Love Drawing Oil Recipe: Blending and Using Attraction Oils in Candle Magic
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Love drawing oil is among the most ancient and most widely used ritual oils in the candle magic tradition — a botanical blend designed to attract love, romance, and deep connection into the practitioner's life. The love drawing oil tradition draws on the long history of Venus-ruled botanicals — rose, jasmine, ylang ylang, and their kin — that have been used across cultures and centuries to open the heart, attract romantic energy, and create the conditions in which love can flourish. This guide provides a complete love drawing oil recipe with exact measurements, blending instructions, and guidance on how to use it most effectively in candle dressing workings for love and self-love.
Love Drawing Oil Recipe
Base (carrier oil): 2 tablespoons rose hip seed oil (Venus-ruled, heart-opening) or sweet almond oil. Essential oils: 5 drops rose absolute or rose otto (the premier love oil — expensive but unmatched; rose geranium is an effective substitute); 4 drops ylang ylang (attraction, sensuality, joy); 3 drops jasmine absolute (love, romance, lunar energy); 2 drops sandalwood (grounding, sensuality, spiritual love); 1 drop patchouli (earth energy, sensuality, attraction). Botanicals: A pinch of dried rose petals; a pinch of dried lavender; a small piece of rose quartz placed in the bottle.
Blending Instructions
Step 1: Use a small amber or pink glass bottle. Step 2: Add the rose hip seed oil or sweet almond oil. Step 3: Add the essential oils one at a time, beginning with the rose and ending with the patchouli. Step 4: Add the dried botanicals and the rose quartz. Step 5: Hold the bottle in both hands and charge with the intention of love — not a specific person, but the quality of love: deep, genuine, mutual, nourishing. Speak the intention: "This oil draws true love, deep connection, and heart-opening beauty to all who use it with clear intention." Step 6: Leave in moonlight overnight (especially powerful on a Friday — Venus's day — or at the full moon) to complete the charging.
How to Use Love Drawing Oil in Candle Dressing
Use a pink candle (romantic love, self-love) or a red candle (passion, desire). Apply the love drawing oil from the bottom of the candle toward the top (drawing love toward you). Roll in dried rose petals and lavender. Place rose quartz crystals in a ring around the base. Light on a Friday (Venus's day) during the waxing moon. For self-love workings, use a pink candle and add a mirror to the altar, facing the candle.
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Recipe: 2 tbsp rose hip oil + rose (5 drops), ylang ylang (4), jasmine (3), sandalwood (2), patchouli (1) + rose petals, lavender, rose quartz. Charge in moonlight, Friday. Use: pink/red candle, bottom-to-top, rose petals/lavender, rose quartz ring, Friday waxing moon. Love drawing oil recipe.
