Frankincense

Frankincense

Frankincense is a resinous sap tapped from a desert tree. My preference has always been for the Boswella carteri, as it tends to have a wider range of notes within it's fragrence, and rightly or wrongly I think it has more of it's medical propeties. 
People have been using this resin as perfume and medicine for over five thousand years. It has been used in spiritual practices just as long and by all who encountered it. Though grown only in the middle east and northern Africa it was traded as far as China and the colder parts of Northern Europe. Because it is a solid oil it burns with a lot of smoke. The tiny particles and fine oils making it have a blue tinge. When smoldered on charcoal pyrolysis happens (a thermochemical decomposition without oxygen) changing it from one state, to another that can not be undone.
Frankincense lifts people. It heals them inside and out. It is more than cleansing in the sense that it remove impurities from a space, it also changes the people within it. It seems to hang in the air like a spirit just about to form, watching, waiting. Peaceful, radient even. Frankincese is a blessing, a healing spirit, a whisper of something ancient, sweet and beautiful.

It is so simple to not exprience it's wonder. Yet unforgetable when you have.

Bright Blessings xxx