Eve LeFey - The Enchanted Formulary: Blending Magickal Oils for Love, Prosperity, and Healing

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Acknowledgments

T here are so many of you who I wish to acknowledge that I could write another book. If I am remiss in mentioning your name, know that you are always in my heart. Bob Shuman, I want to give you a special Thank You for the amazing devotion you gave to this project. I am grateful, too, for the friendship that grew from these books. Danielle Chiotti, our editor at Citadel, thank you for your saintlike patience and dedication to helping us make this book the best it could be. Sandra Rivera (Lady Zoradia), my partner, and my daughter Tara, you both patiently waited while I said over and over, Not today, I have to work on the book. I love you both with all my heart. My heartfelt gratitude to George Gras and Tony Lopez of Original Products, the Original Products ClanShortie, Anna, My Chula Cruz, Cynthia, Juanita, Maricella, Erik, Jackie, Ida, Sabrina, Manny, Jose, Nerie, Mikey, Yolie, Paul, Ralphie, Joey the Reader, and all the girls downstairs. Fondest and loving memory of Ivonne and Congo.

Big thanks to Lexa Rosean (Lady Venus), Jeffrey Whitfield (Lord Hermes), Greg Selivonchik (Merlin), Carol Bulzone (Lady Miw), Peter Conte (Lord Baldr), Diana Oonie Iguana, John Reynolds (Taranatha), all the folks who worked with me at Enchantments, New York City, the Minoan Clans (Brotherhood, Sisterhood, and Fellowship), and Magickal Childe and all the family I had there, especially Emma, Lady Heather, and Lady Rhea (Valerie).

A special thank you to Paul Deluca (Lord Julian Aurelianus), Dawn Cafir (Lady Amunet), Arthur Jamison (Lord Tammuz), Lynn Pacifico (Lady Palas Athena), and Ceres Rudzich (Lady Demeter), partner to Lady Zoradia and me in Sacred Realms in New York City. Also, Ed and Sue Bright (Lord Eustus and Lady Cybele); Rebecca The Astrologer; Lord Gwyddion (Kevin); Carrie Anne Reda, pagan artist extraordinaire and tattoo queen; Stacey Zabski (Stasi-fied) and Stacey Gass; Kenneth Lowenstein (Lord Loic); Matthew Sawicki (Lord Apollo); Anthony Russell (Lord Kronos); Uncle Troubleand Stretch, aka Marie La Clutch (Barry); Rachel (Raven); Edith Torres (Vesta), Doris Garner (Syrnix), Elba (Rune), and Andrew McMillan (Uriel). Lisa, Jade, Andrea (Lady Ursa), and Michael (Lord Sparrow), thanks for all your help.

More thanks to Vinny Gaglione of Spellbound in Belleville, New Jersey, Stephanie, Lee, Brian (Bear), Paul, Moon, Debbie, Clark Lee, and all my good friends from New Jersey. A grateful nod to Madam Dees Curio Shop, Bronx, New York; and Light and Dark Botanica of Yonkers, New York. Special love to Linda and Wayne Baratta, Danielle, Brian, and Wayne Jr. You all have my external gratitude for all you have done for us. Without your help, we would not have made it so far, and this book for all to read would not be here today.

Special people who influenced my life and thus affected my formulary are Ray Buckland, Shirley Maclaine, Bonnie and Alan Cabal, Dee Kissenger, Karen Lieberman the astrologer, Cindy Brodkin, Phyllis Curott, Lady Kore, Lady Artemis, Charlotte, Assyma, Augusta, Elaine, Luna, Lady Epona, Steven Ritholz, Black Eagle, Geraldine Patanella-Lowenstein (Lady Ashira), and Marit Shuman (Galdriel). Also, my friends and brethren of the O.T.O. Raven, Rachel Idaspe Tina and Sassy, Tony Zap Nedru, Connie and Ralph Bulzone, Tom and Richie of Murietta, California, and all the people who helped pull together the Official New York City Witches ball over all the years.

Special thanks to Minoan elder Michael Lloyd (Lord Garan-du) for his piece on the History of Oils and too many good friends to mention. All of you helped inspire me along the road. Alfred and Theresa Bila, my parents : you made all my dreams possible. Eve LeFey my devoted cowriter, who makes sense of all my ramblings for us to enjoy, thank you for your extra loving input in this work. Palmyra and Charles Rivera, thanks for the encouragement. My sisters Roseanne and Marianne who gave me my earliest influence in perfumes and makeup. Roseanne, you were always my rose on earth, and Marianne, you are the shoulders I always stood on. I love you both.

Josette, Alan, Michael, Toni-Ann, Vinny, and Vinny Jr., my special nieces and nephews.

You all have had an influence in my life in the most precious of ways. Most of all, the customers, my friends, and the dealers of oils, this formulary was inspired by all of you.

ALSO BY LADY RHEA WITH EVE LEFEY

The Enchanted Candle: Crafting and Casting
Magickal Light

The Autobiography of Lady Rhea

Since I have such a long history of working and owning occult stores, many of my formulas make reference to different places where I was working at the time I created the oil. I did not want to list my oil formulas by year and where I was at the time. So the stories in this book are connected to many phases in my life. If you happen upon an oil recipe that states I was in Empress Botanica, I want you to know what I am talking about! So here is a brief history of my career in the magick business.

My journey began in the Bronx where I sit now writing this history. It was 1967, and I had just turned sixteen and was attending a beauty school to become a hair stylist. Meanwhile, I was very involved in the jewelry, clothes, and makeup that was all the rage at the time, which was making a drastic change in our society. Conservative post earrings, mohair suits, and pink sweaters were for the drab conservative good little Catholic girls. At least that is how I felt then. I wanted long earrings, peacock feathers to be exact, and beads, lots of beads, fringed vests, and miniskirts. My mother thought that everyone else in my generation and I had gone mad. Perhaps she was right, but we were mad for the right reasons. There was a small shop right near my school called the Bronx Village Shop. A woman named Miriam owned it. She was Puerto Rican and fifteen years my senior, but we became good friends. She soon allowed me to help out in the shop, and I got my first glimpse of Santeria and magick. In the back of her shop she had a storage loft. Upstairs on the platform of this loft, she had a large altar spread out on a rug with the saints and gods of Santeria. I was mesmerized by this and wanted to learn more. She taught me as much as she could. At one time, she sent me to shop at a botanica on Bathgate Avenue. It was called Original Products Botanica, and a few years later this shop would move to Webster Avenue and 189th Street, where they are still located today. My shop, Magickal Realms, is in this very building, upstairs from Original Products.

The first time I worked with oils was at the Warlock Shop on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, New York, in 1971 or 1972. The proprietors of that shop were Herman Slater and Ed Buczynski. Later on, in the late seventies, I went to work for Herman again at the Magickal Childe located on West 19th Street in New York City. This is where my wisdom and training with oils really blossomed. Herman had moved there in 1975, and it was just a large, open, raw space when he acquired it. I thought he was crazy and missed the coziness of the smaller shop. Undaunted, Herman utilized every inch of that space and built up a mega shop that quickly developed a reputation for being a one-stop magick shop. He eventually built a large oil office at the back of the shop, and this is where many of the formulas in this book were first born.

The Magickal Childe was my training ground under the guidance of Herman, Clinton Stephen, and Eddie. Many times throughout the recipe section of this book, you may notice me referring to a formula I created while we were working together. All three of these wonderful men are gone now, having moved on to the summerlands too young. I cherish their memories and am forever grateful for all theyve taught me. I feel that by sharing these oils with you, I am honoring their spirits, and in a way, helping them live on.