Powers: Love, protection, sleep, longevity, purification, happiness, peace

MAGICKAL USES FOR LAVENDER

Love: Men, in particular, are attracted to lavender. So much so that Lavender was once used by prostitutes to attract customers. Love is one of the more popular uses for lavender. Wear lavender or bathe with it & even place sachets of lavender in your clothing drawers to lure love to you. If you already have love, lavender is a great way to calm and diffuse marital discord to help keep love strong and happy.

Protection: To aid in protection in your home hang sachets of dried lavender or bunches of dried or fresh lavender at each of the 4 corners of your home. For good measure, you can opt to hang them in each room.

Lavender, White Sage, Palo Santo & Cedar (or Juniper) sampler

Use these smudges to cleanse negative energy.

(12) Palo Santo Sticks

Burn palo santo sticks or use the charcoal for ritual smudging that will welcome creativity, love, and good fortune into your space. The wood can help brighten energy and promote feelings of positivity and joy. The scent is also shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance clarity and concentration

Cleanse Your Energy, Find Calm, Deepen Your Connection to the Earth with Palo Santo Wood

Palo Santo is one of the most fragrant woods in the world. Its sweet scent of pine, mint, and lemon has, for centuries, been a harbinger of healing and good fortune. Shamans, saints, and those seeking a stronger spiritual connection with the world use palo santo to protect, experience, and heal. Here are ten of the incredible benefits palo santo offers:

 

1. Spiritual purifying and energy cleansing.

For centuries the indigenous people of the Andes have been using palo santo for spiritual purification and energy cleansing. When the wood is burned it’s believed to clear negative energy and restore tranquility and calm.

Form: wood burning

2. Inspiring creativity and bringing love and good fortune.

Burn palo santo sticks or use the charcoal for ritual smudging that will welcome creativity, love, and good fortune into your space. The wood can help brighten energy and promote feelings of positivity and joy. The scent is also shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance clarity and concentration.

Form: wood burning or smudging

3. Bringing a deeper connection to the divine source.

If meditation is the yin, palo santo is the yang. The uplifting scent is the perfect partner for your meditation practice. Raise your vibration, and discover peace and groundedness as you sink into a deeper connection to the Earth and your inner consciousness.

Form: wood burning or smudging

4. Physical healing.

Palo santo is used to treat a wide variety of physical ailments including colds, flus, anxiety, depression, asthma, bronchitis, headaches, and emotional trauma. Use the oil to provide pain relief for arthritis and joint pain with its anti-inflammatory properties.

Palo Santo Tea (made by simmering the wood in hot water) acts as a natural digestive aid. The oil can be added to soaps, scrubs, and lotions to cleanse and moisturize the skin. The wood also contains high concentrations of a compound called d-limonene, which is thought to aid in the prevention of a variety of cancers.

Form: simmer the wood to make tea or apply oil as a topical tincture

5. Energetic protection and the removal of negativity.

When used for smudging or burning, palo santo can eliminate negative energy, creating a calmer, more tranquil space. Set an intention about what you want to clear out of your space, then move from corner to corner, removing any bad energy, uplifting your spirit, and filling your home with good fortune.

Form: wood burning or smudging

 

6.  The enticing and clarifying palo santo scent.

Can we wax on a bit here about the remarkable, lasting scent of a palo santo smudge? For our kitchens and bedrooms, vehicles and workspaces, the brightness of citrus, marked with the ancient notes of its natural heritage, bring a uniquely clarifying scent to every space. The benefit of burning palo santo wood in a smudging practice is its lingering scent.

Form: wood burning or smudging 

7. Mobility of use while in travel modes.

Unlike a sage bundle, palo santo wood is graciously proportioned for spiritual seekers who spend ample time away from home. Palo santo sticks are well-paired with car rides, hikes and other travel experiences. People are known to cleanse their hotel rooms before sleep for a more peaceful, deepened rest.

Form: wood burning or smudging

8. Vibrational cleansing and renewal for crystals.

Crystals do much of the heavy lifting in the work of drawing out negative energy. Like humans, crystals benefit from a ritualistic cleansing to maintain their best qualities.  Integrating a smudging practice every 2-3 days for your rose quartz, amethyst, jasper, citrine, or other crystal types, is a lovely way to keep your crystals primed for their true power.

Form: smudging

 

9. Calming the mind and mental ailments.

The symptoms and causes of depression, anxiety and sleep disorders are complex. Palo santo wood does not boast a cure, but a smudging or essential oil practice integrated as part of a larger healing plan can provide some relief. Consider it aromatherapy; releasing a calming scent to the olfactory and limbic systems of the body and brain and in turn creating a sense of relaxation and calm.

Form: essential oil or smudging

 

10. Warding off unwelcome insects in the summer months.

Smudging in the summertime provides the additional benefit of warding off mosquitoes in a natural, non-harmful way. Palo santo features volatile oils and aromatic resins that communicate a warning sign to pesky bugs, but without the harsh chemicals of products such as DEET.

Use our Sunflower Sage bundles to energy cleanse your home, work space and any other area that is feeling stagnant. SAGE sourced responsibly in California proven to neutralize negative vibrations, improve sleep, as well as alleviate anxiety and stress.

White sage is the most popular of all smudges.  Use it for cleansing clearing and blessing for yourself or your space.  Sunflowers bring truth, wishes, loyalty, happiness and childlike joy.

Sunflower meanings include happiness, optimism, honesty, longevity, peace, admiration, and devotion.The sunflower possibly surpasses all others in terms of its universal power to bring joy to people. With a round face and bright yellow petals resembling rays of sunshine, the sunflower has important cultural and spiritual significance to people around the world

Burn these incense to clear and cleanse your space:

(1) Eucalyptus

(1) Palo Santo

(1) Sage

(1) Frankincense and Myrrh

Cinnamon, from the cassia family of trees, is one of the world’s oldest spices known for its sweet & spicy scent.  Its element is fire and is associated with the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite.

Magickal Uses: Burn to raise spiritual vibrations and promote healing.  Place in a mojo bag to draw money or upon your altar at Yule as it has strong associations with the season.  You can also store your runes or tarot cards with cinnamon to infuse your tools with strong clairvoyant energy

Yerba Santa leaves are considered sacred in Native American and Spanish cultures. This ‘holy herb’ gives off a pleasant and uplifting scent. These herb sticks are used in traditional smudging practice for protection, purification, healing, spiritual strength, courage, psychic abilities, and finding your innermost self.

It is traditionally used for protection and setting boundaries. Yerba Santa has also been used for love, purification, growth, empowerment and beauty, and the release of emotional pain stored in the heart chakra. Burn the leaves as smudge to purify spaces and to clear heavy or dark energies from people. Crush the leaves and add them to herbal smoking mixes to help clear mucus from the lungs.

You can also burn Yerba Santa to nurture and protect that which is ancient, sacred and wild within yourself. Use it when you need encouragement or courage.

Cinnamon, from the cassia family of trees, is one of the world’s oldest spices known for its sweet & spicy scent.  Its element is fire and is associated with the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite.

Magickal Uses: Burn to raise spiritual vibrations and promote healing.  Place in a mojo bag to draw money or upon your altar at Yule as it has strong associations with the season.  You can also store your runes or tarot cards with cinnamon to infuse your tools with strong clairvoyant energy.