Yemaya

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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.