Making your own incense to burn either in a heatproof dish or on a charcoal block is easy and in my opinion it is better then some shop brought incense the reason is you can empower it with your own power.
You can mix and match your flowers and herbs for exactly the powers you need for example if your making love incense you can use lavender for gentle love, bay leaves for faithfulness and maybe a sprinkle of saffron or ginger for passion.
You can supplement partly or entirely with dried herbs and spices that you have in your kitchen and buy dried lavender heads, rose petals and chamomile flowers in old fashioned grocery stores, gift shops and some herbalists.
Picking and drying your herbs
1. Pick herbs the day or days after the full moon and leave them to dry, you can remove stems after drying.
2. Collect and dry pine needles, cedar bark chippings and Juniper berries
3. Dry a bunch of herbs upside down in bundles indoors or out in a sheltered but well ventilated place that is not too cold. SImply pop a hook up and then hang your bundle of herbs upside down and allow them to dry.
4. You can also use slatted wooden racks and microwaves can be used in a hurry but micro dried herbs are not so fragrant.
5. In the summer or fine weather herbs dry very quickly they should be crumbly if pressed but still fragrant.
6. Keep dried herbs in labelled glass jars ~ old jam jars cleaned and dried are perfect keep the lid on when not using.
Herbs, flowers and resins to use
Resins include
Frankincense
Benzoin
Myrrh
Gum Arabic (Acacia)
Copal
Dragons Blood
Pine resin (called Colophony)
List of incense and their magickal qualities
Allspice
Money, strength, action
Apple Blossom
Love, fertility, optimisum, inner beauty, rituals for babies and children
Avocado
Desire, increase beauty in self or enviroment
Basil
Fidelity, prosperity
Bay
Healing, prosperity, protection, marriage
Benzoin
Money, increasing mental powers and concentration
Bluebell
Faithfulness in love, betrothals
Carnation
Strength, healing, family devotion
Cedar/Cedar wood
Healing, cleansing, negative thoughts
Chamomile
Money, quite sleep, affection, family
Cinnamon
Spirituality, success, healing, psychic powers, money, love and passion
Cherry
New love, divinatory abilities
Cloves
Love, money, repelling hostility, improved memory
Copal
Protection, purification, cleansing crystals
Cypress
Transitions to a new phase in life, letting go of sorrow
Dragon's Blood
Love, protection, passion, male potency
Ferns
An initiator of change, travel, fidelity, hidden wealth
Fig
Wisdom, creativity, creation, fertility, harmony and balance
Frankincense
Courage, joy, strength, success
Freesia
Increasing trust, after loss and betrayal
Gum Arabic (Acacia)
Dreams, mediotation, psychic protection and development
Heather
Passion, fidelity in love, good fortune
Honeysuckle
Money, psychic powers, protection
Hyacinth
Love happiness, reconciliation
Hyssop
Love commitments, healing, protection
Ivy
Fidelity, married love, permanent relationships
Jasmine
Moon magic, prophetic dreams, money, passion
Juniper
Protection from psychic attack, physical theft, cleansing, healing, house moves
Lavender
Love and reconciliation
Lemongrass/Lemon
Repels spite, protection against malice, passion, increase psychic awareness
Lilac
Domestic matters, cleansing negativity, domestic happiness
Lemon Verbena
Breaking a run of bad luck, love, protection against negativity
Lily of the Valley
Increases mental abilities, happiness
Lily
Purity, breaking negative influences in love
Marigold
Dreams, legal matters, luck, money
Mimosa
Protection, love, purification
Moss
Good fortune, prosperity, money, water magic ~ good for candles on water
Nutmeg
Fertility, healing especially of enviroment, gradual increase of wealth
Misteltoe
Known to the Druids as the All-Healer, healing sorrows, finding something lost, overcoming justice
Myrtle
Sometimes mixed with other fragrances, for fidelity in love, marriage, mature love, property and security
Myrrh
Healing, peace, protection, inner harmony
Orange Blossom
Permanent relationships, restoring trust, increasing confidence
Poppy/Opium
Divination, fertility, luck, sleep,
Pine
Healing, fertility, purification, returns hostility back to sender
Rose
Gentle love, attraction, dreams of love, reconciliation
Rosemary
Love, happy memories, concentration
Sage
Health, enhanced mental powers, wisdom
Sandalwood
Spiritual and psychic awareness, healing, sexuality
Srawberry
Innocent love, friendship, happiness
Thyme
Courage, divination, health, love, money, purification
Vanilla
Love, passion, enduring love, increases mental powers
Vetivert
Love, breaks run of bad luck, money, protects against negativity
Violet
Secrecy, modesty, uncovering hidden talents
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