Mugwort is a beautiful herb to use for protection while traveling - smudging yourself, your loved ones or even your car can spiritually protect you from danger and open the roads to you so that you avoid delays and problems. It is also a psychoactive incense that assists in opening up the third eye and enabling strong psychic awareness and contact with the spirit realms.
Burning bundles of dried herbs - sometimes called smudge sticks - has been a part of many spiritual traditions dating back millennia and connects all traditional cultures, from the Native Americans to the Druids, from the Zulus to the Maoris, from Aboriginals to the Mayans, from the Chinese to the Balinese, all of which have age-old forms of cleansing and blessing rituals.
Ways to use a smudge stick:
Light the smudge stick walk in a large circle, stopping at East, South, West and North to create a sacred space for magic within the circle.
Light the bundle and walk through the rooms of a home or other building to cleanse, protect or imbue the space with energy.
Light the bundle and waft the smoke over your body or someone else's for a spiritual cleanse or for imbuing.
Wave the smoke over ritual tools or objects that you wish to bless.