Tree of Life oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a family tree, heirloom or ancestor photograph to honour your lineage.
• Dress a green or brown candle for personal growth and grounding.
• Rub a drop onto the trunk of a tree you work with as a small offering.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the brow before Kabbalistic pathworking on the Tree of Life.
• Consecrate a diagram of the sephiroth used for meditation.
• Dress candles at the start of a ritual that moves between worlds or levels of being.

A Simple Working

• Take a green chime candle and a sheet of parchment.
• Draw a simple tree with roots, trunk and branches.
• Write the names of ancestors at the roots, your own name on the trunk and your hopes in the branches.
• Anoint the roots, trunk and branches with Tree of Life oil.
• Dress the candle from base to wick and light it beside the drawing.
• Speak your thanks to those at the roots and your intention for the branches.
• When the candle is finished, keep the drawing on your ancestor altar.

Pairs Well With

• Oak, ash or yew wood, all trees with deep sacred lore in Europe.
• Green candles, for growth.
• Moss agate, the gardener’s stone, for growth and grounding.
• Frankincense, for raising a working toward the divine.

What You Receive

Tree of Life oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Tree of Life oil takes its name from the world-tree image found in many traditions: the Etz Chaim of Kabbalah with its ten sephiroth, Yggdrasil of Norse myth, and the tree in the Garden of Eden. It is used for workings of growth, balance, ancestry and connection between the worlds.

Almost every culture that told stories about the world drew it as a tree: roots in the underworld, trunk in the human realm, branches in the heavens.

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life became the central map of Western ceremonial magick through the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the late 19th century, which attached its grades, planets, tarot trumps and colours to the sephiroth and the paths between them. The Norse Yggdrasil, an ash, linked nine worlds in the Poetic Edda.