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Spiritual
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Some of the links for the 97 pages in this Spiritual Development
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Common Smudging Plants & their
Uses
By Dragonfly (temporary page)
This page was missing as I was making
the site up so I am just saying a few basic words about smudging
and the plants used, this will be here until I can get the original
page sent to me from Cinnamon.
Smudging is done by Native Americans
to clear the area or a person of negative energies. It is always
done before during and after a Ceremony.
Other areas around the world use various botanicals of the area
to smudge as well. The Catholic Church uses incense for the
same thing.
If you move into a new home it is
always a good idea to smudge around to clear the place of energies
left behind by the previous residents. Make sure the corners
of each room is thoroughly smudged.
To do smudging you will need a botanical
such as sage, something to hold the botanical in while it is
alight, such as a shell, and a feather to waft the smoke around.
You can use a match, a lighter or a hot coal to set the leaves
alight.
Always smudge yourself before starting to smudge a person, an
item or an area.
You can cleanse items such as crystals in the smoke from sage.
A Sacred PIpe when not in use always
should have a plug of sage in the bowl. I always keep sage burning
whenever I do a Pipe Ceremony.
Fresh Sage is used as a mat at Sundance when piercing is done.
It is used to wipe any blood away when flesh offerings are done
as well. Also it is used for a Sundancers wrist and ankle circlets
and their head dresses. The women dancers hold a few springs
of sage in their hands. Actually Sage is everywhere at a Sundance.
If you ever go to a Sundance a good gift to being is fresh sage.
The most popular types of Sage:
Buffalo Sage: Grown on the
Prairies in Minnesota and South Dakota. Used
by the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota People. Picked from the wild
to use in ceremony and Sundance. Most often used by picking
the leaves from the plant and scrunching them in a ball , these
are put into a smudge bowl and set alight, the smoke is then
wafted around the area and the people involved. This
sage is not too strong an aroma.
Californian White Sage:
A very strong amoma, the leaves are
thick and only one or two leaves are needed to smudge with.
The leaf itself can be held by the stalk and lit and used to
waft around. This sage can be obtained in shops and the Internet
quite easily.
Woman's Sage: A very thin
leaved sage that has seeds on the stalk. It has a musty smell
to it. Comes from States such as Nebraska, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Often used in Women's ceremonies.
You can usually obtain Sage in a wand/stick, sometimes with
a perfumed herb or flower added, (e.g. Rose, Lavender, Violet).
Other plants that are used in smudging
are Cedar (Juniper), and Sweetgrass.
Sweetgrass is used to bring in good
energies after the main smudging is done. The grass often comes
from Canada nowdays, it is woven into a braid, with a knot each
end. Burn from one end, or cut pieces off to burn in a fire
or on hot coals, charcoal. The grass stops burning quickly,
and so a braid will last quite a long time. It has a very nice
sweet aroma.
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INDEX
Page 3
(Main Section, Medicine Wheel, Native Languages &
Nations, Symbology)
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INDEX
Page 5
(Sacred Feminine & Masculine, Stones & Minerals)
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