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Yemaya Oil
You will need:
- 3 coffee beans or English peppers or 1 vanilla bean cut into 3 pieces
- 1/2 liter almond or other clear, light, natural oil
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
- 7 cowrie shells or other small shells or pieces of coral
- a piece of turquoise, sapphire, or blue sea tumbled glass
- 1 sheet of nori or the equivalent amount of some other dried seaweed
- a handful of dried white and/or blue flowers. These should be, if possible, trout lillies, white roses, lilacs, lavender, or jasmine
- about a tablespoon of sandalwood or camwood chips or powder
Other optional ingredients are a few drops of frangipani oil, dried melon rinds, dried cucumber, or dried squash
This oil should steep in a cool, dark place for 3 months.
Modern Pretty Yemaya Oil
Some find the more traditional versions of Yemaya oil (some have fish oil in them) a bit unpleasant. There is a less traditional modern version using essential oils that is prettier smelling yet reminiscent of the sea and life.
Ingredients:
- 5 drops aloeswood essential oil or oodh attar
- 10 drops ylang ylang oil
- 10 drops frangipani or geranium oil
- 5 drops cedar oil
- 3 drops rose absolute or oil
- 1 drop ginger oil
- a pinch of sea salt
- one pearl
- one piece of amber
- a 1/2 cm square of wakame seaweed
- sweet almond oil
After doing the appropriate ritual, mindfully add these ingredients to a 10 ml. vial and give it a few good turns. Consecrate and wear as a devotion or dress candles with it.
Yemaya Incense
You will need:
- 3 coffee beans or English peppers
- 1 tablespoon frankencense
- 1 tablespoon myrrh, copal, or benzoin
- 1 tablespoon sandalwood powder or chips
- 1 tablespoon powdered seaweed (you can find these in beauty supply or health food stores)
- 1 tablespoon dried flowers, cut for tea if possible
- a teaspoon of sea salt
Pound the ingredients together, starting with the coffee beans or English peppers, in a mortar and pestle until they are as fine or as chunky as you prefer.
