WATER

The four Elements are: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. These four essences are the building blocks of the universe. Everything that exists (or has potential to exist} contains one or more of these energies. The elements hum within ourselves and are also at large in the world. They can be utilized to cause change through magic. The four elements formed from the primal essence, or power-Akasha, that is the Fifth Element. The fingers in essence act as electrical circuits and the use of mudras adjust the flow of energy which balance these elements, accentuating healing. The little finger = Water.

Prana Mudra = Space + Water

For the Water incense ritual the suiting mudra is Prana. The Prana mudra is said to be one of the most important mudras due to its ability to activate dormant energy in your body. Prana is the vital life force within all living things. This mudra will help awaken and enliven your personal prana, and put you more in tune with the prana around you.

Method: Perform this mudra by touching your ring and pinky fingers to the tip of your thumb, while keeping the other two fingers straight.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Incense powder mixture stored in 50 ml glass vessel, packed in a recyclable gift box, with size of 11 cm x 3 Ø cm, weighting about 0.94 kg. Incenses are burned on a lit charcoal block.

WATER INCENSE MIX:

♦ Myrrh Hagar Resin Gum (Commiphora Holtziana)
♦ Opoponax (Commiphora guidottii)
♦ Myrrh Somalia (Commiphora myrrha)
♦ Star Anis (llicium verum)
♦ Elemi Manila (Canarium luzonicum)

BEST FOR:

To promote love, healing, peace, compassion, reconcilia­tion, purification, friendship, de-stressing, sleep, dreams and psy­chism. This Water incense makes perfect addition for your tea ceremony, ritual bath, meditation, home Fengshui and as a gift to any conjurer. Rebirth. Shift. From Past to the Future.

HOW TO USE:

For the most potent effects, attune with the Water element before using the resin product. Sense the purifying, moving energies of a stream when bathing in a Water bath. Place your incense burner on a fire and heat resistant base. never let it burn unattended. Ensure the charcoal heat is extinguished before discarding. To avoid damage caused by ash, use a holder with an ash catcher. Burn in ventilated area away from flammable objects and draughts. Intended only for curio. lf you do not have an Incense burner & wish to obtain one, you can either make one, or we offer variety of panacea bowls, mortars and cauldrons that could serve as great vessel for your smoking ritual.

When using Onça Mudra Incenses for any form of Magick, it is important that the Incense is, if you like, tuned Into the frequency that is being Invoked. To do this they have to be with the influences that you wish them to have, & again the purpose of this is to them in with the energies of the rites enacted, put simply, you consecrate the Incense within a situation where the energies required are invoked first & then placed within your Incense. To charge a Incense, they have to be consecrated within a circle, invoking whatever influences that will be needed in empowering that Incense. (Reference by Keith Morgan, Making Magickal Incenses Ritual Perfumes)

MUDRA:

The use of mudras, in the practice of yoga are a powerful tool for self-care and empowerment. With yoga the intention is to draw oneself inward. Mudras allow us to go inward and recharge our energy levels. The term mudra applies to the use of hand gestures during meditation that carry specific goals of channeling your body’s energy flow.

🙏 Mudras – meaning ‘seal’, mark’ or ‘gesture’ in Sanskrit are said to intensify the effects of our yoga or meditation practice and enhance the flow of energy.
🙏 ⁣⁣⁣⁣The specific origins of mudras are unknown although they’ve been around for thousands of years, appearing in varying religions and traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Tantric rituals, Roman art, Asian martial arts, Taoism and Indian classical dance.
⁣⁣⁣⁣🙏 The purpose of these hand gestures varies according to tradition – from focusing subtle energy, transmitting teaching through symbols, acting as a tool for healing illness, even attributing magical powers or psychic abilities to the practitioner.
🙏 In yoga and meditation many use mudras alongside Pranayama (yoga breathing exercises), usually when seated cross-legged in Sukhasana, Virasana or Padmasana. Mudras are also incorporated into the physical practice of yoga asana.
🙏 Performing mudras have been said to stimulate the flow of prana (life force or energy) throughout the body, and to quieten the mind by focusing it on the simple touch of our hands or fingers and to intensify the power of our practice.
🙏 According to Ayurveda – disease is the result of an imbalance in our body caused by a deficiency or an excess one of the five key elements: space, air, fire, water and earth. Each of these is said to play a specific role within the body and are represented by the five fingers:

E N E R G E T I C S

Sanskrit Mudras in Yoga

In Yoga each finger represents different elemental force. The Thumb is Agni-Fire, the Index finger is Value-Air, the Middle finger is Akasha-Eather, the Ring finger is Plitvi-Earth and the Little finger is Gel-Water. In Hieromancy the fingers correspond also with the Zodiacal Signs and the Planets. The Thumb to Venus, the Index finger to Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Jupiter, the Middle finger to Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces and Saturn, the Ring finger to Cancer, Leo, Virgo and Sun and the Little finger to Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Mercury.

The Finger types & their Corresponding Elements

The 3 types of fingerprints are Whirls, Loops, and Ridges. The most common is Loops with 60-65%. Loops correspond to the element of Water and reveal a personality trades of: survivor, healing abilities, flexible, need for peace, can change many life paths. Whirls is the next common fingerprint with 30-35%. Whirls correspond to the element of Fire: need for freedom, gifted, inspired creative, self centered, need for isolation. The least common would be Arches or ridges with 5%. Arches correspond with the element of Earth and are trustworthy, resourceful, finding solutions, earth-bound, can’t let go.

Esoteric Knowledge of the Sources, Forces & Elements

In Thai Chi the “Higher Limit” consists of four elements. One black, one white interacting in waves, representing the “great movement of life”. This is the spiral, where the principles Yin and Yang are activated. When the waves have integrated opposing black in the white and white in the black dots, that represents the active and passive forces, that are the four natural forces. From them the Yin and Yan give birth to the elements. There are 10 Natural Elements in the Universe. Five are visible in the physical realm and five are invisible supreme cosmic hierarchy elements. The visible five elements are Water, Fire, Wood, Metal and Earth, from which rises the diversity of the material world. The Water gives birth to the tree, the Tree gives birth to the fire, the Fire gives birth to the earth, the Earth gives birth to the metal and the Metal gives birth to the water. In addition to arising, they overcome each other, they enter into a mutual struggle. In term of the Water extinguishes the fire, the Fire melts the metal, the Metal destroys the tree, the Tree destroys the earth, the Earth is destroyed by the Water.

Eventually there are four Earth forces: Water, Fire, Air, Earth and four Cosmical forces: Time, Space, Prima Materia, Plasma. These forces are accordingly positioned on the four directions, where the Earth elements take the axes on the east, south, west and north. The Cosmic elements are positioned in between them on the east-south, south-west, west-north and north-east axes. On the top and bottom of these axes we have the location of the Zenith and Nadir axes. Above sits the Sky and below is the Earth. In between we have the Man as the Mediator, who has to harmonize between the Micro and Macrocosm. This explanations of the natural forces are found in any ancient or modern esoteric teachings. The Chinese and Vedas had well implemented the knowledge of using the philosophy of the Cosmos in their healing systems.

The idea that all phenomena of the world around us, including the human and the nature, are the interaction between the “two origins” the Active and the Passive. They knew that there is no such a thing as “disease”, that is disturbance of the harmony. There where the harmony is disturbed between the three-dimensional essence of man: spirit, soul and body, where is disturbance in the inner parts of these three parts, then disease occurs. In the Hinduism these Yin and Yang forces are called Purusha and Prakriti that take more of feminine and masculine aspect. Paracelsus calls these Anima and Animus. The runes have named them Algiz and “Yr, Eur, Irr”, that present “protection” and “death”. This passive and active principle is seen in the foundation of i-ching as the Chiao lines. The whole line Yin Chiao is the active and the dashed Yang Chiao line is the passive or reflective principle. The double lines called in west “diagrams” have two groups of Young Yin and Young Yan and Old Yin and Old Yang. We find this also in the ancient Scandinavian epos Edda seen as the Young Edda and the Old Edda versions.

Use of incense

Incense (Hebrew, qetoreth) is any botanical aromatic substance or mixture of such substances, assembled and burned for the purpose of producing a fragrant or pleasant odor. Typically, people burn incense either to scent a room or to offer an oblation to God or a pagan deity.

The use of incense dates back to ancient times but the origin is uncertain. It may have originated in Sumerian and Babylonian cultures, where the gum, resins of aromatic trees, were imported from the Arabian and Somali coasts to be used in religious ceremonies. Its use was common in the pagan worship rituals of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Babylonians. In the Roman period there were cases of Christians being martyred for refusing to offer incense to idols.

By using Correct Incenses, you are using them as a set of Magickal correspondences, linking your intentions in with die intentions of the ritual with the magickal current that moves around us. The ritual significance & purpose of Incenses you may not be totally understanding of, it is enough to know that they work & have been used for centuries because they work!

Ritual granular Incense is a singular amalgam of a number of natural items such as resins, herbs. extracts, essential oils, gums, & roots. They are ground or combined into a singular compound. When used with Ritual, it creates a harmonious environment or a magickal atmosphere in which you can work magick. Witches & other Pagans use Incense in a circle to invoke the magickal attributions of the Ingredients of the Incenses, thus giving a magickal atmosphere.

When using Incenses for any form of Magick, it is important that the Incense is, if you like, tuned Into the frequency that is being Invoked. To do this they have to be with the influences that you wish them to have, & again the purpose of this is to them in with the energies of the rites enacted, put simply, you consecrate the Incense within a situation where the energies required are invoked first & then placed within your Incense. To charge a Incense, they have to be consecrated within a circle, invoking whatever influences that will be needed in empowering that Incense.

lf you have not got an Incense burner & wish to obtain one, you can either make one, or find some of our cement offerings under the Vessels section.

Magical Properties

♦ Myrrh is together with gold and Frankincense the gifts that the three wise men brought to the newborn Christ. It has been celebrated by many cultures through millennia for its use as incense and herbal remedies. Myrrh is sacred to the Great Mother, whether she is called Mary, Isis, or Binah. (The names “Mary” and “Myrrh” both probably derive from the Hebrew word for “bitter.”) It is an herb of the ancient Goddess, especially in her aspect as She Who Mourns and who hears the cries of the mourning. The energy of Myrrh evokes both the dark ancient earth and the great black sea. Ritually, it is used to heal grief, nurture wisdom, and honor the dead.

Myrrh corresponds to Saturn and the Kabbalistic sphere Binah according to Liber 777, which makes it suitable for the work of exploring the unknown, bringing structure, focus on the earth and water element, as well as death processes and rebirth. Myrrh is also often used to clean a space and raise the consciousness. It is common for myrrh to be mixed with other incense resins like Frankincense.

One of the myrrh’s properties is to open up the emotional body where dilapidated emotions can be released so that they no longer are like plugs in the subconscious, which takes energy and prevents the consciousness from moving freely. This corresponds according to Liber 777 with Binah’s (3) passive side linked to sorrow and bitterness. In this case, bitterness is an effect of the blocked of emotions, where grief is the death process that causes the blockages to be torn down and the operator is released and reborn. Myrrh also corresponds to Liber 777 with path 23 (Mem – the hanged man) and the water element.

♦ Elemi Manila: “The name Elemi is derived from an Arabic phrase meaning ‘above and below’, an abbreviation of ‘As above, so below’ and this tells us something about its action on the emotional and spiritual planes.” This then, explains the crazy contrast in Elemi Manila’s uses – in embalming corpses, in the construction of boats, and even in medicinal and personal care applications.

♦ Opoponax Gum resin (Commiphora opoponax) from Somalia, also known as “sweet myrrh” and “bisabol myrrh”, has an earthy-sweet, balsam-like, lavender-like fragrance when used as incense. King Solomon regarded opoponax as one of the “noblest” of all incense gums. Various cultures used opoponax to guard against negative influences, strengthen the senses, to increase awareness and intuition.

♦ Star Anis: A small tree native to southwestern China produces a fruit that ripens into the shape of a star. Star Anise (Illicium verum) may be the least studied of all incense ingredients. Like common anise, it tastes like licorice, which has led to use in flavoring candies and foods. In Asia, sometimes people eat star anise after meals to freshen breath and aid digestion. One of the phytochemicals, 1,8 Cineole, is both a stimulant and a sedative. Another, Limonene, is considered as a possible anti-Alzheimer component. This suggests an ability to improve awareness and alertness. Star Anise has been known to enhance relaxation, sleep patterns, emotional balance and even a sense of humor. It relieves stress from overwork and is said to be an aphrodisiac.

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Some aromatic plants and products may have a historical use of folkloric nature, but we offer this product as incense and/or botanical curiosa. Neither food grade, for consumption nor medical use. Avoid contact with skin and eyes. Keep away from children and animals.