The Torch of First Light Anointing Oil
This is an experimental subset, designed to [ juice / milk ] the Sun and Moon coming together as One.
Sol is the Spirit and the animating, Apollonian force, governing over all that is visible and apparent.
The Moon is the Body, the animalic, and the subconscious, holding sway over what is hidden, esoteric, and mysterious.
Each Luminary is arguably twice as important as a normal planet, as Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn all rule two signs (one yin, and one yang), while Moonstruck Cancer and Sun-soaked Leo serve as their own primal pairing, responsible for single, respective domains.
Cancer and Leo, the two signs which just so happen to initiate creation in the Thema Mundi.
The name, “Torch of First Light”, is a double entendre — acknowledging the quality of the Solar charge in our Sun Without Sin election — like the first rays of sunlight meeting the morning dew, full of hope and the promise of a new day.
Torches are smoll, portable fires carried to help escort their bearer through whatever darkness engulfs them, whether through a cramped, dungeonous corridor or a Moonless wood.
The idea here, is to carry that Torch — that touch of Sunlight, within.
Within the necessary darkness of the Mind, and density of the corporeal form — into the Body entire.
To light recesses never before seen, and to facilitate cohesion and coherence of Self, from the inside out.
Rather than outside in, as is the norm.
This is a subset of introspection and of meditation.
It ultimately heals, as gentle rays of sunlight do, but first — one must process what has been revealed.
One must feel that which has been excavated, to eat and to digest and to metabolize it, to incorporate it into the One.
For it is by becoming Whole and Unified in and of ourselves that the Fall is picked back up — Kintsugi’d — and the Garden, restored.
The effects of this subset are, especially at first, heavy. The Descending Heart of the Sun.
The Dark Moon of our election.
They are also deeply activating, as one mentally escorts the Torch of First Light to various points within the Body and Mind, starting at the crown of the head, and descending… then stoking, until the entire vessel is consumed with the most brilliant rays of golden light, shining in perpetuity throughout space and time.
Integration follows.
The Spirit and Body come into closer, more conscious dialogue. The inner voice strengthens. The narrator within speaks will and wisdom at a volume we can perceive, more and more often.
We piece ourselves together again.
Includes suggestions for working with this subset specifically, and The Torch of First Light’s own prayer.
As a sequence, we highly suggest a Kolonía cleanse or full Ritual Bath before engagement.
Note: This subset is for inner transformation, not exterior results typical of Solar Talismans or Materia. For that, see the main series, rather than this subset. It is not recommended for newcomers, or people who are wanting to enjoy casual application. It is Work, in the highest and truest sense. It is intended as a therapeutic and requires guidance from the wearer. It is not intended for passive application. You have been warned!
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This materia is helpful for when you're looking to perform some deep work on yourself and I've personally found it helpful for parts integration. Each time I use it its after the ritual bathing protocol and when I'll have some downtime for reflection or introspection afterward. I haven't found it as profound as others are describing, but it definitely helps along the inner healing process in a noticable way.
Who doesn't want more sunshine in their lives! It's amazing how much a sunny day can just put you in a great mood. This is a Leo powerhouse, gives you charisma, good vibes, energy, and lots of smiles. Good energy comes easily and it is reflected back at your from others. For anyone who is down, this can give you the strength to get back up again. The best thing for anyone facing a setback or depression. There is always a rainbow that comes out after the storm.
This is the first materia I've gotten that reminds me of the Immortal Heart series, it does deep work for me in a way that feels almost effortless. IH had a much more serious, reverent nature but this feels much more accessible while still doing the deep digging. Realizations and epiphanies aren't so much of a gut-punch. I described the main series as feeling like a sunrise, and this one feels like the lavender sky with a smattering of stars at dawn, just before the sun.
I love this oil - it fortifies the internal flame, a guide through the dark.
Had a bit of a funny first experience with this one; the text-free sticker labels (GORGEOUS design in my opinion) made it initially unclear to me whether my vial was for this subset or for the original Golden Sol II material. While waiting for an answer back from client support for sticker identification I applied it anyway during a quiet moment to see what would happen... Very intense and almost incapacitating emotional immediacy of some key issues arose and I had to sit down on the ground, so my question about whether it was actually Torch of First Light was very much answered, LOL
But after that immediate introductory reaction, it has been much more manageable to spend time sitting with some very important inner work without feeling bowled over by it, and I do find it a crucial thing to make time for; this is a lovely magnifier for those sessions. Something about this reminds me a bit of the raw vulnerability I initially felt from Luna in Cancer, and gets easier and less of a shock to manage over repeated exposure. Like going to the gym in some ways, but for the soul. Checking your foundations and really seeing them for what they are can only make you stronger and more confident about your stability! Lovely contemplative scent that I can't really put my finger on.
Using this supported me during a year of re-discovery. I feel like even though I usually stray from using Solar Materia, this one really felt different and still so helpful. More internal and in my 'control' . I also LOVEEEE the smell. I want a perfume of this
The anointing oil is quite potent and I'm still in the process of working out how I can work with it... Its a learning process and I'm excited by all the potential it holds.
I was nervous about using this materia but found it more accessible than I expected. I decided to wear this and do a slow contemplative walk while doing the visualization suggested in the info sheet. I could feel my body lighten and my posture correct itself. I could observe what it felt like to be me, embodied. I think part of the reason this was a softer experience for me is because I have done several years of meditative and inner work which made the sensations of this materia easier to experience and digest, but I did get a slight headache and sounds felt louder and almost overwhelming, I think 3 or 4 planes flew overhead on my walk. In contemplation, instead of showing me all the things I feared I would see and dislike about myself, the materia showed me all the ways I hid myself, all the ways I suppressed my own light. I look forward to continuing my work with this oil.
I think someone else mentioned using this for somatic exercise and that's what I like to use it for too. My focus was on somatic movement and when using this I think it really helped the brain body connection by clearing out all brain chatter. I could observe my own self objectively and not pass judgement on where I am. Which ultimately helps in better movement. Imagine your brain going from "ugh, I can't believe I'm eating ice cream for dinner again! I need to change and I will absolutely change starting tomorrow" and going to "hmm, I autopiloted towards ice cream again, that's interesting I wonder why." I personally didn't get heaviness from this, maybe because I'm navigating something a little more physical than emotional? Overall, I do highly recommend if you like other items from this series.
Oil feels physically warming where it's applied. "Kintsugi" was the perfect word to choose for this subset- I felt more open and comfortable to seeing my cracks, really looking and wondering instead of feeling upset or embarrassed, then giving myself the grace to glaze them in gold. It brings these flaws to focus, but begins to transmute them into something more digestible or even beautiful. Used over time, I can see this being a huge help to confronting the inner parts of yourself you'd rather forget in a warm, comfortable way.
old soul, waiting my turn
i know a few things but i still got a lot to learn
so i'm alright with a slow burn
^ this part of slow burn kept popping into my head when i started engaging with torch of first light. it's only been a few applications but i do think it's helping me look at parts of myself or cognitive pathways that usually make me wince or get that sinking feeling and instead of avoiding, i'm getting curious. introspective about the layers that i try to keep in the shadows, consciously or not. makes the shadows appear less menacing so i'm not as scared to follow them and see where they take me. a very patient and almost gentle re-parenting energy (mind you, my chart is very aries and capricorn heavy). this is a torch that lights the path home that i didn't know existed and i'm grateful <3
Context: Leo is my 12th house, containing only Ketu, and my natal Sol is exalted in the 8th. I just entered a solar profection year, and this subset seemed well-suited to 12th house themes.
I generally work with this oil on Sol’s day and hour. I have found it relatively gentle, but it has exposed things for me to work on, and it can force you to acknowledge and examine unpleasant truths. While the main energy is solar, I do feel lunar and Venusian energy when I work with it, and I plan on incorporating it into work with Brigid and Hekate (the Torch-Bearer).
I love this oil. I've found it to be one of the most powerful materia I've ever worked with, and not at all harsh, in my case. Really helpful with self-esteem, embodiment and and fostering the courage to 'show up'.
Much more accessible than advertised, though get ready to cry. I've been using this to juice shadow work, journaling, and therapist appointments. I feel like the efficacy of these practices has doubled--but I've also been able to grow gentler with myself, as opposed to the confrontational vibes I brought in before using the materia.
Whew! I am so appreciative of this offering, but prepare yourself and give yourself some time to process what may come up. Much gratitude for being able to do some deep internal and intentional work with some of my allies and this shining the way.
It's better to be safe and sorry, but ToFL has been quite easy on me.
Now, I do have more than a decade of therapy under my belt, and a consistent meditation practice for half that time.
The main side effect possibility listed is activation of the energy body and kriyas. I do notice an uptick in that, but only because I've already been experiencing and dealing with them for several years.
Wear while meditating to reinforce energy boundaries, get blockages moving, and contemplate the nature of light.
Not bad for passive application either, but does not produce profound effects for that purpose.
Without wanting to undermine any of the very reasonable "caution" flags about how accessible this subset is, my personal experience has been that I find TOFL to be supremely wearable and grounding in terms of "facilitating more conscious dialogue between Spirit and Matter."
For context
1. my natal chart overwhelmingly emphasizes all things introspective / reflective / cathartic in general (angular scorpio moon conjoined stationing pluto! the only planet that isn't retrograde is fallen in the 8th! planets in dark houses abound! etc)
2. I also came to this subset with multiple decades of inner work / processing already under my feet, so the below review is not to suggest that my experience would be typical for anyone else.
That said, I applied first with caution (followed the visualization exercise to the letter on at least 3 different occasions before I trusted myself to introduce as needed), but quickly came to realize how helpful my constantly over-stimulated nervous system finds the materia and now apply much more liberally. I'm an AuDHDer with CPTSD and multiple health challenges, and I've had a lifelong theme of not knowing how to be in or process the absolutely insane amount of information my body is constantly throwing my brain's way.
When I engage with TOFL, I feel immediately grounded in my body in a unique way, which I can only describe as "sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool while the world goes by." That image might not do anything for anyone but me, but as a hypermobile person with sensory processing issues, any sensory experiences that remind me of being underwater tend to be extremely positive because the water pressure provides skeletal support that no amount of compression wear can replicate. It also makes sunlight feel cooler and less blinding, like I've been given a liminal safe haven to observe the world and myself in before having to Do Something About any of it.
I also love the scent, which I experience as very rich and chocolately. Of course, it's also been amazingly helpful for tough therapy sessions, getting some journaling done, or other more "typical" uses, but I've found it to be much more versatile and friendly to my constitution than the write-up initially suggested, so if you feel a similar pull to it I'd definitely take the plunge (while still going slowly and respectfully with initial engagements of course)! Highly recommend and couldn't be more grateful to Madame Coppock and the whole S+ team for such incredible and beneficial magic
I ordered both the oil and the incense, the latter has not arrived yet, but there is something about the oil, in fact it feels moist, as mentioned in another review. It is not for daily use or at least not passively, that is definitive and the sensations it provokes vary quite a bit.
The Torch of First Light has been a welcome companion to all the emotional and personal work around closing out an old year and making way for a new one. Pairing it with other materia, Torch has been invaluable around aspects of desire work as well as teasing out hidden triggers and shadows of other kinds of healing work.
This oil has been both gentle and nourishing as well as angst provoking, I was really going through it when the series debuted and felt like it was already starting its work. The feeling reminded me of the Luna in Cancer initiation and exorcism cycle, but with the lights on when going into the basement. It was also super supportive to have main series materia to lighten the load. Another feeling I get with Torch is that it's running a field of Venus-Innana work, maybe it's the Venus-Regulus connection. I would recommend, but make sure you have the time and space for it, especially in the initial stages.
Think story-time of the self with Frodo’s Vial of Galadriel with the light of the Silver Wood coupled with Sam sitting there dreaming of Oliphants with his box of seeds from Galadriel… but, like, you aren’t giving the Mordor marathon a run. You’re safe in Gondor at some table of kings who know how to hire a good bard to sing your story right with all the best lines you wrote put together back to you. Yeah. It’s dark, and there are many hands to play stories on the cave wall—chronological time may not be a concept either, but fearie lights are really darling. So yeah, dark, but darling. Can’t wait to hear the laughter from your perfect bonfire once you’ve got your round table going.
Personal note: sound turned down to that chill you get in the forest quiet. It made my tinnitus soft.
My experience here may not be typical, as I have a highly introspective nature and a familiarity with melancholia, as well as an exalted sun/moon in my natal chart. But I found this oil to be nurturing/comforting, and it was a good facilitator for working with the pure solar energy in the main series (Regulus worked well for this too).
This oil doesn’t feel hard to wear at all, and I really enjoy the introspective nature. Even the act of putting this on brings up guilt about applying it at all, because I’ll need to take time away from my partner and my responsibilities to tend to myself - which is exactly what I need to address. Guilt in tending to myself. Magic.
I think my experience with this subseries may vary from others, because I had been on a self-improvement journey for years before engaging with this oil. I use this oil as recommended, and engage in meditation while wearing it. It feels like a literal spotlight wanders from one body part or energy center to the next begging for examination and introspection. My first session was somewhat confusing yet healing, confirming and full of gratitude. I found it extremely helpful to listen to a sun mantra during the meditation session.
First, it feels very “moist” for Sol materia. Definitely no sunburn. Second, and most importantly, it takes me places I knew existed but had not either looked in a long time, or never looked. First thought: nobody has ever asked me how I felt in this particular place and if I’m ok. We spend SO much energy avoiding uncomfortable feelings. (When in fact they go away faster if we just feel through them.) This oil does just that - it’s like I have a witness and a guide who is wiser than all the therapists in the world. I can calmly sit and feel my way through with the aid of this “narrator within”. But this materia doesn’t only hold me, it gets to the root of the issues. I can just sit there and feel, witness, mourn and as they say; truly get in touch with myself. Incredibly powerful, introspective, gentle but intense. I’ve only begun the journey but I am impressed indeed, and looking forward to exploring more.
I'm a Leo Moon and finding that THIS subset oil perfect for me to use during early morning and late evening somatic exercises and meditation. The main oil comes off a little heated for me which is weird as I'm an Aries Sun, but the Torch of First Light is more muted and less intense (in the oil form). Looking forward to continued use with this one.
I’ve engaged with Torch of the First Light in a strictly therapeutic setting and have been amazed at what this has brought forward for me. Because of the depth and intensity I experience with this, I’ve found it helpful to use before therapy or bodywork when there is another person available to me to help guide what becomes illuminated. During a bodywork session, I was visualizing what it would be like to turn the lights on in various “rooms” in my body, and when I reached places where the light wouldn’t go or couldn’t stay on, it really illuminated the things in the dark in a deep and almost confronting way. There are ways in which ToFL can feel like feeling your way through the dark, and it can bring up fear or uncertainty when you can’t quite make sense of what you’re bumping up against. Given the potency of the medicine, I am grateful to the people I trust to help me hold and witness what I am bringing to light. I have done some really beautiful internal work with this materia, especially examining my purpose which has been the cause of so much grief for me. Using it is like weightlifting for your heart. There is certainly the presence of heavy things, but there is strength gained in the process of grasping them and holding them up to the light. ToFL has been a beautiful guide for this process of strengthening.
| Creation Date | Sunrise August 4th, 2024, hour of Sol. Chart in image gallery. |
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| Step / Function | |
| Planetary Body | |
| Times / Activities | Before Performance, Before Work, During Daytime, Morning, Remediation / Rites of the Sun |
| Vegan | Yes — Vegan |
| Warnings | HIGH STAIN POTENTIAL — Always perform patch tests before application to any medium |
| Dimensions | .80 × .80 × 3 in |
| Weight | 1 oz |
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