buddyblanc:so it’s a little late (and a little lite) to be ‘hagging out’ proper BU
buddyblanc:so it’s a little late (and a little lite) to be ‘hagging out’ proper BUT here’s something somewhat ‘preserving’-related (sorry @graveyarddirt)i was never into plants, not in the beginning. I was into sigils and candles and prayer cards and all those other silvery etceteras. If working to the letter on something and plants were needed, I would just head into the city and visit the local new-age hippie herb shop… only problem with that was that if it wasn’t available in supermarket herb aisle, in joss stick-form, or a barely legal method of getting high, the guy behind the counter hadn’t heard of it. that was just the way things were, and there was nothing that could be done about it.then i found out that ‘acacia’ was what we usually call ‘wattle’ - amazing knowledge! one second, all i know about acacia is that giraffes eat it, the next i realise I’m surrounded by it - it grows everywhere around my home! And the herb guy had never even heard of it! So i start to read more, about other names for things, about substitutions, about the plants that have been growing in my yard since ‘magic’ to me was my parents playing peekaboo. Learning! Me! Then came the quarantine, and I was stranded overseas ahead of schedule, with no supplies and a whole new set of plants to learn about, a new land to get to know. So I read up on the main plants on our property. I made an incense blend with them… in fact I made several, trying to get the right balance. I used those same plants on my altars and my shrines, and then when I was finished with them, i left them to dry, and added them to this: my perpetual stew incense.My base materia were the main plants around me - incense cedar, ponderosa pine, california black oak, pacific madrone, manzanita - and tobacco from a cigar given to me by my wife’s best friend’s father, himself an immigrant, as part of a ‘welcome to america’ dinner. I added frankincense and mugwort for their solar and lunar attributes, i added the offerings from shrines and altars i had made with the plants that were on hand while staying in other places, like lavender, rosemary, bougainvillea, and so on - sometimes even the same plants that were growing in my backyard back home. Every altar change is more material for the perpetual stew.anyway, it smells real pretty. -- source link