#incense offering

[strygca]

Reorganised my altar for full moon ritual

[strygca]

[broccoliwitch]

so. i have a kind of crazy altar idea that i want to try but i’m putting it to the tumblr which void for suggestions.

i want to do a scent offerings.

smell is a sense that is so important to me and i’m deeply affected by different smells and i think that i have a ridiculously good sense of smell (it’s very tied to memory for me).

now that i’ve typed this all out i realize that i’m basically talking about incense so this isn’t quite as crazy as i originally thought lol. my idea is to use essential oil and felt (i make needle felted crafts). i personally feel like incense has more of a focuse on fire and smoke than the scent and i want the focus to be on smell and color.

are there any deities out there that particularly respond to smells and colors?

[tattooed-alchemist]

An approximation of my Winter Solstice vigil: fire tending, cider mulling, incense offering, saffron weighing, saffron paste-making, alchemical rune drawing, door charm crafting, and the piercing and studding of one orange-clove pomander.

Due to being a morning person and waking up early on Saturday morning, and my body deciding that napping was right out before or during the vigil, by the time it was over, I had been awake for 26 hours and 55 minutes.

Chances are I’ll wake up again after only about 4 hours of sleep.  Ugh.

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

smoke signs and red sandalwood incense offerings to my gods

[kiaoratibet]

Incense smoke catches the early morning sun behind Sera Monastery in Lhasa

[nihonde]

Doug at Essays in Idleness:

At the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist temple we go to, there is a ritual called oshōkō (お焼香), where families go up to the temple before service and offer a little incense, as well as a small donation, usually a dollar or so. I’ve seen similar rituals at other temples too: Shingon Buddhist, etc. The word oshōkō simply means the burning of incense.

So, for those new to Japanese Buddhism, or if you are visiting a temple for the first time, I wanted to provide a quick overview.

I wish there had been a blog like this before I came to Japan in 2006.

I guessed the steps from watching the people who offered prayer and incense before me, but having a guide just to make sure would have been nice.