Quick Specs
- Brand: Escential Essences
- Type: Scented stick incense
- Scent: Ocean Atlantis, water theme
- Count: 95-100 sticks per package
- Made in: USA
- Cruelty-free: Yes
A Water Scent Named for a Sunken Island
Ocean Atlantis is filed under water, and the name supplies the scene: a wide sea and an island that went down into it. The scent comes with themes of secret discoveries, a golden age, and the beginnings of creation, which are large, slow subjects. They suit a stick you light when you want to look at something from underneath. This stick says stay a while and go deeper, which suits a long reading or an evening of dream journaling. The stick format fits that pace. Light the tip, set it in a holder, and a steady thread of fragrance runs alongside whatever you’re doing, so your attention stays on the cards, the notebook, or the question in front of you. It’s a good fit for rainy afternoons and late evenings, when the light is low and the mind is already turning inward. A bulk pack changes how you use incense, too. With plenty of sticks on hand, you can burn one for a ten-minute check-in as readily as for a long evening, and the scent turns into a habit with a fixed place in your week.
In tarot, water belongs to the suit of Cups, which covers emotion, intuition, relationships, and imagination. A water-named stick has an obvious home beside a Cups spread, and it suits questions that sit beneath the surface: why a friendship cooled, what a recurring dream keeps returning to, what you’ve been feeling and haven’t put into words. It also suits a spread about a move, a loss, or a change of direction, where the feeling matters as much as the facts. Atlantis adds a second layer. The story comes from Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias, which place a great island out in the Atlantic. A lost world under the waves works as a prompt for your own submerged material: the memories you only recall in pieces, the plans you shelved, the room in your life you stopped visiting. It’s a doorway into a theme, and the cards and your notebook do the work once you’re through it. If you’re building a shelf of scents by mood, Ocean Atlantis covers the deep, reflective end.
Practical Ritual Applications
Light a stick before a Cups-heavy spread or a relationship question and let it burn while you lay out the cards. Pair it with a dream journal: write down what you remember from the night, then read the entry back with the stick lit and look for the water in it, the flooded rooms, the things just out of reach. It also works for study. Working through the court cards of Cups one at a time is easier to sustain with a steady scent in the room. If you keep a water altar, a bowl of water, a shell, or a piece of blue glass beside the holder gives the scent a visual partner. A holder with a wide ash catcher keeps the table tidy, and my stick incense burners collection has several shapes to choose from. With a pack this size, you can also set a few sticks aside to give to friends who read cards or keep dream notebooks.
How to Burn Ocean Atlantis Incense for a Deep-Water Reading
One stick, one question, and three cards give a reading a clear shape.
- Set the table and name the question
Place a stick holder with an ash catcher on a stable, heat-safe surface, away from paper and fabric, and open a window a few inches. Write your question on a card or in your notebook before you light anything, and aim it below the surface and ask what is going on underneath. A question with some depth gives the cards more to say.
- Light the stick and lay out three cards
Hold the tip to a flame until it catches, then blow the flame out so the tip glows and smokes, and stand the stick in the holder. Draw three cards and lay them in a column: the top card for what is visible, the middle for what lies beneath, the bottom for what sits at the floor of the question. Read them from the top down, slowly, and let each one sit before you move to the next.
- Close the reading and put the stick out
When you've finished reading, write one sentence about the bottom card. Press the tip of the stick into sand or a fireproof dish until the glow is gone; blowing on it can scatter sparks. Let the ash cool completely before you empty the holder, then close the window you opened.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I carry Ocean Atlantis in the bulk pack for readers and journal-keepers who burn incense often, and for anyone who wants enough sticks to share. Escential Essences also makes this scent as a 16-pack, as cones, and as a fragrance oil, and I stock each of them, so you can try the scent in a smaller form first and come back for the bulk pack once you know it suits you. It’s also a sensible size for a reading room, a studio, or any shared space where a stick gets lit most days. Other scents in this bulk size are in my 95-100 pack Escential Essences collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Atlantis first appears in two dialogues by Plato, Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BCE. Plato places it on an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the Strait of Gibraltar, out in the Atlantic. Classicists generally read the story as a philosophical allegory about power and pride, and no archaeological evidence for a sunken Atlantis has turned up. Some writers have tried to link it to the Thera eruption or to Minoan Crete, but the size and Atlantic location Plato gives fit neither.
Keep the sticks in an airtight container such as a glass jar, a resealable bag, or the original packaging if it closes again. Store them somewhere cool, dry, and out of direct light, because light and humidity wear down fragrance; one storage guide puts the comfortable range at 60 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity under 50 percent. If you keep several scents, give each its own container so the fragrances don't mingle.
Incense smoke can irritate a cat's airways, so burn a stick in a ventilated room the cat can't enter and let the room air out before it comes back. Birds need more caution: bird-care sources describe them as extremely sensitive to airborne particles and advise against burning incense anywhere in a home where a bird lives. Whatever pets you have, keep the holder out of reach so nothing gets knocked over.
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