White Sage – Queen of Purity

White Sage(Salvia apiana) is one of the most sacred Native American medicinal and ritual herbs for strengthening prayers, cleansing, and invoking the spirits of sacred plants. Sage is useful for ceremonial, protective, cleansing and strengthening smudging. It effectively cleanses and disinfects the atmosphere, spaces, people, objects, aura, chakras and emotions of negative energies. When Sage is lit, you may feel its smoke fill the space with a bright light. It is considered the ideal plant for just cleansing a home that we may be planning to move into, for removing the old and creating space for the new, in pure energy. In addition, it has significant healing, disinfecting and healing properties.

Its name has its roots in the Latin "salvia / salvare" which translates as "to save, to heal". 

White Sage (Salvia apiana) is a plant native to high desert ecosystems, growing mainly in California and the mountainous west. However in this current time, which is characterized by the tendencies of our society to search and find business in everything, most of the white sage available in our market comes from Asia or other countries where it is grown for profit. Often the plants do not even feel the direct touch of the sun. 

We would like to make an appeal on the responsibility of everyone who decides to use White Sage to pay attention to the origin of the herb they work with. White Sage brings many gifts, but its power, like the power and value of any other herb or herbal medicine, is lost through unconscious manipulation, handling or use. 

We confess that it was not easy for us to find sources of Sage White that were in accordance with our beliefs and with an understanding of the necessity of consciously dealing with plants that had been considered sacred for centuries, even millennia. 

As part of our research, we came across the designation of groups distributing herbs and plant products that practice the traditional Teepee way. The Teepee journey is essentially a designation for a way of life in knowledge. These people guarantee that the cultivation, collection and preparation of herbs into bundles takes place quite consciously and in the present. 

To this day, White Sage is one of the holiest herbs for the traditional North American tribes. The Native Americans use the smoke from the burning sage mainly to purify energy in rituals – the so-called purification. According to certain tribes, smoke literally absorbs negative energy and turns it into pure – positive. It is also a strong stimulant for the human soul. Many healers say that cleansing smoke makes them more sensitive to healing and to higher vibrations.

Native Americans perceive rising smoke and smoking in general as a very powerful tool and medicine. This is evidenced not only by the “pipe of peace” itself, but also by the cleansing smoke rituals that are common in the Amazon. A man sits on a stool, covered with a blanket, and under the stool there are herbs heated to smoke. Often these smoking jobs are done when someone is bewitched, sick, or their mind and heart are “attacked” by fear and negative energy.

However, sage is not only a favorite cleansing agent of North American Indians, but is also found in other cultures. From the ancient Celtic Druids, who considered sage, along with plum twig, sacred herbs and used them as incense and medicine, to the indigenous people of the Amazon, who still practice sage burning today. This herb is interwoven throughout our history, where it is invoked and revered. Already in ancient Rome, it was seen as a sacred tool that cures most diseases and restores health and the power of the Spirit. Also in the Bible we find a reference to Solomon using smudging Sage to purify the temple.

The court nobility and King Louis XIV himself were convinced that the broth and medicinal tinctures of white Sage prolong life.

Sage was often dedicated to the highest deities, and only priests or shamans were allowed to touch it.

This powerful and sacred herb is characterized by a very specific aroma, which, when fumigated, quickly and effectively permeates the entire space. 

Sage gives a person wisdom, clarifies thinking and increases spiritual consciousness. That is why the same word in English refers to the sage – "sage".

 

How to do it

Purification rituals with Sage smoke can be simple or complicated, it always depends only on you and your approach. However, it is important that the intention shall be clear. If Sage is burned due to the cleansing of the space or person (i.e. also oneself), it is necessary to have it arranged that  way in the mind, not only before ignition, but also when later inhaling the scent, either at home or elsewhere in the space.

 

Light the end of the sage bundle. If it ignites, let it burn for a few seconds and then blow it out quickly. The ends of the leaves should smolder slowly and release a thick smoke.  Hold the bundle with one hand and fan the smoke throughout the room with the other hand. Fan the smoke in the areas you want to focus on. The Sage will stop smoldering on its own if you don’t blow on it.  

You can also put Sage in a fireproof bowl or, for example, in a bowl with rice or sand.

 

Haux Haux to Purification! 

SARAVÁ 

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