Copal Gum

Copal Resin Bursera spp.

Known in Nahuatl as copalli, copal has been called the blood of the trees — a living resin offered to sacred fires, deities, and the four directions as a vessel for prayer and intention. Its roots run deep in Mesoamerican ceremony, where it was burned to lift heavy energy from people and spaces, and lit during ancestral observances to open a pathway between the living and the dead. That same purifying, luminous quality is what makes it so enduring across traditions.

In modern ritual practice, copal is valued as a high-vibration incense that works beautifully alongside or in place of frankincense. Burn it on charcoal during circle castings to cleanse and consecrate your space, use it to clear newly acquired tools, crystals, or altars, or incorporate it into workings centred on love, solar energy, divination, and spiritual clarity. In poppet magic, a piece of copal placed at the heart represents the emotional centre of the working — drawing warmth, love, and compassion into the intention.

Magical Properties – Purification, love, ancestral connection, consecration, and spiritual elevation.
Element: Fire (or Air)  |  Planet: Sun

For ritual and magical use. Sold by the ounce.