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Enjoy aroma? Integrate burnt offerings into your ceremony. Far more powerful than incense, the smoke redolent with complex aromas manifests the elements of air and fire, dramatically highlighting their turbulent and fluid power.
The smoke of burnt offerings carries prayers and other intentions heavenward, with each herb exhibiting a different personality of smoke. The aromas released can have a powerful effect on the mind and emotions.
Integrate blends celebrating the Moon, Sun, World Tree or the elements into your ceremonies. Honor the many transitions of life and death with herb recipes for releasing undesirable things, assisting passages or honoring ancestors.
For the barbeque impaired, the book comes with a how-to primer on charcoal fires. With new advances in charcoal and lighter fluid, hibachis can be an easy-lighting experience and eco as well.
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Need to smudge a few dozen people and don’t have all day? Do you find smudge sticks to be, well, wimpy? Is what you need a truly cleansing smudge? Then Hibachi Herbal Magic is for you.
In Hibachi Herbal Magic, special blends of loose herbs are tossed on hot charcoal, producing billows of aromatic smoke for a whole-body immersion smudge. Mayans and other Mesoamericans have done it this way for centuries.
The sage-based purification smudge features other herbs to enhance aroma and impart the qualities of protection and grounding. Tired of sage smudges? Then try a lunar blend with a sweet and warm aroma. Or very unique smudges just for women or men. Enhance your Beltane or Summer Solstice bonfire with specific herb blends.
Take smudges a step further with adult-only blends that are taken through bare skin and into the lungs. Different inhalant blend recipes are provided to foster passion, trances, divination, prophetic dreams and deep meditation. Guide your gatherings with non-ceremonial inhalants for sharpening the mind or chilling out. Each inhalant recipe features a special Lung Buffer blend of herbs to counter the stress of inhaling smoke.
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 Even in their unaltered state, many herbs are excellent at holding and affecting certain energies. Bring back the ancient art of strewing to create sacred space with herb blends that are scattered upon the ground.
The right combination of herbs can foster positive energy, and absorb or deflect unpleasant energy, transforming a common place into sacred space. On altars and in ceremonies, raw herbs are able to carry powerful, prayerful intent.
With their low cost, strewing herbs are perfect to create a temporary sacred-space setting for a park ceremony. A prayer dance blend not only dramatically enhances the feet’s receptivity to Earth energies, it’s nourishing to the soil.
Take the effect of strewing indoors at home or work with amazingly effective potpourris. Use the happy mix to counter negative personalities or environments. Spread good vibes with a mellow yellow and lavender blend. Invoke more business in the shop or office with a prosperity potpourri
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