worked together.
• Temple preparation: anoint the altar and quarters before ritual.

A Simple Working

• On a Sunday, set a white chime candle in the centre of the room you want to bless.
• Dress it with frankincense & myrrh oil from the middle upward and the middle downward.
• Place a small bowl of water with a pinch of sea salt beside it.
• Light the candle and read Psalm 23 or speak your own blessing aloud.
• Dip your fingers in the salt water and flick it into each corner of the room.
• Let the candle burn out and pour the water at the front door.

Pairs Well With

• Frankincense resin: to burn on charcoal during blessings.
• Myrrh resin: for funerary and ancestor incense.
• A white chime candle: for blessing and spiritual cleansing.
• Holy water: for sprinkling during a house blessing.

What You Receive

Frankincense & Myrrh oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Frankincense and myrrh are both gum resins from trees of southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa. Frankincense was burned in temples as an offering to the gods; myrrh was used in perfume, anointing and embalming. Together they formed the heart of much ancient temple incense, and they are still burned in churches today.

Gold for a king, frankincense for a god and myrrh for a death: the three gifts of the Magi in Matthew’s Gospel were read from early on as a prophecy in miniature.

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Myrrha is transformed into the myrrh tree, and the resin is her tears; her son Adonis is born from its trunk. Egyptian embalmers used myrrh in mummification, and Exodus names myrrh first among the ingredients of the holy anointing oil.