Gift Sets & Ritual Kits

Boxed sets and ready-made kits from $8.99 to $249.95: raw-stone trios, herb-and-oil pairs, four-format smoke boxes, spell kits, devotional tealights and cacao ceremony sets.

In short: decide first whether you want a sampler, a starter kit with tools you keep, or one complete ritual.

An open dark wooden gift box with a tied herb bundle, rough crystals, a small amber vial and an aged brass bowl on dark green marble in candlelight

Ritual gift sets and kits: what arrives in one box

Everything on this page is more than one thing sold together — stones in threes, a herb blend with its matching oil, four ways to burn one herb, a candle with its stone and instructions, or a cacao practice with the cup to drink it from. Sets are the easiest way to give a ritual to someone else and the fastest way to start one yourself, as long as you know which kind of set you are looking at.

Three kinds of set

The sampler gives you several versions of one thing so you can find yours. The Herbal Incense Gift Box ($72.95, sage or lavender, or both boxes for $144.95) and the Sage Herbal Gift Box ($72.95) each hold four incense sticks, a smudge disk, three smudge bombs and a smudge stick. The Cacao Elixir Set of Three ($174.95) and Set of Five ($249.95) do the same for ceremonial cacao, in 8.4 oz canisters. The starter kit is built around tools you keep: the Cacao Ceremony Starter Kit ($145.95) with elixir, ceremonial cacao wafers, a frother, two palo santo sticks and a copper cup; the Energy Cleansing Gift Box ($81.95) with herbs, resins and a cauldron; and the DIY Air-Dry Clay Kit ($39.95) for making your own incense holder. The single working is one ritual, fully outfitted: the Inner Eye Intuition Spell Kit ($15.95) with a blue chime candle, charoite, blue lotus and step-by-step instructions, and the Circe Boutique pairs for Aphrodite and Demeter ($19.95 each), a herb blend with its matching oil.

Stones and jewelry in sets

The three raw-stone trios are the smallest price on the page at $8.99 — under $3 a stone: Abundance (citrine, pyrite, green aventurine), Calm (amethyst, apatite, howlite) and Triple Protection (obsidian, tiger’s eye, hematite). For something to wear as well as hold, the Rose Quartz Crystal Set pairs a bracelet, a stone and a pendulum ($29.95), the 7 Chakra Bracelet & Stone Set a lotus bracelet with one stone per chakra ($29.95), and the Hamsa Hand Bracelet Set two bracelets in citrine, moonstone and labradorite ($49.95).

What the price buys

Completeness, not a better grade. Across the page the ladder runs from three raw stones, to one full working, to a herb blend with its oil, to four burn formats with or without a vessel, to a cacao practice with its tools, to the whole cacao range. Each step covers more of the same practice; none is a finer version of the step below. For daily devotion rather than a single ritual, the hand-poured Freyja and Shakti Devotional Tealight Sets ($14.95 each) give a few hours per flame.

How to start with a set

The instructions inside converge on one order: clear first, then invite. The smoke boxes suggest a smudge bomb or the disk for the heavy work, then an incense stick to settle the room. The cacao sets say to open Gentle Activation first and find your strength before moving to the richer blends. The smoke formats produce real smoke, so start away from smoke detectors and open a window.

From the magazine: What is ceremonial cacao? · How to hold a cacao ceremony at home · How to cleanse a room: smoke, spray and the order · How to burn a smudge stick · Candle magic for beginners. More in Crystal Sets, Ceremonial Cacao, Sacred Smoke Cleansing and Candle Spell Kits.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a gift box and a starter kit?

What is left when you finish it. A gift box is mostly consumed — the herbs and incense burn away. A starter kit is built around equipment you keep: the frother and copper cup in the cacao kit, the cauldron in the Energy Cleansing box, the stones and bracelets in the crystal sets.

Are these sets cheaper than buying the pieces separately?

Mostly they save you choosing rather than money. The clearest value is the raw-stone trios at $8.99 for three stones. Elsewhere you are paying for a curated, complete set that arrives ready to use or to give.

Which set is best for a complete beginner?

The $15.95 Inner Eye Intuition Spell Kit if you want one ritual with written steps and nothing assumed. A $72.95 smoke gift box if you want to find out which way of burning suits you. An $8.99 stone trio if you want something to hold rather than light.

What is inside a smoke cleansing gift box?

Four ways to burn one botanical: four incense sticks at 40 to 50 minutes each, a smudge disk at 40 to 60 minutes, three smudge bombs at about 30 minutes each, and a smudge stick for several burns. Match the format to the time you have.

What comes in the Cacao Ceremony Starter Kit?

An 8.4 oz tin of Gentle Activation elixir, an 8 oz sampler of ceremonial cacao in wafer form, a frother, two palo santo sticks and a copper cup — both formats, ready-blended and raw, plus the tools.

Which sets are best to give as a gift?

The Sacred Scents Sanctuary gift boxes arrive presented and need no re-wrapping. The cacao sets come as canisters and present well. The stone trios and tealight sets are small and simple, and are nicest with a little wrapping of your own.

Offered as traditional, devotional and decorative objects, not medical devices. Nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition.