Tobacco and Sage

Ceremonial moments call us to bring forth the principles and attributes within ourselves that we are seeking to manifest in our lives.  When we create offerings for the Ancestors and Misterios which are to call forth or pull abundance and thriving into our lives, we are more successful if we mirror that which we are looking for within the approach we take with the offerings.  To put it simply, if we are looking for abundance and thriving and health and balance in our lives, we need to give the Ancestors and Misterios offerings which reflect this using the resources and blessings which we have already received from the Ancestors.

With this principle in mind, it is vital for us here to offer the Ancestors Tobacco and Sage which we ourselves have grown here on this Sacred Soil where we live.  When we are starting out with little resources, maybe all we have is simple Nsunga/ Tobacco or branch of sage to offer, but as we engage the cycle of blessings with the Spirit, we are given more, and now have the resources to offer more!  This creates the cycle of Abundance that can continue to build.   This also represents a creative and intelligent use of the blessings of the Ancestors!

All the photos here show the Tobacco and Sage that we still have from a bumper harvest of Tobacco and Sage that we had back in 2010.  This harvest was so huge that we have used it non stop for 3 years, and this use has been very abundant.  When we burn sage, we burn the equivalent of 2-5 regular size sticks of sage for one day of Ceremony!  We have no need to ration our Tobacco and Sage offerings to the Spirits.  This itself is a blessing that has come from the Ancestral Blessing of the Space to grow the Tobacco and the abundant crops that came from that space.  

To see the posts about the sage and tobacco harvests from 2010, click on the links below:


Sage Harvest 2010


Tobacco Harvest 2010

Here you see the loose Tobacco (above) and the Tobacco bundles (below).  Ideally of course we would not have to store them in plastic but that is what we have available at this time.  There is always room for progression and improvement, and so we are planning in the near future to create some wooden boxes for storing the tobacco and sage.

In the plastic bag below is tobacco seeds in seed pods.  There are literally tens of thousands of seeds just pictured here!

Finally sage is in the basket below.  All this is very important and is an essential ingredient in our Taino Resurgence!  This practice of growing those things that we need for our everyday and ceremonial practices is absolutely what our Ancestors did!!!