The ingredients in this tincture are very intriguing to me - I can definitely taste some of the sweeter ones, but like most Butter Ocean offerings, there's a bit of a weird rounded smell/taste to it as well that's hard to describe. Not unpleasant in this case though! I like taking it in the evening to help me switch off and to encourage things to go my way.

The Butter Ocean series is beloved for good reason, and the tincture is one of my favorite ways to work with it. I feel like this series calls for indulgence, and I really love to put a drop or two (or three) into the kind of milky hot drink that costs a little more than it should, the kind you buy at a bougie cafe just to get out of the house. Even with a small amount, I feel like it makes everything taste better, and I can pick up that maple right away. A lot that works well with it, but it feels just right with golden milk. Relaxing and luxurious and a great way to chill TF out. You can get so much bang for your buck out of the tinctures too!

Took two dropper-fulls of on a particularly bad day and the mood instantly relaxed; felt mildly high too lol! Started taking half droppers in the mornings of stressful days and it really helped me go with the flow without the same intense relaxation of the bigger dose.

I am writing a long story, because I want to emphasize the magnitude of what I was going through (for those going through something similar) and how much this materia did for me. I am currently in my Saturn return, and the lead up was brutal. There is a TLDR c:

During my 2020 spiritual awakening, I discovered that my entire life has been lead and shaped by fear. My body physically stopped allowing me to ignore it, I had some seizure-like panic attacks while driving, but still maintained that “I wasn’t anxious at all!!” This fear continued to multiply exponentially, as I had no safeguards. I started being able to acknowledge it, but fear was so woven into the framework of how I knew how to keep myself safe (trauma!) that I didn’t even know how to begin remove it without rethinking every single aspect of my entire existence.

Cue my existential crisis/nervous breakdown! That has been the last 5 years of my life in which my family fell apart, I experienced my first loss, I was diagnosed with autism, didn’t know where the f I fit into the world, and I truly wanted to end things almost every day. During a particularly difficult spell my mom bought me the Butter Ocean oil, my first experience with S+S materia, and it showed me a light in that seemingly endless dark when I truly didn’t know who I was or what was real. It helped me begin to imagine a better future for myself. I have done a lot of internal work, and seen some movement towards a better experience of life, but it has been slow. After making necessary external changes, moving house, and beginning to work (for realsies) as an artist I am finally in a safe space where I can delve deeper into my spiritual work, yet I still have been deeply struggling with that intense fear.

It’s been so frustrating!!! After all the hurdles I’ve made my way over (or through), I was comically stuck thinking that I was still in constant danger living on a very VERY safe and charming horse farm. Like it was actually so hilarious when I zoom out. It’s like a ACTUAL shadow was looming over me, obscuring all the work I had done and all the lessons I had learned, and I had grown too tired from just trying to stay afloat and alive to shoo it away. I am a bright sunny Leo stellium with a Libra moon, and for the first time in my life I was actually so terrified I had burned out my light for good.

In my desperation, I purchased a bottle of Butter Ocean tincture earlier this month for my birthday and take it internally (at my own risk) multiple times a day, because I figured if it says it’s best used with regularity, I am 100% certain I am one of the people that need that. I am so overjoyed to share that this materia has helped me begin to shift in profound ways!!!! I can say with confidence the shift would have not happened without it. It has helped color return to my world again.

Of course, after a lifetime of spiritual trauma it will continue to take time, but I am no longer afraid of my spark being lost. I feel seen by Butter Ocean, and it helps me see myself. I have incredible things to share with the world, I am so thankful I made it through, and I am reminded I will achieve everything I desire and more AND share that with the world so long as I tend to my softest parts.

I am eternally grateful for these offerings, I will note: when I was stuck in jobs that didn’t serve me/dangerous living situations, the effect was not AS profound. Though it did help me remember good things exist, because of the intensity of my situation I had to do work to find safe spaces for myself in the world. Now that I have, the Butter Ocean tincture is helping me integrate those lessons. I am brining myself in them, and it’s workingggggggg!!!!

I have also been using Deneb Algedi for the last year or so, and also purchased Fomalhaut at the same time as time as this tincture, as my Saturn is in Pisces and I have many lost parts of myself to delve into (and I’m on the spectrum and wondering if it will help me feel more ok with eye contact lol).

TLDR: if you experience any of the following; intense fear, inability to feel comfort/safety, hyper vigilance, disregulated nervous system, CPTSD, undiagnosed neurodivergence, hopelessness, loss of trust in the world, or anything related…
This could be for you. Don’t skip the internal/external work. Find a space that is safe, and Butter Ocean will do the rest. Will help you move towards better things if your environment is not safe, but in my experience the magic is greater after you have intentionally made efforts to contain and nurture yourself.

To Kaitlin and S+S, thank you for creating the stepping stones that are leading me towards the life I’ve always been meant to live. With the guidance of your materia I will also create some form of true and intentional magic to serve the highest good of all someday ccc:

When this series was first announced, I knew instantly that this would be perfect for my devotional practice with Dionysus. I love our relationship so much, and this series so perfectly enhanced our relationship, helping me to open up to more playfulness and ease as I continued to engage in regular use. One beautifully spot on outcome of using this tincture was that I ended up getting a job as a wine buyer out of nowhere!! I had been looking for different opportunities, but was finding it difficult to find the right thing. Then, soon after receiving and beginning to use this tincture, this wine buyer opportunity came up, and I snagged it right away! I had always wanted to work in wine, and I have bigger dreams of moving to Europe to work on vineyards one day, so this was the perfect entryway to that aspiration. And it all started with this tincture <3

This series always brings me joy. This tincture in particular is like a little burst of sunshine. I use a drop in my tea. It has a buttery- butterscotch kind of taste to it and it lifts my mood even if just a little bit. It’s smooth not overly stimulating.

I use a few drops of this on myself when I want to smooth out the edges of a particularly spikey or stressful emotional moment. It immediately reminds me that this moment is just one of many and that ultimately everything is okay. I've also mixed this with paint to paint a room and change its vibe. The room has a totally different effect on me now. Instead of feeling stressed walking in and thinking of everything that needs to be done, I now feel optimistic everything will get done in its due time.

I'm a bit worried that I "ruined" my bottle, as it was my first materia purchase and I stored it in the fridge, thinking that would be dark enough. Please heed advice about keeping away from light! This has been the S+S product I've noticed the effects from the least, although I'm still giving it five stars because I'm certain that's due to user error. Also, Jupiter's pretty much the only planet in my chart that's in excellent shape, and is in a water sign, so it's possible that I just already possess the sort of energy that this tincture delivers, and that's why I find it to be more subtle in its effects. I'm going to venture into other BO products to see how they compare.

Sometimes, you want to really FEEL Jupiter – for that, you should seek Jupiter’s Empyreal Vantage. This is subtle, when you don’t want to feel big, but content. Buttery. Calm. The word "insulated" was used in another review - YES. When you need to unwind, when you’re nervous;, when you need peace or to feel blessed, reach for this.

I love this tincture for taking the edge off of edgy things. I layer it with some of S&S's harsher series to lighten them up, and use it in pretty generous doses most days to make things just easier and smoother and less grating. When I'm focusing on things I tend to get overly serious or heavy, so this is a nice little dose of levity that layers really well with pretty much everything.