What is Incense?
Incense is one of the most popular tools in spiritual rituals. From clearing negative energy to amplifying a spell’s effectiveness to increasing your luck, there's nothing incense can't do. For centuries, people have looked to the pungent heady smoke for assistance in their rituals and ceremonies. There are countless types of incense available today, each with their own specific aroma and properties. Below you will find a list of some of the most common incenses, as well as their intended use.
Most Common Types of Incense.
Natural Incense – made from wood chips, herbs, resins and other natural ingredients.
Compounded Incense Sticks – made of wood, flour and mixed with aromatic ingredients like herb, oils, etc.
Special Purpose Incenses – These are made with the inclusion of herbs and oils as demanded by the spells that are to be cast.
Smudge sticks and Incense bundles – are dried herbs tied together.
Incense Cones – made of flour mixed with aromatic ingredients.
Magical Properties of Incense
Each incense has a unique fragrance that assists in drawing greater energy towards the magical work to be performed. Whether you burn incense for relaxation, cleansing, or purification, the magical properties will help you in all, of your rituals, spells and goals by triggering positive energy within the immediate environment.
Dragons blood - is used for increased power, purification, protection, consecration, and the development of strong ritual energy. Dragon’s Blood is often used to help give your magical intentions an extra energies boost.
Jasmine – Is considered the fragrance of love and luck.
Karma – Karma is a force inside us that we can use for good or bad. Just like gravity governs the physical world, karma governs the divine realm. How karma works is through holding us accountable for our actions and, more specifically, for our intentions.
Lavender - has a scent that is relaxing and soothing, which has made it a popular fragrance that has been in use for over 3,000 years. It works well for love spells, spells meant to attract a mate, and it is a good incense to burn during romantic situations.
Mediation – this is an excellent spiritual healing tool to increase the spiritual purity of a place or a person and assist in spiritual practice such as meditation.
Money Matrix - Burn this incense to attract money into your life
Musk - is used to restore order and balance, create protective barriers, remove negative influences, and realign one’s energies. Musk is associated with death, the underworld and the afterlife.
Myrrh – Used for centuries, myrrh can heal and calm a distressed mind. It is also used in self-love rituals.
Nag Champara - it is known to help people focus, provide a boost to the immune system, relax nerves and can lessen the negative effects of stress on the mind and body.
Namaste - a fantastic incense designed to start your spiritual day with the familiar greeting, welcoming calmness and balance into your life.
Opium - has controversial history as an aromatic and a drug. The opium incense sticks are very beneficial for soothing your nerves and reducing anxiety and stress levels, as well as discouraging feelings of distress. In addition, they help induce deep sleep and are believed to promote prophetic dreams. In magic rituals, opium incense sticks are used to promote visions and dreams. The fragrance is also related to alluring playful and unholy spirits in the magical realm.
Patchouli - has been known to help relieve the symptoms associated with depression, anxiety, fatigue, and muscle soreness. It also energizes and uplifts the spirits. As well as contributing to peace of mind, it is a great aphrodisiac. Burning one of these incense sticks will calm your soul and spiritual life.
Positive Vibes - helps in creating a positive outlook. This blend is perfect to use to begin one’s day by inviting the universe to send you good vibes.
Pyramids - incense blend is the first of its kind that helps balance the electromagnetic field of the human body thus accelerating the spiritual consciousness
Reiki - are perfect to use during spiritual healing practices.
Rose - lifts depression, reduces tension, calms your emotions, eases anxiety and elevates your spirits. The soothing smell calms the nerves yet is a sensual and stimulating aphrodisiac. Burning a Rose Incense Stick will bring good health, success, love, and money blessings to you.
Sandalwood - The scent is often used to induce a calm and meditative state and has an age-old reputation as an aphrodisiac. Research has shown that exposure to sandalwood stimulates healing properties. The scent is also known to help relieve muscle soreness and indigestion and to help reduce depression.
Californian White Sage - Its properties make it ideal for use in cleansing and clearing ceremonies of people, places and objects, as well as for meditation or prayer
Frankincense – This scent promotes peace and tranquillity. It is used to relieve stress and anxiety. It is also a useful tool to help resolve arguments, re-establish broken friendships and bring resolution to enemies.
Holy Basil - Renowned in the East and West for its mystical properties, this herb has incredible transformative power. This herbal scent is used to balance energies and cleanse sacred spaces.
Palo Santa - it comes from the wild Palo Santo wood, known to be a mystical tree, in Spanish, the name means ‘holy wood’. Due to its special properties, it is used to clear the energies and calm the home or workspace.
Patchouli Forest - perfect for money and prosperity rituals and spells. Patchouli is also used in fertility spells and rituals
White Sage - There are various benefits of burning white sage incense sticks such as Healing Abilities, Aromatherapy, Cleansing, and Purification.
Spiritual healing - helps personal development and spiritual insight and spiritual healing after a negative attack.
Ayureda - is an excellent spiritual healing remedy for those new to deep prayers or chanting.
Vanilla - is a good general incense to burn to represent the element of air. Specifically, vanilla associates with mental thought and intelligence. Burn a Vanilla Incense stick to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind.
With the inclusion of the right incense in a magical ritual, you can be assured of creating the right environment for making it succeed.
Blessed Be!