Bark, mosses, lichens, and seed pods gathered on feast day are lightly moistened with rum and ground down to a rough powder to provide woody base.Orris root, lemongrass, crossroads dirt, and other road clearing materia are mixed with a generous dose of monastery frankincense and pounded together for the first of many times.Herbs to cleanse, bless, and draw fortune are added as libations and prayers are offered to Our Lady.
Mother of fair love, I look to you.
Take into your hands the ribbon of my life And see the snarl of knots that keeps me bound To sin, anxiety, and hopelessness.
I beg you, Mother, by your powerful intercession, And long fingers of love and grace, undo the knots in my heart and in my life. Free me to love as Christ loves.
Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for us
The Fifth Pentacle of Mercury and a 6 of diamonds are incorporated into the mixture. The Fifth and Last Pentacle of Mercury. – This commandeth the Spirits of Mercury, and serveth to open doors in whatever way they may be closed, and nothing it may encounter can resist it.”Psalms and other materia are burned and their ashes are incorporated, the whole is pounded until the mass begins to solidify into a homogeneous dough.A final libation of blessed honey is poured and the incense is pounded until it no longer sticks to the walls of the mortar.Small balls are hand-kneaded and formed into cones.After the cones have dried enough to be safely manipulated, a road opening ritual is performed and the cones are left to mature and ripen.
Via Combusta 
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