How to Make Your Own Smudges
By Linda Seekins

If you would like to make smudges for your own use, it’s an easy process.
All you need are the particular herbs you want in them and something
to tie them together.

Smudges can be used pretty much in the same way as any other incense.
They are especially handy for purifying the circle for you can wave
them around the area or use them to delineate the edge of the circle.

If you need to take a smudge through a large area such as your home to
purify or whatever, you should take a lit candle or a lighter with you
so that you can relight the smudge if you need to, since most smudges
will not stay lit like regular incense.

Be careful about falling sparks and cinders as you wave it around so
that you won’t start an accidental f...

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e’s transformative properties work upon negative energies that are somehow clouding the aura, changing these negative influences to enable them to act for the benefit of the person, place or object whose aura is being cleansed. Sage’s scent permeates the environment and creates a barrier of protection-a psychic shield, while neutralizing the existing negativity or misfortune. Sage drives away disturbances and tensions, and lifts the spirits above the mundane. Sage enhances the connection to higher self, spirit world, other dimensions and can be used to assist with contacting one’s own spiritual guides or animal guides. Sage is considered the herb of immortality and longevity and can be used to ensure a long life.
Use sage for love, luck, healing, wish magick, ...

Description:
(Burseara Graveolens) Palo Santo or “Holy Stick” is a natural wood aromatic incense used for centuries by the Incas and indigenous people of the Andes as a spiritual remedy for purifying and cleansing, as well as to get rid of evil spirits and misfortune. as well as for medicinal purposes. It has a fine citrus aroma with underlying notes of frankincense, its close relative. It is often used by shamans in sacred plant spirit ceremonies. 

Smudging is the burning of certain herbs to create a cleansing smoke bath, which is used to purify people, ceremonial and ritual space, and ceremonial tools and objects. Many differing cultures and peoples have their own methods and herbal mixtures for this purpose.
Native American Indians use a variety of smudging mixtures in this way. The principle herbs used are sage, cedar or juniper, lavender and sweet grass. Pure tobacco is also used by some Plains tribes, and copal in South and Central America.

The herbs are burnt on their own or in mixtures, depending on tradition and required effect. Sage (Artemisia tridentia) is not the same as the European varieties and is indigenous to the Americas...