Hyacinth oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: dress a pink or blue candle with hyacinth oil on a Friday for tender love.
• Grief and comfort: anoint a white candle for someone mourning, and set it beside a photograph of the one who is gone.
• Sleep: put a drop on the pillow for calm sleep and to keep nightmares at bay, a use given to the flower in modern herbals.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Venus work: the oil is used on Venusian talismans and in Venus hours for love and harmony.
• Apollo devotion: those who honour Apollo use the oil to remember Hyacinthus at spring rites.

A Simple Working

• On a Monday evening, set a white chime candle on your nightstand.
• Dress it with hyacinth oil from the base upward.
• Light it and sit quietly, naming what is weighing on you.
• Touch a drop of oil to your pillowcase.
• Snuff the candle before sleep and relight it each night until it is spent.
• Write down any dreams on waking.

Pairs Well With

• A white chime candle: for comfort and peace.
• Lavender oil: for a calmer sleep blend.
• Rose quartz: for gentle love work.
• Amethyst: to keep beside the bed for peaceful dreams.

What You Receive

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

Origin & Lore

The garden hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) is native to the eastern Mediterranean and Iran. It was cultivated by the Ottomans and later became a craze in the Netherlands, and today it is one of the most common spring bulbs grown in pots and gardens.

Ovid tells how Apollo’s discus struck the youth Hyacinthus, and where his blood fell a flower rose, its petals marked with the god’s cry of grief: AI AI.

The Spartans held the Hyakinthia festival at Amyclae each summer, mourning Hyacinthus and then celebrating him. In Persian tradition the hyacinth, sonbol, is one of the items set on the haft-sin table for Nowruz, the spring new year.