Pagan Blog Project: I is for Incense

I too love making incense. It is a wonderful, energetic and aromatic use of plant materials.

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I am obsessed with making my own loose  incense I use over charcoal blocks, so here is a few recipes for Hekate, Sekhmet and A’set who are my patrons:

HEKATE INCENSE from late Antiquity 

1 part laurel bay
1 part frankincense
1 part rue seeds
1 part storax
1 part myrrh

 (taken from the book “Witchcraft Medicine” by Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Wolf-Dieter Storl and Christian Rätsch)

SEKHMET INCENSE

 1 part benzoin

1 part cinnamon

1 part copal

3/4 parts clove

1 parts dragon’s blood

3 parts frankincense

1 part juniper

1 part sandalwood (red)

4 – 6 drops orange or neroli oil

© T. Georgitsis 2003

A’SET INCENSE

 1 part myrrh

1 part frankincense

1 part rose petals

3 drops carnation essential oil

© T. Georgitsis 1999

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