#sage cleansing

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

For those who missed it yesterday, a new video was uploaded to The Healing Library; the first Digital Spiritual work of the channel!

This was, of course, done under the guidance of my Guides, who can't stop developing new ways to spread their message of Love and Divine Healing. They are very aware that cleansing can be extremely needed at very specific moments and places, so they instructed me to create a video that transmitted that exact energy, and that could be played anywhere you can have your phone.

Play it at home, in the car, at your workplace, on waiting rooms, on family reunions, and remove negativity and stagnant energy from around you in just a couple of minutes. This is so useful!

[x-elaluna-x]

And calm.

[charliesopus]

I wanted to share some things I've been working on over the last few weeks.

I made some journals. The large grey one I made out of a hardcover sketch journal I got on super sale ($2) at Michael's a good while back, and decorated with scrapbook paper. It gets the honor of becoming my tarot book. The red one is actually two composition books I fused together to give me separate sections, and I applied chipboard to transform it to a hardcover book, along with scrapbook paper also. It gets the honor of becoming my grimoire.

I'm a little overwhelmed about starting these but I'm excited as well. Not only will they be a wonderful reference tool for myself but my biggest goal with them is to have something of substance to pass down to my son when he's older, should he be interested in pursuing the path of magic.

I also made up a bunch of sage cleansing bundles! Not sure what I'm going to do with them all yet. But they're just so pretty!

I've only used what I had available, aside from the roses I bought. But there's bay & rosemary, mint and bay, Douglas Fir and bay, mint and orange, as a couple examples.

This orange and cinnamon one is my favorite though, I think it turned out beautifully!

I also made this prayer style candle for Apollo! Its just an image I printed off of Google, so apologies I do not know the artist. But it turned out so perfectly and has really added that extra something I didn't even know I was missing.

It's helped me to feel like I can connect much better!

I hope this can inspire some of you with ideas of some things to do yourself! I am super pleased with the way everything turned out and I've quite enjoyed making them.

:)

[iridescent-witch-life]

Magical properties of Sage

(Salvia officinalis)

Folk Names: Garden Sage, Red Sage, Sawge 

Gender: Masculine

Planet: Jupiter

Element: Air

Powers: Immortality, Longevity, Wisdom, Protection, Wishes

Magical Uses: Sage has been utilized to ensure a long life—sometimes even immortality. This is done by eating some of the plant every day, or at least in May, for: He who would live for aye, Must eat sage in May.

Sage is carried to promote wisdom, and the leaves are used in countless healing and money spells. To guard yourself against contracting the dreaded evil eye wear a small horn filled with sage. 

There are a few curious gardening tips concerning sage: first, it is bad luck to plant sage in your own garden; a stranger should be found to do the work. Second, a full bed of sage brings ill luck, so ensure that some other plant shares the plot. Incidentally, toads love sage. 

If you desire to make a wish come true, write it on a sage leaf and hide it beneath your pillow. For three nights sleep upon it. If once you dream of what you desire your wish will be materialized; if not, bury the sage in the ground so that you do not come to harm.

Source: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

[kernaka]

@11seventy

[spiritualsusan]

I have a question for any native American people reading this. I'd like to either make or buy a sage bundle for smoke cleansing, but I know that some things associated with this belong to native American culture (which I'm not part of hence my uncertainty). I already know not to use the term sm*dging and I'm pretty sure the use of abalone shell and a feather is also not allowed but please let me know if I'm wrong about this or if I'm missing something.

I am wondering, is it just white sage that non natives shouldn't use or is it all sage?

Are there any other herbs that shouldn't be used in this way by non natives?

Is the term smoke cleansing ok or should I say something else?

I'm asking here because I tried looking online both here on Tumblr and on other websites but some sites say using white sage is perfectly fine which I'm pretty sure is a lie, others say normal sage is ok just not white sage, others say no form of sage should be used but we can use other herbs.

I'm just confused and hoping an actual native American can tell me, because I don't want to take just anyone's word for it and end up stealing a closed practice thinking I'm doing it right. I'd rather get an answer directly from a person belonging to native American culture, I don't trust anyone else to give me a 100% correct answer at this point.

[k-p-p-d]

[stormwitchhaven]

The amount of times I STILL see non-Native people on here refer to smoke cleansing as “smudging”, which is a Native ritual with specific steps and is NOT something that can be performed by non-Natives is INFURIATING. It’s 2020, people. Stop appropriating Native culture in your craft.