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Tutorial|How to Smudge with Incense

December 30, 2014 by hellnotesforbeauty | Leave a Comment

We all have those times where the energy in the space we live in can be rather noisy, chaotic and disruptive.  The energy can leave you feeling confused where you lack concentration or there may be tension looming for one reason or the other creating an uncomfortable state of being.  Your home should always be your sacred space, where you can retreat and find peace from the everyday hustle and bustle of our daily lives.

Smudging is a great way for me to focus on the energy I bring in to my space.  Negative thought forms can take residence in your home and mind as well as negative vibrations others may leave.  Smudging is to maintain and uplift the positive energy in your home which enhances peace and tranquility with regular practice.

What is incense?


There are two types of incenses that I will share with you below.  To learn more about the spiritual uses for which I use incense, check out my 3 part series in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, posted many moons ago. 

Combustible


Combustible incenses are most commonly used. This type of  incense is popular because it can be instantly lit and comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. Examples include: incense sticks, cones and swirls.

Non combustible


Non Combustible incense requires a hot charcoal block (like the one I show below) in which you sprinkle the loose incense into. For example herbs, resins, spices etc.



The Starter Kit

Today I will share with you a guide featuring my Non Combustible incense starter kit available for $12.99 at my Etsy shop here. Make sure to enjoy 15% off in honor of the new year through 12/5/15 using the discount code HN2015.

Charcoal Incense Burner

  Here I have a dual purpose burner which can also be used as an essential oil burner. I recommend that once you’ve used it for either purpose stick with it as the oil and charcoal don’t mix.  You can purchase this burner for $4.95 here.  Make sure to always use a heat resistant burner.

In addition to the burner, always make sure to use an additional plate to help stabilize the burner.  I use this very handy glass plate to insure it does not heat the surface I may have it standing on.  Make sure to place in a stable surface in an area where it will not tip over.

The tongs are essential to help you carry the lit charcoal from either your stove top, or direct flame source.  Remember to not touch the lit charcoal!  Once your charcoal is lit, place on the incense charcoal burner with your tongs as seen below.

Once your charcoal is lit, add some resins or herbs of choice and leave it standing while it infuses each room with the smoke and scent.  I carry mine around each room and let it sit for 1-2 mins and continue along each room.

There are many varieties of incenses you can burn.  You can use resins, herbs and even common household spices like cinnamon and sugar.  Make sure to check out my ETSY shop for a variety of incense types and herbs for your burner.

Resins 

Incense Burning Tips

1. Make sure to never touch the charcoal directly once it’s lit. Always pay attention! Never leave your burner unattended.

2. Always place your burner on a heat-resistant surface, such as a trivet or ceramic tile. Depending on what method you’re using the outside of your censer may get very hot.

3. Always keep incense burner in a safe stable area. Keep in mind to always keep curtains and loose article away from your burner.

4. Those with respiratory issues such asthma should take precaution and always burn in a ventilated area.

5. Make sure all your spent incense materials are completely extinguished and cold to the touch, before discarding (i.e. incense, matches, ash, charcoal). Charcoal ash can remain hot for hours after your incense has burned out. Hot incense material can ignite in a wastebasket.

For more Incense Burning safety tips go here.

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Dry Bushing is one of my favorite skin care routines and not only is it topically beneficial to remove dead skin, reveal soft skin, and treat cellulite, but also has many health benefits overall.  One of the most important health benefits of dry brushing is the ability to stimulate the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is made up of a network of tissues and organs that fights infections, bacteria in the blood and other toxins and is a essential part of the immune system which supports the body's defense against viruses, bacteria, infections and supports the body's natural detoxification processes. The Lymphatic system consists of Lymph fluid which is a water like substance made of white blood cells, among other immune fighting cells that protect against bacteria and infections in the blood.

One of the most efficient ways to detox is through the skin and dry brushing stimulates blood circulation which is needed for proper detoxification. Another way to stimulate the lymphatic system is by sweating with some form of physical exercise since the lymphatic system has no central pump to move the fluid through the network as efficiently. So regular exercise and stimulating techniques like dry brushing and massages help the body maintain strength and balance to support the immune system.

I dry brush 2-3 times a week or every other day with a natural bristle brush you can find at most holistic wellness stores and sites near you. 

All you need is 5 minutes before you shower for smooth soft skin with the added health benefits.

How to Dry Brush 
Start at the soles of your feet and brush upward to the stomach, toward the heart.

For the stomach, work in a clockwise direction.

Use firm, small strokes upward, or work in a circular motion.

When you get up to your upper body, start at your hands, up to your arms toward the heart.

Lightly and delicately brush your chest area toward the heart.

Make sure your motions are slow and gentle so you don't tear, scratch or irritate the skin.

You can learn more about dry brushing at the blog. Link in bio ✨

#holisticbeauty #holistichealth #drybrushing #holisticwellness
Self Initiation The word "initiate" simply means Self Initiation

The word "initiate" simply means to start.  The moment you start to search for truth in any way, shape or form, you have actually started on your path of initiation. From then on, your initiation deepens in direct proportion to your efforts. Remember, input=output. There are many stages in any person's spiritual path. Each experience in a person's life journey is an initiation in itself, as certain realizations are made. Again, these are personal realizations and are dictated by your own progress and level of advancement. These, levels, have nothing to do with with the grades and titles adopted by "tribes", "covens", "spiritual house". An initiate advances by becoming aware. -Phillip Cooper

It is very important to build a personal relationship and foundation with the concept of what "spirituality" means to you.  Spirituality does not mean you have to be subordinate to anything or anyone outside of you. It does not mean that if you interact with your spirit guides or spiritual gifts that you will be "cursed" for doing it "wrong".  There is no right or wrong in your spiritual development, there is only truth, your truth.  Just because something is different does not mean its wrong, just that what works for me, may not work for you.

Many people nowadays rush to "initiate" into a religion, tradition or following without first honoring their own individuality. Not saying that a community is bad, just that each individual that makes up that whole should have some sense of their individual strengths.  If everyone is the same and no individual variations are displayed then you're technically in a cult when often times than not, the "leader" is demeaning, withholds information and manipulates others on the basis of the followers perceived weakness.

You are an individual.  There is no one else like you in existence, so it naturally follows that there is only one path for you to follow. Your Own.  Your path leads to truth, not someone else's truth, but your own truth concerning your magical true self and your relationship with the universe.  No teacher could ever lead you to truth. All that can ever be done is to show you the way.
Ancestral Perspective In order for you to be bor Ancestral Perspective 

In order for you to be born, you need two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, 32 third great grandparents, etc. If you go all the way to ninth great grandparents, that’s 2,048  ancestors. If you go a little further to 12 generations, you have 4,094  ancestors.

Your DNA is from those 4,094 people that lived over the last 400 + years 

Think about that for a second especially when attempting to embrace, implement and integrate Ancestral veneration into our “modern” lifestyle. A society that overlooks traumas or the trend of “healers” seeking to heal others without addressing their own wounds. We must heal our current relationships especially those parental and familial wounds. Understand who/what hurt our parents, their parents and beyond. 
 
Think about how much trauma, pain, suffering, fear, and all of the low-density energy that was experienced by those people that lived in times where they didn’t have as much safety, knowledge, information, and security as we do now. 

It seems as though we have all this information and accessibility but refuse to acknowledge the truth. Ignorance simply means “to ignore” it is the root of the word, ignore what is so presently in our human experience. Life is beautiful, but the gesture of existence comes with its stipulations. 

We are here to live our lessons, material possessions are only consequentials to this realm, successive side effects of living in our truth and purpose.
“...the truth holds the greatest magic, the grea “...the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty and sometimes the greatest danger.”
A new batch of our elements candles are at the sho A new batch of our elements candles are at the shop @desp.OjOs 

Silver represents the moon goddess and is very healing to the physical body and our spiritual nature due to its conductive nature. 

It’s prime energy is receptive which is attracting, quiet, calming, soothing, promotes meditation, spirituality and inward reflection. Grounding and peace energy. Psychic awareness, promotes love.

Use our Silver Candle for all moon rituals to bring balance, spiritual development and build intuition.

Gold: Luck, Wealth, Energy, Power

Energy: Projective

Planet: Sun

Gold's energy is vibrant and projective which activates and invokes motivation to your endeavors especially if you've been feeling stagnant or unmotivated. Use gold for matters of the mind to improve concentration and memory. Gold enhances will power, courage and confidence.  Gold is a ancient metal that never tarnishes symbolizing the vibrant and ever flowing energy of the Sun for manifestation to idle and stagnant dreams, ideas and goals.

Our ritual candles are cleansed with river or moon water, purified with incense, put out overnight to capture the stars and moonlight and lastly, infused with crystals and fixed with herbs according to your needs.

If you would like to have your candle “fixed” with our special in house blends of herbs, oils and protection powder, please select the type of fixings you’d like and indicate at the “order notes” section at checkout the name for which the candle will be dedicated to. 

✨ 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑜 ✨
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“She moved like a poem and smiled like Sphinx.” 

#Bloodlines #riddleofthesphinx #respectthethrone #egyptiangoddess

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Summer Skin Prep Dry Bushing is one of my favori Summer Skin Prep 

Dry Bushing is one of my favorite skin care routines and not only is it topically beneficial to remove dead skin, reveal soft skin, and treat cellulite, but also has many health benefits overall.  One of the most important health benefits of dry brushing is the ability to stimulate the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is made up of a network of tissues and organs that fights infections, bacteria in the blood and other toxins and is a essential part of the immune system which supports the body's defense against viruses, bacteria, infections and supports the body's natural detoxification processes. The Lymphatic system consists of Lymph fluid which is a water like substance made of white blood cells, among other immune fighting cells that protect against bacteria and infections in the blood.

One of the most efficient ways to detox is through the skin and dry brushing stimulates blood circulation which is needed for proper detoxification. Another way to stimulate the lymphatic system is by sweating with some form of physical exercise since the lymphatic system has no central pump to move the fluid through the network as efficiently. So regular exercise and stimulating techniques like dry brushing and massages help the body maintain strength and balance to support the immune system.

I dry brush 2-3 times a week or every other day with a natural bristle brush you can find at most holistic wellness stores and sites near you. 

All you need is 5 minutes before you shower for smooth soft skin with the added health benefits.

How to Dry Brush 
Start at the soles of your feet and brush upward to the stomach, toward the heart.

For the stomach, work in a clockwise direction.

Use firm, small strokes upward, or work in a circular motion.

When you get up to your upper body, start at your hands, up to your arms toward the heart.

Lightly and delicately brush your chest area toward the heart.

Make sure your motions are slow and gentle so you don't tear, scratch or irritate the skin.

You can learn more about dry brushing at the blog. Link in bio ✨

#holisticbeauty #holistichealth #drybrushing #holisticwellness
Self Initiation The word "initiate" simply means Self Initiation

The word "initiate" simply means to start.  The moment you start to search for truth in any way, shape or form, you have actually started on your path of initiation. From then on, your initiation deepens in direct proportion to your efforts. Remember, input=output. There are many stages in any person's spiritual path. Each experience in a person's life journey is an initiation in itself, as certain realizations are made. Again, these are personal realizations and are dictated by your own progress and level of advancement. These, levels, have nothing to do with with the grades and titles adopted by "tribes", "covens", "spiritual house". An initiate advances by becoming aware. -Phillip Cooper

It is very important to build a personal relationship and foundation with the concept of what "spirituality" means to you.  Spirituality does not mean you have to be subordinate to anything or anyone outside of you. It does not mean that if you interact with your spirit guides or spiritual gifts that you will be "cursed" for doing it "wrong".  There is no right or wrong in your spiritual development, there is only truth, your truth.  Just because something is different does not mean its wrong, just that what works for me, may not work for you.

Many people nowadays rush to "initiate" into a religion, tradition or following without first honoring their own individuality. Not saying that a community is bad, just that each individual that makes up that whole should have some sense of their individual strengths.  If everyone is the same and no individual variations are displayed then you're technically in a cult when often times than not, the "leader" is demeaning, withholds information and manipulates others on the basis of the followers perceived weakness.

You are an individual.  There is no one else like you in existence, so it naturally follows that there is only one path for you to follow. Your Own.  Your path leads to truth, not someone else's truth, but your own truth concerning your magical true self and your relationship with the universe.  No teacher could ever lead you to truth. All that can ever be done is to show you the way.
Ancestral Perspective In order for you to be bor Ancestral Perspective 

In order for you to be born, you need two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, 32 third great grandparents, etc. If you go all the way to ninth great grandparents, that’s 2,048  ancestors. If you go a little further to 12 generations, you have 4,094  ancestors.

Your DNA is from those 4,094 people that lived over the last 400 + years 

Think about that for a second especially when attempting to embrace, implement and integrate Ancestral veneration into our “modern” lifestyle. A society that overlooks traumas or the trend of “healers” seeking to heal others without addressing their own wounds. We must heal our current relationships especially those parental and familial wounds. Understand who/what hurt our parents, their parents and beyond. 
 
Think about how much trauma, pain, suffering, fear, and all of the low-density energy that was experienced by those people that lived in times where they didn’t have as much safety, knowledge, information, and security as we do now. 

It seems as though we have all this information and accessibility but refuse to acknowledge the truth. Ignorance simply means “to ignore” it is the root of the word, ignore what is so presently in our human experience. Life is beautiful, but the gesture of existence comes with its stipulations. 

We are here to live our lessons, material possessions are only consequentials to this realm, successive side effects of living in our truth and purpose.
“...the truth holds the greatest magic, the grea “...the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty and sometimes the greatest danger.”
A new batch of our elements candles are at the sho A new batch of our elements candles are at the shop @desp.OjOs 

Silver represents the moon goddess and is very healing to the physical body and our spiritual nature due to its conductive nature. 

It’s prime energy is receptive which is attracting, quiet, calming, soothing, promotes meditation, spirituality and inward reflection. Grounding and peace energy. Psychic awareness, promotes love.

Use our Silver Candle for all moon rituals to bring balance, spiritual development and build intuition.

Gold: Luck, Wealth, Energy, Power

Energy: Projective

Planet: Sun

Gold's energy is vibrant and projective which activates and invokes motivation to your endeavors especially if you've been feeling stagnant or unmotivated. Use gold for matters of the mind to improve concentration and memory. Gold enhances will power, courage and confidence.  Gold is a ancient metal that never tarnishes symbolizing the vibrant and ever flowing energy of the Sun for manifestation to idle and stagnant dreams, ideas and goals.

Our ritual candles are cleansed with river or moon water, purified with incense, put out overnight to capture the stars and moonlight and lastly, infused with crystals and fixed with herbs according to your needs.

If you would like to have your candle “fixed” with our special in house blends of herbs, oils and protection powder, please select the type of fixings you’d like and indicate at the “order notes” section at checkout the name for which the candle will be dedicated to. 

✨ 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑜 ✨
@desp.ojos
“She moved like a poem and smiled like Sphinx.” 

#Bloodlines #riddleofthesphinx #respectthethrone #egyptiangoddess
Summer Skin Prep Dry Bushing is one of my favori Summer Skin Prep 

Dry Bushing is one of my favorite skin care routines and not only is it topically beneficial to remove dead skin, reveal soft skin, and treat cellulite, but also has many health benefits overall.  One of the most important health benefits of dry brushing is the ability to stimulate the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is made up of a network of tissues and organs that fights infections, bacteria in the blood and other toxins and is a essential part of the immune system which supports the body's defense against viruses, bacteria, infections and supports the body's natural detoxification processes. The Lymphatic system consists of Lymph fluid which is a water like substance made of white blood cells, among other immune fighting cells that protect against bacteria and infections in the blood.

One of the most efficient ways to detox is through the skin and dry brushing stimulates blood circulation which is needed for proper detoxification. Another way to stimulate the lymphatic system is by sweating with some form of physical exercise since the lymphatic system has no central pump to move the fluid through the network as efficiently. So regular exercise and stimulating techniques like dry brushing and massages help the body maintain strength and balance to support the immune system.

I dry brush 2-3 times a week or every other day with a natural bristle brush you can find at most holistic wellness stores and sites near you. 

All you need is 5 minutes before you shower for smooth soft skin with the added health benefits.

How to Dry Brush 
Start at the soles of your feet and brush upward to the stomach, toward the heart.

For the stomach, work in a clockwise direction.

Use firm, small strokes upward, or work in a circular motion.

When you get up to your upper body, start at your hands, up to your arms toward the heart.

Lightly and delicately brush your chest area toward the heart.

Make sure your motions are slow and gentle so you don't tear, scratch or irritate the skin.

You can learn more about dry brushing at the blog. Link in bio ✨

#holisticbeauty #holistichealth #drybrushing #holisticwellness
Self Initiation The word "initiate" simply means Self Initiation

The word "initiate" simply means to start.  The moment you start to search for truth in any way, shape or form, you have actually started on your path of initiation. From then on, your initiation deepens in direct proportion to your efforts. Remember, input=output. There are many stages in any person's spiritual path. Each experience in a person's life journey is an initiation in itself, as certain realizations are made. Again, these are personal realizations and are dictated by your own progress and level of advancement. These, levels, have nothing to do with with the grades and titles adopted by "tribes", "covens", "spiritual house". An initiate advances by becoming aware. -Phillip Cooper

It is very important to build a personal relationship and foundation with the concept of what "spirituality" means to you.  Spirituality does not mean you have to be subordinate to anything or anyone outside of you. It does not mean that if you interact with your spirit guides or spiritual gifts that you will be "cursed" for doing it "wrong".  There is no right or wrong in your spiritual development, there is only truth, your truth.  Just because something is different does not mean its wrong, just that what works for me, may not work for you.

Many people nowadays rush to "initiate" into a religion, tradition or following without first honoring their own individuality. Not saying that a community is bad, just that each individual that makes up that whole should have some sense of their individual strengths.  If everyone is the same and no individual variations are displayed then you're technically in a cult when often times than not, the "leader" is demeaning, withholds information and manipulates others on the basis of the followers perceived weakness.

You are an individual.  There is no one else like you in existence, so it naturally follows that there is only one path for you to follow. Your Own.  Your path leads to truth, not someone else's truth, but your own truth concerning your magical true self and your relationship with the universe.  No teacher could ever lead you to truth. All that can ever be done is to show you the way.
Ancestral Perspective In order for you to be bor Ancestral Perspective 

In order for you to be born, you need two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, 32 third great grandparents, etc. If you go all the way to ninth great grandparents, that’s 2,048  ancestors. If you go a little further to 12 generations, you have 4,094  ancestors.

Your DNA is from those 4,094 people that lived over the last 400 + years 

Think about that for a second especially when attempting to embrace, implement and integrate Ancestral veneration into our “modern” lifestyle. A society that overlooks traumas or the trend of “healers” seeking to heal others without addressing their own wounds. We must heal our current relationships especially those parental and familial wounds. Understand who/what hurt our parents, their parents and beyond. 
 
Think about how much trauma, pain, suffering, fear, and all of the low-density energy that was experienced by those people that lived in times where they didn’t have as much safety, knowledge, information, and security as we do now. 

It seems as though we have all this information and accessibility but refuse to acknowledge the truth. Ignorance simply means “to ignore” it is the root of the word, ignore what is so presently in our human experience. Life is beautiful, but the gesture of existence comes with its stipulations. 

We are here to live our lessons, material possessions are only consequentials to this realm, successive side effects of living in our truth and purpose.
“...the truth holds the greatest magic, the grea “...the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty and sometimes the greatest danger.”
A new batch of our elements candles are at the sho A new batch of our elements candles are at the shop @desp.OjOs 

Silver represents the moon goddess and is very healing to the physical body and our spiritual nature due to its conductive nature. 

It’s prime energy is receptive which is attracting, quiet, calming, soothing, promotes meditation, spirituality and inward reflection. Grounding and peace energy. Psychic awareness, promotes love.

Use our Silver Candle for all moon rituals to bring balance, spiritual development and build intuition.

Gold: Luck, Wealth, Energy, Power

Energy: Projective

Planet: Sun

Gold's energy is vibrant and projective which activates and invokes motivation to your endeavors especially if you've been feeling stagnant or unmotivated. Use gold for matters of the mind to improve concentration and memory. Gold enhances will power, courage and confidence.  Gold is a ancient metal that never tarnishes symbolizing the vibrant and ever flowing energy of the Sun for manifestation to idle and stagnant dreams, ideas and goals.

Our ritual candles are cleansed with river or moon water, purified with incense, put out overnight to capture the stars and moonlight and lastly, infused with crystals and fixed with herbs according to your needs.

If you would like to have your candle “fixed” with our special in house blends of herbs, oils and protection powder, please select the type of fixings you’d like and indicate at the “order notes” section at checkout the name for which the candle will be dedicated to. 

✨ 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑜 ✨
@desp.ojos
“She moved like a poem and smiled like Sphinx.” 

#Bloodlines #riddleofthesphinx #respectthethrone #egyptiangoddess
Summer Skin Prep Dry Bushing is one of my favori Summer Skin Prep 

Dry Bushing is one of my favorite skin care routines and not only is it topically beneficial to remove dead skin, reveal soft skin, and treat cellulite, but also has many health benefits overall.  One of the most important health benefits of dry brushing is the ability to stimulate the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is made up of a network of tissues and organs that fights infections, bacteria in the blood and other toxins and is a essential part of the immune system which supports the body's defense against viruses, bacteria, infections and supports the body's natural detoxification processes. The Lymphatic system consists of Lymph fluid which is a water like substance made of white blood cells, among other immune fighting cells that protect against bacteria and infections in the blood.

One of the most efficient ways to detox is through the skin and dry brushing stimulates blood circulation which is needed for proper detoxification. Another way to stimulate the lymphatic system is by sweating with some form of physical exercise since the lymphatic system has no central pump to move the fluid through the network as efficiently. So regular exercise and stimulating techniques like dry brushing and massages help the body maintain strength and balance to support the immune system.

I dry brush 2-3 times a week or every other day with a natural bristle brush you can find at most holistic wellness stores and sites near you. 

All you need is 5 minutes before you shower for smooth soft skin with the added health benefits.

How to Dry Brush 
Start at the soles of your feet and brush upward to the stomach, toward the heart.

For the stomach, work in a clockwise direction.

Use firm, small strokes upward, or work in a circular motion.

When you get up to your upper body, start at your hands, up to your arms toward the heart.

Lightly and delicately brush your chest area toward the heart.

Make sure your motions are slow and gentle so you don't tear, scratch or irritate the skin.

You can learn more about dry brushing at the blog. Link in bio ✨

#holisticbeauty #holistichealth #drybrushing #holisticwellness
Self Initiation The word "initiate" simply means Self Initiation

The word "initiate" simply means to start.  The moment you start to search for truth in any way, shape or form, you have actually started on your path of initiation. From then on, your initiation deepens in direct proportion to your efforts. Remember, input=output. There are many stages in any person's spiritual path. Each experience in a person's life journey is an initiation in itself, as certain realizations are made. Again, these are personal realizations and are dictated by your own progress and level of advancement. These, levels, have nothing to do with with the grades and titles adopted by "tribes", "covens", "spiritual house". An initiate advances by becoming aware. -Phillip Cooper

It is very important to build a personal relationship and foundation with the concept of what "spirituality" means to you.  Spirituality does not mean you have to be subordinate to anything or anyone outside of you. It does not mean that if you interact with your spirit guides or spiritual gifts that you will be "cursed" for doing it "wrong".  There is no right or wrong in your spiritual development, there is only truth, your truth.  Just because something is different does not mean its wrong, just that what works for me, may not work for you.

Many people nowadays rush to "initiate" into a religion, tradition or following without first honoring their own individuality. Not saying that a community is bad, just that each individual that makes up that whole should have some sense of their individual strengths.  If everyone is the same and no individual variations are displayed then you're technically in a cult when often times than not, the "leader" is demeaning, withholds information and manipulates others on the basis of the followers perceived weakness.

You are an individual.  There is no one else like you in existence, so it naturally follows that there is only one path for you to follow. Your Own.  Your path leads to truth, not someone else's truth, but your own truth concerning your magical true self and your relationship with the universe.  No teacher could ever lead you to truth. All that can ever be done is to show you the way.
Ancestral Perspective In order for you to be bor Ancestral Perspective 

In order for you to be born, you need two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, 32 third great grandparents, etc. If you go all the way to ninth great grandparents, that’s 2,048  ancestors. If you go a little further to 12 generations, you have 4,094  ancestors.

Your DNA is from those 4,094 people that lived over the last 400 + years 

Think about that for a second especially when attempting to embrace, implement and integrate Ancestral veneration into our “modern” lifestyle. A society that overlooks traumas or the trend of “healers” seeking to heal others without addressing their own wounds. We must heal our current relationships especially those parental and familial wounds. Understand who/what hurt our parents, their parents and beyond. 
 
Think about how much trauma, pain, suffering, fear, and all of the low-density energy that was experienced by those people that lived in times where they didn’t have as much safety, knowledge, information, and security as we do now. 

It seems as though we have all this information and accessibility but refuse to acknowledge the truth. Ignorance simply means “to ignore” it is the root of the word, ignore what is so presently in our human experience. Life is beautiful, but the gesture of existence comes with its stipulations. 

We are here to live our lessons, material possessions are only consequentials to this realm, successive side effects of living in our truth and purpose.
“...the truth holds the greatest magic, the grea “...the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty and sometimes the greatest danger.”
A new batch of our elements candles are at the sho A new batch of our elements candles are at the shop @desp.OjOs 

Silver represents the moon goddess and is very healing to the physical body and our spiritual nature due to its conductive nature. 

It’s prime energy is receptive which is attracting, quiet, calming, soothing, promotes meditation, spirituality and inward reflection. Grounding and peace energy. Psychic awareness, promotes love.

Use our Silver Candle for all moon rituals to bring balance, spiritual development and build intuition.

Gold: Luck, Wealth, Energy, Power

Energy: Projective

Planet: Sun

Gold's energy is vibrant and projective which activates and invokes motivation to your endeavors especially if you've been feeling stagnant or unmotivated. Use gold for matters of the mind to improve concentration and memory. Gold enhances will power, courage and confidence.  Gold is a ancient metal that never tarnishes symbolizing the vibrant and ever flowing energy of the Sun for manifestation to idle and stagnant dreams, ideas and goals.

Our ritual candles are cleansed with river or moon water, purified with incense, put out overnight to capture the stars and moonlight and lastly, infused with crystals and fixed with herbs according to your needs.

If you would like to have your candle “fixed” with our special in house blends of herbs, oils and protection powder, please select the type of fixings you’d like and indicate at the “order notes” section at checkout the name for which the candle will be dedicated to. 

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