Black Saffron Oil Orphic Ode Evocation to Hecate

$21.00

1/2 oz

I have always been a devotee of Hecate. She was the first goddess — the first love I found outside of the religion I was raised in as Catholic and Jehovah’s Witness. Hecate released me. She freed me. She gave me strength. For that, I owe her a great deal.

One of my ultimate goals, and one of my offerings of devotion to her, is to create nine blends for Hecate — similar in spirit to how Santa Muerte is honored through different colors and aspects. Hecate would have something similar through these blends.

Of course, we all know that Hecate carries hundreds of epithets, avatars, paths, and faces. I would love to make a blend for every one of them, but the truth is that much of that information has been lost or is simply no longer accessible. The only way to access some of those aspects would be through direct channeling — and people don’t always trust a channeled experience. I plan on exploring that with the water aspect of Hecate… but that is work for another time.

This blend is Black Saffron; created to occupy a more traditional devotional space for the Hecate devotee. By traditional, I mean Orphic. In the Orphic Hymn to Hecate, she is described as saffron-cloaked, and that image became the heart of this blend.

This formula carries a small trace of elements from my Nocticula blend, but only in the lightest way — just a touch, just a taste. The true heart of this work is saffron, offered in honor of her sacred herb.

Two forms were created from this devotion: incense and oil. The oil is sunflower seed oil macerated with saffron. You can smell the difference immediately, and the color itself has even shifted from the infusion.
My hope is that this tool brings every devotee closer to our Queen. I hope it brings her pleasure, and that it responds well for those who walk with Hecate and practice in her name.

And I truly do appreciate feedback on the blends.
Just… don’t be foolish or else I will come for you. So let it be sensible feedback. For example, I once had someone order a money candle and leave a one-star review because there was no physical money inside of it. That’s not feedback — that’s just misunderstanding the product.
Another example: someone ordered the Nocticula blend and then complained that it was too dark and that it made her feel sick. Well… it is the Black blend. That is literally the nature of that work.

************Cue in just for fun: Satanic Statement #4:
Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates.***********

So please, give me real feedback — the kind that actually helps improve the craft — not confusion, projection, or ego.

Ingredients: Black Copal, Hemlock, Saffron, Orange. The full ingredient list will be added soon. Occasionally, when I am deep in the process of making a blend, the inspiration and channeling take over and I focus on completing the work rather than stopping to record the formula immediately. Because of this, some blends end up being difficult to reproduce exactly later. If that happens with this one, the next batch may not be identical—so if it calls to you, you may want to secure it while it’s available.

1/2 oz

I have always been a devotee of Hecate. She was the first goddess — the first love I found outside of the religion I was raised in as Catholic and Jehovah’s Witness. Hecate released me. She freed me. She gave me strength. For that, I owe her a great deal.

One of my ultimate goals, and one of my offerings of devotion to her, is to create nine blends for Hecate — similar in spirit to how Santa Muerte is honored through different colors and aspects. Hecate would have something similar through these blends.

Of course, we all know that Hecate carries hundreds of epithets, avatars, paths, and faces. I would love to make a blend for every one of them, but the truth is that much of that information has been lost or is simply no longer accessible. The only way to access some of those aspects would be through direct channeling — and people don’t always trust a channeled experience. I plan on exploring that with the water aspect of Hecate… but that is work for another time.

This blend is Black Saffron; created to occupy a more traditional devotional space for the Hecate devotee. By traditional, I mean Orphic. In the Orphic Hymn to Hecate, she is described as saffron-cloaked, and that image became the heart of this blend.

This formula carries a small trace of elements from my Nocticula blend, but only in the lightest way — just a touch, just a taste. The true heart of this work is saffron, offered in honor of her sacred herb.

Two forms were created from this devotion: incense and oil. The oil is sunflower seed oil macerated with saffron. You can smell the difference immediately, and the color itself has even shifted from the infusion.
My hope is that this tool brings every devotee closer to our Queen. I hope it brings her pleasure, and that it responds well for those who walk with Hecate and practice in her name.

And I truly do appreciate feedback on the blends.
Just… don’t be foolish or else I will come for you. So let it be sensible feedback. For example, I once had someone order a money candle and leave a one-star review because there was no physical money inside of it. That’s not feedback — that’s just misunderstanding the product.
Another example: someone ordered the Nocticula blend and then complained that it was too dark and that it made her feel sick. Well… it is the Black blend. That is literally the nature of that work.

************Cue in just for fun: Satanic Statement #4:
Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates.***********

So please, give me real feedback — the kind that actually helps improve the craft — not confusion, projection, or ego.

Ingredients: Black Copal, Hemlock, Saffron, Orange. The full ingredient list will be added soon. Occasionally, when I am deep in the process of making a blend, the inspiration and channeling take over and I focus on completing the work rather than stopping to record the formula immediately. Because of this, some blends end up being difficult to reproduce exactly later. If that happens with this one, the next batch may not be identical—so if it calls to you, you may want to secure it while it’s available.