How to burn loose incense using the charcoal disc method
Select a bowl that will safely hold burning charcoal. Line the bowl with ash, rice or sand. Use tongs or a stretched out pair of tweezers to hold the charcoal disc, and then light it using a lighter, match or candle flame. Wait for the orange sparks to move across the charcoal, then gently place the burning charcoal on ash or rice or sand in your bowl. Add a small amount of loose incense on top of the burning charcoal disc. As the incense turns to ash, use your tongs to gently brush the burnt incense off the charcoal into the bowl, without breaking the charcoal. Breaking the charcoal will lessen its burn time. Continue to add incense and then brush it off as the incense burns and turns to ash. Charcoal generally burns for several hours.

How to burn loose incense using the burning bowl method
Select a container that will safely hold burning incense. A few examples of safe containers include sea shells, metal or wooden bowls, and cast iron pans or cauldrons. Place the loose incense in the container. Light an area of the incense using a lighter or match. Gently, slowly and cautiously blow on the lit area to keep it ignited. As you blow the embers will spread, burning the incense. Always blow very gently to ensure that the embers do not leave the bowl. When walking while using the burning bowl method remain aware of your surroundings so that you do not trip, bump into something or move close to fans that may force burning embers out of the container. The Burning Bowl Method is favored by those who wish to enter a meditative state.

How to burn smudge wands
Select a plate or bowl or shell to hold under the burning wand. Light your wand and gently blow on the lit tip. If it does not heavily smoke try lighting it using a candle flame instead of a lighter. Hold the wand over your safe plate or bowl or shell while smudging, to prevent burning embers from falling. Moving the wand will encourage further burning. Allow the wand's smoke to fill any area you wish to spiritually cleanse and bless. If you would like it to burn all at once during yoga or meditation, simply do not put it out. If you only need to smudge rooms, people, pets or objects to banish negativity and to bless, use the wand as needed. To put it out push the burning tip into a safe plate or bowl or shell until it stops smoking.

Shop ready to ship smudge bundles in our Freedom Wands Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomWands

Visit The Sage Cottage Etsy shop for intuitively crafted smudge bundles:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSageCottage

Donate and SAVE! Intuitively crafted single crystal bound bundles and multipacks via PayPal:
https://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/donate-to-the-sage-cottage-gardens-keep-plants-growing-all-seasons-rain-or-shine-smudge-the-planet

On the day your Sage Smudge Wand was born:
http://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/on-the-day-your-sage-smudge-wand-was-born

Not sure how to select your smudge wand? Here's help!
www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/not-sure-how-to-select-your-sage-smudge-wand-heres-help

General FAQs:
https://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/frequently-asked-questions

Updates on what's new in our shops and gardens, and important messages about our world and all things vibrational from our seasoned psychic sage smith:
https://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality

Happy smudging!

Love,
The Sage Cottage ✿

Bump in the road? Bump in the night? The Sage Cottage smudge wands make everything right!

Select from Calming, Healing, Cleansing, Psychic Mind Support, Prosperity, Love, Health, New Path, New Home, Peace and Protection.

Five Classic 6" Smudge Wands. Select Option of Key Issue to Tackle, Intuitive Order or Popular Blends. - Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/244329108/five-6-smudge-wands-custom-intuitive-or?ref=shop_home_active_4

Five 6" Smudge Wands with 2 Crystals. Select Option of Key Issue to Tackle, Intuitive Order or Popular Blends. - Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/268727931/five-6-smudge-wands-with-2-crystals?ref=shop_home_active_12

Five 6" Smudge Wands with Crystals. Select Option of Key Issue to Tackle, Intuitive Order or Popular Blends. - Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/244526164/five-6-smudge-wands-with-crystals-custom?ref=shop_home_active_13

Ten Classic 6" Smudge Wands. Select Option of Key Issue to Tackle, Intuitive Order or Popular Blends. - Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/280563730/ten-6-smudge-wands-custom-intuitive-or?ref=shop_home_active_7

Ten 6" Smudge Wands with Crystals. Select Option of Key Issue to Tackle, Intuitive Order or Popular Blends.
- Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/291049507/ten-6-smudge-wands-with-crystals-all?ref=shop_home_active_14

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2017 has been a fast paced year for The Sage Cottage. As a small family offering a unique service, we've juggled many tasks to keep up with orders while nurturing our gardens and our own spirituality. We are extremely grateful for the clients who enrich our lives daily with their uplifting energy! There is no joy greater than to experience vortex work with such magnificent individuals. When times feel difficult it is easy to turn a frown upside down just thinking on all of the good that is out there. We are so thankful to have been granted such sacred glimpses into the lives of others.

That said, we must share changes made to our Etsy shop. In order to continue to provide an intuition based service, we have chosen to do away with the Custom Order Requests option on our smudge wand listings. With the popularity of over sized smudge bundles featured in photos on Pinterest, we spend a few hours each week responding to requests for orders to copy photos found online. This is not what we do. As an intuitive and empathic artist who uses smudge bundling to express healing talents, our smudge wand maker's energy is best spent working on clients' orders, not on explaining in detail why over sized smudge bundles are a danger to homes and to anyone clutching them while aflame.

In addition, Custom Order Requests for retailers is not something we can continue to offer in a sustainable manner. Each shop order specifying an exact list of flowers and herbs affects our ability to choose seasonally abundant botanicals from our indoor and outdoor gardens. Often we must wait to bundle an order until our plants grow or bloom. That can be stressful, knowing shops are waiting for their wands! Custom Order Requests requiring specific twine colors and certain crystals at times make for quite an upset when our wand maker is already receiving spiritual vortex data on wand users but cannot bundle orders until twine and crystals are obtained. We prefer to bundle using the twine we have on hand, and the crystals we've already gathered. We use a rather rare brand of cotton twine and it is difficult to locate. During busy seasons it is not always an option to mineral hunt and we absolutely must hand select all crystals used.

We appreciate our shop orders and hope this change will not affect our relationships with clients.

Much love,
The Sage Cottage

Medicine Wheels can be made anywhere in order to activate the lovely energy of our planet! Known for their mystical abilities to "clean the sky" of toxins, Medicine Wheels can quickly clear the environment of chemicals which interfere in gardens' growth and health.

Here is a wonderful video, by Orgonite Austin, explaining how to make your own, including instructions for identifying Quartz Crystals!

Next time you crave a project outdoors, try creating your own to draw balance and spirituality to your most sacred lands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpedrf6nRcA

Ready for some general outbursts and a rant? Me neither, but here it comes...

Snow has arrived to Historic Warren County. No more drying wands outdoors, and fewer wand photos taken in daylight. We've experimented with photo light box work, but it does not serve our needs.

Our photos represent recent work completed for clients, and the wands do want to be remembered. We are working on a way to capture excellent images indoors, but we're not quite there yet. This also affects the process of adding new crystal grid kits to the shop, as there's no point in creating grids if we cannot list them featuring proper photographs. Our little cottage is simply too dark in the fall and winter months. Super sigh.

For those of you waiting for the botanical crowns listing, we cannot offer the crowns until we've caught up on retail orders for smudge wands. With the growing popularity of ten and fifteen packs, your smudge maker tires. Each bundle requires extensive energy work, and the larger orders cause for delay in new projects.  

You may notice slightly slower than normal response to messages, across all methods of communication. During the wand making process a meditative or trance like state is required. Coming out of such states can be draining, especially if there are many interruptions. To bring balance to this situation we are no longer using certain devices, allowing for checking messages at a much slower pace.

Answers to many messages are available:

Here in this blog, check recent posts.

FAQs ~  http://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/frequently-asked-questions 

Info about our service ~ http://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/on-the-day-your-sage-smudge-wand-was-born 

How to navigate the Etsy shop ~ http://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/not-sure-how-to-select-your-sage-smudge-wand-heres-help

In the Etsy shop. There are three places to find helpful information in our shop. Shop Updates, located at the Shop Announcement near top of page. In listings' descriptions. In our listings under or past Reviews there is additional shop information, such as a description of The Sage Cottage, and FAQs.

Most messages are to ask if we offer bulk listings. Yes, we offer five, ten and fifteen packs which are priced for resale. Many messages are to ask if we will copy a wand from a photo. No, we will not. We work with seasonally available botanicals, and each wand is unique, in direct response to the vortex data of the wand's user gathered during meditation before and during bundling. Some messages are asking for a faster ship. Trust us, we are working as quickly as possible. We cannot create a quality product or useful service if hurried.

We are making efforts to part ways with Facebook. We will continue to share photos of our work on Instagram and on Twitter. The best method of keeping in the loop is by going directly to http://www.thesagecottage.com/ to view photos and updates.

There is a good chance that we may be leaving eBay and Etsy in the future. Any changes will be announced here on our blog.

Now, the rant...

It is extremely difficult to express in listings what exactly clients receive when purchasing smudge wands from us. We are a small family, offering energy work and all natural botanicals. Our smudge wands are burnable works of art, a wonderful way to celebrate impermanence. We attempt to update listings each year, to better express what buyers may expect. The healing arts are based in energy work, and that can be a bit difficult to put into words. Please send us your questions! As we receive your messages we can build stronger FAQs, and formulate appropriate explanations of services provided in listings. Our focus is always on happy and healthy gardens, and in offering tools to balance chi. We do not have the time necessary to "market" our services, and sadly that does show in listings.

GENERAL SHOP UPDATES FOR DECEMBER (Also shared in our Etsy Shop Announcement)

We’ve updated our shipping times in preparation for continued higher than normal sales volume. Single wand orders are bundled immediately and ship right away. Orders placed before 12/11 will arrive in time for the holidays. Orders placed after 12/11 may be affected by seasonally slow mail, and may not arrive in time. We suggest that anyone in a hurry please purchase single wands, as the five, ten and fifteen packs take a very long time to bundle.

We ask that you allow us some wiggle room regarding certain botanicals which struggle to grow during cold months. Sweetgrass, meadowsweet, hibiscus, lemongrass, yarrow, patchouli and chamomile must be used sparingly at this time.
We are a family. We work very hard to offer this sacred service to our clients. Our plants are part of our family. They require time to grow and time to deal with seasonal changes. This is reflected in our shipping and processing time for each listing.

Retailers asking for a faster ship time, or for their order to be made before others, affects the flow of our work. There is preparation involved, and we cannot break that cycle.

We create smudge wands as orders are received. We do not offer pre-made bundles at this time.

Please do not send us photos of our work, or of the work of another artist, or photos from Pinterest. We do not copy the work of others, and we cannot recreate our own artistic expressions from healing wands bundled for a previous order. Each wand is unique and it reflects the person who will make use of its healing chi.

The completed wands reflect the needs of the persons who will burn them. Selecting a blend, Popular Wands, Custom Wands, or Intuitive Wands may help to create the general style and to select some or all of the botanicals bundled, but intense energy work, meditation and connection with Source or Spirit is part of our process.

We share photos of recent orders so that clients may view the general colors and styles of the season. In example, spring through summer is always a time of bright blooms. Fall and winter blooms will be of a different nature.

These are strange times we are in, and we experience them together as one. As the energy or chi moves in and out of balance, The Sage Cottage provides solutions and tools for empowerment. You may notice we are bundling more Larkspur, Knotweed and Indian Sage than usual. There is a purpose for this, as the times do call for more balance and additional protection from very odd energies.

Here is a little information about our service, to better understand the energy work which is included with your purchase: http://www.thesagecottage.com/gardening-and-spirituality/on-the-day-your-sage-smudge-wand-was-born

To learn more about the vortex data and Spirit connections used during bundling, please meditate on the completed wand. At times simply looking at it and "listening" to it will allow for deeper understandings and divine healing!

Love,
The Sage Cottage

Looking to purchase a very affordable, gorgeous and heavenly scented sage smudge wand? We've got what you need! We call it the Everything Wand, because it has "everything" in it!

Your bouquet bundle will feature seasonal florals. Any botanical which we have bundled in the past few days or weeks will also be in your wand. This is what we use for our own personal smudging here in The Sage Cottage. From our family to yours!

To cut costs for our customers this listing will not ship with our usual tag (listing ingredients) and we'll also skip the printed burning instructions.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/thesagecottage
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