New Moon Incense
We took
a different approach to the New Moon with this incense. In gardening,
the New Moon is a time when you don't plant, cultivate, or harvest.
You leave the garden alone. But that makes it the perfect time to
take stock--to see what you have and where you are going, to ruminate
over what you would like to do next and the possible future of your
garden. You can page through seed catalogs or draw up possible garden
plans. It's a fallow time but not an empty time. Without it, gardeners
would never have the opportunity to rest and carefully examine the
whole of their work. So at that time the Moon appears to be black,
but it's not absent. That's what we wanted to do with this incense--have
it help with those times when a sort of withdrawal and taking stock
is called for. The actual New Moon is a good time for this, since
it's usually counseled that we not take any particular action during
its dark phase (except for dark magic, perhaps, but we already have
plenty of dark magic incense). We constructed this incense along
the lines of a kyphi, which has very good effects on meditation.
That means that in addition to New Moon appropriate ingredients
like opoponax and fir balsam and black currants, we added red wine
and honey. These will bring out the sweetness of the opoponax and
add a pleasant smoke. So enjoy New Moon time as a different kind
of productivity—an occasion for meditation, planning, and rumination.
Alchemy Works loose incense is ritually handcrafted using natural botanical ingredients and contains no dyes, chemical extenders, fragrance oils, accelerants, fillers, or synthetic materials of any kind. Click here for tips about working with loose incense.
New
Moon Incense
1 oz. in tin $17.00
Uses in Witchcraft & Magic:
Meditation
Planning
Taking
Stock
Inventory
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