Summer Solstice Incense with White Sage Flowers

White Sage has told me she wants her flowers, buds and small resinous leaves to be in a Summer Solstice incense.

Together we will grind our herbs and rare resins in our mortar and pestles to create our own incense celebrating the Summer Solstice. We celebrate the sun and the longest day of the year and the sun is at its zenith on Friday 22nd December.

Workshop date is Sunday 17th December
8.45am to 11am, $50 at Nevedya
6 spots available

White Sage flowering stems are growing completely out of control in my medicinal garden.

White Sage flowers are truly beautiful. They range from white to very, very pale blue, pink or mauve. They grow out of a long flowering stem as tall as me and taller!!

They are so long that the plant can break near the base. The weight of more than a metre of profuse flowers can be heavy, especially in the rain. She has resinous leaves and flower buds on her flowering stems.
The White Sage garden grows all over the path, I really need to support and tie them up. One plant in particular likes to spread her joy with buds and blooms joyously waving in the breeze.
Each plant has its own growth pattern, some flower profusely, some grow leafy stems. Some are more outgoing while others are more demure. I love them all. 

Last night I went out to put the ducks away and my intuition said to harvest some of the larger stems for making my summer solstice incense. My hands are covered in sticky and spectacular smelling resin. I took only a few stems as the bees absolutely love White Sage, the latin name being Salvia apiana. I love the flowers too. The giant stems are drying slowly in the house and should be ready for our summer solstice incense creating workshop on the 17th December at Nevedya in Upwey.

This is an outward time of year. Summer Solstice is a great time to take stock of our year since winter solstice, what has grown; what has fallen away. We give gratitude for abundance and acknowledge our losses. We send prayers of peace to loved ones and the world. We can keep our resin on our alar until we are ready for this ritual - preferably on the 22nd December (If you can't do that date, the week leading up to Solstice and immediately afterward are options).

We will create our incense from a variety of ingredients and cocreate a sacred blend to sit on the altar ready for celebrating summer solstice on Friday 22nd December.
I will bring special herbs and rare resins from my home apothecary. We can have a smell of all of them before we make our blend. We will weave our magic together.
This beautiful workshop is $50 in a small class of 6 participants
All materials are supplied and you take some of our incense home plus a gift sized vial.

PRE ORDER EXTRA OPTIONS

Extra option 1: Create gift vials $10 each. These need to be pre ordered so we make enough incense!! Text Tamara on 0407457707 for details.

Extra option 2: Mortar and pestle to take home from $20. Text Tamara on 0407457707 for sizes and.

Extra option 3: Special resins and herbs available. Text Tamara on 0407457707 for choices. $10 per small test tube.