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What herbs can you smoke/burn to help induce trance/visions or ease communications with spirits/deities?

I can only give suggestions for burning herbs. I’m not really the witch to be asking as far as smoking goes. These are just some off the top of my head. The best one I can think of to start off this list is tobacco. Tobacco has a long magical history of being an excellent offering and spirit communicator. When it is turned into smoke, the spirits feed. They’ll gather in for a taste, and in being plied with food, you can ask them questions and favors. It was once only used in plant form, but cigarettes and cigars are used today. If you go South, you’ll begin to notice that a lot of the magical traditions there involve tobacco and offering it to the spirits they’re working with. My personal favorite is the oft overlooked dandelion. The Dandelion has such a rich magical history that is, for the most part, completely ignored. Its use as a spirit communication aid has been around for a long time. It can be used to sharpen psychic senses, drawing spirits forward, helping one ‘travel’, and creating alrauns. The roots are invaluable if you are a necromancer or work with darker spirits. I don’t know if it’s scoffed at because it’s a common weed or because of its bright, sunny exterior, but what lie beneath is nothing to be written off. The Mallow plant is one that I’ve employed before, but don’t use often. Mallow is the herb you use when you want to communicate with kind and gentle dead. It was used as a funerary flower in ancient Greece. You’d be best off using it for ancestor work. However, it would also do well with any sort of peace making spirit work as well. Mallow also can work as a ‘spirit strainer’ for the lack of a better word. It can help block out malicious entities and powers while allowing gentler ones to come forward. Mugwort also has a long history with spirit work. It used to be employed to protect against the dead and other mischievous spirits. Many people also use it to do spirit work in sleep, whether that be keeping the spirits out of the dreams or drawing them in. Some people add it to divinatory blends to block out ill meaning powers. Sycamore is also a personal favorite of mine, and not well known to many practitioners. Sycamore is one of the best necromancy trees you could ask for. It was thought to connect this world to the Otherworld. They were also once called “Ghost trees” or “Ghost of the Forest”. I once performed the most intense necromantic working I think I’ve ever done under two gigantic sycamores that acted as a gate. The leaves, wood, and loose bark can be taken and burnt to open the way for spirits. You’ll recognize it by the mottled and strangely colored bark pattern. 

You know how 6 is associated with the occult? Like 666? Well I was thinking, ( a dangerous thing here I know) snowflakes, right? They are always 6 pointed when forming/ formed.( unless parts of it melt or crushed) so would they be a powerful symbol in the occult because of the connection? And hexagons! They are 6 sided too, and made of wax. Beeswax is often used in lots of candles.( artificial wax is more common nowadays and there was also animal fat as a more common option, but beeswax is used in candles as well back in the past) so would beeswax have more magical power than other waxes? Idk I kinda typed as I thought, might research this later tho!