Friday, January 31, 2014

LOVE, Lupertine 2014 and SEVEN WONDERS - LIVE at Conjure!


LOVE: IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
English can be a bit lacking when it comes to ways to describe LOVE. I mean, there are compound words like in love, deep love, true love but they aren't words themselves. I thought it was interesting when I came across these unique Greek words for different variations for love to represent our Lupertine collection for 2014. I have crafted these very potent oils not only to be gorgeously fragrant, but to embody the properties of each type of love. If you want a good time, Ludus is what you want, want some crazy sexy time with a bit of danger? Eros is for you. And so it goes with each scent! All blended with the expertise that you can't find anywhere else other than Conjure Oils. Have a wonderful Lupertine and get the love YOU want! Of course, you can always just wear them because you like the scent! No harm in that. Either way, I hope you enjoy Conjure's Lupertine 2014 collection!

EROS: SEXUAL PASSION

Named after the Greek god of fertility and represented an idea of passion and desire. It also had a connotation of danger and wildness, where people would lose themselves and "fall" in love. as in a type of possession.
Immerse yourself in the madness and passion and danger that the desire of Eros can bring.
Provocative patchouli is melded with sultry notes of juicy hips of rose and bloody thorns, sacred crimson apple incense and myrtle all topped with passionate aged vanilla resin.

 

PHILIA: DEEP FRIENDSHIP

Philia, simply put, is friendship. Valued by the Greeks far more than the sexuality of Eros, Philia was the love between brothers in arms who fought in combat together. It embodied friendly loyalty, sacrifice, and sharing your deep dark feelings with one another. In this day and age of Twitter and FaceBook it really wouldn't hurt to take an inventory and see how many people how many people with whom you truly share Philia.

Deep, everlasting and dedicated cedar, palo santo and black copal are brightened and enlivened with Meyer lemon and blissful sweet pea.

 

LUDUS: PLAYFUL LOVE

The playful love shared between children or young lovers. The twinkle of belly butterfly you get from flirting or the joy that comes from good times spent with friends, or going out dancing and connecting with a mysterious stranger and enjoying a mutual attraction.

Mysterious coconut meat, smoky patchouli, honey dusting powder, peach brandy, pink musk and all-night-long loving moonflower.

 

AGAPE: UNIVERSAL LOVE

Selfless love and perhaps the most radical of all the loves. This was love that was extended to all people: friend, family, stranger, foreigner, etc. In Buddhism they call it "universal loving kindness" and in Christianity it is known as "gift love". Empathy is a hard love to master these days, it seems. It seems some folks find it simpler to forget people in need and dismiss those who are different.
One of the greatest things we can do spiritually is to exercise out compassion and our empathy. Be sure to extend your love to the world and all the people in it.

Oils sacred to Green Tara, our lady of compassion, blended to open the heart and help one to extend love to all: Golden sandalwood dhoop, gorgeous and resplendent bergamot, green lotus, heady gardenia and frangipani. A truly loving and radiant sacred elixir. .

 

PRAGMA: LONG STANDING LOVE

Long-Standing love developed between couples that have spent ages together. Pragma is about making the relationship to last over the long haul by learning how make comprises, cultivate patience, understanding and tolerance
As psychiatrist Fromme says, be sure you're not spending too much time falling in love. Make sure you're crafting something that will last and work for you over the long term.

A loving and enduring fragrance crafted with the spirit of endurance and love that lasts: Mighty redwood, Dragon's Blood, crimson carnation, High John the Conqueror infusion, aged myrrh, blonde patchouli and purifying sage, juniper and a tiny drop of cinnamon so the passion endures with the relationship.

 

PHILAUTIA: LOVE of the SELF & NARCISSISM

Philautia, or Self Love and Narcissism. Philautia the love of the self allows for a wider capacity to love. If you like yourself and are secure there will be lots of love to be spread about. As Aristotle says, "All friendly feelings for others are an extension of a man's feelings for himself.
In Narcissism one becomes self obsessed and focuses only one's personal fame and fortune.
PHTLAUTIA is a fragrance to enhance one's love for the self and the healthy desire to spread that love throughout the universe. A cosmic blend that helps energy grow and expand throughout the universe. It it designed to only send and increase love.
Red rose, Parma violet, Aged vanilla, neroli, golden frankincense and Indian patchouli.

NARCISSISM is an elixir crafted to heal the heart and create more independence, self love and security. Perfect for anointing the self, the heart or the soles of the feet.
Narcissus, Arabian sandalwood, oakmoss, Meyer lemon, orange peel,, ginger, olibanum and a drop of clove.


SEVEN WONDERS
Inspired by a particular show on TV that shall remain nameless because I don't want any trouble, I present you with a list of Seven Powers - a list of seven psychic properties that young witches must pass in a test if they are to become the Supreme of the coven. These perfumes are designed to embody the spirit of the power, not to actually give you the power. I'm not that good! I may be a Supreme, but unfortunately, I'm one that comes with sour cream! Now I've said enough! On we go to the powers...

 

CONCILIUM

Mind Control.
Black sandalwood, orris root, heliotrope, calamus root, honeysuckle and a drop of ylang-ylang

 

DESCENSUM

To travel between life and the afterlife.
Graveyard dirt, opoponax, Spanish moss, calla lily, opium poppy.


DIVINATION

To predict the future either with a tool such as cards, shells or crystals, or with the mind alone.
Vanilla musk, a drop of vetiver, orange, clove, licorice, violet, Moroccan myrrh, and night blooming white ginger blossom.

 

PYROKINESIS

To set fire to objects with the mind.
Chipotle ice cream, cinnamon sugar, red pepper infused vanilla simple syrup.

 

TELEKENISIS

The ability to move and levitate objects with the mind.
English lavender, white sage, pinon pine, white amber, Himalayan cedar, juniper berry, yew needles.

 

TRANSMUTATION

To transform from one location instantaneously.
Heliotrope, wisteria, vanilla incense, patchouli, pomegranate, African violet and a touch of wild leather.

 

VITALIUM VITALIS

To raise someone or yourself from the dead..
Coconut, Sudanese frankincense, Red sandalwood, magnolia, cinnamon, ambergris, lotus and deep, black myrrh. 



Have a wonderful season of love and magick!

All the best,

Vajra

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year! 2014 and BLACK MOON are LIVE at CONJURE!!


2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014
2013 proved to be a challenging year for me. Despite the highlight of having Sebastian in April, I was presented with a host of post partum complications that landed me in the hospital multiple times for varying stays. The shortest being a couple of days and the longest, a month. Now that I'm medicated, I hope these episodes will reduce and that I get some of my vim and vigor back! (In case you were wondering, it's also why there was no Yule update. It's hard to compose perfume and not have access to my studio!)
So you'll forgive me if I'm a tad boisterous in wishing you a wonderful 2014! I'm excited for what this year will bring. I'm no fool - I'm not going to tempt fate and say that it couldn't get any worse than 2013 (because it can!) So I'd like to set the intention of 2014 to one of healing. And tonight's super new moon in Capricorn will set the tone for the internal magick that needs to take place if we're to heal ourselves, our relationships, our planet, our politics, our country (where ever you are), or our cosmos. It's a mighty undertaking that begins inside and from there, extends out reverberating infinite and eternal.
Happy 2014. Let's make this one count.

2014
The Darkling Thrush
BY THOMAS HARDY
I leant upon a coppice gate
      When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
      The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
      Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
      Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
      The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
      The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
      The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
      Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
      In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
      Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
      Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
      Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
      His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
      And I was unaware.
Hopeful notes of bergamot, orange peel, pink grapefruit and golden frankincense twinkle amidst layers of ginger, sugared sandalwood, succulent peach and white patchouli.
 

BLACK MOON
Today is the day of the super new moon, as it is at perigee and the closest to us that it will be all year! Under the influence of Capricorn, it's an ambitious time for new beginnings, building confidence, order, patience, prosperity, responsibility, stability, success and the willpower to bring about manifestation.
Dark lunar oils of black patchouli, benzoin and seared vanilla are expertly blended with oils under Capricorn's spell: opuim poppy, magnolia and yew. The fragrance is then empowered with Purifoy flower essences* of trillium, fairy lantern and pungent desert parsley.
*Flower essences are unscented elixirs that are vibrational remedies that possess etherial, soul deep balancing properties.
Trillium Trillium ovatum Singing Your Song, Divine Feminine, Rebirth, Purity, Innocence, Triple Goddess, Renewal, Cleansing, Forgiveness. 
Fairy Slipper Calypso bulbosa - uncommon ('No Pick' Essence) -  Magic, Divinity, Regal, Moving Into Other Realms, Grace, Fairy Realm, Playfulness.
Pungent Desert Parsley Lomatium grayi - Gratitude, Openness, Self Worth, Clears Abandonment.
Essence descriptions from PurifoyFlowerEssences.com
2014 and Black Moon will be available until February 1, 2014. Or longer. :)



$20 per 5ml amber apothecary bottle. 
Have a wonderful new year and a magickal new moon!

Best,

Vajra