Essential oils horror story tiiiiiime! (LONG but I ronise it's worth it)
So a long time ago when I was just discovering witchcraft and all things metaphysical I started going to a church near me that was Wiccan. It was like my sanctuary and I felt I belonged but never really was totally into the religious part of it. But I digress.
I was a part of a specific coven of a few friends and some of their friends and the deal with the church was that we met the Saturday after the full moon. Each time we met the ritual was guided by a different coven. And finally our long awaited turn came up. And it just so happened that our day would fall on SAMHAIN which as a baby witch I was so stoked about cause obviously.
We all got to work and we finally settled on what we would be doing, who would call the elements, how we would cast the circle, the whole shebang. Starting out we would draw a pentacle on everyone's foreheads with our churches anointing oil. WELL THEY RAN OUT!
So we run to our nearest metaphysical store and grab one of the first bottles we see. It was on the shelf for anointing oils so we figured fuck it let's go we're so late.
So we get back and we start greeting people with burning sage and the drawing pentacles on the foreheads. We call the circle and start our whole ritual to honor the dead seeing as it was samhain. Heres where it gets dicey.
So we get about halfway through and everything is going perfectly. We are totally killing it and it's all awesome. We start to notice some people getting up and leaving and were all like the fuck how rude we havent closed the circle yet.
All of a sudden the main lady who usually ran the place comes up and grabs our leader. She starts whispering in her ear and I can actually see the blood draining out of her face. She starts freaking out and starts coming to us saying close the circle close the circle. So we do(very rushed might I add) and we're all like the fuck what happened?
SHE TELLS US THAT THE OIL WE USED WSS PURE CINNAMON ESSENTIAL OIL!!!!!! THAT WE DIDNT DILUTE CAUSE WE DIDNT KNOW WE HAD TO!!!!!! WE ENDED UP SCARRING A COUPLE PEOPLES FOREHEADS IN THE SHAPE OF A FUCKING PENTACLE CAUSE WE WERE YOUNG DUMB IDIOTS WHO DIDNT KNOW ESSENTIAL OIL SAFTEY!!!!!
Always do your research kiddos.
