Third Eye Oil Recipe for Intuition & Psychic Abilities
- Rachelle Barron Knight
- 29 minutes ago
- 7 min read
Are you looking to strengthen your intuition, deepen your divination practice, or enhance your natural psychic abilities? Third Eye Oil is a simple magickal anointing oil created with herbs and correspondences traditionally associated with psychic awareness, inner vision, clarity, and spiritual communication.
The third eye, associated with the brow chakra, is often considered the center of intuition and inner sight. In psychic development, working with the third eye can help you become more aware of subtle impressions, symbolic images, intuitive knowing, dreams, and the quiet messages that can easily get lost beneath everyday mental chatter.
Of course, no oil is going to develop your psychic abilities for you. Think of Third Eye Oil as a magickal ally. When combined with practices such as meditation, visualization, divination, dreamwork, and regular psychic exercises, it can help you set your intention and shift your awareness into a more receptive state.
You can dab a small amount between your eyebrows before meditation, psychic work, or divination. You can also use Third Eye Oil to anoint candles and sigils created for psychic vision, intuition, wisdom, or mental clarity.
And remember, you don't need to walk around psychically "open" all day! Learning when to close down, ground yourself, and return your attention to the physical world is just as important as learning how to open your awareness.
When to Make Third Eye Oil
You can make this oil anytime you feel called to, but if you enjoy incorporating planetary and lunar correspondences into your magick, there are several especially appropriate times.
For psychic awareness and intuition, try making your oil during the Full Moon or on a Monday, which is ruled by the Moon. The Moon is associated with intuition, psychic receptivity, dreams, and the subconscious.
Wednesday, ruled by Mercury, is another excellent choice, particularly if your intention is mental clarity, communication, divination, or interpreting the psychic information you receive.
If you work with planetary hours, you can also create or consecrate your oil during the hour of the Moon or Mercury.
Other helpful correspondences include:
Colors: Indigo, violet, silver, lavender
Crystals: Amethyst, labradorite, lapis lazuli
Planetary energies: Moon and Mercury
Intentions: Psychic awareness, intuition, clairvoyance, divination, wisdom, spiritual communication, and mental clarity
Place any of these correspondences around your workspace while making your oil if they help you connect more deeply with your intention.
Third Eye Oil Recipe
Ingredients
Small clean glass bottle with a lid or cork (I like these roller bottles)
Almond oil, grapeseed oil, jojoba oil, or another skin-safe carrier oil
Sandalwood essential oil for intuition and spiritual awareness or peppermint essential oil for mental clarity and focus (My favorite essential oils)
Dandelion petals, fresh or dried
Why These Ingredients?
Every ingredient in this recipe has been chosen for its traditional magickal associations.
Dandelion is associated with divination, spirit communication, psychic awareness, and wishes. Its airy nature also makes it a lovely herb for opening yourself to messages and inspiration.
Thyme has traditionally been used for courage, purification, psychic awareness, and spiritual work. In some traditions, it is also associated with communication with the Fae and other spirits.
Yarrow has a long history of association with divination, psychic protection, and heightened perception. I especially like including it in psychic work because developing sensitivity should go hand in hand with energetic boundaries.
Sandalwood is associated with spirituality, meditation, intuition, and higher consciousness. Its scent can also help create a calm, contemplative atmosphere for psychic work.
Peppermint is associated with mental clarity, alertness, purification, and focus. It can be especially useful when you want to distinguish genuine intuitive impressions from ordinary mental chatter.
You don't need both sandalwood and peppermint. Choose whichever one best matches the intention of your oil.
How to Make Third Eye Oil
Clean your bottle and prepare your workspace. You may wish to cleanse the bottle and your ingredients in whatever way you normally cleanse your magickal tools.
Add a small amount of dandelion, thyme, and yarrow to the bottle. As you add each herb, take a moment to acknowledge its qualities and thank it for assisting you in your work.
Fill the bottle almost to the top with your chosen carrier oil.
Add your properly diluted essential oil. Because this oil may be used on the forehead, less is better. The amount needed will depend on the size of your bottle and the essential oil you choose.
Add a few drops of Vitamin E oil.
Seal the bottle and gently shake it, imagining the individual energies of the ingredients combining into one unified intention.
Light your purple candle. If desired, place crystals or other psychic correspondences around the bottle.
Hold the bottle between your hands and close your eyes. Take several slow breaths and allow your mind to become quiet.
Focus on your intention: clarity, heightened intuition, expanded psychic awareness, inner wisdom, or whatever purpose you have chosen for your oil.
Visualize that intention as energy flowing through your hands and into the bottle. You might imagine violet, indigo, silver, or white light surrounding the oil and filling it completely.
When you feel the work is complete, thank the energies you have worked with and close your ritual in your usual way.
Store your Third Eye Oil in a cool, dark place and give the bottle a gentle shake occasionally. This is good for up to six months.
A Note About Skin Safety
Because Third Eye Oil may be applied to the forehead, always use essential oils at an appropriate skin-safe dilution and patch test your finished oil before using it on your face.
Keep the oil well away from your eyes and discontinue use if irritation occurs.
Peppermint essential oil can be particularly irritating near the eyes, so use it very sparingly.
If you have sensitive skin, you can skip the essential oil altogether. Your magick does not depend on essential oil!
If you're uncertain about an ingredient or have allergies or skin sensitivities, use the oil for candle or ritual-tool anointing instead of applying it to your body.
Ways to Use Third Eye Oil
Once you've created your oil, there are plenty of ways to incorporate it into your psychic and magickal practice.
You can:
Dab a tiny amount over your third eye area before meditation or psychic exercises
Anoint a purple, indigo, silver, or white candle before divination
Dress candles used for psychic development, intuition, wisdom, or clarity spells
Anoint a sigil created for psychic vision or intuitive development
Use it before tarot or oracle readings
Incorporate it into automatic writing or spirit communication practices
Use it before dreamwork or keeping a dream journal
Anoint appropriate ritual tools used specifically for psychic or divination work
Use it as part of a Full Moon psychic-development ritual
Third Eye Oil works best as a complement to an actual psychic-development practice rather than as a replacement for one. Meditation, observation, visualization, divination, and regular intuitive exercises are what help you learn to recognize and trust your psychic impressions.
If you're just beginning, you may also enjoy my 5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Psychic Abilities for more easy exercises you can incorporate into your daily life.
Enhance Your Psychic Powers Spell
Once you've made your Third Eye Oil, you can use this simple ritual before meditation, divination, or psychic practice.
You Will Need
Your Third Eye Oil
One purple or white candle
Directions
Anoint your candle with a small amount of Third Eye Oil while focusing on your intention to strengthen your psychic awareness.
Light the candle and spend a few moments watching the flame. Allow your breathing to slow and your thoughts to settle.
Hold the bottle of Third Eye Oil between your hands and repeat three times:
I open my vision,I open my eyes,I now see clearly,Through my third eye.
Close your eyes and imagine an indigo or violet light glowing gently between your eyebrows. Rather than forcing it open, imagine your awareness naturally expanding.
Dab a tiny amount of the oil between your eyebrows, taking care to keep it away from your eyes.
Sit quietly for several minutes and notice what you experience. You might receive an image, thought, feeling, physical sensation, memory, or simply a sense of calm. Don't force anything to happen. Psychic development is about learning to notice subtle information, not trying to manufacture an experience.
From here, you can move into meditation, tarot, automatic writing, mediumship practice, or whatever psychic exercise you have planned.
Remember to Ground Yourself
Opening your awareness is only half of psychic development. Learning how to close down and ground yourself afterward is equally important.
When you've finished your psychic or divination work, extinguish your candle safely and consciously bring your attention back into your physical body and surroundings.
You might imagine the light at your third eye becoming smaller and softer, rather than remaining wide open. Take several deep breaths, stretch, drink some water, eat something, or spend a few minutes outside.
You don't need to stay psychically receptive all the time. In fact, developing good boundaries can make it easier to recognize intuitive information when you deliberately choose to open yourself to it.
Continue Exploring the Beginner Witch Encyclopedia
Want to learn more about magickal oils, herbs, crystals, divination, spellcraft, and other witchy practices? Visit my Beginner Witch Encyclopedia, a free and growing collection of beginner-friendly guides designed to help you build your practice one step at a time.
Whether you're brand new to witchcraft or simply looking for new ideas to add to your practice, you'll find plenty of practical resources to explore.
Want to Develop Your Psychic Abilities?
Third Eye Oil can be a wonderful addition to your practice, but the real key to psychic development is practice, consistency, and learning how your own intuition communicates with you.
If you'd like to begin practicing right away, you can download my Free Meditation Bundle, which includes guided meditations you can use to quiet your mind, ground your energy, and begin developing your psychic awareness.
For a more structured journey, you can also join me in my Online Psychic Academy, my 12-week psychic development course where we'll work together to develop your intuition, strengthen your psychic senses, connect with Spirit, and give you plenty of opportunities to practice what you're learning. New classes every season.
And if you'd prefer individual guidance, I also offer private one-on-one psychic development mentorship, where we can explore the abilities that come most naturally to you and create exercises specifically for your own development.
However you choose to practice, remember that developing your psychic abilities isn't about forcing your third eye open or trying to see something extraordinary every time you close your eyes.
It's about becoming quiet enough to notice what has been there all along.
May you always find your guidance,
Rachelle
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