Beautiful native British stone and herb wild foraged saining wands. Flint is a sacred stone, it helps us to connect to our ancestors and the sacred lands beneath our feet. The herbs are all chosen with a purpose to cleanse and open up connection to the sacred Earth. All my offerings are made within sacred space and bound with organic twine. Mugwort, lavender, and spruce.Saining, or the intentional act of purification with smoke, is an important folk practice which helps us to live in alignment with the proper order of things.This ancient practice helps to remove negative influences from the object of purification.To sain an object, being, or space is to awaken it to purpose, to bless and purify it and to make it sacred.A beautifully fragrant and cleansing combination of home grown lavender and wild foraged spruce with wild mugwort gathered at the full moon during summertime. **please note that during the winter months sticks are often restricted to evergreens, as that is what is available. Scots pine, spruce, cypress and bay will make up the sticks during the dark months once all summer herbs have been used. These evergreens are potent, fragrant, and seasonal, and the use of these evergreen herbs are very much connected to the ancestors and to ancient cleansing practices.**
Saining helps in clearing space, and is an important folk practice from these ancient lands.Gathered in reverence and connection with the wild. Created in sacred space and infused with magical cleansing intention.These sticks are bound with organic jute twine, a natural string made from plants fibres.All of the items within my shop are made within sacred space in deep reverence and connection. I give thanks to the herbs and communicate with them about what I am making and my intentions. I have built up a strong reciprocal relationship with my local flora over the years and find them supportive of my endeavours to share the mystery and magic of plant medicine with other seekers on the path.