Different Types of Sage & Their Proper Uses

White Sage: White sage is used to prepare people for ceremonies and teachings.

Blue/Desert/Grandmother Sage: Blue Sage is used for ritual ceremonies, house cleansing, used by natives for thousands of years for cleansing, purifying self, others + spaces.

Some other uses are:

• ward off bad feelings and influences

• used for cleansing of negative energy or exorcism

• attract prosperity, remove blocks, protection

Floral Sage (general): Traditionally used to purify, cleanse and revamp your energy. Generally you’ll find these wrapped with dyed rose petals for positivity and self love.

White Sage w/ Lavender: Helps encourage a restful night’s sleep as well as peace of mind, relaxation and happiness.

Lavender has many magical uses, including cleansing, psychic protection, and increasing clairvoyance. Creating the energy of happiness and healing.

Lavender symbolizes purification and tranquility.

Mugwort “Black Sage” or Artemisia Vulgaris: Brings clarity, deepens intuitive abilities as well as removes the unwanted energy.

Cedar Sage: Brings renewal, protection and grounding/ set intentions, cleanse a new space, and welcome new beginnings.

Juniper sage: Draws in positive energy and creates a safe, protective, positive, healing space, guard against evil spirits, and illnesses.

Juniper berries are energetically and physically detoxifying as well as centering. That’s why they’re added to medicinal teas and detox scrubs, creams, and oils.

Fun recipe: add juniper berry to your lunar (new moon energy and full moon energy, New Year’s, solstice (winter solstice and spring solstice) , winter inner work celebrations, rituals, and intention setting.

Lavender sage: Brings a positive energy, opens the heart chakra, calms the mind, releases fear while being effective at soothing the nervous system. Lavender has powers of protection, calming and cleansing.

Rosemary sage: This is a herb of purification, protection, healing and love. It is especially useful in clearing, banishing and protective shielding workings.

Yerba Santa: Also known as "Holy Weed", is traditionally used as a smudge for protection and setting boundaries. Yerba Santa has also been used for centuries by Native American to support love, purification, growth, empowerment, beauty, and the release of emotional pain stored in the heart chakra. It is used for emotional healing, helps release trauma and resentment.

Chakra Sage: This sage is used for chakra alignment, overall health, vitality and is perfect for purification with the added energetic blessings of real rose petals.

The roses symbolizes blessings of love, happiness, and new beginnings.

Chakras are wheels of energy that appear along the central meridian of your body’s vibrational field.

The rose petals represent your 7 main chakras:

Crown chakra

Third eye chakra

Throat chakra

Heart chakra

Solar plexus chakra

Sacral chakra

Root chakra

Dragons Blood Sage: Dragon’s blood is good to use when performing rituals for cleansing and protection. It takes away negative energies. It is also used in blessings, to help aid in returning lost love, and has powerful protection properties. It is also enhances health, virility and to cure impotency.

Dragon’s blood is also known to act as a strong detox and blood cleaner.

Fun Fact: Dragons Blood Sage or Red Sage is simply white sage coated with dragons blood resin.

Black Sage: Used to encourage dreams and visions. It is an herb of introspection and inner healing. When burnt before bedtime, it aids in restful sleep and pleasant dreams. Black Sage aids in protection during astral travel and shamanic journeying.

Piñon Pine Sage: Pine Sage keeps sickness away and attract wealth.

Also known as Pine Pinyon, or Piñon, are a variety of Pine trees considered sacred by some Native American tribes. It is used for purification, healing, and prosperity work.

It is an herb used for drawing long-term prosperity, reversing negativity, protection from poor health and cleansing people and spaces from negative influences. Pine also helps with concentration and is protective and nurturing by nature.

Piñon has a smooth, woodsy scent that's especially powerful, thanks to its high concentration of pine resin as well as its sweet citrus aroma that is essential for supplying its healing properties.

Mountain Sage: It is used to promote new beginnings, strength, and space clearing.

Mountain Sage (Artemisisa Tridentata), also called Desert Mugwort, grows at high altitudes and in arid desert climates. It collects the energy surrounding it and releases it when burned.

Other Types of Sage/Smudge and Incense

Palo Santo: Used for purifying and cleansing, as well as to get rid of evil spirits and misfortune. Used to bless and consecrate rather than cleanse or purify.

“Holy Stick” or “Holy wood” is a natural wood aromatic incense used for centuries by the Incas and indigenous people of the Andes for medicinal purposes, and as a spiritual remedy for deep healing and clearing energy.

relieving the symptoms of headaches, inflammation, emotional trauma, stress, colds and much more.

Palo Santo contains oil if harvested correctly and has a citrus- like scent.

Sweetgrass Braid: Symbolizes healing, peace, and spirituality in many Native cultures, and braids of sweetgrass are sometimes left as offerings at graves and sacred sites.

It invites positive energies and spirits and has a unique vanilla-like scent.

Nag Champa Incense Stick: It can quickly cleanse and purify the air and chase away all shades of negativity, purifies any environment, energetically transforming your space into a meditation room, naturally clearing out any negative energy and filling it with positive vibrations.

The Champa flower is the spiritual scent of India. Its fragrance is bold and earthy, yet sweet and warm.

Sandalwood: Sandalwood is known to have a calming effect, and to increase mental clarity. It is known to promote peaceful relaxation, and is often used for meditation. Sandalwood is one of the oldest incense materials, and has been used ritually and spiritually for over 4,000 years.

Cinnamon Sticks: Enhances vibrations, attracts prosperity, good luck, and removes blocks

Bay Leaves: Powerful for manifestation, protection, and psychic development

Copal: This is tree sap from Mexico that is similar to Frankincense. When burned it has a crisp, clean, sharp scent that is almost citrus-like. Copal is sacred to the native peoples of Mexico, as it is a gift 'pleasing to the gods.' Because copal is the blood of trees, it is offered to honor the enormous gift given to us by all of the tree people of our planet. Burning Copal is best done on Charcoal Tablets.

Frankincense: Frankincense is said to ease depression and promote clairvoyance. At one time both Frankincense and Myrrh were considered to be more valuable than gold. Used to embalm the bodies of the Egyptian Pharaohs, this tree resin is considered to cleanse and protect the soul. Frankincense became important to most every major religion in the world and is still used in Muslim, Jewish and Catholic rituals. Burning Frankincense is best done on Charcoal Tablets.

Myrrh: This tree resin is said to help one maintain a state of enlightenment. It also connects one to the spirit of youth and clears the path of debris that stands in the way of one's truth. Burning Myrrh is best done on Charcoal Tablets.

Smudging Feather: It is traditional to use a bird's feather to brush the smoke over the person or object being blessed. It is important to use the underside of the feather to wash the smoke over the object of blessing. It is the underside of the bird and its wings that face the Mother Earth as it flies and it is this surface of the feather that offers the blessing medicine of the bird.

**There are many more incense, resins, different style sages, burning sticks, and more.**