Wisdom of the Smudge
Gathering sage on the prairie, with my niece and sister.
I posted a video on social media this morning of our nature walk to gather sage, and a friend asked, “Is that sage as in wisdom?” Hmm, I thought, the sage we are hunting for is kind of like wisdom, but that is not what she was talking about.
She meant wise old Sage, a profound and distinguished philosopher.
Ours is an aromatic plant that grows wild here in places where man has not destroyed.
We entered the sacred land and smudged ourselves with the smoke of sage, cedar, and sweetgrass. Then, we made an offering of tobacco to Mother Earth. We don’t take anything — berries, roots, medicine — from the land before offering or giving back.
Thank you for the sage.
In Canada, these are the four sacred medicines: sage, sweetgrass, cedar, and tobacco.
We invite the wisdom of sage to envelop our beings and provide the following benefits;
🌲 Act as a tool for our spirits to know, our intuition to be precise.
🌲 Release negative ions to neutralize positive ions.
🌲 Dispel and protect against negative energy.
