Quick Specs
- Brand: Espiritu
- Type: Ritual Aroma Oil (fragrance oil, not essential oil)
- Size/Quantity: 1 oz glass bottle
- Best for: Bastet devotional work, home protection, feminine energy, and cat deity practice
Bastet in Egyptian Mythology and Modern Practice
Bastet, also written as Bast, is one of the most beloved deities of ancient Egypt and one of the most widely worked with in contemporary witchcraft and polytheist practice. Worshipped from roughly 3500 BC, her cult center was the city of Bubastis in the Nile Delta, where annual festivals drew enormous crowds. Originally depicted as a lioness, she became associated with the domestic cat over the New Kingdom period, softening from a warrior aspect into the nurturing protector of the home. Her name in hieroglyphs connects to the word for ointment jar, giving her an ancient and direct relationship with fragrant oil offerings.
Bastet rules over home protection, women and children, marriage, fertility, music, dance, and the welfare of cats. She is a daughter of Ra, the sun god, and carries both his solar warmth and a fierce retributive edge when those she protects are threatened. In modern witchcraft, Bastet is especially popular because of the deep tradition of the cat as a familiar and spiritual companion. Practitioners who work with Bastet often describe her presence as alert, intelligent, and occasionally demanding, much like the animal she embodies.
Bastet Ritual Oil for Deity Work and Home Blessing
Espiritu Bastet Ritual Aroma Oil is formulated as a devotional and working oil for practitioners who honor this goddess. It can be used to anoint statues, candles, and altar objects in her name, applied to the body during invocation, or used to bless doorways and home thresholds in her protective capacity. Bastet’s ointment jar epithet makes fragrant oil an especially appropriate offering. Traditional correspondences for her altar include frankincense and myrrh incense, catnip, tiger’s eye stone, red and gold candles, ankh symbols, and offerings of milk or honey.
These are fragrance oils for ritual use, not essential oils for aromatherapy or skin application. If you need a skin-safe essential oil, visit my essential oils collection. Espiritu’s limited retail distribution makes this line a genuine find for practitioners who want classic formula oils. Browse the full Espiritu oils range to see what else the line offers for deity and condition work.
How to Use Espiritu Bastet Ritual Oil
How to use Espiritu Bastet Ritual Oil for deity invocation, home protection, and ongoing devotional practice.
- Prepare Your Bastet Altar
Before working with Bastet oil, cleanse your altar and set out a cat figurine or ankh symbol. Light a candle in red, gold, or orange and hold the oil briefly, calling to mind Bastet’s qualities of home protection and joyful feminine power.
- Body Anointing and Home Protection
Apply Bastet oil to your third eye, throat, and wrists while stating your petition to the goddess aloud. For home protection, anoint the four corners of each exterior doorway. Refresh the anointing on each new or full moon.
- Regular Devotional Offering
Anoint a dedicated candle on your Bastet altar as a regular offering. Bastet favors music, dance, and fragrant offerings, so pairing the oil with frankincense incense and a spoken prayer deepens the ongoing devotional relationship over time.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I added Bastet to the Espiritu line I carry because there wasn’t a dedicated Egyptian deity oil in the store before this, and the demand for Bastet work, especially among practitioners who keep cats, is real and consistent. The Espiritu formulation fits the devotional purpose, and the 1 oz size is right for altar use over an extended period. If you’re building out a full devotional setup, the cat goddess pairs well with candles and altar pieces. Browse my altar supplies for statues, candle holders, and other tools to round out your sacred space.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bastet is an ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped from around 3500 BC at the cult city of Bubastis. Originally a lioness deity, she became the cat goddess of home, women, fertility, music, and protection. Her name means She of the Ointment Jar.
Place a cat figurine at center, add red or gold candles, frankincense incense, an ankh, and offerings of milk or catnip. Anoint the figurine with Bastet oil during prayers and on new moon nights to deepen the devotional relationship over time.
Bastet protects the home, women and children, cats, and personal health. She wards off disease, negative spirits, and harm. As an Eye of Ra, she also carries a fierce aspect that activates to protect those under her care when they are threatened.
Bastet is the cat goddess of protection, fertility, and joy. Sekhmet is her leonine counterpart of war and solar fire. Both are daughters of Ra. Bastet nurtures; Sekhmet destroys. They are complementary faces of Egyptian divine feminine power.
I am a follower of Bastet and I bought this as a way to help connect to her, it has a lovely cherry cinnamon smell with notes of chocolate. I accidentally spilled a bit on my sweater and my partner was attached to me and loved the smell so now I think it’s my permanent perfume oil.