Smudging 2

Before you take any action with this strong and powerful ritual, consider your intention.

Keep this thought clearly in your mind.  Smudging should be done with care and reverence along with a positive attitude and that of love.

The flame from a candle is recommended to light the smudge that the bundle starts to smoke.  If there is a flame blow it out so that the smudge bundle is smoldering and not burning.   When smudging a room, after the bundle is smoking, you walk around the perimeter of the room.  Give special attention to the corners and the places behind doors.  You can also fan the smoke through the room with a large smudge feather.  If you wish, you may state a payer of gratitude  for the cleansing and keep in mind your intention of removing negativity during the ritual,

Many people like to break off loose leaves and a candle may be used for them as well.  In the very near future, Dr. Seth will have, along with the wonderful hand-made ceramic incense burners, smudge pots for the use of Smudging rituals.

SMUDGING blog 1

Over the years I have sold many bundles of sage and for the most part my customers knew what it was that they wanted to do with it and how they would and why they would “smudge” their environment.  It has come to my attention that there is an interest in this activity.  I will give some information and I am not professing to say these are the total of reasons and/ or activities of this technique.  It is just a small taste of a ritual that is many centuries old and used in many different ways with different herbs.

At Woodstock, we have provided Sage for most of our customers Smudging techniques.  Smudging is the name given to the cleansing technique from Native American.  This tradition of burning herbs for emotional, psychical and spiritual cleansing is practiced among many religious, healing and spiritual traditions.  It is a ceremonial way to cleanse a person, place or object of negative energies.
Smudging can be helpful for when you feel depressed, angry, and/or restful,  You can smudge your home, work space or crystals to remove negative energy.

In blog Smudging blog 2 I will talk about how to perform a smudging technique

We're happy to add yet another incense to our ever-expanding and improving library.  This fellow is Dharana Sutra.  This is a remarkable incense that is profound testimony to the potential elegance of bass notes in fragrances.  Dharana Sutra'  fragrance profile is a deep, winding complex of tunnels that offer sandalwood, vetivert, and crisp resinous notes.  It certainly has certain similarities to the much beloved Ambica heaven.

It is available in house and for phone order at this time.  It will be available for on line orders quite soon.

Our tree of labor continues to yield delectable fruit.  In this case, it's another glorious incense.  This one is Yama Sutra.  Yama Sutra harkens back to the old Satya incense we used to get in those suspiciously unmarked red 250gram boxes.  It differs in that it is a considerably deeper, more refined, distilled fragrance than the original Satya.  It offers a perfectly balanced chocolate/vanilla/caramel fragrance that carefully sweetens the air without being too heavy.  The series of incenses from which this comes continues to delight and astonish all of us here. 

https://www.woodstocktradeco.com/product/INCENSE145.html

We're adding yet another incense to our selections.  This one's another big fellow.  It's King of Frankincense.  It's an elegant, understated, dry, crisp frankincense.  If you are looking for a clean, lemony, resinous frankincense based incense, this is it.

Another new incense in the Satya line...Egyptian Musk

Satya Egyptian Goddess provided us with an unexpected result, but wonderful none the less.  This incense liberated a very lightly sweet, subtle musk with overtones of cherrywood and caramel.  We were all surprised with its elegance and subtlety.

https://www.woodstocktradeco.com/product/INCENSE126.html

A New incense in the Satya line...60's Patchouli

 

Some new items have been added to the famed Satya line of incenses.  The first one we would like to introduce you to is Satya 60's Patchouli.  It's a remarkable, lightly sweet, bright and earthy fragrance with that head shop, black light room quality that will bring you right back to that time.

https://www.woodstocktradeco.com/product/INCENSE239.html

We just got through a nice, dense little parcel of incenses.  It's always nice to refill some empty bins.  We were able to replenish the following:
Nikhil's Govinda Govinda, Balaji Focus, Champaka, HEM Flora Jasmine, Sunanadaraja, Precious Sandal, Kin-Kaku, Kyo-Nishiki, Sital Super Sandal, Precious Green, and Vidwan.  Soon, we will be refilling saffron, petal rose and Divine Flora.

We're now set to roll out a new incense selection.  It's from the same folks that create the famed Nag Champa Gold  This one is Absolut Sandal.  In our experience, we have never had anything remotely like it.  It's deep, semi-sweet, rich, and complex.  This is some next level kind of stuff.  It may change what you expect of an incense.

https://www.woodstocktradeco.com/product/INCENSE193.html#.VcpY9vnkRRQ

SMUDGING   blog 2

Before you take any action with this strong and powerful ritual, consider your intention.

Keep this thought clearly in your mind.  Smudging should be done with care and reverence along with a positive attitude and that of love.

The flame from a candle is recommended to light the smudge that the bundle starts to smoke.  If there is a flame blow it out so that the smudge bundle is smoldering and not burning.   When smudging a room, after the bundle is smoking, you walk around the perimeter of the room.  Give special attention to the corners and the places behind doors.  You can also fan the smoke through the room with a large smudge feather.  If you wish, you may state a payer of gratitude  for the cleansing and keep in mind your intention of removing negativity during the ritual,

Many people like to break off loose leaves and a candle may be used for them as well.  In the very near future, Dr. Seth will have, along with the wonderful hand-made ceramic incense burners, smudge pots for the use of Smudging rituals.

SMUDGING    blog 1

Over the years I have sold many bundles of sage and for the most part my customers knew what it was that they wanted to do with it and how they would and why they would “smudge” their environment.  It has come to my attention that there is an interest in this activity.  I will give some information and I am not professing to say these are the total of reasons and/ or activities of this technique.  It is just a small taste of a ritual that is many centuries old and used in many different ways with different herbs.

At Woodstock, we have provided Sage for most of our customers Smudging techniques.  Smudging is the name given to the cleansing technique from Native American.  This tradition of burning herbs for emotional, physical and spiritual cleansing is practiced among many religious, healing and spiritual traditions.  It is a ceremonial way to cleanse a person, place or object of negative energies.

Smudging can be helpful for when you feel depressed, angry, and/or resentful.  You can smudge your home, work space or crystals to remove negative energy.

 

In blog Smudging blog 2 I will talk about how to perform a smudging technique

Happy Hari Nag Champa Gold

We're still trying to accept the fantastic reality that we now have the famed Happy Hari Nag Champa Gold in our little store.  For so much time, it didn't seem it would happen.  The legwork paid off.  We're looking at one of very few true halmaddi-based incenses. What does that mean?  We're talking true champas, here.  It has an ethereal, chiffon soft fragrance without losing the depth and substance of a true champa.

It will soon be available for on line orders.  Until then, give a call.   856-424-6166. It comes in packs of 7-8 sticks at $4 per pack.  It's not cheap, but it's not cheap.  In some time, more amazing, fragrances will be arriving from Happy Hari.  Many of these will forever change your understanding of what incenses can be.



Much Love...so much that you'll have to give some away...

Seth

February Incense and More!

Happy February!  We have some wonderful updates for you.  Here is something from the Incense Guru, Dr. Seth!

The Woodstock Trading Company February Incense is #102, Jah Love.  Jah Love is a beautifully balanced, light, sweet, earthy champa incense.  It makes a wonderful addition for any champa lover.  The unburned stick has a lightly sweet dry fruit note.  There is a subtle hint of marshmallow.  The burned stick is where it all comes together.  That marshmallow note stays around in lovely toasted form.

Jah Love is a great addition for a romantic night…

Jah Love Incense. Available in 15 gram packs.

For the past few weeks, we have been running a promotional for our beads.  Tomorrow is the last day to get 10% off all the beads, with the exception of any hand blown bead or pendant.  This is great for any jewelry maker, especially if they want to make a gift for Valentine's Day!

Speaking of Valentine's Day, we have a special little something for Valentine's weekend.  Starting the 13th and running to the 15th, any in-store purchase of $25 or more gets a $5 promo certificate back.  The certificate will be valid until March 15th.  Add it to your Valentine gift or keep it for yourself!

Ritual Candles

Woodstock Trading Company has been the Rock n’ Roll & Dead-center of South Jersey for over 25 years, supplying the community for all of their classic rock needs. But Woodstock offers more than rock n’ roll items. As many know, Dr. Seth has put together an immense collection of incense from around the world, catering to incense lovers. MOM and Seth have also assembled a wonderful bead selection for the local jewelry makers. However, many do not know that we have also been working hard to make available items for those in spiritual communities. 

Seth, for many years, has supplied spiritual individuals with incense for their prayers and ceremonies. We have Dragon’s Blood resin for those of the Wicca and Pagan faiths, sage for smudging, and Tibetan and Buddhist prayer incense. Local artists have also made rosaries and other prayer beads for the store. After taking suggestions from our community, and some consideration on the best ways to put things in motion, we are happy to announce that we now carry Ritual/Chime Candles. You might be wondering what a ritual/chime candle is.

Woodstock Trading Company Ritual Candle Selections

Standing around 4 inches tall, a ritual/chime candle resembles a standard taper candle. They generally burn for around 2 hours and work well for prayers and ceremonies for faiths like Wicca. Each candle is a different color, having a different use or meaning. 

These candles are $0.50 each. The list of colors and meanings (may vary) are as followed:

White: Enlightenment, Healing, Purification, Protection
Lavender: Selflessness, Compassion, Inspiration
Pink: Love, Friendship, Romance, Caring
Green: Prosperity, Fertility, Luck, Balance
Yellow: Communications, Trust, Happiness
Light Blue: Peace, Creativity, Patience
Orange: Self-confidence, Optimism, Success
Red: Vitality, Will Power, Desires
Brown: Material gain, Home, Problem Solving (Brown is out of stock)
Purple: Psychic Power, Divination, Healing
Indigo Blue: Knowledge, Focus, Truth
Black: Regeneration, Riddance, Transition

We also have Gold and Silver candles. They are $1.00 each. The meanings (may vary) for those colors are:

Gold: Financial Success, Strength, Optimism
Silver: Balance, Health, Victory

Our ritual candles are not available online at this very moment. If you are interested, come on in take a look. If they are something that you would like to order, give us a call at (856) 424-6166, send us an email, or leave us a message on the “Contact Us” page of the Woodstock Trading CompanyWebsite.

Valentine's Ideas 2015

Love is in the air… At least, around the corner… Valentine’s Day is coming up, and people are on the search for that perfect gift for their loved one. Woodstock Trading Company has been supplying sweethearts with gifts and suggestions since 1988, and we aren’t stopping now. 

One of the main points for many Valentine’s shoppers is price.  It is a great day to treat your significant other to something romantic, but many cannot afford lavish gifts and dinners.  Some like to do things on the simple side.  If you tell us what you are looking for and what you like to do, we will try our best to find you the perfect gifts.  We have wonderful incense and candle options, as well as perfumes, jewelry, and drink ware.  

Do you want to do a nice candlelight dinner?  Woodstock Trading Company has a nice selection of lightly scented votive candles.  If you want to go bigger, we have fluorescent and multicolor drip candles.

Multicolor Drip Candle Multi-pack

Finish that bottle of wine and pop a candle into the wine bottle. You can use that bottle over and over again, adding a new candle each time, and creating a beautiful decoration for your table.

Burned Multicolor Drip Candle

If you need some glass to pour the wine in, we have a lovely selection of wine glasses, as well as champagne flutes.  You will find different styles, like Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, and Peace.

For those Rock n’ Roll fans who like to sit back and cuddle, we have warm rock band fleece and throw blankets, like Sublime and Janis Joplin.  If you want some romantic fragrances in the air, we have incense like Satya Romance and, an old favorite, Jah Love.  Jah Love is a beautifully balanced, light, sweet, earthy champa incense...a wonderful addition for any lover.  To save on the mess, we have special incense burner bowls. MOM and Seth make each bowl on the pottery wheel.  They are one of a kind and made with love. To make sure they could be used with different types of incense, the holder is enlarged for types like Tibetan incenses. 

Handmade Incense Burners

Sometimes you want to have a fragrance on the go.  If you are looking for something that is travel-ready, we have our selections of roll-on perfumes.  A February favorite is Auric Blends’ “Love” and “Lover’s Moon” perfume.  “Love” is a touch of Egyptian Goddess (Egyptian Goddess blends musk with soft floral notes) combined with white amber, white musk and woods, while is a heady mix of gardenia, rose and heliotrope to provide sweet floral notes at the top, with sandalwood and musk as the base.  These are two wonderful options, always popular with the ladies, but they are also gain popularity with a male customers. 

If you are looking for that perfect gift, come on in or visit our website.  Some items are not available online, like the wine glasses, drip candles, and incense burner bowls.  If there is something you would like to order, send us an email to wtc@woodstocktradeco.com, visit our contact page, or give us a call at (856) 424-6166.