Incense Meanings

African Violet

Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home.

Amber Love

comfort, happiness and healing.

Ambergris

Dreams, aphrodisiac

Angelica

Protection, harmony, integration, insight, understanding, stability and meditation.

Anise

Emotional balance.

Apple Blossom

Happiness, love and friendship.

Basil

for Concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence, courage to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth.

Bay

to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophetic dream visions.

Bayberry

Protection, prosperity, happiness, control and to attract money.

Benzoin

Astral projection, purification, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger and anxiety.

Bergamot

for Money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness

Blue Berry

to keep unwanted influences away from your home and property.

Cardamom

Mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation.

Carnation

Protection, strength, healing, love and lust, traditionally used for healing.

Cedar

Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom.

Chamomile

harmony, peace, calm, spiritual, and inner peace.

Cherry

to attract and stimulate love.

Cinnamon

Stimulation, wealth, prosperity, business success, strength, lust, healing, to attract money, stimulate and strengthen the psychic powers and to aid in healing. To gain wealth and success.

Citron:

Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen psychic powers.

Citronella

Cleansing, warding off, healing.

Clove

Pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus.

Coconut

Burn for protection and purification.

Copal

for love, purification, uplifting spirits, protection, spirituality, and to attract love.

Cypress

strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety and stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration.

Damiana

Burned to facilitate psychic visions.

Dittany of Crete

astral projection and divination.

Dragon’s Blood

protection, purification, courage, dispel negativity, attract love, enhance psychic awareness.

Elecampane

Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities.

Eucalyptus

Healing, purification and protection.

Frankincense

Spirituality, astral strength, protection, consecration courage, dispel negativity, aid to meditation, induce psychic visions and attract good luck.

Frangipani

Burn to brighten your home with friendship and love.

Gardenia

Peace, love and healing.

Ginger

Wealth, lust and love.

Hibiscus

Divination, love and lust to attract love.

Honeysuckle

money, happiness, friendship, healing, for good health, luck, and psychic power.

Hyacinth

Happiness and protection.

Jasmine

love, money, dreams, purification, wisdom, skills, astral projection, to attract love and money, for luck in general, especially in matters relating to love.

Juniper

calming, protection, healing, to increase psychic powers and to break the curses and hexes cast by evil.

Lavender

Cleansing, healing, love, happiness, relaxation, to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love.

Lemon

Healing, love and purification.

Lemongrass

mental clarity.

Lilac

soothing, increase psychic powers and to attract harmony into one’s life.

Lotus

elevates mood, protection, spirituality, healing, meditation for inner peace and outer harmony, to aid in meditation and open the mind’s eye.

Mace

to stimulate or increase psychic powers.

Mint

to increase sexual desire and attract money.

Musk

aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage, creates a sensual atmosphre. For courage and vitality, or to heighten sensual passion.

Myrrh

Spirituality, meditation, healing and consecration. An ancient incense for protection, healing, purification and spirituality.

Nutmeg

Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers and attract prosperity.

Oakmoss

To attract money.

Orange

Divination, love, luck, money.

Patchouli

money, growth, love, mastery, sensuality to attract money and love, and also to promote fertility.

Passionflower

For peace of mind, this sweet scent will soothe troubles and aid in sleep.

Peppermint

Energy, mental stimulant, healing.

Pine

grounding, strength, cleansing, healing and to attract money.

Poppy Seeds

Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.

Rose

Love, house blessing, fertility, healing to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, and attract love to return calm energies to the home.

Rose

Geranium courage and protection.

Rosemary

remembrance, memory, energy, healing to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression.

Rue

Burned to help restore health.

Sage

wisdom, clarity and purification.

Sandalwood

Spirituality, healing, protection, astral projection to heal and protect, also for purification.

Strawberry

Love, luck and friendship.

Sweet Pea

Friendship, love and courage.

Tangerine

A solar aroma used to attract prosperity.

Vanilla

Lust, mental alterness, stimulate amorous appetites and enhance memory.

Vetivert

Money, peace and love.

Violet

Wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing.

Yarrow

For courage.

Ylang-Ylang

For love, harmony and euphoria.

The methods used by psychologists and others to talk to or shock homosexuals into sexual and social conformity included the aversion therapy of electroshocks to repress a man’s enjoyment of a naked male body. A Jungian therapist assured a woman that while her love for another woman was ‘not any worse than alcoholism,’ he would have her cured in six months. Lesbianism was reversible, many therapists maintained, if doctors went about it in the right way and insisted on unmasking the neurotic motivations behind lesbianism.“

Homosexuality was considered a case of ‘arrested development,’ as the Freudians put it, even though Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna, was a lesbian. To show how sick lesbians were, one doctor lifted “case histories” from Life Romances and My Confession magazines; another suggested that cunnilingus was a manifestation of cannibalistic fantasies. Many lesbians did hope to be cured. In Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Lillian Faderman quotes one woman undergoing therapy with three different Los Angeles psychiatrists in the 1950s as saying, ‘Many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it be otherwise? All we heard and read about homosexuality was that crap about how we were inverts, perverts, queers⎯a menace to children, poisoner to everyone else, doomed never to be happy.“

-Excerpt from The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Woman

Sylvia Plath about the moon in her poetry.

« In recent years, many facts about Rachel Carson’s personal life have come to light, including her closeted relationship with another woman during the last decade of her life. 

In 1952, at the age of 45, Rachel met the great love of her life, Dorothy Freeman. Dorothy was 55, very married, and a grandmother. They met on an island in Maine where their families had vacation cottages, and within months their friendship developed into a passionate intimacy. Although Dorothy’s husband accepted their relationship, Rachel and Dorothy kept their love a secret to the outside world. For the next ten years, until Rachel’s death, the two women shared their summers on the island, spending the rest of the year 500 miles apart—Rachel with her mother in Maryland, Dorothy with her husband in Massachusetts. Fortunately, Dorothy, in defiance of Rachel’s instructions, did not destroy the letters they wrote during these months of separation, and this considerable correspondence has been published in Always, Rachel.

At the time when the women met, Rachel’s book The Sea Around Us had just become an international best-seller, and she was hard at work another biography of the ocean, The Edge of the Sea. After this book also topped the best-selling charts, Rachel began casting about for another project. In November 1956, she became obsessed with what she and Dorothy referred to as “The Dream.”  “The Dream” was a plan to purchase a section coastal property on the island that Dorothy had named “The Enchanted Wood,” in honor of the private hours they had spent there. Rachel intended to create a wildlife preserve to be managed by a three-person board of directors. She and Dorothy would be the controlling members of the board. “The Dream” was a way for Rachel to create something with the woman she loved in which they could both publicly participate. It was a way to both celebrate and commemorate a relationship that had no name, no status, and no institution in a homophobic society. […] »

— Carolyn Gage, “Rachel Carson: Breaking the Silence”

Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (via sespursongles)

Sometimes I think it’s gettin’ better And then it gets much worse Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, it hurts Though I know I should know better Well, I can make this work Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, it hurts

I’m glad that Florence is still doing the thing she does best which is be incredibly terrifying in a way that you cannot explain without sounding like you believe in witches

Florence is a witch tho

— bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love  (via caelums)

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by Oleg Magni

Ken Domon, Young Nurses of the Red Cross, 

Azabu/Tokyo 1938

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Bed, 1893 In Bed the Kiss, 1892 and The Kiss, 1892

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. May 1928 featured in “Selected Diaries of V. W,”

Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Jacob’s Room,” wr. c. 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Literary Epitaphs (Part 1)

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