THE MAGICKAL USES OF SANDALWOOD

Planet - Moon

Gender-Feminine

Element - Water

Basic Powers - Clairvoyance, divination, good luck, meditation, protection, success.

Scent - Woody, sweet, clean

Mineral association - Emerald and turquoise

Lore- Scatter sandalwood to clear a place of negativity. Burn for protection and healing. Possesses high spiritual vibrations especially when mixed with frankincense and burned at the full moon. Mix with lavender to make an incense designed to conjure spirits.

In the orient, sandalwood is a funeral herb believed to carry the soul into the next life. With sandalwood, deep states of relaxation take place on the spiritual level. Burning sandalwood incense can benefit healing work by promoting a deeper relaxed state in the healer, increasing spiritual energy. Sandalwood also relaxes the heart and throat chakras.

Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick.

Lower grades of Sandalwood (light colored with little scent) are not recommended to use in magic.  Mix with Frankincense and burn at séances and Full Moon rituals.  Sandalwood beads are protective and promote a spiritual awareness when worn. The scents of frankincense and sandalwood have some of the highest vibrations inherent in any plant. They will resonate with aspects of ourselves or with Devic/Angelic beings of the highest order. 

Sandalwood is used as an incense base for: Protection; Healing; Exorcise; Spirituality; Wishes; Full Moon Esbats; Wards Negativity; Astral Projection; Reincarnation; Spirit Offering.

Stimulates clairvoyance, aids in seeing past lives, healing, clearing, protection, calms the mind.   Write your wish on a chip of sandalwood and burn in censer or cauldron. As it burns it sets the magic flowing, but remember to visualize your wish at the same time.

Sandalwood is one of the most valuable woods in the world. All parts yields Sandalwood oil, particularly the heartwood and the roots, which yield about 6 percent essential oil. Recorded in Ayurvedic medicine and Egyptian embalming, the oil is now used as an inhalant for its expectorant and sedative effect on coughs and as a powerful antiseptic for lung and urinary tract infections. Sandalwood makes a popular incense, as its calming effect aids meditation. It is commonly used for funeral pyres in India, where devotees believe the scent protects places from evil spirits. 

Sandalwood is often used as an as an aphrodisiac.  Sandalwood is recommended for use when consecrating altar cloths, and it is said to be associated with Hod on the Tree of Life.

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CATECHISM FOR A WICCAN CHILD

When they ask to see your gods, your book of prayers, show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird's wing.

Tell them you believe in giant sycamores, mottled and stark against a winter sky,

and in nights so frozen stars crack open, spilling streams of molten ice to earth.

And tell them how you drank the holy wine of honeysuckle on a warm spring day

and of the softness of your mother, who never taught you death was life's reward,

but who believed in the earth and in the sun, and a million, million light years of being.

Reprinted from Church of the Iron Oak.

By J.L.Stanley

Image: La Couture Amore

~Morgause

Southern Hemisphere Pagan