Anointing Oils for Summer Solstice: Recipes + Ritual

As the sun lingers at its highest point on the Summer Solstice, Litha, we are invited to honor the fullness of our own fire, the richness of life, and the golden pulse of the earth at her most abundant. It's a potent time for solar magic, sensual embodiment, and heart-centered rituals.

Anointing oils are one of my favorite ways to carry that energy through the season. Whether you're dressing candles, anointing your pulse points before spellwork, or massaging the oil into your skin before dancing under the stars, these little vials of infused intention are powerful allies.

Why Use Anointing Oils for the Solstice?

Anointing oils act as both physical and energetic conduits. Made with herbs, resins, and oils chosen for their vibrational alignment with Litha, they:

• Support solar magick + manifestation.
• Connect you to plant spirits.
• Enhance confidence, clarity, fertility, and passion.
• Bless ritual tools, candles, or sacred spaces.
• Become wearable spells, radiating your intention all day long.

Base Oil Suggestions

Choose a carrier oil that feels sensual, summery, and aligns with your intention. Some good options:

• Jojoba oil – stable + skin-loving (good for body application).
• Sunflower oil – solar correspondence + light texture.
• Olive oil – earthy, protective, sacred to many pantheons.

🌞 How to Make Summer Solstice Anointing Oils

Infused with sunlight, spirit, and sacred purpose.

Whether you're preparing to anoint yourself for ritual, dress a candle, or add magic to your daily grounding practice, these oils are more than aromatic—they're tools for transformation. Below is the full step-by-step ritual for making your Summer Solstice blends with care and intention.

✦ What You’ll Need:

• A carrier oil.
• Dried herbs + botanicals aligned with your intention (see blend recipes).
• Essential oils (if desired).
• Crystal chips or small stones.
• A glass bottle or jar (amber or clear depending on aesthetic or magickal intention).
• A label and pen for naming your blend.
• Access to sunlight or moonlight for charging.

Step 1: Choose Your Intention

Before touching anything, pause. Breathe. What energy do you want this oil to carry? Courage? Pleasure? Protection? Clarity? Let your answer shape the recipe you choose... or create your own.

Step 2: Add Herbs + Botanicals

Start with the dried herbs that align with your purpose. Crumble them gently between your fingers as you drop them in. Speak the energy of each one:

• “I add rosemary for clarity and remembrance.”
• “I add rose petals for love and soft power.”
• “I add mugwort for vision and intuition.”

Fill the jar about ¼ to ⅓ full with the herb blend. This gives enough space for the oil to infuse fully while still allowing energy to flow.

Step 3: Add Your Carrier Oil

Pour in your carrier oil slowly, reverently. Watch the herbs shift and float, like they’re dancing awake.

Use a funnel if needed. Good oils for this: sunflower, sweet almond, jojoba, or fractionated coconut.

Cap the jar. Roll it in your hands. Speak your intention again. Let your fire sink into it.

Step 4: Infuse the Oil

Place your jar in a spot that reflects your intention:

• A sunny windowsill for vibrant, active energy (like confidence, attraction, strength).
• A cool, dark altar or cabinet for more subtle, inward work (like intuition, protection, ancestral connection).

Let the herbs infuse for at least 3 days for solar charging, or up to 6 weeks for deeper ritual work.

You can swirl it gently each day while whispering your intention again. Keep it connected to your presence.

Witchy Tip: If you’re working with intention-led spellcraft (vs culinary/herbal medicine), even the 1–3 day solar charge can be potent enough. Especially when paired with crystals, invocation, and daily ritual attention.

But if you’re making a stock oil you want to decant and use in multiple future spell kits, a longer infusion will deepen the energy and scent.

Step 5: Strain + Bless

Once the oil has infused, strain out the herbs using a cheesecloth or fine mesh strainer. (You can compost them with gratitude or bury them if they’ve served a sacred purpose.)

Pour the oil into a clean, dry bottle... preferably one that feels special or matches the working.

Hold the bottle in your hands and speak your intention once more, letting your energy seal it.

Note: You may choose to leave the herbs in the bottle, allowing their essence to continue steeping and adding visual magic. Just be sure all materials are completely dry and used within a moon cycle or two for best results.

Step 6: Add Essential Oils + Crystals

Now that the base is ready:

• Add a few drops of essential oils (3–9 drops total is plenty for most ritual blends).
• Drop in your charged crystals, one at a time. These should have been charged separately... under the sun, moon, or through smoke/salt, depending on your intention and the crystal’s needs.

Seal the bottle tightly. Label it. Date it. Maybe even give it a name. This is no ordinary oil. It's a tool, a talisman, a spell in liquid form.

Solstice Anointing Oil Recipes

Each of these blends makes about 1 ounce and can be adjusted based on what you have.

Solar Fire Confidence Oil

For boldness, radiant energy, and solar magick.

This oil is infused with plants aligned to the element of fire and the high noon sun. It’s designed to awaken your inner heat, courage, visibility, sacred expression, and carry that energy through your skin and spirit. Think: Leo season in a bottle.

Uses:

• Anoint your solar plexus before casting spells of success or personal power.
• Swipe on wrists before public speaking, boundary-setting, or passion rituals.
• Dress orange or gold candles for manifestation.
• Use on your ritual tools to charge them with solar energy.

Ingredients Breakdown:

• Sunflower oil: Ruled by the sun, it brings joy, vitality, and lightness.
• Calendula petals: Solar herb for success, protection, and golden luck.
• Cinnamon bark: Brings heat, speed, and energetic potency.
• Orange peel: Clears stagnation, attracts abundance, boosts mood.
• Optional EO Sweet orange: Uplifting and radiant.
• Crystal: Citrine or carnelian for self-worth and magnetic energy.

✨ Ritual tip: Apply on Midsummer morning with an affirmation like: “I am the flame. I rise. I speak. I shine.”

Sacred Bloom Feminine Oil

For love, sensuality, heart healing, and embodiment.

This oil is a love letter to the sacred feminine. It’s meant to draw you deeper into your body, pleasure, and intuition. Use it when you're calling in softness, connection, or divine feminine presence. Whether that’s in ritual, intimacy, or creative practice.

Uses:

• Massage into pulse points before love or self-love spells.
• Anoint the womb or heart before breathwork, dance, or sensual movement.
• Use in glamour rituals, especially around Venus hours or Fridays.
• Wear daily to magnetize softness and attraction.

Ingredients Breakdown:

• Jojoba oil: Skin-friendly, stable, and harmonizing.
• Rose petals: Opens the heart, calls in love, and heals emotional wounds.
• Lavender: Brings calm, grace, spiritual protection.
• Hibiscus: Adds beauty magick, seduction, and color.
• Optional EO Ylang ylang or rose absolute: Deeply sensual and emotionally balancing.
• Crystal: Rose quartz for loving intention and emotional release.

💗 Ritual tip: Use in mirror work with the phrase: “I am sacred. I am seen. I am desired by the divine and by myself.”

Ground + Glow Ritual Oil

For stability, inner wisdom, and rooted expansion.

This is a grounding, earthy oil that still honors the solar height. It’s ideal for those who want to balance all that fire with deep roots. Perfect for hedgewitch rituals, herbal spellwork, and altar anointing. This one hums like sun-warmed soil and weathered wood.

Uses:

• Anoint feet, back of the neck, or spine before ritual.
• Use in boundary spells or to call in clear, protective energy.
• Rub onto hands before garden work or herbal medicine-making.
• Dress brown, green, or black candles for grounding and growth.

Ingredients Breakdown:

• Olive oil: Sacred, protective, and ancient... good for spiritual strength.
• Mugwort: Enhances intuition, opens the veil, and wards off unwanted energy.
• St. John’s wort: Traditionally harvested on Midsummer, brings light in dark times, heals spiritual wounds.
• Lemon balm: Calms the nervous system, attracts gentle joy.
• Optional EO Clary sage or frankincense: For spiritual depth and divine connection.
• Crystal: Tiger’s eye or sunstone for clarity, strength, and protection.

🌿 Ritual tip: Use this oil to anoint the corners of your altar or home during a Solstice house blessing or garden ritual.

Threshold Oil: For Shadow, Spirit, and Sacred Descent

For ancestral connection, shadow work, and honoring the dark within the light.

This oil is a portal. Use it to commune with your ancestors, cross thresholds in ritual, or sit with the parts of yourself you usually avoid. It’s smokier, deeper, a little more feral. Think: twilight in a forest clearing, the hum of spirit, a crow’s feather on a windowsill.

Uses:

• Anoint your third eye or sternum before divination or dreamwork.
• Use in ancestor offerings or to dress candles for ancestral petitions.
• Rub on the soles of your feet or base of spine before shadow work journaling.
• Incorporate into death rituals, transitions, or threshold rites.

Ingredients Breakdown:

• Grapeseed oil: Traditionally used for protection and spirit work.
• Wormwood: Spirit ally for necromantic or liminal work (optional, use cautiously).
• Myrrh resin: Ancient funerary scent that honors death and rebirth.
• Rosemary: For remembrance, clarity, and protection.
• Optional EO Patchouli or vetiver: Earthy, grounding, spirit-opening.
• Crystal: Obsidian, black tourmaline, or labradorite for protection and shadow integration.

🕯️ Ritual tip: Use in a Solstice night ritual where you light a candle, anoint your pulse points, and journal to the prompt: “What light has revealed my shadow? What part of me is ready to rise, even if it scares me?”

Solstice Ritual: Anoint + Ignite

Try this simple anointing ritual on the day of the Solstice:

1. Light a gold or orange candle on your altar.
2. Take a few deep breaths and hold your oil in your palms.
3. Speak an intention aloud: “With this oil, I honor the sun, the fire within me, and the wild bloom of my becoming.”
4. Anoint your forehead, chest, and belly (or any area you're called to).
5. Visualize yourself glowing from the inside out. Lit up by purpose, pleasure, and presence.

Let the oil be a reminder that you are a vessel of light, worthy of taking up space, thriving, and creating sacred beauty in this world.

Final Thoughts

The Summer Solstice isn’t just a moment in the sky, it’s an invitation to remember who you are when you’re fully lit from within. When your magic, your joy, your sensuality, and your sovereignty are no longer quiet wishes, but embodied truths.

Let these anointing oils be more than beautiful blends. Let them be a commitment. A reclaiming. A ritual of devotion to the wild, luminous self that refuses to be dimmed.

As you move through this season oiled, rooted, radiant... remember:

You are fire.
You are bloom.
You are the witch at the height of her power.

Blessed Litha, beloved. Go shine.