Oil of Luna in Cancer
100% organic, rancidity-resistant jojoba and fractionated coconut oils, poured over watercress, chamomile, milky oat, orris root, ashwagandha, poppy seed, heal all, calamus, mugwort, angelica, and sundry herbs of Lunar provenance following fumigation at the height of the election window. Silver leaf, white gold, pearl powder, white lotus, and dried moonflower.
Likely thee *single most powerful offering* from Luna in Cancer’s entire series, for its profound ability to alter state, promote receptivity, sensitivity, and key to the Moon’s vast gnosis, deepest mysteries, and changeable arcana.
It also increases the energetic gravitational pull of yourself and whatever you anoint it with.
As the write-up states over and over again, it is highly recommended to pair this with other materia + talismans to help direct its influence, especially when worn upon on the body.
[if you are a good candidate, primarily meaning not prone to psychotic breaks or episodes; breaks in consensus reality; &c.]
Sphere + Sundry’s Oils can be used to anoint any appropriate place upon the vessel per your intent, or those befitting the Power’s associations: energy centers, meridians, or organs (in this case the stomach and breasts/ chest); or — for more intense altered states, “starfish” style: the 3rd eye/ crown of the head, both wrists/ palms, and the bottoms of both feet. Additional places include the heart center, lower back, and/ or base of the skull.
Works as an excellent primer for Salves and Body Butters from other series, to promote their bodily influence and calming capacity (personal favorites being The Cloud King’s and Fomalhaut — or Deneb Algedi for maximum warding against undesirable Lunar manifestations; for boundaries and to provide protection).
Before ritual work — to better commune with spirits, boost extrasensory perception and psychic sensitivity, seership, aid scrying, divining, channeling, and mediumship — and before sleeping or journeying to invite adventures upon the dreamscape and astral, apply Luna in Cancer by itself or combined with something along the lines of Fomalhaut, Moon-Neptune, Hermanubis, or The Ancestral Series.
[Be sure to practice good preparation and aftercare following such activities: cleansing, warding, grounding, and re-conditioning the self + space with homeostasis promoting, potentially banishing energies, especially of a Solar or Regulean nature]
This will shock you, but wearing Luna’s Oil *will* boost sensitivity to Lunar transits — globally and to the nativity — as well as whatever other materia and magical implements you handpick. It serves as an epic potentiator, helping the body, mind, and spirit to metabolize combined influences, aiding in their penetration and manifestation.
The Oil and other offerings from this series can be applied before donning talismans and amulets, to empower the physical and auric bodies to carry their light/ influence.
Over time, the Moon can heal foundational issues, rectifying attachment disorders and giving insight into abandonment issues, making us more “emotionally available” and in tune with our deepest, most basic animal needs: nourishment, sleep, security, safety; connection to those we love, to ourselves, and to the world around us — the spirit world included.
It also attunes us to the needs of those around us — to those in our care, and can promote “hermit-ing” and comfort seeking, stoking carnal and emotional hungers. It is also very likely to improve memory.
This Oil can be used magically rather than personally, to prepare candles before dressing them with powders that best fit your intended aims, to increase potency and expedite spell manifestation. Anoint petition papers, and use in any way magical oils possibly can be.
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Offered in a 1/2 oz glass vial, 10 ml “flawless glide” steel roller, each with a keepsake pearl, or 5ml mini vial.
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I applied the oil “starfish style” on a Sunday to temper Luna, during a waxing crescent moon, and the T-shirt I was wearing had some residual Fomalhaut salve on it—felt like an auric shield.
Given the warnings I was a little apprehensive… but I planned on taking the day to seclude, journal & write, process my internal happenings.. I was locked in typing away in such a flow state—the amount of time that went by felt like half of that, kinda time trippy. Some illuminating insights too! I felt a teensy bit looney like I couldn’t stop writing but it was also cathartic. I loved it. I’m also a cancer sun solstice baby. I was like wow this was great, I applied some more Fomalhaut salve & sweetly drifted away.
Holy moly did I have bizarre dreams. Hella disturbing. And my husband couldn’t sleep, kept waking up. Next morning he has a man-child episode, gets all up in his feelings for literally nothing. Maybe that’s a coincidence but he’s not in touch with his luna or emotional landscape so I felt it was the oil—TLDR take seriously the warning about who you wear this around.
Love this water to add a great kick to any working. I almost never use it on my person because of the gloomy vibes but it's great for magic.
I mostly use this to amplify other oils/materia as I'm especially sensitive to Lunar materia. It's become an essential for magnifying the effects of magical workings
I have an unhappy Moon in my chart and totally thought this series was pretty much off limits for me. However, I really felt compelled to get hold of some of this materia and I'm really glad I did. It's so dreamy and holds me in such a maternal way. I've felt like a little child when engaging with it and have ended up in floods of tears on several occasions but in the very best way. I'm very mindful of the need for caution with this but, for me, it's been great.
The first couple times I used this, I got stuck in the realm between sleep and waking. I kept thinking I was awake but wasn't or seeing my dreams in my waking life in the middle of the night. I heard sounds in the other room that I knew weren't there. I understand the warnings about making sure you have a firm grip on your mental health because the lunar realm can be disorienting! I found my emotions heightened while wearing this and came to understand the materia was showing me my unmet needs. It also gave me the ability for deep stillness and presence with my kids during important moments.
As detailed in the oil's description, the oil is extremely powerful and perhaps unsuitable to people that are susceptible to mental instability. When I first took the oil out of the box, the whole room started to spin, and I had to avoid touching it. That night, I dreamed of multiplying fishes filling the house. For some reason, I was called to make a cosy container for the oil, and after it was installed in that, everything felt stable again. After many months I was finally able to take the oil out and look at it, but have not been able to open it. For note, my natal moon is debilitated in Capricorn.
I honestly haven't spent a ton of time with this because I only intend to use it for specific magical purposes - and because of this, I'll probably get acquainted with it slowly. I have the LiC salve as well, which I use regularly for personal application, and I don't really have any desire to "wear" the oil form. The couple of times I've used the oil (a tiny bit on myself, and a bit to anoint a candle) I definitely feel like I dropped into a kind of looser, more meditative state... a little trippy, but subtly so. I'm a 12H Cap Moon and tend to be VERY even-keeled and perhaps a wee bit emotionally repressed, and don't find this uncomfortable used sparingly.
This entire series, the anointing oil included, has been the one I go to when venerating my matrilineal line but also in my daily Marian prayers. Whether they be Mother of Old or the Divine Mother Mary herself, this oil (in combination with the incense and tincture) make for beautiful and well received offerings, as well as refining my communication with these spirits when applied on my persons. Also, unexpected side effect? Joyful dancing to the sounds of my ancestral lands. I got utterly uplifted when listening to a mix of vinyls unearthed from the 70s. It felt utterly magic to be 8 months pregnant, twirling in circles and to feel as though as my grandmothers and aunts were right there with me laughing and cheering me on from behind the veil!
I anoint myself with either Luna in cancer or exalted Luna before bed. I notice exalted Luna has a more embodied and slightly heavier effect whereas Luna in cancer is for me more subtle and gentle. I don’t notice any side effects and it often helps me to sleep more deeply and restfully.
I’m a natal cancer moon, and I used this oil for the first time on March 30th, 2025. I found myself being directed to call on Neptune in Aries newly initiatory energy to dispel the fog obscuring what I needed to see to promote healing for my foundations, my body, and other - you know - moon stuff. Luna in Cancer is very powerful & intense and needs to be approached respectfully, but the healing this has helped me to facilitate is truly incredible.
This one hit with me instantly. I'd been having a hard time staying asleep for more than a few hours at a time, but I anointed my temples with some of this and got a full night's rest with interesting dreams for the first time in at least several weeks. Paired with Fomalhaut, I get deep sleep and vivid, detailed dreams. I even had my first lucid dream. I was so pleased with the results of my mini vial, I had to get the bigger 1/2 oz. It really increases the magnitude of anything you pair it with. If I'm not using it for sleep, it makes everything inside and around me feel amplified, which can be nice if you want to see and feel what's true more clearly, but it can also be a little draining. Very draining if you aren't ready for it. I'm new to Luna materia but so far it's be potent and pleasant.
This materia instantly gives me disney princess vibes the moment I use it. Animals naturally flock to me (thank you 6th house Cancer stellium), but with the oil of Luna in Cancer, I am become Snow White. Not only do puppies and kittens crawl into my lap, rub up against me, and stare intently into my eyes; I return the communication effortlessly, instantly intuiting just what they need. As an animal lover, this stuff is GOLD.
I've been using this oil to power up my other materia. It's been working wonders- sometimes leaving near-instant results. It really is a marvel.
I have a cursed moon. Seriously though, I totally felt “the call” to include the experience of this one somehow as a moon mitigation. It rolled in with a psychic power pop like when mom comes home with the groceries and you need to help unload the car. I felt this one coming in the mail. I had to have a “spot” for it to land, like a fresh bed for a very special guest. I was taught a lot of moon stuff about my moon by just having it. I have not opened it. Said cursed moon and related lessons with it just being in the house were enough moon time. But, it really does “swell” and multiply like the loaves and fishes parable. Just having it as an offering on your alter will cause tides. Really powerful. But, yeah, the notes are not kidding. The moon is serious stuff. lol. Don’t mess with mom. #respect
Over the years, I've tried a selection of Sphere and Sundry's mind-altering and reality-bending works (Fomalhaut, Neptune-Moon, Venus in Pisces), but Luna in Cancer takes the Silver Crown. As for this series, I've tried the incense, the candle and Phoenix Lab quartet and although each of them has a different expression, the Oil of Luna in Cancer is by far "trippiest". The best description of the experience is that it feels like skinny dipping in the ocean on a full moon's night. Exhilarating, wild, limitless... and somewhat dangerous. It's dark, you're naked and can't tell if you're not about to step on a sea urchin. It has this push-and-pull tension between excitement for the unknown and the fear of it. Therefore, if you wear it for more than 3 or 4 hours at a time, your emotions will become strained by the tension, like a well-used instrument that goes out of tune. The sound, instead of flowing with grace, gradually becomes distorted, it's echoes a haunting, slow descent into madness. I'm saying that as a person with a Taurus Moon conjunct the degree of my Ascendant and making a trine to Neptune and Uranus conjunct on the same degree in the 9th house. Turns out that it was rather childish to think that my earth would keep me grounded. In the face of the ocean, it simply turned to mud. By that I mean that the boundary between solid ground and water... dissolved. Certainly not something I could do on the daily, but it DOES WONDERS FOR DIVINATION. Alternatively, I tried using it together with Mars in Capricorn II decan series oil, when the moon is transiting through that decan of Capricorn and I found the experience quite the opposite - it was like the low tide had come and washed away all the emotions. It was a shockingly efficient combo for getting work done. Again, I would say check your birth chart first before trying this out - it certainly isn't for everyone!
In the afternoon of fall season, I decided to walk with my dog. Maybe, a few minutes later, I arrived at the cross road. My dog’s behaviour was changed suddenly. It was erratic behaviour. Maybe, two or three steps of walking. My dog was just jumping at something dog wanted to inspect. Just a few steps and dog was overreact to it already. I told my dog to follow me, but my dog couldn’t help it. My dog was jumping at something constantly, like for straight 20 minutes ish. It was causing me be annoyed.
On that day I anointed to myself. Moon was in Leo sign and it was casting a ray to Jupiter in Gemini sign and Venus in Sagittarius sign. Mars was in Cancer sign. I am Aquarius rising sign. You can see Mars was in sixth house by whole sign house. Mars was recepting with Moon because Lord of the Mars is Moon.
However, once I was dropping off my dog at my house, I felt calm and it was nice day for me.
Lunar in Cancer is extraordinary powerful. I love it. Oh, also, my memory is improved!
Well it is extremely powerful. It distorts your perception like you are on a drug especially if you channel the energy to a lunar activity. Every perception is heightened. I like to use it with empyreal vantage subsets as it is too powerful to use it on its own.
This was the first oil from Sphere and Sundry I've tried. I didnt know what to expect when I used it and boy was I impressed even though I nearly had a panic attack because I wasnt in the right frame of mind. This oil is very very very intense. I used it at night and could still feel the effects of it the next day. Pairing it with other materia and grounding yourself mentally is a must.
This oil made me finally understand why Hekate is considered one of the goddesses of the Moon. It is WITCHY. I love using it when I am performing a working, because it lets me get into ritual space so fast. Though fair warning if you have a cat-- just being around it will make them act a little weird (zoomies, meowing, etc.).
This oil enhances my sensitivity quite notably. It had no psychadelic effect, but as a side effect it does make me more attuned to the Moon and its current condition. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it comes with a headache. And sometimes yet - with unexpected visions during my meditation. Because of that I use it sparingy and with care. It is more predictable when layering (enhances my sensitivity and by extension makes other materia seem more potent).
I felt compelled to use Luna in Cancer today (I know it is a time capsule but I still like to use this while Luna is actually in Cancer!) because I wanted to amplify the amazing morning I am experiencing. Today is a day that I can just enjoy. No obligations! Nowhere to be! No stress! I applied some of the anointing oil to my wrists and then felt compelled to lean into it! I then burned a bit of the Luna in Cancer powder (smelled so good!), applied a small amount of the body butter, made myself some hot cocoa and sat down with my tarot cards and astrological planner to just chill. I am a Cancer Sun and rising and this series debuted on my actual Solar return. I don't use it often, but I feel so drawn to it. I feel comforted, relaxed, and completely free of obligation when I allow myself to relax with this oil. The message I'm getting right now is that this oil is *the one* that lets me relax. Grateful.
I have my natal Mars in Cancer, in the 8th house, in a day chart, ruled by a 1st house Sag Moon. So trying this oil was an experiment…one that did not exactly work for me. I tried it once, at night — had nightmares. Tried it again, during the daytime — felt exhausted. So I let it sit for a few months and it actually got rancid & grew mold. I have MUCH older S&S oils that have not gone rancid. It made me think of a comment Kaitlyn left on the boards a while back about how materia should be USED, and is more prone to deteriorate when neglected. I think it was my fear of it that did it, combined with how it reacted with my natal chart. On the upside, it does have very real power, so I do recommend trying it if your chart allows.
I started slowly and paired with other materia due to the warnings, but I only experienced good things. At this point I use it even lavishly on it own or paired with other sleep inducing materia especially at night time. Of all the materia it definitely feels the most familiar, and like an entity you can communicate with or through. Versatile and magnifies any other materia.
I had been saving this for the right time and felt called to use it on the day of my grandmother’s celebration of life. Having not seen much of my family for years due to some serious boundary setting on my part, I was keen to pair it with the Eirene and Deneb Algedi II materia that I had in order to potentiate their effects. I wanted to feel safe, protected, balanced, and maintain my boundaries *but* also feel open to the energies and emotions of the day. The combination worked wonderfully.
I felt particularly tuned-in to the surroundings at the cemetery and, after everyone else had left, was drawn to a group of noisy crows in a nearby tree. I should not have been surprised to have come upon a huge owl (my grandma had a cancer moon). I also managed to find the headstone of my great, great grandmother - I cleaned it and shared the one thing I had with me: lemon balm tea with raw honey.
The lunar themes were many: safely seeing my estranged mother for the first time in a decade, interring my grandmother’s ashes and providing water for the altar my aunt assembled, attending to the headstone of my great-great, encountering the owl and, of course, all of the tears shed in remembrance.
Luna in Cancer is an incredible potentiator for whatever else you want to use with it. It will sensitize you incredibly to what is happening. As such, I always look at the condition of the transiting Moon before using as you will FEEL what the Moon is feelng, which is a phenomenal enough reason to want to have this at your disposal in the first place. I recommend it to those with enough stability to withstand the changing tides.
This oil has a wonderful cooling effect when applied – physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I do agree with the description that it can be somewhat directionless but I wouldn’t be afraid of applying it on its own. Do be weary if you’re prone to mental breaks, however - Kaitlin wasn't joking about that! WOW!
If you don't understand why many suggest "pairing" it with something, you will after your first use.
So, Kaitlin is not messing around with the cautions re: mental health and this oil. I've taken it slowly and respectfully with this oil, but on one occasion I forgot I had applied it earlier in the day when a group of folks came over that evening... and a friend who had been struggling with depression & anxiety wound up melting down and crying. In the context at the time their reaction seemed out of the blue, but I remembered afterwards that I was sitting near them with this oil on. I've taken care since then to cleanse afterwards when I use this oil if I'm not sure who I'm going to be around.
The oil itself has an almost licorice-y herbal scent and feels powerful. It's a gift to be respected.
When I've tried this oil on its own, I've had a few strange visual experiences, e.g., I thought my cat was in the room with me when she wasn't, or else she came in, then left, then came back in without me seeing her leaving or returning. It also tends to really disturb my sleep if I use it too close to bed. But using it as a primer for other materia is amazing. It absolutely picks up the speed and efficacy when layered with other materia, and is especially great when paired with any of the Pisces offerings.
The first time I used this oil, just a drop or two, I was so spacey and literally forgot everything I was supposed to do and bring with me! This is unusual for me, but I have a twelfth house moon so seems to track. This hasn’t happened since the first couple of times but good to be aware of. This is oil feels so supportive and embodied, like my body just has what it needs. I often layer it with fomalhaut or butter ocean which feels really supported and embodied with access to spirit and imagination.
This oil is so very potent! I love to pair it with Exalted Venus for a romantic, cuddly evening or with Butter Ocean and/or Asclepius for deep, healing sleep. It's also a wonderful anointing oil for crystals and other energy healing tools. I would be careful using this oil solo - oils tend to be the most powerful form of S+S materia and unless you're prepared to feel deeply and be overwhelmed with emotion, I would always pair this with something else to smooth out the effects. That said, I hope to always have this in my toolbox.
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