Sandalwood Bead Necklace, 20.75″

Description ShareTweetPinLinkedInPrintEmail Sandalwood Bead Necklace 10mm Beads, .925 Sterling Silver Clasp, 20.75″ Length Sandalwood Scientific Name / Family Pterocarpus Santalinus / Santalaceae Sandalwood Other Names Red Sanders, Red Saunders, Yerra Chandanam, Chenchandanam, Red Sandalwood, Rakta Chandana, Saunderswood, Zitan, Tzu-T’an, Aloeswood, Srigandha Sandalwood Magic / Metaphysical / Spiritual Intentions           •  love           •  self-awareness           •  aphrodisiac           •  joy           •  kindness           •  happiness           •  compassion           •  meditation           •  calming the mind           •  peace of mind           •  peace           •  concentration           •  tranquility           •  alleviating anger           •  sedating           •  soothing arguments           •  balance           •  grounding           •  relaxation           •  safety           •  easing anxiety and stress           •  security           •  centering           •  purification           •  spirituality Sandalwood Smell Warm, Rich, Complex, Exotic…with a calming and sedative effect. Sandalwood oil has a distinctive soft, warm, smooth, creamy, and milky precious-wood scent. Sandalwood Associations & Correspondences           •  ELEMENT | Water           •  WATCHTOWER DIRECTION | West           •  PLANET | Venus           •  ZODIAC SIGN | Capricorn           •  ENERGY / GENDER | Yang / Masculine           •  CHAKRA | 1st Root Chakra (Muladhara)           •  TAROT | the High Priestess, the Heirophant           •  DAY OF THE WEEK | Sunday           •  CANDLE COLOR(S) | Brown, Blue           •  DEITIES / GODS / GODDESSES |           •  SABBATS / ESBATS / HOLIDAYS |                     ◦  Buddha (Buddhism)                     ◦  Full Moons                     ◦  Ganesha (Hindu)                     ◦  Krishna (Hindu)                     ◦  Lakshmi (Hindu)                     ◦  Shiva (Hindu)                     ◦  Vishnu (Hindu) Sandalwood Magic / Mystical Attributes Sandalwood has a spiritual energy that resonates love and compassion. The wood is carved into prayer beads for its purifying properties and ability to clear negative energy. It promotes peace, tranquility, balance, spirituality and relaxation, calms the mind, and reduces anxiety and stress. It combines well with the sacred resins of frankincense and myrrh. In American folk magic, Sandalwood is added to mojo bags for safety, security, and peace of mind. It helps with calming the spirit, grounding and centering, and is often used in meditation. It stimulates awareness and helps you concentrate. Wearing Sandalwood is believed to help alleviate feelings of anger and negativity, bringing a sense of joy and happiness. Sandalwood lends itself well to carving and has thus traditionally been a wood of choice for statues and sculptures of Hindu gods. In Hinduism and Ayurveda, sandalwood is thought to bring one closer to the divine. Thus, it is one of the most used holy elements in Hindu and Vedic societies. Sandalwood is considered sacred in the Hindu Ayurveda and is known in Sanskrit as chandana. The wood is used for worshipping the deities, and it is said that Lakshmi (Sri), the goddess of well-being, lives in the sandalwood tree; therefore, it is also known as Srigandha. A paste called chandanam is prepared by grinding a piece of dry sandalwood into powder, against a stone slab. With the gradual addition of water, a thick paste forms, and it is mixed with saffron or other such pigments. Chandanam, further mixed with herbs, perfumes, pigments, and some other compounds, results in javadhu. Kalabham, chandanam, and javadhu are dried and used as kalabham powder, chandanam powder, and javadhu powder, respectively. Chandanam powder is very popular in India and is also used in Nepal. This paste is integral to rituals and ceremonies, for making religious utensils, for decorating sacred images, and it is believed to calm the mind during meditation and prayer. It is also distributed to devotees, who apply it to their foreheads or necks and chests. Sandalwood paste is used for most pujas both in temples and private households. Sandalwood use is an integral part of the daily practices of Jainism. Sandalwood paste mixed with saffron is used to worship the Tirthankaras of Jainism. Sandalwood powder is showered as blessings by Jain monks and nuns (sadhus and sadhvis) onto their disciples and followers. Sandalwood garlands are used to dress the body during Jain cremation ceremonies. During the festival of Mahamastakabhisheka that is held once in every 12 years, the Gommateshwara statue is bathed and anointed with libations such as milk, sugarcane juice, and saffron paste, and sprinkled with powders of sandalwood, turmeric, and vermilion. Sandalwood is mentioned in various suttas of the Pāli Canon. In some Buddhist traditions, sandalwood is considered to be of the padma (lotus) group and attributed to Amitabha Buddha. Sandalwood scent is believed by some to transform one’s desires and maintain a person’s alertness while in meditation. It is also one of the most popular scents used when offering incense to the Buddha and the guru. In the Indian variants of Sufism, sandalwood paste is applied on a revered Sufi’s grave by the disciples as a mark of devotion. The tradition is practiced particularly by devotees in the Indian subcontinent. In Tamil culture, irrespective of one’s religious identity, sandalwood paste or powder is applied to the graves of Sufi saints as a mark of devotion and respect. In East Asia, sandalwood is the most commonly used incense material by the Chinese, Korean and Japanese in worship and various ceremonies. In Korean Shamanism, sandalwood is considered the Tree of Life. It was transmitted to China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan during the eastward expansion of Buddhism. Zoroastrians offer sandalwood twigs to the afarganyu, the urn in which the fire is kept at the fire temple (called agiyari in Gujarati and dar-e mehr in Persian), to keep the fire burning during religious ceremonies. After the firekeeping priests complete the ceremony, attendees are allowed to come up to the afarganyu and place their own pieces of sandalwood into the fire. Fire has been a sacred symbol in the Zoroastrian religion since ancient times and it is considered very important to keep the fires in the temples constantly burning. Because of its high sensitivity to fire, sandalwood works very well for this. Also, the wood has been accepted by the Yasna and Yashts (sacred texts) as an appropriate fuel for the fire. It is offered to all of the three grades of fire in the fire temple, including the Atash Dadgahs. Sandalwood is not offered to the divo, a smaller lamp that is kept in the homes of Zoroastrians. Often, money is offered to the mobad (priest) as payment, along with sandalwood. Sandalwood is called sukhad in the Zoroastrian community. The sandalwood in the fire temple is often more expensive to buy than at a Zoroastrian store. It is often a source of income for the fire temple. Sandalwood Health & Well-Being Associations The heartwood of the tree is believed to have potent aphrodisiac properties. Sandalwood Description Sandalwood is a slow-growing tree taking up to 80 years to reach full maturity. It is one of the most expensive woods in the world. It has long been used in spiritual practices of both the East and the West. The heartwood resin is often blended into herbal incenses and used as a base.  It isn’t technically a resin, but a powdered, shredded, or chipped wood. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood has historically been an important tree in the development of the political economy of the Pacific. Prior to colonization in the region, the sandalwood tree was a marker of status, rank and beauty. It then became an important part of the Pacific trade during the colonial period, as it was one of the few resources the West was able to successfully trade with Chinese merchants. This western trade began to put pressure on the production of sandalwood in the region. Sandalwood Botany / Cultivation / Harvesting Sandalwoods are medium-sized hemiparasitic trees, and part of the same botanical family as European mistletoe. True sandalwoods are native to Insular Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The main cultivated species, Santalum album, were introduced in ancient times into mainland Asia by Austronesian traders and have since naturalized in South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, southeastern China, and Taiwan. The main distribution of both wild and introduced sandalwood trees are in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba. S. album spread to other regions through the Austronesian maritime trade network, the incense trade route, and the Maritime Silk Road, until the sixteenth century CE. The sandalwood produced in peninsular India and the Malay Archipelago supported most consumption in East Asia and West Asia during the time of the incense trade route before the commercialization of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) in sandalwood plantations in Australia and China, although sandalwood album (Santalum album) is still considered to have the best and original quality in terms of religion and alternative medicine. Santalum spicatum is marketed as the notable member of this group today by merchants because of its stable sources; others in the genus also have fragrant wood. Producing commercially valuable sandalwood with high levels of fragrance oils requires Indian sandalwood (S. album) trees to be a minimum of 15 years old – the yield, quality and volume are yet to be clearly understood. Yield of oil tends to vary depending on the age and location of the tree; usually, the older trees yield the highest oil content and quality. India continues to produce a superior quality of Santalum Album, with FP Aromatics being the largest exporter.] Australia is the largest producer of S. album, with the majority grown around Kununurra, in the far north of Western Australia by Quintis (formerly Tropical Forestry Services), which in 2017 controlled around 80% of the world’s supply of Indian sandalwood,] and Santanol. India used to be the world’s biggest producer, but it has been overtaken by Australia in the 21st century. Over-exploitation is partly to blame for the decline. However, ethical plantations in India are on the rise, and India is expected to increase its supply manyfold by 2030, owing to favourable weather conditions and competitive pricing. Australian sandalwood (S. spicatum) is grown in commercial plantations throughout the wheatbelt of Western Australia, where it has been an important part of the economy since colonial times. As of 2020 Western Australia has the largest plantation resource in the world. Sandalwood grows best in those places that have an adequate amount of sunlight, fairly dry weather, and moderate rainfall for a part of the year. These trees need a temperature that ranges from 12 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees celsius or 53° F – 86° F. The annual rainfall for these trees must be in the range of 850 millimeters to 1200 millimeters or 33 inches – 47 inches. They can survive in anything between 360 meters to 1350 meters or 1181 feet to 4429 feet in terms of altitude. But, you must give top priority to moderate altitudes that are between 600 meters to 1050 meters or 1968 feet to 3444 feet. Sandalwood grows well in red ferruginous loam. You can also plant Sandalwood in sandy soils, vertisols, and red clay soils. But if planting in sandy soil, you have to ensure that the water doesn’t get drained rapidly. Vertisol is a type of clay-rich black soil that contracts dramatically in dry weather, mud-cracks and creating deep. The pH of the soil for the plantation of Sandalwood plants should be between 6.0 & 7.5. Sandalwood bears gravelly soil and rocky ground. Sandalwood can thrive only if it is grown alongside another plant that does the production of fixed nitrogen which is a type of natural fertilizer. The root system of the sandalwood tree will connect to the host tree for getting the nutrients if they require them. You should plant your Sandalwood ideally next to an already-established host species, for instance, long-lived wattles or acacia trees, or casuarinas which is a genus of tropical evergreens that are inclusive of Sheoaks and ironwoods. Establish host trees between the sandalwood trees at intervals of 1.6-2 meters or 5.2 feet to 6.5 feet. Cajanus Cajan pigeon pea is another majorly renowned good host species for Sandalwood trees. Soak Sandalwood seeds for 24 hours. Let them dry under full sun. A crack should develop in the sandalwood seed after 1 day of leaving in the sunlight. The seeds are ready for germination at this point. For the potting soil, mix 2 parts red earth to 1 part manure and 1 part sand in a wheelbarrow or other container. Fill a small container or planting tray with this mixture. If you are making a plan for sowing the seeds directly outdoors, then fill the planting hole with this mixture before sowing your seeds. Plant the seeds 3/4-1 inch or 1.75 centimeters to 5.54 centimeters below the surface of the soil, then cover with the prepared potting mixture. Lightly water the plants every day, avoiding waterlogging the soil. Stick your finger 1 inch (or 2.5 cm) into the soil to determine if watering is needed. The seeds should start sprouting within 4 to 8 weeks. Transplant the seedlings when they are about 1 month old. To transplant the seedlings, create a hole that is 11″ x 1″ (30 x 3 cm). Make sure that the space between the seedling and the planting hole is filled up with soil to avoid waterlogging. Keep the space between the Sandalwood Plants between 8 – 13 feet apart (2.5 – 4 meters). Remember that seedlings should be planted within 3.3 feet (1 meter) of the host plant. The Sandalwood tree will die unless fixed to a host species within the first 2 years. Before direct sowing of sandalwood, the host plants should be at least 3.3 feed (1 meter) tall. Ensure that the host species is not blocking sunlight from the sandalwood. If the host tree begins to grow above the sandalwood, prunte it or tip it to the side. Regularly remove weeds that are growing around or are climbing up the tree, particularly during the first year. During dry periods, water sandalwood plants with a half liter (or 0.5 quarts) of water twice a week. It is best to water in the evening to prevent excessive evaporation. Wild herbivores are fond of the taste of sandalwood. Put up a fence around the perimeter to avoid damage to the plant.       Sources: https://spiritartsandherbs.com/sources **IMPORTANT INFORMATON: Products are sold as curio items for entertainment purposes only and based upon historical and magical uses.  We do not imply or guarantee that any items provide specific abilities, powers, outcomes, remedies, or treatments. 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