Some time ago I had made a post about Palo Santo being a great spiritual cleansing smoke. Unfortunately most of you now find yourself wondering what to use as a cleansing and consecrating smoke. Behold! I give you the proper word to be used to describe the ancient tradition of ritual cleansing and consecration by smoke used by the ancient Celtic peoples. Saining which comes from the Gaelic word Seun (meaning charm, bless, consecrate, for spiritual protection etc) is what has come to replace the word which you can no longer use.
As for the dried plant which has been tradition since ancient times, it’s commonly refered to as Juniper. It’s Gaelic name is Iubhar-Beinne, literally meaning Mountain Yew*
To the Druids it was called Iodhadh, and it represents death and rebirth, new beginnings, clean slates and fresh starts making it the ideal cleansing herb to use for all your ritual needs. It’s Ogham is shown below.
What the actual plant looks like and it’s dried forms
shown in the photos below.
I hope this has been an enlightenment and entertainment for you. If you happen to still have some of the other stuff before this prohibition hit, since you are not permitted to consider it sacred or use it in ritual that sort of reduces it to just a plant so simply throw it out or wipe your ass with it, use it as a door stop or whatever you want to do. Enjoy!