I have been obsessed with super-fine, high-quality incense—both stick and resin—since the age of fifteen. I attribute this to a past life, but whatever the case, there is something special about genuine, non-synthetic smoke sanctifying a room, home, or outside space.

Simply collect all the incense you have. Feel free to be a connoisseur like me by tossing out the “fake” stuff.

Face the east. Holding your hands over all your incense, take deep breaths and, when centered, declare the following six times:

Creatures of air, power of the east, the
incense before me is enchanted with
life and all that I intend. And so it is!