Soulmate oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Wear a drop over the heart on Fridays, the day of Venus, while you go about ordinary life open to meeting someone.
• Anoint a rose quartz and keep it under your pillow while you work on readiness for love.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a pink or red figure candle representing the partner you have not yet met, naming the qualities you want rather than a particular person.
• Add a few drops to a honey jar petition, so the work is sweet as well as drawing.
• Anoint a red flannel mojo bag holding rose petals, a pair of lodestones and a little magnetic sand.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Dress a Venus talisman or a sigil for your ideal partnership during a Venus hour.
• Anoint the candles on a love altar before a Friday working timed to a waxing moon.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday during the waxing moon, write the qualities of your soulmate on a square of pink paper.
• Anoint each corner of the paper with Soulmate oil, moving toward the centre.
• Dress a pink chime candle from base to wick with the oil.
• Set the candle on the folded paper and light it, speaking the list aloud.
• Let the candle burn out completely.
• Keep the paper in your bedside drawer or a small pouch with a rose quartz.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, the classic Venusian love herb.
• Rose quartz, a stone kept by love workers for opening the heart.
• Lodestones in pairs, for drawing and holding a partner.
• A pink candle, for tender, romantic love.
• Honey, for sweetening the work.

What You Receive

Soulmate oil, an Envision Crystals anointing oil, in a 4 dram bottle.

Origin & Lore

Soulmate oil is a modern condition oil made in the tradition of the named love formulas, the Come To Me and Love Drawing oils that hoodoo and folk practitioners have used for generations. Where many love oils aim at attraction or passion, this one is worked for recognition and deep compatibility, for the partner who fits rather than the one who simply turns your head.

The idea of a soulmate is older than most love spells: an ancient Greek story held that every person is half of an original whole, searching for the other half.

In Plato’s Symposium, the speaker Aristophanes tells how the first humans were round beings with four arms and four legs, until Zeus split them in two. Ever since, he says, each half has searched for its missing other, and love is the name for that search.

The oil itself belongs to the twentieth-century tradition of condition oils, where each named formula is aimed at one precise outcome.