Herbs, flowers and resins for incense

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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