#incense magic

Simple wand work using smoke 🌀

Perfect for spellwork, cleansing, and intention setting.

🔁 Clockwise – To Attract

Bring in love, luck, prosperity, energy.

🔄 Counterclockwise – To Banish

Release negativity, bad habits, toxic energy.

⭐ Draw a Pentagram – To Protect

Aim the incense at your target and trace a pentagram in the air.

🌀 Spiral Motion – To Cleanse

Circle gently over the target to lift away stagnant or harmful energy.

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˚ ☽ 𝔳/𝔠 7:07 𝔞𝔪 ⛧ ☽ → ♓︎ 2:44 𝔭𝔪 ˚

Color of the Day : Purple

Incense of the Day : Rose

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If you're like many magickal practitioners, you probably have a good amount of incense lying around. Even if you only have a little, bless your incense today to refresh its properties.

First, round up all your incense : sticks, cones, or powder. Spread a white cloth outdoors in full sunlight. [If there's no sunlight in your area today, you can do this indoors. In this case, safely light four white candles at the four corners of the white cloth.]

Place all your incense on the cloth, leaving it in its packaging or containers. Direct your palms toward the incense and bring yourself into a meditative state while you ask :

Earth, air, water, fire, and spirit, Goddess and God, please bless these sacred scents.

Reawaken their magic, infuse them with light.

Align them with your power, Blessed be.

Let the incense soak up the light for a minute or two more, then return it to its rightful place on your altar or supply box or wherever you happen to keep it.

Remember to extinguish the candles if you used them.

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In my experience, people have either love incense or they have an aversion to it.

Incense also comes in different sizes, shapes, and forms. Some types of incense are already labeled with names reflecting the effects they hope to achieve: There is stress-relieving incense, energy incense, love incense, and so on.

Some people prefer to burn potpourri or oils. One of the purposes of incense in these particular rituals is to bring you into an altered state of consciousness in the most peaceful way possible. If the smell of sage or sandalwood calms you, use it. But if your sinuses say no, give them respect.

Don't get caught up in what others have decided is the best aroma for you. For example, studies have shown citrus fragrances promote energy, and the smell of lilac can calm us. But don't force yourself to inhale a scent if you don't care for simply because the label states "incense for romance." Always buy what you enjoy.

Experimenting with new aromas is also fun. Most incense is inexpensive and sometimes sold by the stick. One thing to be careful of: If you are going to do a spell inside or in a small area, try your new purchase out prior to its actual use. Otherwise, you may be subject to a disagreeable smell for hours, if not days. Incense can take a while to dissipate and may linger in the air for a long period of time.

Here are some recommended sense and herbs you may want to try that correspond to a certain magickal work. Remember: These are only suggestions and not a must.

👤 Health Bay, Carnation, Cedar, Eucalyptus, Juniper, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Myrrh, Pine, Sage, Sandalwood, Thyme 💞 Love Apple, Musk, Rose, Ambergris, Basil, Cinnamon, Chamomile, Dragon's Blood, Jasmine, Lemongrass, Patchouli, Peppermint 📠 Career \ Job Vanilla, Allspice, Cloves, Nutmeg, Pine, Wisteria, Heliotrope, Spruce, Sage, Mint, Honeysuckle, Cedar, Bayberry 🌹 Women's Issues Musk, Orange, Hyacinth, Myrrh, Pine, Rose 🐯 Men's Issues Musk, Cedar, Jasmine 🌅 Spirituality Frankincense, Heliotrope, Jasmine, Sweetgrass, Gardenia, Pine, Sage, Violet, Sandalwood, Rose

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As a baby witch trying to embrace using all parts of my ingredients for spells.

I usually work with smoke, candle magick, spell jars, sigils, crystals, and wreaths.

Just sharing ways I reuse ingredients or use whats left after theyve been used:

🌟 Incense - Save ash for spells, or to write with for sigils. Save sticks (if applicable) for wreaths or extra ingredients to represent earth, or into spell jars.

🌟 Candles - Save remaining wax to remelt into another candle, or for sealing other things by heating with a match or lighter. Or ingredients for a spell jar. Sealing sigil envelopes. If using tea candles, reuse the metal dish to hold ingredients or to use to hold excess ash . Save glass jars by putting cloth in the bottom of a sauce pot, add more water than your candle jar is tall, boil, then let it cool abd remove solid wax. Save wax and reuse jar for the next point:

🌟 Glass Bottles - Wine, spice, sauce, juice, candle jars, kombucha.. whatever. Soak in hot soapy water to get sticky paper labels off. Use for spells or storing ingredients. Also to hold charged water. For spell bottles, consider painting and etching the outsides.

🌟 Old Fabric - old clothes or rags can be cut for knot magick, cloth sachets, or if sentimental - to keep on your altar. Lowkey it highkey witchy looking eyeglass cloth or handkerchief to easily keep on you.

🌟Highlighters- using tweezers, pull guts out of it and soak in bleach. Once color is gone, use tweezers to replace the highlighter guts. Now you can draw sigils or pentagrams, whatever youd like on natural fiber fabrics to leave permanent markings. Wash in laundry machine or cold soap and water immediately or it will bleed and muddle the design. Great for travel altars and having a cloth foldable surface to work on when traveling or keeping lowkey. Also great for long lasting sigils.

🌟Altoids Tins/Jewelry Boxes- great tiny altars. Can be drawn on, or add stickers/painted. Also great safe storage for crystals so they dont get list in the bottoms of bags (im guilty of this)

I love the visual that this conjures.

Almost like a smoke spider’s web collecting anything lingering around then getting pulled out through the windows!

I haven’t done this purposely with incense, but I do do it for cleansings. My process is cleanse then replace the energy with good stuff, but using incense geared to specific purposes almost seems...medical? Like a witchy hack.

You burn incense associated with what you want the energy to be, and pull out only the negative things that may be working against it! It’s like diagnosing the issue and treating the symptoms.

I also open the windows after cleansing because, well, some of the herbs I use are a bit stinky and I’ve got dogs so I have to go in sections to make sure they aren’t exposed to the smoke.

Thanks for sharing!