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 herbs1. 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 includeFrankincenseBenzoinMyrrhGum Arabic (Acacia)CopalDragons BloodPine resin (called Colophony)
List of incense and their magickal qualities
AllspiceMoney, strength, action Apple BlossomLove, fertility, optimisum, inner beauty, rituals for babies and children
AvocadoDesire, increase beauty in self or enviroment
BasilFidelity, prosperity
BayHealing, prosperity, protection, marriage BenzoinMoney, increasing mental powers and concentration
BluebellFaithfulness in love, betrothals
CarnationStrength, healing, family devotion
Cedar/Cedar woodHealing, cleansing, negative thoughts
ChamomileMoney, quite sleep, affection, family
CinnamonSpirituality, success, healing, psychic powers, money, love and passion
CherryNew love, divinatory abilities
ClovesLove, money, repelling hostility, improved memory
CopalProtection, purification, cleansing crystals
CypressTransitions to a new phase in life, letting go of sorrow
Dragon's BloodLove, protection, passion, male potency
FernsAn initiator of change, travel, fidelity, hidden wealth
FigWisdom, creativity, creation, fertility, harmony and balance
FrankincenseCourage, joy, strength, success
FreesiaIncreasing trust, after loss and betrayal
Gum Arabic (Acacia)Dreams, mediotation, psychic protection and development
HeatherPassion, fidelity in love, good fortune
HoneysuckleMoney, psychic powers, protection
HyacinthLove happiness, reconciliation
HyssopLove commitments, healing, protection
IvyFidelity, married love, permanent relationships
JasmineMoon magic, prophetic dreams, money, passion
JuniperProtection from psychic attack, physical theft, cleansing, healing, house moves
LavenderLove and reconciliation
Lemongrass/LemonRepels spite, protection against malice, passion, increase psychic awareness
LilacDomestic matters, cleansing negativity, domestic happiness
Lemon VerbenaBreaking a run of bad luck, love, protection against negativity
Lily of the ValleyIncreases mental abilities, happiness
LilyPurity, breaking negative influences in love
MarigoldDreams, legal matters, luck, money
MimosaProtection, love, purification
MossGood fortune, prosperity, money, water magic ~ good for candles on water
NutmegFertility, healing especially of enviroment, gradual increase of wealth
MisteltoeKnown to the Druids as the All-Healer, healing sorrows, finding something lost, overcoming justice
MyrtleSometimes mixed with other fragrances, for fidelity in love, marriage, mature love, property and security
MyrrhHealing, peace, protection, inner harmony
Orange BlossomPermanent relationships, restoring trust, increasing confidence
Poppy/OpiumDivination, fertility, luck, sleep,
PineHealing, fertility, purification, returns hostility back to sender
RoseGentle love, attraction, dreams of love, reconciliation
RosemaryLove, happy memories, concentration
SageHealth, enhanced mental powers, wisdom
SandalwoodSpiritual and psychic awareness, healing, sexuality
SrawberryInnocent love, friendship, happiness
ThymeCourage, divination, health, love, money, purification VanillaLove, passion, enduring love, increases mental powers
VetivertLove, breaks run of bad luck, money, protects against negativity
VioletSecrecy, modesty, uncovering hidden talents
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