“Let Earth be our Church, for all the land is sacred and we may worship with each step and pray at the foot of every tree”

Earth church incense is the result of a quest to create a perfect incense for a good cause. An incense to represented the many sacred plant traditions of the Earth. All its ingredients are from sustainably harvested sources and their traditions are honored. Most of all we wanted it to smell beautiful clear and sweet , able to up lift the heart .

We feel that this incense fulfills that quest . Earth church is our gift to the Soul of the World and her children, a scented prayer for peace.

Its creation began when the crafters of natural incense, John and Maria Yagar of Journey scent and Katlyn Breene of Mermade met through their shared love of ceremonial incense and the realm of sacred plants. For over a year they worked, experimented and exchanged ideas on the making of a pure natural blend that not only made use powerful medicine plants but that also smelled sweet and beautiful. Each ingredient was carefully selected for its energy and traditional use for spiritual work, one from each part of the World. To make all these diverse botanicals merge into a harmonic blend was a great challenge. Earth church is an analogy of world peace, diversity can come together in beauty.

Burn it as a meditation for peace and let the sacred smoke carry your prayers

It contains:

Poplar Buds (also known as Balm of Gilead) - Central Europe, Siberia, North America, Greec
An amber resin is extruded from the buds of the poplar tree, this is burned for abundance and protection in many traditions. Images of the Goddess were found carved in poplar wood in Siberia.
The oil used to anoint heroes and the leaves are “the Messengers of the Gods” Poplar buds are also sometimes added to flying ointments to promote astral travel. The Poplar is the sacred World Tree of Native traditions and also used in the Sun dance ceremony

Fir Needles - Canada, British Columbia

A tree of life....Burned to give access to wisdom, Sacred to Artemis. Shamans wove branches into headdresses and costumes; they also used branches for scrubbing before rites and rituals. They made branches into incense and decorative clothing for wolf dancers.

Port Orford Cedar - NorthWest America, Japan

Port Orford Cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - This tree is a member of the cypress family, of which several species have significant historical use for sacred rituals and ceremonies among various regions of the northern hemisphere. Mesopotamian stone tablets identify Italian cypress as an incense ingredient. We chose the false cypress, Port Orford cedar, for Earth Church, because of the wood's lovely scent, and for the trees historical sacred value. This tree's aromatic wood has been long valued by northern California and southwest Oregon coastal tribes. One tribe in particular, the Hoopa Valley Tribe of northern California, considers the tree central to their ceremonial life, calling it "The Healer".*

*Note that the wood we grind comes from a yard tree planted by homesteaders that was felled by neighbors to give more sunlight to a new orchard.

Juniper - South and SouthWest America, Central Europe, Himalayas,

Juniper was included in blend because of its wide distribution and universal traditional use for cleansing, purification and protection in the north temperate regions of globe. Juniper traditionally and continues to be one of the fundamental Native American and Pagan European smudge plants , and branch tips and wood are the number one Himalaya traditional shamanic incense.

Oman Frankincense - Arabia

The holiest of incense resins used throughout the world for worship, inspiration and purification, Omani Frankincense is some of the highest quality obtainable . Frankincense is said to actually affect the brain in a positive way and its continual use in churches and places of worship affirms its uplifting qualities.

Pine Resin - Grows Worldwide

Pine is known as “The tree of Imortality” . When used as incense it promotes a pure clear space and a blessing of fertility. In the ancient Near East it was known as the World Tree “Great Mother”.

Salupati or “Sal” (shorea Robusta) - India, Himalayas

“the deliverer of intoxicating resin” Salu pati is a resin from the tropical Sal tree (Shorea Robusta) The Sal tree is an object of worship among Buddhists and Hindus in India and the adjoining countries. This Tree is considered sacred because of its characteristics. It is nearly indestructible, attains a great stature and produces copious amounts of resin by the scaring the bark. It it used by shamans as a traveling agent for its psychoactive properties. The resin when placed on coals gives forth billows of white smoke. Many shamans enter deep trances through this incense and all in its presence are uplifted

Rose Petals - Europe, Turkey

For the Goddess...We include roses, crowned by Sappho, poetess of ancient Greece, 'the queen of all flowers', in our blend because it has represented through the ages mystery and love. The rose can be found in the sacred religious texts of China, India, Greece and the Christian mystics. In ancient myth the rose, symbolic of love, served Aphrodite. The scent of rose has many associations with pure love and is thought to heal and elevate mood.

Bay Laurel - Mediterranean

The famed herb of the Oracle at Delphi. Long used as a sweet aromatic herb and worn as head wreaths for weddings and given as symbols of victory.

Cedar - Grows Worldwide

The fabled Cedars of Lebanon were most sacred wood of the ancint world. Cedar is “the tree of cleansing smoke” and its name thuja means in Greek to “fumigate or to make sacred” . It is one of the Nine sacred Woods of the Celts. The needles are used as protective and blessing incense and are tied in smudge bundles by Native americans.

Labdanum (Rock Rose) - Mediterranean, Egypt, Spain

A deeply fragrant resin comes from the leaves of this plant, it has been used since antiquity for holy incense .

Ylang Ylang - Madagascar, Polynesia, Indonesia, Philipines

The oil comes from the flowers of a ylang ylang tree or, cananga odorata, and has had many uses in different cultures over the centuries. In many places today, ylang ylang is symbolic of sensual pleasure and seduction. The Philippine origin of the word comes from alang ilang, which means "flowers that flutter in the wind." People have used ylang ylang in a variety of ways throughout history. Muslim women would burn the oil to scent their harems, In China the fragrance was used to purify the robes of the mandarin In Indonesia there is an ancient tradition that continues today of spreading the ylang ylang flowers across the beds of newlywed couples.

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Aromatic Botanical Conservation

Six large wands come in a glass vial sealed Beeswax.