\n<\/strong><\/p>\nYou can make your own incense and customize it for Sabbats, Esbats, or whatever you wish.\u00a0 You can actually use finely ground sawdust as a base for your incense.\u00a0 You can use a small coffee grinder or a blender that is separate from food use to grind the sawdust as well as to grind the herbs into a much finer result than a mortar and pestle.\u00a0 If you are using oils add them last.\u00a0 Stay focused on your intent during the entire process.\u00a0 The drier incense will often burn without a charcoal block when sawdust is used as a base, experiment with it, add the things that appeal to you for a personal meditation or everyday blend.\u00a0 The following are a few recipes I’ve picked up here and there to give you some ideas to start.<\/p>\n
Full Moon<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 parts Frankincense 1 part Sandalwood.<\/p>\nAltar incense<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 parts Frankincense, 2 parts Myrrh, 1 part cinnamon.<\/p>\nHorned God<\/strong>:\u00a0 2 parts benzoin, 1 part cedar, 1part pine, (you can use cedar and pine sawdust as the base if you wish), 1 part Juniper berries, a few drops of patchouli oil.<\/p>\nLove Drawing<\/strong>:\u00a0 1 part Sandalwood, 1 part lavender buds, 1\/2 tsp. basil, 3 drops rose oil, 1 drop lavender.<\/p>\nYou can be precise in the measurements, as the above recipes show, or just use the herbs in the amounts that are more pleasing to you:<\/p>\n
Sacred smoke<\/strong>:\u00a0 White sage, sweetgrass, cedar and lavender.\u00a0 General protection:\u00a0 Dragon’s blood, sage, cinnamon.\u00a0 Love:\u00a0 Allspice, cinnamon, rose petals, vanilla.<\/p>\nYou can find recipe’s on the internet, or published in books, or you can mix them yourself using the herbs magical properties.\u00a0 Some words of caution:\u00a0 Be sure the herb’s you’re using don’t have any toxic potential if the smoke is used indoors , and be sure your smoke detector won’t be affected.\u00a0 The possibilities are limitless and the results can be amazing!!!<\/p>\n
Happy Crafting!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to “Witchcrafts” and I hope it proves useful.\u00a0 Since this is my first time with this subject here I thought I would give you a basic idea of what it is.\u00a0 Over the years of practice we have so much exposure to the tools of our spirituality it stands to reason that we would start to “think outside the circle” and this is the result of that.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s something related to our practice and sometimes it’s an outlet for the other “craftiness” we possess.\u00a0 As a result here we are!\u00a0 Hope you like it and Blessed be! Incense recipes You can make your own incense and customize it for Sabbats, Esbats, or whatever you wish.\u00a0 You can actually use finely ground sawdust as a base for your incense.\u00a0 You can use a small coffee grinder or a blender that is separate from food use to grind the sawdust as well as to grind the herbs into a much finer result than a mortar and pestle.\u00a0 If you are using oils add them last.\u00a0 Stay focused on your intent during the entire process.\u00a0 The drier incense will often burn without a charcoal block when sawdust is used as a base, experiment with it, add the things that appeal to you for a personal meditation or everyday blend.\u00a0 The following are a few recipes I’ve picked up here and there to give you some ideas to start. Full Moon:\u00a0 3 parts Frankincense 1 part Sandalwood. Altar incense:\u00a0 3 parts Frankincense, 2 parts Myrrh, 1 part cinnamon. Horned God:\u00a0 2 parts benzoin, 1 part cedar, 1part pine, (you can use cedar and pine sawdust as the base if you wish), 1 part Juniper berries, a few drops of patchouli oil. Love Drawing:\u00a0 1 part Sandalwood, 1 part lavender buds, 1\/2 tsp. basil, 3 drops rose oil, 1 drop lavender. You can be precise in the measurements, as the above recipes show, or just use the herbs in the amounts that are more pleasing to you: Sacred smoke:\u00a0 White sage, sweetgrass, cedar and lavender.\u00a0 General protection:\u00a0 Dragon’s blood, sage, cinnamon.\u00a0 Love:\u00a0 Allspice, cinnamon, rose petals, vanilla. You can find recipe’s on the internet, or published in books, or you can mix them yourself using the herbs magical properties.\u00a0 Some words of caution:\u00a0 Be sure the herb’s you’re using don’t have any toxic potential if the smoke is used indoors , and be sure your smoke detector won’t be affected.\u00a0 The possibilities are limitless and the results can be amazing!!! Happy Crafting!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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