Ethically Sourced Californian Yerba Santa Smudge Stick with Purifying Pack
- Description
This spicy-sweet-scented smudge stick will last many uses. It's approximately 10-11cm long and 3cm wide. It comes with a velvet pentagram bag with a zip in a choice of colours and a black tourmaline tumble stone to enhance the cleansing experience.
Yerba santa means scared herb in Spanish. It is used by Native Americans for opening the crown chakra for deep healing of the body and mind.
It can be used for healing emotional wounds. It has a friendly spirit that is ready to help whenever you ask. The smoke has been used for relieving asthma and coughs by clearing mucus from the lungs.
You can also break off some leaves from your smudge stick to put in spell or mojo bags or spell jars. When used in this way it has powerful protective shielding energy.
Setting boundaries is one of the strengths of yerba santa, particularly protecting your bravery, wildness of heart and the intuitive knowledge given to you by your ancestors.
Smoke is also a powerful energy cleanser. Because smoke is moved by the gentlest of movements, you can see how the smoke drifts what kind of energy is around. If the smoke of your smudge stick is running in a straight stream upwards you know the energy around it is stuck and stifled. If there are no breezes and the smoke is fluffy and wide, making lots of shapes freely, you know the energy is free and flowing.
How to use your Purifying Pack
Your Smudge kit comes with a black tourmaline crystal for extra cleansing and protecting properties. Use the smoke of your smudge stick to cleanse your auric field, asking a blessing from the plants involved as you work the smoke all around you in an egg shape, concentrating on your chakras.
Ask the plants to cleanse you of anything that doesn't serve you, all negativity, energy cords people or spirits have attached to you, old emotions, thoughts that are unhelpful and banish from your field all ill intentions, curses and the evil eye. Keep cleansing until you feel energetically lighter or you have an intuitive knowing that you're finished.
Put out the smudge stick by tapping it in a bowl of sand. Using water can damage your smudge stick. Once the embers have been smothered and there's no more smoke coming from it, pick up your tourmaline crystal and using a brushing motion 10-20cm from your body, sweep through your auric field starting at the top of your head and ending under your feet, concentrating on your chakras.
Accompanying this motion, ask your black tourmaline crystal to pull out any remaining threads of negativity, any feelings of guilt, shame, unforgiveness and habits that are harmful and hinder your progress. Once you feel the cleansing is done, wash your black tourmaline crystal under running water, thank it and place it back into your protective pentagram bag to be shielded from outside energies.
Why Have Your Yerba Santa Smudge Stick Blessed?
Blessing by our priestesses is optional. Blessing includes the infusion of our protection mantra "Always to help. Never to harm", anointed with moon water and sacred essential oils charged by the elements.