Heliotrope oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a yellow or gold candle on a Sunday for good cheer in the home.
• Anoint a sun charm or a gold coin for luck and good fortune.
• Add a drop to a sachet hung in a room that feels gloomy.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint a solar talisman made in the day and hour of the Sun.
• Dress the altar for a Midsummer rite.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add a few drops to a luck mojo bag for brightness and favour.

A Simple Working

• On a sunny Sunday morning, set a yellow candle in a window.
• Dress it with Heliotrope oil from base to wick.
• Place a gold or brass coin in front of it.
• Light the candle and name what you want to bring sunshine to.
• Let it burn while the Sun is up.
• Anoint the coin and carry it with you for the week.

Pairs Well With

• Sunflower seeds or petals, for solar luck.
• Citrine, a sunny stone for cheer and fortune.
• Yellow or gold candles for Sun magick.
• Cinnamon, for warmth and quick blessing.

What You Receive

Heliotrope oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Heliotrope is a fragrant flowering plant, Heliotropium, whose garden form was a favourite in Victorian borders for its sweet, vanilla-like scent that earned it the name cherry pie. Its Greek name joins helios, the Sun, and a word meaning to turn. In magickal practice it is ruled by the Sun and used for cheer, fortune and success.

Heliotrope means sun-turner, after the old belief that its flowers follow the Sun across the sky.

In a Roman poem of transformations, the nymph Clytie pined for the Sun god and watched him cross the sky until she became a flower that always turned to follow him; the flower named there is the heliotropium. Heliotrope became a fashionable scent in nineteenth-century perfumery and a symbol of devotion in the Victorian language of flowers.