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Protection Oil
I recently started up my practice again and the first thing I made was a protection candles and some oils. I haven't shared any witchy things in a while so here is how I make protection oil.
You can use any oil, I prefer to use olive oil. I also put red pepper and a rose thorn in there because I like them. I would also have added egg shell powder but I didn't have any. You can tailor this to what ever you have one hand. The world is your oyster do whatever the fuck you want. You can wear this oil, lock mirrors, windows, add to spells, ect... Personally I like to put it on before I do spell work. Stay protected witches !
Olive Oil
Salt - purification, cleansing
Sage - protection, hex breaking
Red pepper - baneful protection
Parsley - protection, purification
Thyme - protection
Black salt - protection, dispel's negative energy
Rose thorn - repellent for negative energy, baneful protection
Tigers' eye - protection
A petition with intentions
Edit :
I forgot to add this the first time.
Do not put fresh herbs or shit that has water in it into your carrier oil. It can create botulism. Make sure everything you add is dried.
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Cloves
Syzygium aromaticum
Myrtaceae
Description:
Clove comes from a coniferous tree (Clove tree) with dark green slender leaves, which grows in the tropical regions, the flower buds range from cream to red in color, and its berries are purple. Nails are actually sun-dried flower buds.
Medicinal Properties
Cloves are used as well as the essence obtained by steam distillation.
Internal use:
For internal use, Cloves are used to treat physical and intellectual asthenia, dyspepsia, gastric fermentation, flatulence, diarrhea, intestinal parasites, pulmonary diseases (tuberculosis), dental neuralgia and impotence .
It is also used to prepare for childbirth and to prevent infectious diseases.
For all this you can take 2-4 drops of Clove essence 3 times a day in honey or in alcoholic solution.
A few drops of clove oil added to water will stop vomiting.
You can also very simply regularly use the Nails of Cloves in daily cooking.
To prepare for childbirth, use Clove in soups during the last months of pregnancy, then before childbirth take an infusion of Clove.
Against the lack of sexual desire you can make imps also called lozenges aphrodisiacs from Naples.
For this you need 500 parts of sugar, 12 of mastic, 8 of saffron, 1 of musk, 2 of ginger, 2 of cloves, 4 of ambergris, and a sufficient quantity of infused marum. Make it into 0.50 to 1 g lozenges, and take it 4 to 5 times a day.
External use:
In external use, Cloves can be used to treat scabies, infected wounds or not, leg ulcers, corneal sores, dental neuralgia, and lupus. They are also used to repel mosquitoes and insects moths.
For this the best is to use them in the form of pure Clove oil. This gasoline pure can also be used as an umbilical cord dressing, since it is neither toxic nor irritating, and that it is also analgesic.
Cloves can also be used in the form of fumigations, lotions, or compresses.
Against dental neuralgia you can make mouthwashes with Cloves, and against corneal stains you can use fluid aqueous extract.
For lupus use the essence in dilution alcoholic between 5 and 10% in friction.
Against scabies, use Helmerich's ointment (see Lavender).
Finally, to ward off mosquitoes and moths, poke an orange with cloves.
Warning
Please note: the notes on the phytotherapeutic use of plants are purely indicative and do not replace consultation with a doctor. Absolutely avoid self-medication. If you are sick, go see a doctor, only he can make a diagnosis and prescribe the best treatment.
Magic and Witchcraft
Gender: Male
Planets: Jupiter, Venus
Element: Fire
Deities: Aphrodite, Dionysus, Eros.
Magical Properties
Cloves are used for protection, exorcism, money, love.
Burned in incense, Cloves attract wealth, repel negative and hostile forces, produce spiritual vibrations and purify the aura.
It carries the fire and when the fire circulating in a being or acting in a situation is unbalanced, it brings harmony.
Cloves can also be used to attract small amounts of money. All you need to do is put some in your wallet.
Cloves can also be burned in incense to prevent others from telling gossip about you.
Burn cloves or clove powder with pure incense when the atmosphere is filled with anger or you wish to reconcile with someone.
Clove oil has long been used to relieve the pain of dental caries and abscesses. To do this, crush 7 cloves in olive oil, make a paste and apply it to the skin covering the painful area by drawing a pentagram or a cross.
Finally worn on oneself, Cloves, which are reputed to be aphrodisiacs in Asia, attract.people of the opposite sex and bring comfort to those who are grieving.
Several pinches of Clove powder in a bath kindles the fire of the aura and engenders the attraction of the opposite sex.
Spell to get rid of people who say bad things about you
What you will need:
A red candle.
Clove incense (or powder).
A sheet of white paper.
A pencil.
A few drops of vinegar.
Direction :
You will perform this ritual during the waning phase of the Moon.
Light the candle.
Light the incense.
Write on the paper the name of the person or persons who are bothering you.
Pass the paper over the incense smoke, repeating 3 times:
"It's time for you to leave me,
stop trying to embarrass me,
I want nothing more than peace, calm and tranquility forever. "
Pour a few drops of vinegar on the paper and let it burn in the flame of the candle.
Sources :
Morrigan's Grimoire of Herbs.
On the use of herbs, powders and incense in magic by Mikhael d'Estissac.
Magic recipe from our countryside by Patrick Guerin.
Grimoires of Magical Herbs Eric Pier Sperandio
Magickal Properties of: Rose
Scientific Names:
There are over 300 species of roses, with more than 1000 cultivars. Roses are believed to have first been cultivated in China, historically dating back to 5000 years. The following seem to be the most common varieties that are sold as oils or marketed for magickal use. However, this is only speculation and may not be entirely accurate.
Rosa Gallica - Also known as the French Rose or Apothecary Rose, it is native to southern and central Europe. It is believed that this rose variety was first cultivated by the Greek’s and Romans.
Rosa Centifolia - This type of rose is also sometimes called the Cabbage Rose.
Rosa Damascena - Also known as the Damask Rose or Rose of Castile.
Most Rose oil is derived from the Rosa Centifolia and Damascena varieties. Although they differ a bit in color and fragrance, they share similar properties and uses. Rose oil is also quite expensive. For magickal purposes, it is more economical to use fresh roses or dried rose petals.
Correspondences
Energetic: Receptive
Element: Water
Astrological: Venus, Taurus
Deities: Isis, Hathor, Aphrodite, Demeter, Eros, Hulda, Aurora
Symbolism for Divination or Spell Associations: Love, Fertility, Romance, Protection, Beauty, Luck, Joy, Emotions
Uses
Use in sachets, spell bottles, teas, incense blends, anointing oils, to dress a candle, in a bath.
Use in spells for healing, love, peace, protection, beauty, to avoid conflict, to calm stress and to resolve problems peacefully.
Rose is one of the most versatile plants. Rose petals can be incorporated into any spell, ritual or meditation to enhance its effects. Rose is particularly potent in workings that focus on protection because roses protect in the energetic vibration of love and compassion. Roses have a fierce, yet gentle energy.
A single rose placed inside a glass of water on an altar can be used as a singular, but powerful focus for a spell.
Use rose petals in a bath to encourage beauty, healing and to attract love.
Carry rose petals in a sachet for protection.
Sprinkle rose petals in the home or around a space to resolve conflict and calm upheavals.
Roses planted in a garden are said to attract faeries.
Rose petals blended into a tea can induce prophetic dreams and assist with divination.
Use rose thorns to carve sigils into candles to enhance the spell.
Notes
If you are going to drink rose as a tea, or burn it as an incense, be sure to research thoroughly and buy your roses at food grade quality from a reputable source. Not all roses are grown for consumption and may have been exposed to dangerous pesticides and/or chemicals to help preserve them once cut. If you ingest roses that have been treated with chemicals, they may irritate the digestive tract.
Rose water is very good for the skin.
Roses also carry correspondences with spiritual enlightenment in some sacred traditions.
Sources & Links
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Healing Remedies- C. Norman Shealy MD, PhD - Harper Collins Publishers
Herb Magic: An Introduction to Magical Herbalism and Spells - Patty Wigingron, Illustrations by Mel Baxter - Rockridge Press
The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs: Your Complete Guide to the Hidden Powers of Herbs - Judy Ann Nock - Adams Media
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs: Expanded and Revised Edition - Scott Cunningham - Llewellyn Publications
Some herbs and their magical properties from Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs 🌿
Eucalyptus Correspondences
latin: eucalyptus globules
properties: protection, purification, money, healing
duality/gender: passive/feminine
elements: air, water
planets: moon, mercury, venus
day of the week: wednesday
astrology signs: pisces, cancer
WARNING: Eucalyptus can not be consumed. Taking 3.5 mL of undiluted oil can be fatal. Even applying too much to the skin and absorbing large amounts is dangerous. (Use it very lightly, dilute it, or use a humidifier.) Signs of eucalyptus poisoning might include stomach pain and burning, dizziness, muscle weakness, small eye pupils, feelings of suffocation, and some others. Eucalyptus changes how many medicines break down in the liver. Eucalyptus should not be applied to the face, especially the nose, of infants and young children. Avoid using it in infants.
Eucalyptus will: Help with all forms of healing, protect your home, enhance your financial success
The plant: Eucalyptus is native to Australia, Africa, India, and southern Europe. It is a very fast-growing tree with leathery leaves that contain an aromatic oil. When the flowers bud, they’re covered with a cup-like membrane, which drops off when the flowers open. The fruit are also cup-shaped and contain numerous tiny seeds.
Magical properties: The dried flowers make a powerful stuffing for poppets to be used for healing, emotional, spiritual, and physical ailments. Sprinkle the oil around the inside of your home to raise the spiritual vibration and dispel any residual negative energy. If you’re feeling financially strapped, rub the oil on your money to ensure abundance. To ward off illness, hand the dries leaves over your front door. If you sleep with the leaves under your pillow, they will induce sweet dreams and prevent colds.
Medicinal uses: Eucalyptus oil is one of the most powerful antiseptics. It’s also believed to increase cardiac strength. When the oil is added to boiling water, the steam helps break up a chest cold.
sources:
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants, Revised: A Practical Guide to Creating Healing, Protection, and Prosperity Using Plants, Herbs, and Flowers, page 188 https://www.groveandgrotto.com/blogs/articles/magickal-uses-of-eucalyptus https://vayas-witchcraft-and-spiritual.tumblr.com/post/111340109875/herbplant-eucalyptus https://witchygypsymomma.com/2021/01/20/digging-deeper-into-eucalyptus/ https://plentifulearth.com/day-week-magickal-correspondences/
🌹How To Use Roses in Witchcraft🌹
⭐Add roses to Banishing Spells to overcome a bad habit
⭐Use rose petals in your bath for attraction rituals
⭐Make rose water
⭐Use the thorns from roses in Protection Spells or to deflect negative energies
⭐Can be used in any Beauty Spells
⭐Stuff rose petals into poppets/dolls for love, romance, and attraction.
⭐Rose colors mean different things. Use them for specific energies:
White- New Begins, Purity
Pink- Sweetness, Sincerity
Yellow- Friendship, Cheerfulness
Purple- Love at first Sight, Royalty
Black- Major Changes, Mystery
Red- Love, Passion
⭐Enchant a rose or a bouquet of roses before giving them to someone
⭐Use wilted roses for opposite effect (wilted purple rose being disinterest at first sight.) Not to be confused with dried roses. Roses left to naturally decay on a rose bush as much as possible.
⭐Sprinkle red rose buds on a candle to help bring in loving energy. Yellow rose buds to bring in friendships, etc.
⭐Use roses in tea to bring love, healing, and protection into your being.
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Herbal preparations
The Decoction:
Solution obtained by boiling the plants in a covered saucepan for twelve to thirty minutes, then strained.
The Infusion:
Solution obtained by pouring boiling water over the chopped plants and then filtering.
Herbal teas:
Solution obtained from infusion of decoction or maceration prepared with a lot of water and very few plants.
Maceration:
Solution obtained by leaving the plants in contact with cold water, wine or oil for a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks.
The sirup:
Solution obtained by adding a large amount of sugar, up to 70%, to the infusion or decoction.
The Poultice:
Paste containing oils, starches, mucilages which are generally applied hot to the skin.
The Balm:
Fragrant resin that flows from certain plants, by extension, fatty preparation for external use that calms pain or heals.
The Ointment:
Perfumed oil based on the aromatic essence of plants.
The dye:
Solution obtained by macerating between 5 and 10 days one part of dried medicinal substance, reduced to powder in 4 parts of alcohol.
Medicinal Wines:
Solutions obtained by pouring wine over the plants in a glass container, letting the whole thing macerate and shaking it from time to time, then filtering it.
The Essential Oil:
Volatile aromatic substance obtained from plant raw material either by steam distillation preferably at low pressure or by a dry distillation process called pyrogenation, more precisely the essential oil is considered as the distilled essence of the plant and has the advantage of not containing any fatty substance.
Floral Water:
Or Hydrolat, is the condensed water vapor resulting from the distillation of an aromatic plant and / or a flower which naturally separates from the essential oil at the exit of the still and which is charged with molecules aromatic during distillation, rich in versatile active ingredients. Floral water has an aromatic molecule concentration varying between 0.05 and 0.1%. It complements and reinforces the action of the essential oil, thus allowing safe use.
The Extract:
These are aqueous or alcoholic macerations that are more or less concentrated by evaporation, in this way thick or solid fluid extracts are obtained.
Fresh Juice:
The fresh juice is obtained from crushed and pressed fresh plants. The juice obtained is put in the fridge for a day to let it settle and then it is filtered.
The powder:
Shade-dried plants are finely cut and then pulverized in a mortar. These single plants or in a mixture are sold in sachets (infusette) to make herbal teas that do not need to be strained.
Grimoire of Plants
Airmid
Plants consecration ritual
Stang by wicca witch
Bundle for fire by druidisme des haies
Haw to prune your herbs by little witchy gardeen
The sacred trees of beltane by druidisme des haies
Druid trees of power by druidisme des haies
Witch ball
Little witchy tricks
All about 24 wand woods
Tea craft your witch's brew
Brew recipes
Basic colors correspondences by safety-pin-witch
Magical Waters
Herbs and their uses in witchcraft
Magical Powders
Herbs in kitchen for green magic
kitchen witchery poster
Herbs for protection
Herb and Flora properties
Magical Oils
Essential Oils for spriritual protection
Gemstones and their meanings
Protective jar for the house
Magic bottle for the protection of home, property and people
Magic candles
Mama Bree's magical powders
How to make a spell jar
Irish healing water spell
Spell jar ingredients and wax sealing poster
Magic Oils for the sabbaths and flying Oitments
Sabbats :
Litha - Midsummer
Sacred herbs of Midsummer
Agrimony
Angelica
Absinthe - Wormwood
Bay leaves
Beladonna
Cloves
Garlic - Wild Garlic
Honey therapeutic properties
Magic Honey (and 2 spell jar
Laurel
Lilac
Fern (Male and Eagle)
Mandrake
St john's Wort
Verbena
♡ Angelica Root ♡
Scientific Name: Angelica Archangelica
Element: Fire
Protection and exorcism magick specifically for incense
Root form can be carried in a sachet or pouch for protection
Use in baths to rid yourself or curses and hexes
Banishes negative energy and strengthening/attracts positive energy
Enhances the aura
Encourages a positive perspective
Use in spells to bring good fortune and or ward off evil
Medicinally it can relieve headaches, help the stomach and digestion, help with asthma and bronchitis. Before using any herbs medicinally please do further research, and check with a doctor.
WARNINGS: Large amounts of Angelica Root can negatively affect blood pressure, the heart, and breathing. Angelica Root can cause miscarriages in pregnant women.
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🍀 Oxalis in Magic! 🍀
🌱 Oxalis is a very common plant, and a great natural resource for beginning witches because of that!
🌱 Oxalis is bound to Venus and Earth, love and home respectively. This makes the plant perfect for home protection and similar spells home oriented.
🌱 They are also commonly mistaken for clovers! Which makes them great for glamours, they are able to masquerade as something other than themself without trying. The glamour can be made for love especially, because of the ties to Venus mentioned earlier.
🌱 They can be used for luck, not only because of their looks relating to clovers, but because of their own lucky and abundant properties. Use in money and wealth spells for abundance and prosperity, as well as luck spells!
🌱 These plants spread deep roots, which means they can help you with grounding. They are good to eat so consider eating some and grounding yourself before big magical endeavors!
🍀Overall we can see that Oxalis is a very versatile plant, used for love, luck, home, abundance, grounding, glamours. So go out and collect some!🍀
Happy Witching!✨
Herb and Flora Properties
A
Acacia: Exorcism, banishing, money, love, to be burned for alter offering, aiding in psychic powers, meditation, protection
Acorn: Strength, money and wealth, protection
Adam and Eve Roots: (TOXIC) Attract love, happiness
Adders Tongue: Healing, divination
African Violet: Protection, promote spirituality
Agaric: (TOXIC) Encourage fertility
Agrimony: Protection, banish negative energy-entities, reverse spells, break hexes, promotes sleep, psychic protection, returns spells to their senders
Ague Root: Protection, break hexes
Alder: Whistles entice the Elemental earth, water magic, strength
Alfalfa: Abundance, prosperity, money, anti-hunger, frugality, providence, place in the kitchen
Alkanet: Repel negativity, attract prosperity, purification All Heal- Mental powers
Allspice: Money, luck, healing, prosperity when burned, courage, magickal power, love, lust
Almond: Prosperity, success in business ventures, money, wisdom, love, anger management
Aloe: Protection, luck, money, repel evil, healing, beauty, success, peace
Aloes, Wood: Love, spirituality, money, protection Althea - protection, psychic power, attract good spirits
Alyssum: Protection, calm anger
Amaranth: Healing, protection, healing heartbreak, invisibility Amber: Healing
Ambergris: Lust, sex Anemone - health, protection, healing
Angelica: Protection, exorcism, remove curses and hexes, healing, visions, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house, increases life energy bringing warmth of Fire element, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house
Anise: Divination, psychic awareness, joy, dreams, luck, love, enthusiasm, Winter Solstice, entices the spirits to aid in spells
Apple: Love, healing, garden blessing, buried in the garden on Samhain as food for the departing spirits, to be shared with one you love, immortality, happiness, luck, broken heart, spirit food, the goddess
Apricot: Love
Arabic Gum: Purification, spirituality, protection
Arbutus: Exorcism, protection
Arrowroot: Protection
Asafetida: Purification, protection, exorcism
Ash: Prosperity, protection, healing, love, wands, leaves for prophetic dreams, sea rituals, longevity, peace, luck, purification, study, enhances magic, besom
Aspen: Protection, eloquence, anti-theft
Aster: Love
Astragalus: Fortification, Strength
Avens: Exorcism, love, purification, Exorcism, purification, love
Avocado: Beauty, love, lust
B
Bachelors Buttons: Love
Balm of Gilead: (TOXIC) Love, manifestations, ease a broken heart, protection, healing, love
Bamboo: Protection, luck, break hexes, wishes
Banana: Prosperity, fertility, potency
Banyan: Luck, happiness
Barley: Healing, protection, love
Basil: Exorcism, love, protection, prosperity, wealth, repels negative energy, sympathy, wealth, flying, courage, business, fertility, healing relationships, ensure faithfulness on masses
Bay: Psychic powers, protection, healing, purification, strength, wish magick, wisdom, good luck, fertility, banish negativity, energy, insight, divination, victory, prosperity, employment, mental power, burn for psychic powers
Bayberry: Employment
Bean: Love, protection, exorcism, wart charming, reconciliation, potency
Beech: Creativity, wishes, fertility, balance mental health
Beet: Love
Belladonna: (TOXIC) Visions, astral protection, divination
Benzoin: Purification, prosperity, astral projection, confidence, protection
Bergamot: Success, money, confidence, protection, prosperity, employment, unwanted advances
Be-Still: (TOXIC) Luck
Betony: Love, healing, burn at Litha for purification, protection; place under pillow to be rid of nightmares; sprinkle around doors to ward off despair, psychic awareness
Birch: Purification, protection, exorcism, cleansing, beauty, catalyst, blessing, health, besom, beginnings
Bistort: Fertility, psychic powers
Bittersweet: (TOXIC) Protection, healing, broken heart
Black Cohosh: Courage, love, protection, potency
Black Hellebore: (TOXIC) Invisibility, exorcism, astral projection
Black pepper: Courage, protection
Black Snakeroot - Love, lust, money
Blackberry: Healing, protection, prosperity, money, pies for Lughnassadh
Blackthorn: Returns evil to it's sender
Bladderwrack: Psychic powers, protection, money, water or sea spells, wind spells, travel, psychic Clarity
Bleeding Heart: Love
Blessed Thistle: Protection, animal healing, abundance
Bloodroot: (TOXIC) Love, purification, protection
Bluebell: Luck, truth
Blueberry: Protection
Blue Cohosh Root: Courage, balance, protection
Blue Flag: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, success in business
Bodhi: Wisdom, fertility, protection, meditation
Boneset: Protection, exorcism
Borage: Courage, psychic powers, carry leaves for protection
Bracken: Protection, healing, fertility, prophetic dreams, rune magick
Brazil Nut: Love
Briar: Add to tea for clairvoyant dreams, protection
Briony: (TOXIC) Mage magick, protection, money
Bromeliad: Protection, money
Broom: (TOXIC) Divination, wind spells, purification of the circle, hung indoors for protection
Bryony: (TOXIC) Pleasure, reveal secrets
Buchu: Prophetic dreams, psychic powers
Buckeye: Luck, divination, money, wealth, prosperity, gambling
Buckthorn: Protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
Buckwheat: Protection, money
Burdock: Protection, healing, wards off negativity, purifies, protects (washing floors or dried root on red string around the neck), happy home, clears space & holds the space safe, spirit of north
C
Cabbage: Luck
Cactus: Protection, chastity
Calamus: (TOXIC) Luck, protection, healing, money, purification
Calendula: Stress management , opening to the 3rd Chakra, helps energy move outward from center of body extending in all directions
Camellia: Prosperity, wealth, luxury
Camphor: (TOXIC) Healing, divination, chastity, past lives, prophetic dreams, purification, psychic awareness, unwanted advances
Caper: Lust, love, potency
Caraway: Protection, lust, healing, mental powers, repel negativity, psychic healing, vitality, energy, magickal power, anti-theft
Cardamon: Lust, love, burned in love spells and in love sachets
Carnation: Protection, strength, healing, altar offering to the goddess, strength
Carob: Protection, health
Carrot: Fertility, lust, vision, the God aspect
Cascara Sagrada: Protection, money, legal matters
Cashew: Prosperity, money, communication
Cassia: Psychic awareness, spirituality
Castor: (TOXIC) Protection, repel negativity
Catnip: Love, beauty, happiness, power, courage, positive cat magik, friendship, joy, anger management, depression management, familiars
Cat Tail: Lust
Cayenne: Exorcism, healing
Cedar: Healing, purification, money, protection, cleansing, courage, stopping sexual harassment, prosperity, aura field and space
Celandine: Joy, protection, happiness, escape, legal matters, depression management
Celery: Lust, psychic powers, mental clarity, concentration, peace
Centaury: Snake removing
Chamomile: Purification, tranquility, money, sleep-rest (tea), love, luck, meditation, prosperity, incense for the God, gambling, hex breaking, legal matters, peace, dreams, dexterity, protection
Chapparal: Fire element rituals, Protection, Spirit of South
Cherry: Love, divination, burn chips at sabbats, creativity , victory
Chestnut: Love
Chickweed: Love, fidelity
Chicory: Favors, frugality, remove obstacles, invisibility, frigidity, liberation
Chili Pepper: Fidelity, love, break hexes
China Berry: (TOXIC) Luck, change
Chrysanthemum: (TOXIC) Protection
Cilantro: Health
Cinchona: Protection, luck
Cinnamon: Prosperity, success, spirituality, healing, lust, protection, love, psychic powers, passion, power, dreams, strength, astral projection, courage, money, purification, personal empowerment
Cinquefoil: Money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, lust, prosperity, divination dreams
Citron: Healing, eaten to increase psychic powers
Civet: Love, lust, sex
Cloth-of-Gold: Animal communication
Clove: Protection, exorcism, purification, love, money, mental clarity, burn for wealth, wards off negativity, counter spells, cleansing, divination, luck, depression management, psychic awareness, prophetic dreams, happiness, gossip
Clover: Success, protection, money, exorcism, love, fidelity, consecration, beauty, luck, youth, healing, faeries, prosperity
Club Moss: Protection, power
Coconut: Purification, protection, chastity, Water
Cohosh, Black: Courage, protection, potency, menopause
Coltsfoot: Love, psychic visions, healing, wealth, prosperity
Columbine: Courage, love
Comfrey: (TOXIC) Money, root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel, protection, stress management, safe Journeys (Worldly or through Meditation) , Winter Solstice
Copal: Love, purification, exorcism, protection, spirituality, earth element, sets sacred space, allows guides and guidance to come
Coriander: Love, health, healing, protection, longevity
Corn: Divination, protection, luck, money
Cornflower: Psychism
Cornsilk: Water element, stimulates flow
Cotton: Luck, healing, protection
Cowslip: Youth, healing, treasure finding, luck, love, psychic dreams
Crocus: Love, visions, wisdom
Cubeb: Love
Cuckoo-Flower: Love, fertility
Cucumber: Healing, fertility, chastity
Cumin: Exorcism, protection, prevents theft, fidelity, love
Curry: Protection, exorcism
Cyclamen: Fertility, protection, happiness, lust, broken heart
Cypress: Healing, protection, comfort, longevity, peace, sleep, liberation
D
Daffodil: Love, luck, fertility
Daisy: Love, lust, Luck, depression management, faeries and elves, happiness
Damiana: Divination, love, lust, sex magick, dreams, visions, psychic powers, opens door between worlds
Dandelion Leaf and Root: Purification, divination, wishes, calling spirits
Date Palm: Potency, fertility
Datura: (TOXIC) Protection, sleep, break hexes
Deerstongue: (TOXIC) Lust, psychic powers, gossip management
Devil's Bit: Love, protection, luck, exorcism
Devil's Shoestring: Protection, luck, gambling, power, employment
Dill: Love, lust, seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flowers for love
Dittany of Crete: Manifestations, astral projection
Dock: Money, healing, fertility
Dodder: Love divination, knot magic
Dogbane: Love
Dogwood: Protection, wishes
Dong Quai, Slices: Health, vitality, fire element rituals
Dragons Blood: Power, protection, exorcism, potency, love, courage, fortune, catalyst, magick power, strength, purification, stimulates action of other herbs in incense blend, stimulates movement of energy
Dulse: Harmony, lust
Dutchman's Breeches: Love
E
Ebony: Protection, power
Echinacea: Strengthening spells, health, strength, wards off negativity or undesirable energies
Edelweiss: Invisibility, bullet-proofing
Elder: (CAUTION: SEEDS ARE POISONOUS, TOXIC) Money, wishes, theft protection, exorcism, healing, prosperity, sleep, wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, do not burn the wood of elder for it is sacred to Hecate, see fairies in the trees at Litha, flowers used as an alter offering, berries for esbat wine, flowers added to candle spells directed at hecate during the new moon, cleansing, offering
Elderberries: Prosperity, protection, sleep, joy, visions, banishing, energy, ancient wisdom, contactwith elementals, invoke magic
Elderflower: Purifying, healing
Elecampane: Love, protection, psychic powers, anger management
Elm: Protection, love, attracts elves
Endive: Love, lust
Eryngo: Peace, love, lust, traveler's luck
Eucalyptus: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, joy, purification, air element rituals
Euphorbia: (TOXIC) Protection, purification
Eyebright: Joy, psychic powers, mental clarity, mental ability and clarity, visions
F
False Unicorn Root: Connection to magical realm, contains energy and intention
Fennel: Protection, exorcism, healing, purification, virility, sacred to the God, hung over doors at Litha, strength, courage, money
Fennel Seed: Stimulates movement
Fenugreek: Prosperity, wealth, money, mental powers, clearing
Fern: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, eternal youth, protection, outside for rain, luck, riches, health, exorcism
Feverfew: Protection, wards sickness, wards accidents in traffic
Fig: Divination, fertility, love
Figwort: Protection, health
Fir: Health, prosperity, birth and rebirth
Flax: Luck, money, protection, purification, beauty, psychic powers, healing, health, initiates flow
Fleabane: Exorcism, protection, chastity
Forget-Me-Not: Mental powers
Foxglove: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Faeries and elves, lust, grow in garden for protection of the house and yard
Fragrant Bedstraw: Love
Frankincense: Exorcism, purification, protection, spirituality, power, meditation, blessing, concentration, banishing, courage, divination, healing, love, purification, consecration, sets sacred space, sets safe space for guides to come in, spirit of east or north
Fumitory: Money, exorcism
Furz/egorse: Burn at Ostara for protection and as a preparation for any conflict
Fuzzy Weed: Love, hunting
G
Galangal: Protection, legal matters, lust, health, money, psychic powers, break hexes, energy, strength, courage
Gardenia: Love, peace, healing, spirituality, psychic awareness
Garlic: Protection, healing, health, exorcism, lust sacred to Hecate, flowers for altar offerings, cloves for protection, anti-theft, wishes, relief from nightmares
Gentian: Power, love, break hexes, wishes, theft
Geranium: (TOXIC) Courage, abundance, health, love, protection, fertility
Giant Vetch: Fidelity
Ginger: Love, money, success, power, aphrodisiac, psychic ability, apathy, lust, good health, magickal power, fire element rituals, brings into existence, bringer of the manifestation, 3rd chakra vitality, inner strength, stimulates flow of energy, spirit of south
Ginseng: Longevity, sexual potency, protection, healing, love, lust, wishes, beauty, vitality, fertility, desire, encourages a long lasting affect, strength
Goat's Rue: Healing, health
Goldenrod: Prosperity, money, divination, luck
Goldenseal: Money, healing
Gorse: Protection, money
Gotu Kola: Meditation
Gourd: Protection
Grain: Protection
Grains of Paradise: Love, lust, luck, money, wishes
Grape: Mental clarity, money, fertility, garden magick, happiness
Grass: Psychic powers, protection
Ground Ivy: Divination
Groundsel: Health, healing
Gum Mastic: Magickal power
H
Hawthorn: Happiness, fertility, powerful wands, protection, chastity, fishing magick, faeries and elves, purification, business, depression management, purity, cleansing
Hawthorne Berries: 4th chakra strength and vitality, love, contentment
Hazel: Luck, fertility, protection, wishes, nuts strung on cord in house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, anti-lightning, love, aphrodisiac, wisdom, divination, mental powers, intelligence, inspiration
Heather: Luck, protection, red to start or end an affair, white for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at samhain to invite spirits to visit, rain making, spirituality
'Heliotrope: (TOXIC) Exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, wealth, invisibility, money, spirituality, prosperity, psychic awareness
Hellebore, Black: (TOXIC) Protection
Hemlock: (TOXIC) Astral projection, diminish libido, power, purification, charging, alignment
Hemp: Healing, love, visions, meditation
Henbane: (TOXIC) Love, luck, divination, invisibility
Henna: Healing, health, love, change, dying material
Hibiscus: Love, lust, divination, 5th Chakra
Hickory: Legal matters
High John the Conqueror: (TOXIC) Strength, confidence, health, love, money, success, happiness, break hexes, increase strength, legal matters, anointing, victory
Holly Thistle: Purification, break hexes
Holly: Protection, luck, dream magic, anti-lightning, balance, dreams, enhances magic, holiness, consecration, beauty
Honesty: Money, protection
Honeysuckle: Protection, money, psychic powers, confidence, broken heart, luck, happiness, healing, depression management
Hops: Healing, sleep, stress management, opens the channel in and out of the body in relationship with the universe
Horehound: Exorcism, healing, purification, protection, mental clarity, balance, banishing, opens air element within body & in the world, opens channel for clear communication
Horse Chestnut: (TOXIC) Healing, money
Horseradish: Exorcism, purification
Horsetail: Fertility
Houseleek: Love, luck, protection
Huckleberry: Protection, luck, dream magic, break hexes
Hyacinth: (TOXIC) Business, court cases, sleep, depression management, love, protection, happiness
Hydrangea: Break hexes
Hyssop: Healing, protection, purification, wards negativity, prosperity, money, banishing, dragon energy
I
Indian Paint Brush: Love
Iris: Purification, wisdom, courage, reincarnation, spirituality, happiness
Irish Moss: Luck, money, protection, opens throat, opens channel for clear communication
Ivy: (TOXIC) Divination, protection, healing, fertility, love, fidelity
J
Jasmine: Divination, love, money, prophetic dreams, sleep, prosperity, spirituality, visions, confidence, broken heart, astral projection, business, court cases
Jimson Weed: Protect against evil spirits
Job's Tears: Luck, wishes, healing
Joe-Pye Weed: Love, respect
Juniper: Protection, love, exorcism, health, anti-theft, banishing, peace, wishes, aphrodisiacs, sets sacred space, spirit of north
K
Kava Kava: Lust, protection while traveling, astral projection, visions, luck, visions, protection, love, opens one to receiving guidance and guides
Kelp: Wind spells, psychic powers, protection, connection to divine source through the physical and spiritual, unity, life-force strengthening, spirit of center
Knotweed: Health, binding spells, protection
L
Lady's Mantle: Love, self control
Lady's Slipper: Protection
Larch: Protection, anti-theft
Larkspur: Protection, health
Lavender: Protection, call in good spirits, love, sleep, longevity, happiness, peace, healing, burn for purification, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as an offering, psychic awareness, chastity, liberation, menopause, childbirth, grief or loss, youthful vigor, stress management, travel, anger management, attracts elves
Leek: Exorcism, love, protection
Lemon: Purification, love, friendship, longevity, cleansing, healing, peace, success, broken heart, anger management, devotion
Lemon Balm: Love, success, healing, depression management, aphrodisiac, soothe emotional pain after relationship ends
Lemon Verbena: Protection, purification, love, power, beauty, youth, happiness, peace, mental and emotional balance, summer solstice
Lemongrass: Psychic powers, mental clarity, lust, repel snakes
Lettuce: Love divination, sleep, protection, chastity, luck
Licorice: Love, lust, fidelity, aphrodisiac, meditation, harmony
Life-Everlasting: Health, healing, longevity
Lilac: Eorcism, protection, purification, beauty, love, peace, psychic awareness
Lily: Protection, exorcism, repel negativity, truth, break love spells, strength, purification, breaking hexes
Lily of the Valley: (TOXIC) Mental clarity, happiness, insight, depression management, peace
Lime: Healing, love, protection, cleansing, happiness, purification
Linden: Healing, protection, luck, love, sleep, bark for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, youth, attraction, longevity
Liquid Amber: Protection
Liverwort: Love, protection
Lobelia - (TOXIC) healing, love
Loosestrife: Peace, protection, harmony, purple restores harmony and brings peace
Lotus: Protection, spirituality, love, lock opening, liberation, mental powers
Lovage: Love, attraction, cleansing, purification
Love Seed: Love, friendship
Lucky Hand: Protection, luck, money, travel, employment
M
Mace: Psychic powers, mental clarity, divination'
Maguey: Lust
Magnolia: Fidelity, past lives, peace, sex, broken heart, beauty, wisdom
Mahogany, Mountain: Anti-lightning
Maidenhair: Beauty, love
Male Fern: Luck, love
Mallow: Love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake: (TOXIC) potency, exorcism, protection, fertility, money, love, health, protection, catalyst, prosperity, divination, increase psychic powers, aphrodisiacs, cursing enemies, building, banishing, protection in the subconscious, unconscious and underworld,
Maple: Money, longevity, love
Marigold: Prophetic dreams, protection, legal matters, marriage spells, enhanced psychic powers, pick in full sun, business and legal matters, clairvoyant dreams, mixed with water and rubbed on the eyelids to see fairies
Marjoram: Protection, love, happiness, health, money, depression management, prosperity
Marshmallow: Healing, friendship, boundaries, love, protection, strength, emotional balance'
Masterwort: Protection, strength, courage
Mastic: Psychic powers, lust, manifestations, love, magick power
May Apple: (TOXIC) Money, prosperity
Meadow Rue: Love, divination
Meadowsweet: Love, divination, peace, happiness, harmony, 3rd chakra
Mesquite: Healing
Milk Thistle: Creativity, protection, dispel, transformation
Mimosa: Love, protection, prophetic dreams, purification, past lives, visions
Mint: Exorcism, protection, money, lust, healing, travel, alter offering for helpful spirits , love, luck, anger management, dreams, abundance, prosperity, rejuvenation
Mistletoe: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism, hunting, success, catalyst, lust, liberation, sexual potency
Molukka: Protection
Moonflower: Liberation
Moonwort: Love, money, divination
Morning Glory: (TOXIC) Peace, happiness, depression management
Moss: Luck, money
Motherwort: Balances within, self empowerment, 2nd chakra
Mugwort: Astral projection, strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, divination, rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night, clairvoyance, purification, sex, renewal, fertility, clearing, sleep, visions, opens one to the teachings of the subconscious and unconscious self, 6th and 7th chakras
Mulberry: Protection, strength
Mullein: Exorcism, health, protection, courage, love divination, calling spirits, dreams, opens life energy flow through the body
Musk: Purification, sex
Mustard: Fertility, protection, mental clarity, health, money
Myrrh: Spirituality, purification, protection, healing, exorcism, wards negativity, burn for purification and consecrations, banishing, sets sacred space, ancient wisdom
Myrtle: Peace, money, love, youth, fertility, sleep, healing, prosperity
N
Narcissus: Peace
Nasturtium: Healing
Neroli: Love
Nettle: Exorcism, protection, healing, lust, abundance, 3rd and 6th chakra, banishing, stress management, gossip management
Niaouli: Protection
Norfolk Island Pine: Protection, anti-hunger
Nutmeg: Protection, money, health, luck, fidelity, break hexes, burn for prosperity, love, psychic awareness, relief from nightmares
Nuts: Fertility, prosperity, love, luck, use for tips on wands, gifts, communication
O
Oak: Protection, health, money, healing, potency, fertility, luck, the God, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health, acorns draw money, power, balance, prosperity
Oak Moss: Court cases, money, protection
Oats: Money, offering to the god, stress management
Oleander: (TOXIC) Love
Olive: Healing, peace, fertility, potency, protection, lust, victory, spirituality
Onion: Exorcism, healing, protection, purification, money, prophetic dreams, lust
Orange: Love, divination, luck, money
Orange Bergamot: Prosperity, success, energy, joy, friendship, success, prosperity, psychic awareness, peels for love, incense for good fortune
Orchid: Love, psychic powers
Oregon Grape: Money, prosperity
Orris: Divination, protection, love, prosperity, money, clairvoyance, sex, psychic awareness
P
Palmarosa: Hhealing, love
Palm Date: Fertility, potency
Pansy: Love, divination, rain magick, mental powers, strength
Papay: Protection, love, wishes
Papyrus: Protection, wisdom, self-insight
Parosela: Hunting
Parsley: Purification, protection, lust, love, fertility, prosperity
Passion Flower: Peace, sleep, friendships prosperity, increase libido, popularity, anger management, stress management
Patchouli: Money, fertility, lust, break hexes, incense for drawing money, earth, underworld, business, confidence, court cases, love, desire, prosperity, protection, success, sex, enemies
PAU D'ARCO: Fertility, wards off negativity, clears
Pea: Money, love
Peach: Exorcism, love, fertility, wishes, longevity, broken heart, youth
Pear: Love, lust
Pecan: Money, employment, prosperity, dreams, discipline
Pennyroyal: Exorcism, consecration, strength, protection, peace, healing
Peony: Exorcism, protection, purification
Pepper: Exorcism, protection, use in amulets or grow for protection, wards negativity
Peppermint: Purification, sleep, love, healing, psychic powers, divination, money, apathy, exorcism, insight, lust, menopause, clears energy and space
Pepper Tree: Protection, purification, healing
Periwinkle: (TOXIC) Protection, money, love, lust, mental clarity
Persimmon: Healing, luck, changing sex, insight into others
Petitgrain: Protection
Pilot Weed: Protection
Pimento: Love
Pimpernel: Protection, health
Pine: (TOXIC) Protection, exorcism, money, healing, fertility, brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, needles in money spells, spirituality, gambling, dreams, cleansing, banishing, purification, prosperity, employment, birth, rebirth, strength, life and immortality
Pineapple: Luck, money, chastity, hospitality, protection
Pipsissewa: Money, calling in good spirits
Pistachio: Breaking love spells
Plantain: Protection, healing, strength, snake repelling
Plum: Protection, love, healing, self-confidence
Plumeria: (TOXIC) Love
Poke: (TOXIC) Courage, break hexes
Pomegranate: Divination, luck, wealth, wishes, fertility
Poplar: Money, astral projection, success
Poppy: Fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, healing, invisibility
Potato: Healing, image magick, astral projection, separation, foundations, earth energy
Prickly Ash: Love
Primrose: Protection, love
Purslane: Protection, love, happiness, luck, sleep
Q
Quassia: Love
Queen of the Meadow: Power, protection
Quince: Protection, love, happiness
R
Radish: Protection, lust
Ragweed: Courage, faeries and elves
Ragwort: Protection
Raspberry: Healing, visions, protection, love, alleviates labor pains, spirit of center, spring equinox
Rattlesnake Root: Protection, money
Red Clover Blossoms: Abundance, love, money, protection, success, summer solstice
Red Root: Clears energy, dispels
Rhubarb: Health, protection, fidelity
Rice: Protection, money, fertility, rain, blessings, weather magick
Roots: Protection, divination, power
Rose: Beauty, protection, purification, love, psychic powers, healing, divination, peace, luck, courage, catalyst, sex, sleep, prophetic dreams, anger management, love divination, abundance, attraction, prosperity
Rose Geranium: Protection
Rose Hips: Healing, luck, call in good spirits, abundance, strength, fall equinox ceremony
Rosemary: Exorcism, protection, healing, love, lust, mental clarity, sleep, youth, burn for purification, wards negativity, love, blessing, consecration, cleansing, strength, wishes, dreams, beauty, theft, healing, psychic ability, spirit of south, grow to attract elves, blessing
Rowan: Protection, success, psychic powers, healing, power, wands and amulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for divination, fires to call upon spirits for help, grow for protection of the home, inspiration, wisdom, enhances magic, attracts faeries
Rue: Exorcism, protection, purification, break hexes, health, mental clarity, healing, blessing, consecration, use in altar oil, love, money and wealth, gossip management
Rye: Love, fidelity
S
Saffron: Love, lust, healing, strength, happiness, psychic powers, wind raising, depression management
Sage: Purification, protection, wisdom, longevity, wishes, health, immortality, intuition, divination, luck, prosperity, money, spirituality, menopause, psychic ability, clears, inner guide, longevity, vision
Sagebrush: Exorcism, protection, purification, joy, peace
St. John's Wort: (TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, courage, strength, happiness, health, love divination, burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, willpower, gathered at Litha, power, stress management
Saltpeter: Unwanted advances
Sandalwood: Protection, exorcism, purification, wishes, healing, spirituality, full moon esbats, wards negativity, spirit offering, luck, sex, banishing, astral projection, business, success, mental powers
Sarsaparilla: Love, money, inner strength, grounding, purification
Sassafras: Money, health, healing
Senna: Love
Serpentaria Root: Love, aphrodisiacs
Sesame: Money, success in business, lust, happiness, gambling
Shallot: Purification
Shamrocks: Faeries and elves
Shepherds Purse: Sleep, depression management, healing
Skullcap: Peace, love, fidelity, stress management, anxiety management
Skunk Cabbage: Good fortune, legal matters, legal matters
Slippery Elm: Halts gossip, aids verbal communication and development, enemies, friendship, ends disputes
Sloe: Exorcism, protection, banish negative energy/entities
Snakeroot: Money, luck, break hexes, love, lust
Snapdragon: Protection, break hexes, exorcism, prophetic dreams, prosperity, gossip management, money and wealth
Solomon's Seal: Love, exorcism, protection, an offering to the elementals for their aid
Sorrel, Wood: Healing, health
Southernwood: Love, lust, protection, faeries and elves
Spanish Moss: Protection
Spearmint: Healing, love, mental clarity
Spiderwort: Love
Spikenard: Health, fidelity, love, luck, strength, wisdom, mental powers
Squill: Protection, money, break hexes, business
Star Anise: Psychic powers, luck, good fortune, spiritual powers
Stephanotis: Lust
Stillengia: Psychic powers
Straw: Luck, attracts fairies, do not burn magik infused straw, it will bring ill-fortune, used as an image to protect an area, image magick, fertility
Strawberry: Love, luck, joy, broken heart
Sugar Cane: Love, lust, prosperity, sympathy
Sumbul: Psychic powers, love, luck, health
Summer Savory: Mental clarity and strength, mental powers
Sunflower: Wisdom, health, wishes, fertility, happiness, friendship, prosperity
Sweetgrass: Calling in good spirits, bringer of positive energy, clears, seals In, burned after white sage which clears, spirit of east
Sweetpea: Strength, courage, friendship, chastity, truth, love
T
Tamarind: Love
Tamarisk: Exorcism, protection
Tangerine: Magickal power
Tansy: Healing, health, longevity
Tea: Strength, courage, prosperity, riches, health
Thistle, Holly: Purification, hex breaking
Thistle, Milk: Exorcism, protection, healing, strength, break hexes, snake enraging
Thyme: Purification, courage, psychic powers, sleep, wards negativity, burn for purification, and healing spells, love, renewal, youth, divination, prophetic dreams, faery folk, romance
Ti: Protection, healing
Toadflax: Protection, break hexes
Toadstool: (TOXIC) Rain making
Tobacco: (TOXIC) Healing, purification, offerings
Tomato: Protection, prosperity, love
Tonka: (TOXIC) Courage, love, money, wishes, luck, friendship, prosperity
Tormentil: Protection, love
Trefoil: Decorate alter, protection, luck, when taking one, leave a bit of ginger or milk poured into the ground as payment to the fairies
Trillium: Love, luck, money
Tuberose: Love, lust, peace, psychic awareness
Tulip: Protection, prosperity, love
Turmeric: Purification (used with sea salt), fortification, strength, clears aggression
Turnip: Protection, endings, banish negativity
U
Uva Ursa: (TOXIC) Psychic powers
V
Valerian: Protection, purification, love, sleep, prophetic dreams, peace, sex, friendship, anxiety management, self esteem
Vanilla: Love, lust, mental clarity, money, confidence, attracting people, magickal power, prosperity, success, wishes
Venus Flytrap: Protection, love
Vervain: Sleep, protection, purification, love, money, peace, healing, gather/burn at Litha, altar offering, brings riches, creativity, wards psychic attack, youth, chastity, astral projection, unwanted advances, anger management, prosperity
Vetch, Giant: Fidelity
Vetivert: Love, luck, money, break hexes, wards negativity, anti-theft, exorcism, wishes, peace, protection, prosperity, divination
Violet: Protection, healing, love, lust, luck, wishes, peace, sleep, insight, visions
W
Wahoo: (TOXIC) Courage, success, break hexes
Walnut: Health, mental clarity, wishes, infertility, spirituality, travel
Watercress: Healing
Wax Plant: Protection, power
Wheat: Money, fertility, prosperity
White Willow Bark: Healing, blessings, binding, sacred earth connection between human and earth and spirit, protection, spirit of east
Wild Lettuce: Love divination, protection, sleep, opens to the deeper consciousness, attunes to deeper meanings
Wild Plum: Healing
Wild Yam: Fortification, grounding, release, 1st chakra
Willow: Protection, healing, love, burn bark with sandalwood for divination, vitality, energy, ending pain, moon magic, wishing, spirits, death passage, besom, inspiration, pyschic energy
Wintergreen: Protection, healing, break hexes, strength, good fortune, opens channels
Winter's Bark: Success
Wisteria: Spirituality
Witch Grass: Exorcism, happiness, love, lust
Witch Hazel: Protection, chastity, healing, beauty, unwanted advances
Wolf's Bane: (TOXIC) Protection, invisibility
Wood Betony: Love, purification, protection
Wood Rose: Luck
Wood Sorrel: Healing, health
Woodruff: Protection, money, victory, add to Beltane wine to clear away barriers, success, changes, psychic awareness, prosperity
Wormwood: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, BURN IN WELL VENTILATED AREA, PREFERABLY OUTDOORS TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, love, psychic powers, calling spirits, protection while traveling, evocation, divination, scrying (stronger when combined with Mugwort) at Samhain, sacred to the moon, good luck, clairvoyance, divination, safety in cars
Y
Yarrow: Hhealing, divination, exorcism, protection, courage, love, psychic powers, happy marriage (wedding bouquet), wards negativity, defense, protection, gather at Litha, happiness, fidelity, broken heart, prophetic dreams, spirit of south, clears, stimulates movement
Yellowdock Root: Clears stuck energy, fortification
Yellow Evening Primrose: Hunting
Yerba Mate: Love, lust, fidelity
Yerba Santa: Protection, healing, psychic powers, beauty, clears channel to divine life force
Yew: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Yule symbol for death and rebirth, used for dagger handles, raising the dead, psychic awareness, spirits
Ylang Ylang: Insight, love, past lives, peace, sex, visions
Yohimbe: (TOXIC) Love, lust
Yucca: Protection, purification, transmutation
🌿💐BIG WITCHY GUIDE ON HERBS AND FLOWERS💐🌿
Acacia: Protection, Psychic Powers, Money and Love Spells Adam & Eve Roots : Love, Happiness Adders Tongue : Healing African Violet : Spirituality, Protection Agaric : Fertility Agrimony : Protection, Sleep Ague Root : Protection Alfalfa : Prosperity, Anti-Hunger, Money Alkanet : Purification, Prosperity Allspice : Money, Luck, Healing Almond : Money, Prosperity, Wisdom Aloe : Protection, Luck Aloes, Wood : Love, Spirituality Althea : Protection, Psychic Powers Alyssum : Protection, Moderating Anger Amaranth : Healing Heartbreak, Protection, Invisibility, Anemone : Health, Protection, Healing Angelica : Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Visions Anise : Protection, Purification, Youth Apple : Love, Healing, Garden Magic, Immortality Apricot : Love Arabic Gum : Spirituality, Purify Negativity and Evil Arbutus : Exorcism, Protection Asafoetida : Exorcism, Purification, Protection Ash : Protection, Prosperity, Sea Rituals, Health Aspen : Eloquence, Anti-Theft Aster : Love Avens : Exorcism, Purification, Love Avocado : Love, Lust, Beauty Bachelor’s Buttons : Love Balm, Lemon : Love, Success, Healing Balm of Gilead : Love, Manifestations, Protection, Healing Bamboo : Protection, Luck, Hex-Breaking, Wishes Banana : Fertility, Potency, Prosperity Banyan : Luck. Happiness Barley : Love, Healing, Protection Basil : Love, Exorcism, Wealth, Flying, Protection Bay : Protection, Psychic Powers, Healing, Purification, Strength Bean : Protection, Exorcism, Wart Charming, Reconciliation, Potency, Love Bedstraw, Fragrant : Love Beech : Wishes Beet : love Belladonna : Astral Projection, Visions **TOXIC** Benzoin : Purification, Prosperity Bergamot, Orange : Money, Success Be-Still : Luck Betony, Wood : Protection, Purification, Love Birch : Protection, Exorcism, Purification and Cleansing Bistort : Psychic Powers, Fertility Bittersweet : Protection, Healing Blackberry : Healing, Money, Protection Bladderwrack : Protection, Sea Spells, Wind Spells, Money, Psychic Powers Bleeding Heart : Love Bloodroot : Love, Protection, Purification Bluebell : Luck, Truth Blueberry : Protection Blue Flag : Money Bodhi : Fertility, Protection, Wisdom, Meditation Boneset : Protection, Exorcism Borage : Courage, Psychic Powers BrackenBrazil NutBriony : Image Magic, Money, Protection Bromeliad : Protection, Money Broom : Purification, Protection, Wind Spells, Divination Buchu : Psychic Powers, Prophetic Dreams Buckthorn : Protection, Exorcism, Wishes, Legal Matters Cabbage : Luck Cactus : Protection, Chastity Calamus : Luck, Healing, Money, Protection Camellia -Riches Camphor : Chastity, Health, Divination Caper : Potency, Lust, Luck Carawy : Protection, Lust, Health, Anti-Theft, Mental Powers Cardamon : Lust, Love Carnation : Protection, Strength, Healing Carob : Protection, Health Carrot : Fertility, Lust Cascara Sagrada : Legal Matters, Money, Protection, Cashew : Money Castor : Protection Catnip : Cat Magic, Love, Beauty, Happiness Cat Tail : Lust Cedar : Healing, Purification, Money, Protection Celandine : Protection, Escape, Happiness, Legal Matters Celery : Mental Powers, Lust, Psychic Powers Centaury : Snake Removing Chamomile : Money, Sleep, Love, Purification Cherry : Love, Divination Chestnut : Love Chickweed : Fertility, Love Chicory : Removing Obstacles, Invisibility, favors, Frigidity Chili pepper : Fidelity, Hex Breaking, Love China Berry : Luck, Change Chrysanthemum : Protection Cinchona : Luck, Protection Cinnamon : Spirituality, Success, Healing, Power, Psychic Powers, Lust, Protection, Love Cinquefoil : Money, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Sleep Cloth of Gold : Understand Animal Languages Clove : Protection, Exorcism, Love, Money Daffodil : Love, Fertility, Luck Daisy : Lust, Luck Damiana : Lust, Love, Visions Dandelion : Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits Datura : Hex Breaking, Sleep, Protection Deerstongue : Lust, Psychic Powers Devils Bit : Exorcism, Love, Protection, Lust Devils Shoestring : Protection, Gambling, Luck, Power, Employment Dill : Protection, Money, Lust, Luck Dittany of Crete : Manifestations, Astral Projection Dock : Healing, Fertility, Money Dodder : Love, Divination, Knot Magic Dogbane : Love Dogwood : Wishes, Protection Dragons Blood : Love, Protection, Exorcism, Potency Dulse : Lust, Harmony Dutchmans Breeches : Love Ebony : Protection, Power Echinacea : Strengthening Spells Edelweiss : Invisibility, Bullet-Proofing Elder : Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Prosperity, Sleep Elecampane : Love, Protection, Psychic Powers Elm : Love Endive : Lust, Love Eryngo : Travelers Luck, Peace, Lust, Love Eucalyptus : Healing, Protection Euphorbia : Purification, Protection Eyebright : Mental Powers, Psychic Power Fennel : Protection, Healing, Purification Fenugreek : Money Fern : Rain Making, Protection, Luck, Riches, Eternal Youth, Health, Exorcism Feverfew : Protection Fig : Divination, Fertility, Love Figwort : Health, Protection Flax : Money, Protection, Beauty, Psychic Powers, Healing Fleabane : Exorcism, Protection, Chastity Foxglove : Protection Frankincense : Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality Fumitory : Money, Exorcism Fuzzy Weed : Love, Hunting Galangal : Protection, Lust, Health, Money, Psychic Powers, Hex-Breaking Gardenia : Love, Peace, Healing, Spirituality Garlic : Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Lust, Anti-Theft Gentian : Love, Power Geranium : Fertility, Health, Love, Protection Ginger : Love, Money, Success, Power Ginseng : Love, Wishes, Healing, Beauty, Protection, Lust Goats Rue : Healing, Health Goldenrod : Money, Divination Golden Seal : Healing, Money Gorse : Protection, Money Gotu Kola : Meditation Gourd : Protection Grain : Protection Grains of Paradise : Lust, Luck, Love, Money, Wishes Grape : Fertility, Garden Magic, Mental Powers, Money Grass : Psychic Powers, Protection Ground Ivy : Divination Groundsel : Health, Healing Hawthorn : Fertility, Chastity, Fishing Magic, Happiness Hazel : Luck, Fertility, Anti-Lightning, Protection, Wishes Heather : Protection, Rain Making, Luck Heliotrope : Exorcism, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Wealth, Invisibility Hellebore, Black : Protection ****TOXIC*** Hemlock : Destroy Sexual Drive ***TOXIC*** Hemp : Healing, Love, Vision, Meditation Henbane : Love Attraction ***TOXIC*** Henna : Healing Hibiscus : Lust, Love, Divination Hickory : Legal Matters High John the Conqueror : Money, Love, Success, Happiness Holly : Protection, Anti-Lightning, Luck, Dream Magic, Balance Honesty : Money, Repelling Monsters Honeysuckle : Money, Psychic Powers, Protection Hops : Healing, Sleep Horehound : Protection, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Horse Chestnut : Money, Healing Horseradish : Purification, Exorcism Horsetail : Snake Charming, Fertility Houndstongue : Tying Dog’s Tongues Houseleek : Luck, Protection, Love Huckleberry : Luck, Protection, Dream Magic, Hex Breaking Hyacinth : Love, Protection, Happiness Hydrangea : Hex Breaking Hyssop : Purification, Protection Indian Paint Brush : Love Iris : Purification, Wisdom Irish Moss : Money, Luck, Protection Ivy : Protection, Healing Jasmine : Love, Money, Prophetic Dreams Jobs Tears : Healing, Wishes, Luck Joe-Pye Weed : Love, Respect Juniper : Protection, Anti-Theft, Love, Exorcism, Health Kava-Kave : Visions, Protection, Luck Knotweed : Binding, Health Lady’s mantle : Love Lady’s slipper : Protection Larch : Protection, Anti-Theft Larkspur : Health, Protection Lavender : Love, Protection, Sleep, Chastity, Longevity, Purification, Happiness, Peace Leek : Love, Protection, Exorcism Lemon : Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship Lemongrass : Repel snakes, Lust, Psychic Powers Lemon Verbena : Purification, Love Lettuce : Chastity, Protection, Love, Divination, Sleep Licorice : Love, Lust, Fidelity Life Everlasting : Longevity, Health, Healing Lilac : Exorcism, Protection, Beauty Lily : Protection, Breaking Love spells Lily of the Valley : Mental Powers, Happiness Lime : Healing, Love, Protection Linden : Protection, Immortality, Luck, Love, Sleep Liquidamber : Protection Liverwort : Protection Liverwort : Love Looestrife : Peace, Protection Lotus : Protection, Lock-Opening Lovage : Love Love Seed : Love, Friendship Lucky Hand : Employment, Luck, Protection, Money, Travel Mace : Psychic Powers, Mental Powers Maguey : Lust Magnolia : Fidelity Mahogany, Mountain : Anti-Lightning Maidenhair : Beauty, Love Male Fern : Luck, Love Mallow : Love, Protection, Exorcism Mandrake : Protection, Love, Money, Fertility, Health Maple : Love, Longevity, Money Marigold : Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Business and Legal Matters, Psychic Powers Marjoram : Protection, Love, Happiness, Health, Money, Healing Master Wort : Strength, Courage, Protection Mastic : Psychic Powers, Manifestations, Lust May Apple : Money Meadow Rue : Divination Meadowsweet : Love, Divination, Peace, Happiness Mesquite : Healing Mimosa : Protection, Love, Prophetic Dreams, Purification Mint : Money, Love, Luck, Healing, Exorcism, Travel, Protection Mistletoe : Protection, Love, Hunting, Fertility, Health, Exorcism Molukka : Protection Moonwort : Money, Love Moss : Luck, Money Mugwort : Strength, Psychic Powers, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Astral Projection Mulberry : Protection, Strength Mullein : Courage, Protection, Health, Love, Divination, Exorcism Mustard : Fertility, Protection, Mental Powers Myrrh : Protection, Exorcism, Healing, Spirituality Myrtle : Love, Fertility, Youth, Peace, Money Nettle : Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Lust Norfolk Island Pine : Protection, anti hunger Nuts : Fertility, Prosperity, Love, Luck Oak : Protection, Health, Money, Healing, Potency, Fertility, Luck Oats : Money Olive : Healing, Peace, Fertility, Potency, Protection, Lust Onion : Protection, Exorcism, Healing, Money, Prophetic Dreams, Lust Orange : Love, Divination, Luck, Money Orchid : Love Oregon Grape : Money, Prosperity Orris Root : Love, Protection, Divination Palm, Date : Fertility, Potency Pansy : Love, Rain Magic, Love, Divination Papaya : Love, Protection Papyrus : Protection Parosela : Hunting Parsley : Love, Protection, Purification Passion Flower : Peace, Sleep, Friendship Patchouly : Money, Fertility, Lust Pea : Money, Love Peach : Love, Exorcism, Longevity, Fertility, Wishes Pear : Lust, Love Pecan : Money, Employment Pennyroyal : Strength, Protection, Peace Peony : Protection, Exorcism Pepper : Protection, Exorcism Peppermint : Purification, Sleep, Love, Healing, Psychic Powers Pepper Tree : Purification, Healing, Protection Periwinkle : Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Money, Protection Persimmon : Changing Sex, Healing, Luck Plot Weed : Protection Pimento : Love Pimpernel : Protection, Health Pine : Healing, Fertility, Protection, Exorcism, Money Pineapple : Luck, Money, Chastity Pipsissewa : Money, Spirit Calling Quassia : Love Quince : Protection, Love, Happiness Radish : Protection, Lust Ragweed : Courage Ragwort : Protection Raspberry : Protection, Love Rattlesnake Root : Protection, Money Rhubarb : Protection, Fidelity Rice : Protection, Rain, Fertility, Money Roots : Protection, Power, Divination Rose : Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Love, Divination, Luck, Protection Rosemary : Protection, Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Purification, Healing, Sleep, Youth Rowan : Psychic Powers, Healing, Protection, Power, Success Rue : Healing, Health, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Love Rye : Love, Fidelity Saffron : Love, Healing, Happiness, Wind Raising, Lust, Strength, Psychic Powers. Sage : Immortality, Longevity, Wisdom, Protection, Wishes Sagebrush : Purification, Exorcism St.Johns Wort : Health, Power, Protection, Strength, Love, Divination, Happiness Sandalwood : Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Spirituality Sarsaparilla : Love, Money Sassafras : Health, Money Savory, Summer : Mental Powers Scullcap : Love, Fidelity, Peace Senna : Love Sesame : Money. Lust Shallot : Purification Skunk Cabbage : Legal Matters Slippery Elm : Halts Gossip Sloe : Exorcism, Protection Snakeroot : Luck Money Snakeroot/black : Love, Lust, Money Snapdragon : Protection Solomons Seal : Protection, Exorcism Sorrel Wood : Healing, Health Southern Wood : Love, Lust, Protection Spanish Moss : Protection Spearmint : Healing, Love, Mental Powers SpiderWort : Love Spikenard : Love Squill : Money, Protection, Hex Breaking Star, Anise : Psychic Powers, Luck Stillengia : Psychic Powers Straw : Luck, Image Magic Strawberry : Love, Luck Sugar Cane : Love, Lust Sumbul : Love, Luck, Health, Psychic Powers Sunflower : Fertility, Wishes, Health, Wisdom Sweetgrass : Calling Spirits Tamarind : Love Tamarisk : Exorcism, Protection Tansy : Health, Longevity Tea : Riches, Courage, Strength Thistle : Strength, Protection, Hex Breaking, Healing Thistle, Holy : Purification, Hex Breaking Thistle, Milk : Snake Enraging Thyme : Health, Healing, Sleep, Psychic Powers, Love, Purification, Courage Toadflax : Protection, Hex Breaking Toadstool : Rain Making Tobacco : Healing, Purification Turmeric : Purification Turnip : Protection, Ending Relationships Urva Ursa : Psychic Workings Valerian : Love, Sleep, Purification, Protection Vanilla : Love, Lust, Mental Powers Venus Flytrap : Protection, Love Vervain : Love, Protection, Purification, Peace, Money, Youth, Chastity, Sleep, Healing Vetch, Giant : Fidelity Vetivert : Love, Hex Breaking, Luck, Money, Anti-Theft Violet : Protection, Luck, Love, Lust, Wishes, Peace, Healing Wahoo : Hex-breaking, Courage, Success Walnut : Health, Mental Powers, Infertility, Wishes Wax Plant : Protection Wheat : Fertility, Money Willow : Love, Divination, Protection, Healing Wintergreen : Protection, Healing, Hex Breaking Winters Bark : Success Witch Grass : Happiness, Lust, love, Exorcism Witch Hazel : Protection, Chastity Wolfs Bane : Protection, Invisibility Wood Rose : Luck Woodruff : Victory, Protection, Money Wormwood : Psychic Powers, Protection, Love, Calling Spirits Yarrow : Courage, Love, Psychic Powers, Exorcism Yellow Evening Primrose : Hunting Yerba Mate : Fidelity, Love, Lust Yerba Santa : Beauty, Healing, Psychic Powers, Protection Yew : Raising the Dead Yohimbe : Love, Lust Yucca : Transmutation, Protection, Purification
𝕾𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖆𝖙𝖘
{Art by Julia Nikita}
The sabbats are holidays celebrated throughout the year on solstices, equinoxes, and the midpoints between them. These sabbats form the Wheel of the year.
There is a controversy surrounding the dates of these holidays, as people celebrate them all over the earth, not only in the northen hemisphere but in the southern too.
One viewpoint is that the Sabbats should be celebrated as they were originally created to be… in other words, Samhain is October 31st, regardless of where you live. In the Southern Hemisphere, even though you are just gearing up to summer on October 31st, this perspective says that you celebrate the cleansing and releasing, the honouring of the dead just as you would if you lived in the Northern Hemisphere. The other viewpoint (the one I personally agree with) is that you should celebrate when you feel like the season corresponds with the holiday, in other words, your craft, your rules. So if you live in the southern hemisphere, you have the choice.
I’ll be writing the dates for each holiday starting with the northen hemisphere and then the dates that many people celebrate them in the southern hemisphere
🌲𝐘𝐔𝐋𝐄
{December 21st//June 21st}
Yule focuses on rebirth and renewal as the sun makes its way back to the earth. It’s all about new beginnings, reflection and embracing warmth. Much like Christmas, many celebrate with a feast, gift giving, being cosy and appreciating the good.
↟Nature: cedar, frankincense, myrrh, mistletoe, pine, birch, ivy.
↟Foods//flavours: ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, wintergreen, apple, dried fruit.
↟Stones: citrine, ruby, garnet, alexandrite, green tourmaline.
↟Activities: decorate your altar with incense associated with Yule, burn ash wood for prosperity, bake using Yule flavours like ginger or cinnamon, make wreathes to hang around the house, spend time with loved ones.
🕯️𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐂
{February 1st//August 1st}
Imbolc focuses on celebrating the nature that is preparing to grow and renewal, also known as “candlemas” and the “Feast of Pan”.
↟Nature: basil, blackberry, heather, celandine, iris, wisteria, vanilla, bay, yellow and white flowers.
↟Foods//flavours: pumpkin and sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, peppers, onions, spices, and herbal teas.
↟Stones: amethyst, bloodstone, garnet, ruby, onyx.
↟Activities: decorate with candles and sun decorations, go hiking, have a bonfire, bake foods with poppy seeds, and burn any leftover winter herbs.
🌼𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐀
{March 21st//September 21st}
Ostara focuses on manifesting creativity and love. As the days become longer, energy becomes stronger.
↟Nature: ash, alder, daffodil, honeysuckle, narcissus, primrose, violet, jasmine.
↟Foods//flavours: olives, maple syrup, honey, edible flowers, chocolate, pine nuts, nettle or lavender tea, local fruits and vegetables.
↟Stones: amethyst, rose quartz, moonstone.
↟Activities: gardening and planting seeds, bake breads with olives or honey for example, start new projects, talk to plants, do some painting, decorate with wildflowers.
🌰𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐄
{May 1st//November 1st}
Beltane focuses on fertility, love and abundance. Also known as “may day”, on this sabbat many celebrate with dancing, bonfires and many high energy activities, including enjoying themselves sexually with a partner or even conceiving children.
↟Nature: frankincense, lilac, ivy, marigold, woods, rose, thyme, mint, yarrow.
↟Foods//flavours: oats, leafy greens, fruits, breads, honey.
↟Stones: malachite, amber, fire opal, red jasper.
↟Activities: dance, decorate with florals and symbols of the sea, go to the beach, go hiking, have a bonfire, feast on fruits, vegetables and grains, laugh and let your hair down. And if you’re trying to conceive or simply would like to have sex, Beltane is a wonderful time to do so.
🦋𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐀
{June 21st//December 21st}
Litha focuses on growth and celebrating the longest day of the year and the sun, before the shorter days begin.
↟Nature: fern, yarrow, sage, rose, oak, mugwort, lavender, chamomile, myrrh, pine.
↟Foods//flavours: herbed bread, honey, sunflower seeds, iced herbal tea, lemon, vanilla.
↟Stones: lapis lazuli, amethyst, malachite, tiger’s eye.
↟Activities: make or buy a sun catcher, surround yourself with warm tones, watch the sunrise and sunset, make sun water, spend time outdoors, make use of herbs.
🌾𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐒//𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐇
{August 2nd//February 2nd}
Lammas, or lughnasadh focuses on celebrating the first of the three harvesting sabbats and taking time to really feel the positivity in different aspects of life.
↟Nature: cornstalks, heather, acacia flowers, hollyhock, oak leaves, wheat, myrtle, spices.
↟Food//flavours: grainy bread, corn, potatoes, nuts, blackberries, wine.
↟Stones: amber, agate, citrine, clear quartz, obsidian, tiger’s eye.
↟Activities: bake bread, make corn dolls, visit a sunflower field, spend time in nature, acknowledged what you are grateful for, journal.
🍁𝐌𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐍
{September 21st//March 21st}
Mabon focuses on honouring the change of the seasons, balance and peace.
↟Nature: sage, pine, marigold, thistle, acorns, milkweed, oak leaves, myrrh.
↟Food//flavours: cinnamon, nuts, beans, dark fruits, pies, soup, butterscotch.
↟Stones: citrine, carnelian, clear quartz, sapphire, yellow agate.
↟Activities: collect pine cones, donate food and old clothes, meditate, dry herbs, spend time with loved ones, speak to the nature around you.
🎃𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐍
{October 31st-November 1st//April 30th-May 1st}
Samhain focuses on celebrating life, and honouring those who are no longer with us.
↟Nature: heather, sage, pumpkins, straw, flax, patchouli, myrrh.
↟Foods//flavours: apples, cider, pumpkin, pies, soups, stews, potatoes, ginger.
↟Stones: amber, black obsidian, fossils, onyx, sandstone, bloodstones.
↟Activities: honour the deceased, spend time with family, make a hearty comforting meal, make or buy a scarecrow, spend time practicing divination.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐭
↟Do a tarot reading relevant to that sabbat.
↟Spend time in the moonlight, charging your crystals and tarot cards, as well as meditating.
↟Bake something using at least one traditional food of that sabbat to share with others.
↟Cleanse your living space and any of your magickal items.
↟Write down how you’re feeling and how you’d like to feel in the weeks to come.
Tomato tray is heading outdoors to harden off
I could definitely move the lavender outdoors too but I’m feeling very helicopter mom about them
I probably should though. I have things that need the grow lights more. I might just repot them with some fresh mix and risk it. I can always bring them back in - they’re not going into the ground until autumn.
I changed the location where I set out my seedlings, to a much shadier and cooler, more sheltered area. I think it will make the transition easier for everybody. There’s much less risk of them getting burned.
P.1 Common Herbs A-Z
This is A-C of some common herbs and their uses
*longer read*
Acorn
Good luck
Protection
Wisdom
Personal power
A dried acorn is an excellent natural amulet for keeping a youthful appearance.
Allspice
Money
Luck
Healing
Obtaining treasure
Provides added determination and energy to any spells and charms. Burn crushed allspice to attract luck and money. Use in herbal baths for healing.
Almond
Wisdom
Money
Fruitfulness
Prosperity
Invokes the healing energy of the deities. Provides magickal help for overcoming dependencies & addiction. Associated with Candlemas and Beltane. Carry, wear, or use as incense to attract abundance.
Aloe
Protection
Luck
Place on the grave of a loved one to promote peaceful energy. Thought to relieve loneliness and assist with success. Hang in the home to attract luck and protection for those who live there. Grow in the home to provide protection from household accidents. Burn on the night of a full moon to bring a new lover by the new moon.
Apple
Love
Garden Magick
Immortality
Friendship
Healing
Place seven apple seeds in a bag with Orris Root to attract sexual love. Use in rituals to give honor to gods and goddesses of fertility. Considered the food of the dead, which is why Samhain is called the 'Feast of Apples'. Symbolizes the soul and is burned at Samhain in honor of those who will be reborn in the spring. When doing a house blessing, cut an apple in half -- eat half and put the other half outside of the home as an offering.
Apricot
Love
Add leaves and flowers to love sachets or carry apricot pits to attract love.
Banana
Fertility
Potency
Prosperity
Basil
Love
Exorcism
Wealth
Sympathy
Protection
Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits. Associated with Candlemas. Carry to move forward in a positive manner despite perilous danger. Strewn on floors to provide protection from evil. Sprinkle an infusion of basil outside of the building where you hope to be employed for luck in a job interview or in your business to attract money and success. Wear or carry to aid in attracting money and prosperity.
Bay leaf
Protection
Good fortune
Success
Purification
Strength
Healing
Psychic powers
Write wishes on the leaves and then burn the leaves to make the wishes come true. Place under the pillow (or use in dream pillow) to induce prophetic dreams. Place in the corner of each room in the house to protect all that dwell there. Carry bay leaf to protect yourself against black magick.
Black pepper
Banishing negativity
Exorcism
Protection from evil
Blackberry
Healing
Protection
Money
Sacred to Brighid. Leaves and berries said to attract wealth and healing.
Bluebell
Luck
Truth
Friendship
Incorporate into rituals of death & dying to comfort those left behind and ease their sorrow.
Blueberry
Protection
Though not recommended, blueberry is said to cause confusion & strife when tossed in the doorway or path of an enemy.
Burdock
Used for cleansing magick when feeling highly negative about oneself or others. Use in protection incenses and spells. Rinse with a decoction of burdock to remove negative feelings about yourself or others.
Cabbage
Fertility
Profit
Good luck
Lunar magick
Money magick
Cactus
Chastity
Banishing
Protection.
Bury with other banishing symbols for protection. Grow in the home or garden to prevent unwanted intrusions. Place in all directions of the home (north, south, east, and west) for full protection.
Cardamom
Lust
Love
Fidelity
Carrot
Lust
Fidelity
Cashew
Money
Celery
Mental powers
Psychic powers
Lust
Fertility
Male potency
Chamomile
Love
Healing
Reducing stress.
Add to a sachet or spell to increase the chances of its success. Sprinkle an infusion of chamomile around the house to remove hexes, curses and spells. Burn or add to prosperity bags to increase money. Burn as incense for de-stressing, meditation, and restful sleep. Wash hands in an infusion of chamomile for luck before gambling or playing cards. Use in bath magick to attract love. Keep a packet of the herb with lottery tickets for luck.
Cherry
Love
Divination
Gaiety
Happiness
Chestnut
Love
Chilli Pepper
Fidelity
Love
Hex breaking
Scatter powder around the house to break hexes and spells against you. Use in love charms & spells.
Chives
Protection
Weight loss *weight loss spells can be dangerous*
Cinnamon
Spirituality
Success
Healing
Protection
Power
Love
Luck
Strength
Prosperity
Burn as an incense or use in a sachet to raise spiritual and protective vibrations, draw money, and stimulate psychic powers. A popular herb for use in charms to draw money & prosperity. Wear in an amulet to bring passion.
Citronella
Draws friends to the home, customers to the business. Promotes eloquence, persuasiveness, and prosperity. Protects and cleanses the aura. Encourages self-expression and creativity (great for writers & actors!) and brings clarity to the mind. Repels insects and deodorizes
Clove
Exorcism
Love
Money
Protection
Coconut
Chastity
Protection
Purification
Coffee
Helps to dispel nightmares and negative thoughts and to overcome internal blockages. Provides peace of mind and grounding.
Coriander
Love
Health
Immortality
Protection.
Tie fresh coriander with a ribbon and hang in the home to bring peace & protection. Add to love charms and spells to bring romance or use in ritual work to ease the pain of a broken love affair. Promotes peace among those who are unable to get along. Throw the seeds in lieu of rice during Handfastings and other rituals of union. Use the seeds in love sachets and spells. Add powdered seeds to wine for an effective lust potion. Wear or carry the seeds to ward off disease and migraines.
Cucumber
Chastity
Fertility
Healing
Cumin
Fidelity
Protection
Exorcism.
The seed is said to prevent the theft of any object which contains it. Burn with frankincense for protection. Scatter on the floor alone or with salt to drive out evil. Use in love spells to promote fidelity. Steep in wine to make love potions.
Curry
Protection
Burn curry powder to keep evil forces away.
And as always, merry meet <3
Atti
(photo - attichaos)
HERB AND FLORA PROPERTIES
A
ACACIA: exorcism, banishing, money, love, to be burned for alter offering, aiding in psychic powers, meditation, and protection.
ACORN: strength, money and wealth, and protection.
ADAM’S AND EVES ROOTS: (TOXIC) attract love and happiness.
ADDERS TONGUE: healing and divination.
AFRICAN VIOLET: protection and promote spirituality.
AGARIC: (TOXIC) encourage fertility.
AGRIMONY: protection, banish negative energy-entities, reverse spells, break hexes, promotes sleep, psychic protection, and returns spells to their senders.
AGUE ROOT: protection and break hexes.
ALDER: whistles entice the elemental earth, water magic, and strength.
ALFALFA: abundance, prosperity, money, anti-hunger, frugality, and providence. Place in the kitchen.
ALKANET: repel negativity, attract prosperity, and purification all heal-mental powers.
ALLSPICE: money, luck, healing, prosperity when burned, courage, magickal power, love, and lust.
ALMOND: prosperity, success in business ventures, money, wisdom, love, and anger management.
ALOE: protection, luck, money, repel evil, healing, beauty, success, and peace.
ALOESWOOD: love, spirituality, money, protection.
ALTHEA: protection, psychic power, and attract good spirits.
ALYSSUM: protection and to calm anger.
AMARANTH: healing, protection, healing heartbreak, and invisibility.
AMBER: healing.
AMBERGRIS: lust and sex.
ANEMONE: health, protection, and healing.
ANGELICA: protection, exorcism, remove curses and hexes, healing, visions, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house, increases life energy bringing warmth of Fire element, and wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house.
ANISE: divination, psychic awareness, joy, dreams, luck, love, enthusiasm, Winter Solstice, and entices the spirits to aid in spells.
APPLE: love, healing, garden blessing, buried in the garden on Samhain as food for the departing spirits, to be shared with one you love, immortality, happiness, luck, broken heart, spirit food, and the goddess.
APRICOT: love.
ARABIC GUM: purification, spirituality, and protection.
ARBUTUS: exorcism and protection.
ARROWROOT: protection.
ASAFETIDA: purification, protection, and exorcism.
ASH: Prosperity, protection, healing, love, wands, leaves for prophetic dreams, sea rituals, longevity, peace, luck, purification, study, enhances magic, and besom.
ASPEN: protection, eloquence, and anti-theft.
ASTER: love.
ASTRAGALUS: fortification, and strength.
AVENS: exorcism, love, and purification.
AVOCADO: beauty, love, and lust.
B
BACHELORS BUTTONS: love.
BALM OF GILEAD: (TOXIC) love, manifestations, ease a broken heart, protection, and healing.
BAMBOO: protection, luck, break hexes, and wishes.
BANANA: prosperity, fertility, and potency.
BANYAN: luck and happiness.
BARLEY: healing, protection, and love.
BASIL: exorcism, love, protection, prosperity, wealth, repels negative energy, sympathy, wealth, flying, courage, business, fertility, healing relationships, and ensure faithfulness on masses.
BAY: psychic powers, protection, healing, purification, strength, wish magick, wisdom, good luck, fertility, banish negativity, energy, insight, divination, victory, prosperity, employment, mental power, and burn for psychic powers.
BAYBERRY: employment.
BEAN: love, protection, exorcism, wart charming, reconciliation, and potency.
BEECH: creativity, wishes, fertility, and balance mental health.
BEET: love.
BELLADONNA: (TOXIC) visions, astral protection, and divination.
BENZOIN: purification, prosperity, astral projection, confidence, and protection.
BERGAMOT: success, money, confidence, protection, prosperity, employment, and unwanted advances.
BE-STILL: (TOXIC) luck.
BETONY: love, healing, burn at Litha for purification, protection; place under pillow to be rid of nightmares; sprinkle around doors to ward off despair, and psychic awareness.
BIRCH: purification, protection, exorcism, cleansing, beauty, catalyst, blessing, health, besom, and beginnings.
BISTORT: fertility and psychic powers.
BITTERSWEET: (TOXIC) protection, healing, and broken heart.
BLACK COHOSH: courage, love, protection, and potency.
BLACK HELLEBORE: (TOXIC) invisibility, exorcism, and astral projection.
BLACK PEPPER: courage and protection.
BLACK SNAKEROOT: love, lust, and money.
BLACKBERRY: healing, protection, prosperity, money, and pies for Lughnassadh.
BLACKTHORN: returns evil to its sender.
BLADDERWRACK: psychic powers, protection, money, water or sea spells, wind spells, travel, and psychic clarity.
BLEEDING HEARTS: (TOXIC) love.
BLESSED THISTLE: protection, animal healing, and abundance.
BLOODROOT: (TOXIC) love, purification, and protection.
BLUEBELL: luck and truth.
BLUEBERRY: protection.
BLUE COHOSH ROOT: courage, balance, and protection.
BLUE FLAG: (TOXIC) money, wealth, and success in business.
BODHI: wisdom, fertility, protection, and meditation.
BONESET: protection and exorcism.
BORAGE: courage, psychic powers, and carry leaves for protection.
BRACKEN: protection, healing, fertility, prophetic dreams, and rune magick.
BRAZIL NUT: love.
BRIAR: add to tea for clairvoyant dreams and protection.
BRIONY: (TOXIC) mage magick, protection, and money.
BROMELIAD: protection and money.
BROOM: (TOXIC) divination, wind spells, purification of the circle, and hung indoors for protection.
BRYONY: (TOXIC) pleasure and reveal secrets.
BUCHU: prophetic dreams and psychic powers.
BUCKEYE: luck, divination, money, wealth, prosperity, and gambling.
BUCKTHORN: protection, exorcism, wishes, and legal matters.
BUCKWHEAT: protection and money.
BURDOCK: protection, healing, wards off negativity, purifies, protects (washing floors or dried root on red string around the neck), happy home, clears space & holds the space safe, and spirit of north.
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CABBAGE: luck.
CACTUS: protection and chastity.
CALAMUS: (TOXIC) luck, protection, healing, money, and purification.
CALENDULA: stress management , opening to the 3rd Chakra, and helps energy move outward from centre of body extending in all directions.
CAMELLIA: prosperity, wealth, and luxury.
CAMPHOR: (TOXIC) healing, divination, chastity, past lives, prophetic dreams, purification, psychic awareness, and unwanted advances.
CAPER: lust, love, and potency.
CARAWAY: protection, lust, healing, mental powers, repel negativity, psychic healing, vitality, energy, magickal power, and anti-theft.
CARDAMON: lust, love, and burned in love spells and in love sachets.
CARNATION: protection, strength, healing, altar offering to the goddess, strength.
CAROB: protection and health.
CARROT: fertility, lust, vision, and the God aspect.
CASCARA SAGRADA: protection, money, and legal matters.
CASHEW: prosperity, money, and communication.
CASSIA: psychic awareness, and spirituality.
CASTOR: (TOXIC) protection and repel negativity.
CATNIP: love, beauty, happiness, power, courage, positive cat magick, friendship, joy, anger management, depression management, and familiars.
CAT TAIL: lust.
CAYENNE: exorcism and healing.
CEDAR: healing, purification, money, protection, cleansing, courage, stopping sexual harassment, prosperity, aura field, and space.
CELANDINE: joy, protection, happiness, escape, legal matters, and depression management.
CELERY: lust, psychic powers, mental clarity, concentration, and peace.
CENTAURY: snake removing.
CHAMOMILE: purification, tranquility, money, sleep-rest (tea), love, luck, meditation, prosperity, incense for the God, gambling, hex breaking, legal matters, peace, dreams, dexterity, and protection.
CHAPPARAL: Fire element rituals, protection, and Spirit of South.
CHERRY: love, divination, burn chips at sabbats, creativity, and victory.
CHESTNUT: love.
CHICKWEED: love and fidelity.
CHICORY: favours, frugality, remove obstacles, invisibility, frigidity, and liberation.
CHILI PEPPER: fidelity, love, and break hexes.
CHINA BERRY: (TOXIC) luck and change.
CHRYSANTHEMUM: (TOXIC) protection.
CILANTRO: health.
CINCHONA: protection and luck.
CINNAMON: prosperity, success, spirituality, healing, lust, protection, love, psychic powers, passion, power, dreams, strength, astral projection, courage, money, purification, and personal empowerment.
CINQUEFOIL: money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, lust, prosperity, and divination dreams.
CITRON: healing and eaten to increase psychic powers.
CIVET: love, lust, and sex.
CLOTH-OF-GOLD: animal communication.
CLOVE: protection, exorcism, purification, love, money, mental clarity, burn for wealth, wards off negativity, counter spells, cleansing, divination, luck, depression management, psychic awareness, prophetic dreams, happiness, and gossip.
CLOVER: success, protection, money, exorcism, love, fidelity, consecration, beauty, luck, youth, healing, faeries, and prosperity.
CLUB MOSS: protection and power.
COCONUT: purification, protection, chastity, and water.
COHOSH (BLACK): courage, protection, potency, and menopause.
COLTSFOOT: love, psychic visions, healing, wealth, and prosperity.
COLUMBINE: courage and love.
COMFREY: (TOXIC) money, root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel, protection, stress management, safe journeys (Worldly or through Meditation), and Winter Solstice.
COPAL: love, purification, exorcism, protection, spirituality, earth element, sets sacred space, and allows guides and guidance to come.
CORIANDER: love, health, healing, protection, and longevity.
CORN: divination, protection, luck, and money.
CORNFLOWER: psychism.
CORNSILK: Water element and stimulates flow.
COTTON: luck, healing, and protection.
COWSLIP: youth, healing, treasure finding, luck, love, and psychic dreams.
CRANBERRY: healing, energy, and abundance.
CROCUS: love, visions, and wisdom.
CUBEB: love.
CUCKOO-FLOWER: love and fertility.
CUCUMBER: healing, fertility, and chastity.
CUMIN: exorcism, protection, prevents theft, fidelity, and love.
CURRY: protection and exorcism.
CYCLAMEN: fertility, protection, happiness, lust, and broken heart.
CYPRESS: healing, protection, comfort, longevity, peace, sleep, and liberation.
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DAFFODIL: love, luck, and fertility.
DAISY: love, lust, luck, depression management, faeries and elves, and happiness.
DAMIANA: divination, love, lust, sex magick, dreams, visions, psychic powers, and opens door between worlds.
DANDELION LEAF AND ROOT: purification, divination, wishes, and calling spirits.
DATE PALM: potency and fertility.
DATURA: (TOXIC) protection, sleep, and break hexes.
DEERS TONGUE: (TOXIC) lust, psychic powers, and gossip management.
DEVIL’S BIT: love, protection, luck, and exorcism.
DEVIL’S SHOESTRING: protection, luck, gambling, power, and employment.
DILL: love, lust, seeds draw money, leaves for protection, and flowers for love.
DITTANY OF CRETE: manifestations and astral projection.
DOCK: money, healing, and fertility.
DODDER: love divination and knot magick.
DOGBANE: love.
DOGWOOD: protection and wishes.
DONG QUAI: health, vitality, and fire element rituals.
DRAGONS BLOOD: power, protection, exorcism, potency, love, courage, fortune, catalyst, magick power, strength, purification, stimulates action of other herbs in incense blend, and stimulates movement of energy.
DULSE: harmony and lust.
DUTCHMAN’S BREECHES: love.
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EBONY: protection and power.
ECHINACEA: strengthening spells, health, strength, and wards off negativity or undesirable energies.
EDELWEISS: invisibility and bullet-proofing.
ELDER: (CAUTION: SEEDS ARE TOXIC) money, wishes, theft protection, exorcism, healing, prosperity, sleep, wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, do not burn the wood of elder for it is sacred to Hecate, see fairies in the trees at Litha, flowers used as an alter offering, berries for esbat wine, flowers added to candle spells directed at Hecate during the new moon, cleansing, and offering.
ELDERBERRIES: prosperity, protection, sleep, joy, visions, banishing, energy, ancient wisdom, contact with elementals, and invoke magic.
ELDERFLOWER: purifying and healing.
ELECAMPANE: love, protection, psychic powers, and anger management.
ELM: protection, love, and attracts elves.
ENDIVE: love and lust.
ERYNGO: peace, love, lust, and traveler's luck.
EUCALYPTUS: (TOXIC) healing, protection, joy, purification, and air element rituals.
EUPHORBIA: (TOXIC) protection and purification.
EYEBRIGHT: joy, psychic powers, mental clarity, mental ability and clarity, and visions.
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FALSE UNICORN ROOT: connection to magical realm, and contains energy and intention.
FENNEL: protection, exorcism, healing, purification, virility, sacred to the God, hung over doors at Litha, strength, courage, and money.
FENNEL SEED: stimulates movement.
FENUGREEK: prosperity, wealth, money, mental powers, and clearing.
FERN: (TOXIC) money, wealth, eternal youth, protection, outside for rain, luck, riches, health, and exorcism.
FEVERFEW: protection, wards sickness, and wards accidents in traffic.
FIG: divination, fertility, and love.
FIGWORT: protection and health.
FIR: health, prosperity, and birth and rebirth.
FLAX: luck, money, protection, purification, beauty, psychic powers, healing, health, and initiates flow.
FLEABANE: exorcism, protection, and chastity.
FORGET-ME-NOT: mental powers.
FOXGLOVE: (TOXIC) faeries and elves, lust, and grow in garden for protection of the house and yard.
FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW: love.
FRANKINCENSE: exorcism, purification, protection, spirituality, power, meditation, blessing, concentration, banishing, courage, divination, healing, love, purification, consecration, sets sacred space, sets safe space for guides to come in, and spirit of East or North.
FUMITORY: money and exorcism.
FURZ/EGORSE: burn at Ostara for protection and as a preparation for any conflict.
FUZZY WEED: love and hunting.
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GALANGAL: protection, legal matters, lust, health, money, psychic powers, break hexes, energy, strength, and courage.
GARDENIA: love, peace, healing, spirituality, and psychic awareness.
GARLIC: protection, healing, health, exorcism, lust sacred to Hecate, flowers for altar offerings, cloves for protection, anti-theft, wishes, and relief from nightmares.
GENTIAN: power, love, break hexes, wishes, and theft.
GERANIUM: (TOXIC) courage, abundance, health, love, protection, and fertility.
GIANT VETCH: fidelity.
GINGER love, money, success, power, aphrodisiac, psychic ability, apathy, lust, good health, magickal power, fire element rituals, brings into existence, bringer of the manifestation, 3rd chakra vitality, inner strength, stimulates flow of energy, and spirit of south.
GINSENG: longevity, sexual potency, protection, healing, love, lust, wishes, beauty, vitality, fertility, desire, encourages a long lasting affect, and strength.
GOAT’S RUE: healing and health.
GOLDENROD: prosperity, money, divination, and luck.
GOLDENSEAL: money and healing.
GORSE: protection and money.
GOTU KOLA: meditation.
GOURD: protection.
GRAIN: protection.
GRAINS OF PARADISE: love, lust, luck, money, and wishes.
GRAPE: mental clarity, money, fertility, garden magick, and happiness.
GRASS: psychic powers and protection.
GROUND IVY: divination.
GROUNDSEL: health and healing.
GUM MASTIC: magickal power.
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HAWTHORN: happiness, fertility, powerful wands, protection, chastity, fishing magick, faeries and elves, purification, business, depression management, purity, and cleansing.
HAWTHORNE BERRIES: 4th chakra strength and vitality, love, and contentment.
HAZEL: luck, fertility, protection, wishes, nuts strung on cord in house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, anti-lightning, love, aphrodisiac, wisdom, divination, mental powers, intelligence, and inspiration.
HEATHER: luck, protection, red to start or end an affair, white for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at Samhain to invite spirits to visit, rain making, and spirituality.
HELIOTROPE: (TOXIC) exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, wealth, invisibility, money, spirituality, prosperity, and psychic awareness.
HELLEBORE (BLACK): (TOXIC) protection.
HEMLOCK: (TOXIC) astral projection, diminish libido, power, purification, charging, and alignment.
HEMP: healing, love, visions, and meditation.
HENBANE: (TOXIC) love, luck, divination, and invisibility.
HENNA: healing, health, love, change, and dying material.
HIBISCUS: love, lust, divination, and 5th chakra.
HICKORY: legal matters.
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR: (TOXIC) strength, confidence, health, love, money, success, happiness, break hexes, increase strength, legal matters, anointing, and victory.
HOLY THISTLE: purification and break hexes.
HOLLY: protection, luck, dream magic, anti-lightning, balance, dreams, enhances magic, holiness, consecration, and beauty.
HONESTLY: money and protection.
HONEYSUCKLE: protection, money, psychic powers, confidence, broken heart, luck, happiness, healing, and depression management.
HOPS: healing, sleep, stress management, and opens the channel in and out of the body in relationship with the universe.
HOREHOUND: exorcism, healing, purification, protection, mental clarity, balance, banishing, and opens air element within body and in the world, opens channel for clear communication.
HORSE CHESTNUT: (TOXIC) healing and money.
HORSERADISH: exorcism and purification.
HORSETAIL: fertility.
HOUSELEEK: love, luck, and protection.
HUCKLEBERRY: protection, luck, dream magic, and break hexes.
HYACINTH: (TOXIC) business, court cases, sleep, depression management, love, protection, and happiness.
HYDRANGEA: break hexes.
HYSSOP: healing, protection, purification, wards negativity, prosperity, money, banishing, and dragon energy.
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INDIAN PAINT BRUSH: love.
IRIS: purification, wisdom, courage, reincarnation, spirituality, and happiness.
IRISH MOSS: luck, money, protection, opens throat, and opens channel for clear communication.
IVY: (TOXIC) divination, protection, healing, fertility, love, and fidelity.
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JASMINE: divination, love, money, prophetic dreams, sleep, prosperity, spirituality, visions, confidence, broken heart, astral projection, business, and court cases.
JIMSON WEED: protect against evil spirits.
JOB’S TEARS: luck, wishes, and healing.
JOE-PYE WEED: love and respect.
JUNIPER: protection, love, exorcism, health, anti-theft, banishing, peace, wishes, aphrodisiacs, sets sacred space, and spirit of north.
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KAVA KAVA: lust, protection while traveling, astral projection, visions, luck, visions, protection, love, and opens one to receiving guidance and guides.
KELP: wind spells, psychic powers, protection, connection to divine source through the physical and spiritual, unity, life-force strengthening, and spirit of centre.
KNOTWEED: health, binding spells, and protection
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LADY’S MANTLE: love and self control.
LADY’S SLIPPER: protection.
LARCH: protection and anti-theft.
LARKSPUR: protection and health.
LAVENDER: protection, call in good spirits, love, sleep, longevity, happiness, peace, healing, burn for purification, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as an offering, psychic awareness, chastity, liberation, menopause, childbirth, grief or loss, youthful vigour, stress management, travel, anger management, and attracts elves.
LEEK: exorcism, love, and protection.
LEMON: purification, love, friendship, longevity, cleansing, healing, peace, success, broken heart, anger management, and devotion.
LEMON BALM: love, success, healing, depression management, aphrodisiac, and soothes emotional pain after relationship ends.
LEMON VERBENA: protection, purification, love, power, beauty, youth, happiness, peace, mental and emotional balance, and Summer Solstice.
LEMONGRASS: psychic powers, mental clarity, lust, and repels snakes.
LETTUCE: love divination, sleep, protection, chastity, and luck.
LIQUORICE: love, lust, fidelity, aphrodisiac, meditation, and harmony.
LIFE-EVERLASTING: health, healing, and longevity.
LILAC: exorcism, protection, purification, beauty, love, peace, and psychic awareness.
LILY: protection, exorcism, repel negativity, truth, break love spells, strength, purification, and breaking hexes.
LILY OF THE VALLEY: (TOXIC) mental clarity, happiness, insight, depression management, and peace.
LIME: healing, love, protection, cleansing, happiness, and purification.
LINDEN: healing, protection, luck, love, sleep, bark for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, youth, attraction, and longevity.
LIQUID AMBER: protection.
LIVERWORT: love and protection.
LOBELIA: (TOXIC) healing and love.
LOOSESTRIFE: peace, protection, harmony, and purple restores harmony and brings peace.
LOTUS: protection, spirituality, love, lock opening, liberation, and mental powers.
LOVAGE: love, attraction, cleansing, and purification.
LOVE SEED: love and friendship.
LUCKY HAND: protection, luck, money, travel, and employment.
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MACE: psychic powers, mental clarity, and divination.
MAGUEY: lust.
MAGNOLIA: fidelity, past lives, peace, sex, broken heart, beauty, and wisdom.
MAHOGANY: anti-lightning.
MADIENHAIR: beauty and love.
MALE FERN: luck and love.
MALLOW: love, protection, and exorcism.
MANDRAKE: (TOXIC) potency, exorcism, protection, fertility, money, love, health, protection, catalyst, prosperity, divination, increase psychic powers, aphrodisiacs, cursing enemies, building, banishing, and protection in the subconscious, unconscious and underworld.
MAPLE: money, longevity, and love.
MARIGOLD: prophetic dreams, protection, legal matters, marriage spells, enhanced psychic powers, pick in full sun, business and legal matters, clairvoyant dreams, and mixed with water and rubbed on the eyelids to see fairies.
MARJORAM: protection, love, happiness, health, money, depression management, and prosperity.
MARSHMALLOW: healing, friendship, boundaries, love, protection, strength, and emotional balance.
MASTERWORT: protection, strength, and courage.
MASTIC: psychic powers, lust, manifestations, love, and magick power.
MAY APPLE: (TOXIC) money and prosperity.
MEADOW RUE: love and divination.
MEADOWSWEET: love, divination, peace, happiness, harmony, and 3rd chakra.
MESQUITE: healing.
MILK THISTLE: creativity, protection, dispel, and transformation.
MIMOSA: love, protection, prophetic dreams, purification, past lives, and visions.
MINT: exorcism, protection, money, lust, healing, travel, alter offering for helpful spirits , love, luck, anger management, dreams, abundance, prosperity, and rejuvenation.
MISTLETOE: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism, hunting, success, catalyst, lust, liberation, and sexual potency.
MOLUKKA: protection.
MOONFLOWER: liberation.
MOONWORT: love, money, and divination.
MORNING GLORY: (TOXIC) peace, happiness, and depression management.
MOSS: luck and money.
MOTHERWORT: balances within, self empowerment, and 2nd chakra.
MUGWORT: astral projection, strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, divination, rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night, clairvoyance, purification, sex, renewal, fertility, clearing, sleep, visions, opens one to the teachings of the subconscious and unconscious self, and 6th and 7th chakras.
MULBERRY: protection and strength.
MULLEIN: exorcism, health, protection, courage, love divination, calling spirits, dreams, and opens life energy flow through the body.
MUSK: purification and sex.
MUSTARD: fertility, protection, mental clarity, health, and money.
MYRRH: spirituality, purification, protection, healing, exorcism, wards negativity, burn for purification and consecrations, banishing, sets sacred space, and ancient wisdom.
MYRTLE: peace, money, love, youth, fertility, sleep, healing, and prosperity.
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NARCISSUS: peace.
NASTURTIUM: healing.
NEROLI: love.
NETTLE: exorcism, protection, healing, lust, abundance, 3rd and 6th chakra, banishing, stress management, and gossip management.
NIAOULI: protection.
NORFOLK ISLAND PINE: protection and anti-hunger.
NUTMEG: protection, money, health, luck, fidelity, break hexes, burn for prosperity, love, psychic awareness, and relief from nightmares.
NUTS: fertility, prosperity, love, luck, use for tips on wands, gifts, and communication.
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OAK: protection, health, money, healing, potency, fertility, luck, the God, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health, acorns draw money, power, balance, and prosperity.
OAK MOSS: court cases, money, and protection.
OATS: money, offering to the god, and stress management.
OLEANDER: (TOXIC) love.
OLIVE: healing, peace, fertility, potency, protection, lust, victory, and spirituality.
ONION: exorcism, healing, protection, purification, money, prophetic dreams, and lust.
ORANGE: love, divination, luck, and money.
ORANGE BERGAMOT: prosperity, success, energy, joy, friendship, success, prosperity, psychic awareness, peels for love, and incense for good fortune.
ORCHID: love and psychic powers.
OREGON GRAPE: money and prosperity.
ORRIS: divination, protection, love, prosperity, money, clairvoyance, sex, and psychic awareness.
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PALMAROSA: healing and love.
PALM DATE: fertility and potency.
PANSY: love, divination, rain magick, mental powers, and strength.
PAPAY: protection, love, and wishes.
PAPYRUS: protection, wisdom, and self-insight.
PAROSELA: hunting.
PARSLEY: purification, protection, lust, love, fertility, and prosperity.
PASSION FLOWER: peace, sleep, friendships prosperity, increase libido, popularity, anger management, and stress management.
PATCHOULI: money, fertility, lust, break hexes, incense for drawing money, earth, underworld, business, confidence, court cases, love, desire, prosperity, protection, success, sex, and enemies.
PAU D'ARCO: fertility, wards off negativity, and clears.
PEA: money and love.
PEACH: exorcism, love, fertility, wishes, longevity, broken heart, and youth.
PEAR: love and lust.
PECAN: money, employment, prosperity, dreams, and discipline.
PENNYROYAL: exorcism, consecration, strength, protection, peace, and healing.
PEONY: exorcism, protection, and purification.
PEPPER: exorcism, protection, use in amulets or grow for protection, and wards off negativity.
PEPPERMINT: purification, sleep, love, healing, psychic powers, divination, money, apathy, exorcism, insight, lust, menopause, and clears energy and space.
PEPPER TREE: protection, purification, and healing.
PERIWINKLE: (TOXIC) Protection, money, love, lust, and mental clarity.
PERSIMMON: healing, luck, changing sex, and insight into others.
PETITGRAIN: protection.
PILOT WEED: protection.
PIMENTO: love.
PIMPERNEL: protection and health.
PINE: (TOXIC) protection, exorcism, money, healing, fertility, brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, needles in money spells, spirituality, gambling, dreams, cleansing, banishing, purification, prosperity, employment, birth, rebirth, strength, life and immortality.
PINECONE: magic, human enlightenment, resurrection, strength, internal life, health, fertility, and regeneration.
PINEAPPLE: luck, money, chastity, hospitality, and protection.
PIPSISSEWA: money and calling in good spirits.
PISTACHIO: breaking love spells.
PLANTAIN: protection, healing, strength, and snake repelling.
PLUM: protection, love, healing, and self-confidence.
PLUMERIA: (TOXIC) love.
POKE: (TOXIC) courage and breaks hexes.
POMEGRANATE: divination, luck, wealth, wishes, and fertility.
POPLAR: money, astral projection, and success.
POPPY: fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, healing, and invisibility.
POTATO: healing, image magick, astral projection, separation, foundations, and earth energy.
PRICKLY ASH: love.
PRIMROSE: protection and love.
PURSLANE: protection, love, happiness, luck, and sleep.
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QUASSIA: love.
QUEEN OF THE MEADOW: power and protection.
QUINCE: protection, love, and happiness.
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RADISH: protection and lust.
RAGWEED: courage, faeries, and elves.
RAGWORT: protection.
RASPBERRY: healing, visions, protection, love, alleviates labor pains, spirit of centre, and spring equinox.
RATTLESNAKE ROOT: protection and money.
RED CLOVER BLOSSOMS: abundance, love, money, protection, success, and summer solstice.
RED ROOT: clears energy and dispels.
RHUBARB: health, protection, and fidelity.
RICE: protection, money, fertility, rain, blessings, and weather magick.
ROOTS: protection, divination, and power.
ROSE: beauty, protection, purification, love, psychic powers, healing, divination, peace, luck, courage, catalyst, sex, sleep, prophetic dreams, anger management, love divination, abundance, attraction, and prosperity.
ROSE GERANIUM: protection.
ROSE HIPS: healing, luck, call in good spirits, abundance, strength, and fall equinox ceremony.
ROSEMARY: exorcism, protection, healing, love, lust, mental clarity, sleep, youth, burn for purification, wards negativity, love, blessing, consecration, cleansing, strength, wishes, dreams, beauty, theft, healing, psychic ability, spirit of south, grow to attract elves, and blessing.
ROWAN: protection, success, psychic powers, healing, power, wands and amulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for divination, fires to call upon spirits for help, grow for protection of the home, inspiration, wisdom, enhances magic, and attracts faeries.
RUE: exorcism, protection, purification, break hexes, health, mental clarity, healing, blessing, consecration, use in altar oil, love, money and wealth, and gossip management.
RYE: love and fidelity.
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SAFFRON: love, lust, healing, strength, happiness, psychic powers, wind raising, and depression management.
SAGE: purification, protection, wisdom, longevity, wishes, health, immortality, intuition, divination, luck, prosperity, money, spirituality, menopause, psychic ability, clears, inner guide, longevity, and vision.
SAGEBRUSH: exorcism, protection, purification, joy, and peace.
ST. JOHN’S WORT: (TOXIC) exorcism, protection, courage, strength, happiness, health, love divination, burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, willpower, gathered at Litha, power, and stress management.
SALTPETER: unwanted advances.
SANDALWOOD: protection, exorcism, purification, wishes, healing, spirituality, full moon esbats, wards negativity, spirit offering, luck, sex, banishing, astral projection, business, success, and mental powers.
SARSAPARILLA: love, money, inner strength, grounding, and purification.
SASSAFRAS: money, health, and healing.
SENNA: love.
SERPENTARIA ROOT: love and aphrodisiacs.
SESAME: money, success in business, lust, happiness, and gambling.
SHALLOT: purification.
SHAMROCKS: faeries and elves.
SHEPHERDS PURSE: sleep, depression management, and healing.
SKULLCAP: peace, love, fidelity, stress management, and anxiety management.
SKUNK CABBAGE: good fortune and legal matters.
SLIPPERY ELM: halts gossip, aids verbal communication and development, enemies, friendship, and ends disputes.
SLOE: exorcism, protection, and banishes negative energy/entities.
SNAKEROOT: money, luck, break hexes, love, and lust.
SNAPDRAGON: protection, break hexes, exorcism, prophetic dreams, prosperity, gossip management, and money and wealth.
SOLOMON’S SEAL: love, exorcism, protection, and an offering to the elementals for their aid.
SOUTHERNWOOD: love, lust, protection, and faeries and elves.
SPANISH MOSS: protection.
SPEARMINT: healing, love, and mental clarity.
SPIDERWORT: love.
SPIKENARD: health, fidelity, love, luck, strength, wisdom, and mental powers.
SQUILL: protection, money, break hexes, and business.
STAR ANISE: psychic powers, luck, good fortune, and spiritual powers.
STEPHANOTIS: lust.
STILLENGIA: psychic powers.
STRAW: luck, attracts fairies, do not burn magik infused straw, it will bring ill-fortune, used as an image to protect an area, image magick, and fertility.
STRAWBERRY: love, luck, joy, and broken heart.
SUGAR CANE: love, lust, prosperity, and sympathy.
SUMBUL: psychic powers, love, luck, and health.
SUMMER SAVOURY: mental clarity and strength, and mental powers.
SUNFLOWER: wisdom, health, wishes, fertility, happiness, friendship, and prosperity.
SWEETGRASS: calling in good spirits, bringer of positive energy, clears, seals In, burned after white sage which clears, and spirit of east.
SWEET PEA: strength, courage, friendship, chastity, truth, and love.
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TAMARIND: love.
TAMARISK: exorcism and protection.
TANGERINE: magickal power.
TANSY: healing, health, and longevity.
TEA: strength, courage, prosperity, riches, and health.
THISTLE HOLLY: purification and hex breaking.
THISTLE MILK: exorcism, protection, healing, strength, break hexes, and snake enraging.
THYME: purification, courage, psychic powers, sleep, wards negativity, burn for purification, healing spells, love, renewal, youth, divination, prophetic dreams, faery folk, and romance.
TI: protection and healing.
TOADFLAX: protection and break hexes.
TOADSTOOL: (TOXIC) rain making.
TOBACCO: (TOXIC) healing, purification, and offerings.
TOMATO: protection, prosperity, and love.
TONKA: (TOXIC) courage, love, money, wishes, luck, friendship, and prosperity.
TORMENTIL: protection and love.
TREFOIL: decorate altar, protection, luck, when taking one, and leave a bit of ginger or milk poured into the ground as payment to the fairies.
TRILLIUM: love, luck, and money.
TUBEROSE: love, lust, peace, and psychic awareness.
TULIP: protection, prosperity, and love.
TURMERIC: purification (used with sea salt), fortification, strength, and clears aggression.
TURNIP: protection, endings, and banish negativity.
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UVA URSA: (TOXIC) psychic powers.
V
VALERIAN: protection, purification, love, sleep, prophetic dreams, peace, sex, friendship, anxiety management, and self esteem.
VANILLA: love, lust, mental clarity, money, confidence, attracting people, magickal power, prosperity, success, and wishes.
VENUS FLYTRAP: protection and love.
VERVAIN: sleep, protection, purification, love, money, peace, healing, gather/burn at Litha, altar offering, brings riches, creativity, wards psychic attack, youth, chastity, astral projection, unwanted advances, anger management, and prosperity.
VETCH GIANT: fidelity.
VETIVERT: love, luck, money, break hexes, wards negativity, anti-theft, exorcism, wishes, peace, protection, prosperity, and divination.
VIOLET: protection, healing, love, lust, luck, wishes, peace, sleep, insight, and visions.
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WAHOO: (TOXIC) courage, success, and breaks hexes.
WALNUT: health, mental clarity, wishes, infertility, spirituality, and travel.
WATERCRESS: healing.
WAX PLANT: protection and power.
WHEAT: money, fertility, and prosperity.
WHITE WILLOW BARK: healing, blessings, binding, sacred earth connection between human and earth and spirit, protection, and spirit of east.
WILD LETTUCE: love divination, protection, sleep, opens to the deeper consciousness, and attunes to deeper meanings.
WILD PLUM: healing.
WILD YAM: fortification, grounding, release, and 1st chakra.
WILLOW: protection, healing, love, burn bark with sandalwood for divination, vitality, energy, ending pain, moon magic, wishing, spirits, death passage, besom, inspiration, and psychic energy.
WINTERGREEN: protection, healing, break hexes, strength, good fortune, and opens channels.
WINTER’S BARK: success.
WISTERIA: spirituality.
WITCH GRASS: exorcism, happiness, love, and lust.
WITCH HAZEL: protection, chastity, healing, beauty, and unwanted advances.
WOLF’S BANE: (TOXIC) protection and invisibility.
WOOD BETONY: love, purification, and protection.
WOOD ROSE: luck.
WOOD SORREL: healing, and health.
WOODRUFF: protection, money, victory, add to Beltane wine to clear away barriers, success, changes, psychic awareness, and prosperity.
WORMWOOD: (TOXIC, BURN IN WELL VENTILATED AREA, PREFERABLY OUTDOORS) exorcism, protection, love, psychic powers, calling spirits, protection while traveling, evocation, divination, scrying (stronger when combined with Mugwort) at Samhain, sacred to the moon, good luck, clairvoyance, divination, and safety in cars.
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YARROW: healing, divination, exorcism, protection, courage, love, psychic powers, happy marriage (wedding bouquet), wards negativity, defense, protection, gather at Litha, happiness, fidelity, broken heart, prophetic dreams, spirit of south, clears, and stimulates movement.
YELLOWDOCK ROOT: clears stuck energy and fortification.
YELLOW EVENING PRIMROSE: hunting.
YERBA MATE: love, lust, and fidelity.
YERBA SANTA: protection, healing, psychic powers, beauty, and clears channel to divine life force.
YEW: (TOXIC) Yule symbol for death and rebirth, used for dagger handles, raising the dead, psychic awareness, and spirits.
YLANG YLANG: insight, love, past lives, peace, sex, and visions.
YOHIMBE: (TOXIC) love and lust.
YUCCA: protection, purification, and transmutation.
Herbs and their uses 🌿
Basil: Money, luck, prosperity, Happiness
Bay leaf: Energy, cleansing, can be charged with almost any intention
Camomile: Caring, kindness, luck, growth, self-love growth, confidence, avoiding negativity, happiness
Cinnamon: Passion, quick success, fire magick (put some cinnamon in your hand, set an intention, blow it into your home for wealth or prosperity)
Chia seeds: Growth, health, kindness, property
Chili flakes: Pride, confidence, power, strength, passion
Cumin: Courage, bravery, protection, loyalty
Dandelion: Wishes, charisma, success, good luck
Dill: Sexual love, luck, protection
Eucalyptus: Cleansing, healing, purifying, relaxing, comfort
Fennel: Hate, anger
Flax seeds: Prosperity, growth, new beginnings
Ginger: Fiery passion, success, personal power
Jasmine: Love, dreams, sensuality, luxury, kindness
Lavender: Love, attraction, purification, relaxation, restful sleep
Nutmeg: Luck, health, fidelity, love, prosperity, comfort. loyalty
Oregano: Comfort, love, warmth
Paprika: Pride, confidence, power, strength
Parsley: Cleansing, purification
Peppermint: Healing, purification, love, energy, prosperity
Poppy seeds: Protection, intuition, self-assurance, hexing and cursing
Rose: Love, beauty, harmony, romance, attraction
Rosemary: Cleansing, purification, wisdom, protection
Sesame seeds: Prosperity, growth, health, nurturing
Spearmint: Love, cleansing, renewal, blessing
Sunflower seeds: Happiness, growth, joy
Thyme: Beauty, strength, courage
Turmeric: Confidence, creativity, energy
Vanilla: Love and sexuality
tips for adhd witches!
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I got diagnosed only a couple months ago, but I have been practicing witchcraft for a little bit now. So in retrospect, here is stuff that I realized I have been doing to cope the whole time, and some new things I'm tinkering with :) Please feel free to leave your own tips or thoughts!
At all costs, avoid promising gods and spirits that YOU WILL uphold a rigid routine.
Just do not promise to give daily offerings! JUST DON'T DO IT. If you struggle with upholding a regular routine, do not promise gods or spirits you will uphold a routine for them. You should only promise things you are confident you can deliver. ((If you identify as a beginner witch it's my personal belief that you should not be promising anyone anything.))
Delete from your mindset that all witches are supposed to uphold rigid routines.
Give yourself breathing room: if you want to give scheduled offerings, maybe do one on the full moon. Or, plan it to coincide with other activities that interest you, and that you're likely to show up for.
Unless you have a few hours a week to devote to your practice, you should probably not be dedicating yourself to doing daily anything.
Rigid routine is not the only way to get regular experience with magic, build relationships with gods or spirits, or improve in your craft! You simply do not have to promise yourself or anyone else that you will do X actions at Y times.
Instead of having "do X for Y minutes on Z days" routines, try developing a streamlined ritual you can fit in anywhere for the really important stuff.
Maybe there are some really important things in your practice that you want to do on a regular basis. Maybe these are things like:
Quick personal shielding
Acknowledging and honoring spirits
General offering
Prayer for guidance
Instead of saying "I'll do shielding for 5 minutes every day after breakfast, then of course my offering ritual-", you can put a streamlined (short, easy) ritual together where you do all four of these things at once.
Deep breaths, acknowledge and honor the spirits, ask for assistance in raising a shield, offering excess raised energy to them, and praying for guidance in the upcoming task.
It should take maybe like, 2 minutes tops.
Then, slot this streamlined ritual in before most practice activities. Like:
Before other energy work
Before divination
Before spellwork
Or, use it as a sort of 'generic' access point of connection and perform this ritual:
When you shower, to calm down from the day
When you're on transit to prepare for the upcoming day
When you're feeling grateful and want to share the moment with the spirits
When you're feeling sad and need support
Instead of forcing important actions into routines that may be hard to follow, find a way to carry these actions around with you in an accessible ritual, like carrying snacks around in a bag. This way you can use other exciting activities, or other life events, as a reminder to practice your ritual of important things :)
Build a clear system of omens for yourself. Omens can intrude on your daily life and get your attention.
Maybe you have alarm blindness, forget to do divination, forget to check in with spells - so asking for omens can be a huge help. They are spontaneous messages that catch your eye. Helpful!
Research cultural omens
Research omens in your magical tradition
Journal and brainstorm personal omens
Write out, for yourself, a short list of personal omens.
Solid black pigeons mean a spirit wants attention. Seeing your favorite tree species means a spell was successful. Three gray dots means a spell failed. The scent of cinnamon buns means fortune is headed your way.
Perform a ritual announcing your chosen omens to the Powers That Be. Invite those Powers, Yourself, Life, the Universe, and Everything to send you true, accurate, and helpful messages through these omens.
Working with omens in this way is a skill that evolves over time. Your personal omen system will evolve over time if you use it. Think of it as another form of divination!
(Tip: Combine symbols with colors for an advanced system that's easy to remember. Oak trees are prosperity, but black means slow movement, red means powerful, and white means failure. After a spell you see a plumbing truck with a red oak tree logo; powerful prosperity. Etc.)
Build all your spells, rituals, and everything with the foresight that you are probably going to forget about it or not return to it for a long time.
Employ foresight and:
Encode retirement/shutdown functions into your spells!! Do you want the spell to burn out completely and leave the vessel hollow so you don't have to deal with the vessel later on? Specify that! Do you want the spell to go to 'power saver mode' and hibernate so you can save the vessel and recharge it later? Specify!
ENCODE OMENS INTO SPELLS TO REMIND YOU TO TAKE ACTIONS! "This spell brings me financial benefit, and when it runs low, I will see my omen of slow growth - a solid black tree."
Assume that you are going to completely forget that you're able to take care of this problem, so encode the spells assuming you will never remember to deal with this again:
Spell for people that will remember they want to deal with Monica (they will also be working with wards, divination, and subtle cunning): "Stop Monica at the front desk from assaulting me with her dark energies, or else limit how much of her energy can reach me."
Spell for people that are going to completely forget this is an issue they can take care of and won't do another spell on it for maybe 18 months: "Stop Monica from assaulting me with her dark energies, or reveal to everyone in the office her dark nature, but if neither of these things is possible, change something in the office so that we never interact again."
Assume you will forget about individual spells, that you will accumulate way to many spells than you can individually attend to, and that you may never take final steps like cleansing and deconstructing old spell vessels.
Build a spellcasting altar, or a spell recharging altar, where you store up all your vessels. Recharge them all at once, as often as you remember to.
Poor plan: "And when this vessel runs down I will recharge it with the waxing moon as I stand under the orange tree-" More tenable plan: "And when this vessel runs down let it drink energy from my altar; let it take up any energy that suits it; let it feed on what is available to it, according to its needs."
Focus on learning how to tie spells to external energy sources so they will stay charged for way longer.
For easy deconstruction, set blanket conditions for every vessel that it be undone and the magic erased if you take a simple action. This is called a kill code. You bake it into spells and it makes deconstruction way easier.
Try developing a barbarous word of undoing and using it every time you want to undo a vessel or a spell; this word will gain power and can become very helpful in other ways.
Once again, plan spells with the foresight that it will be difficult/unlikely for you to re-engage for formal deconstruction procedures. So, anticipate your future needs during spellcasting: "And if I ever open this jar and take out the things inside it, let this spell be released and return to the earth, let it fade away without trouble and nourish anything around it as fallen logs nourish the forest floor." This way, you know that if you accidentally forget about a spell or just take it apart, the magic already has instructions to safely dissipate and you don't have to worry.
Develop a visual language to remind you of what collected objects and spell vessels are.
This folds in real nice with a personal omen system!!
Use a combination of colors, established symbols (planetary, alchemical), and personal symbols to develop a visual conlang that helps you keep track of what things are.
If applicable, decorate or modify spell vessels so you can tell at a glance what the spell is for (violet symbol of Venus next to a paw: a spell to improve relationships with the spirits that help you with psychism)
Build a system that makes intuitive sense to you, perhaps folding in with your color correspondence associations, magical headcannon, or any other mnemonic device:
All the spells in jars are protective
Everything that's tied into a witch's ladder is about prosperity
If it has a red X on it, that's a hex
If it has a 7-pointed star, it involves your dragon guide
If you store it in a bag that has blue on it (blue print, blue button, blue tie-string) then that object is related to cleansing
Your personal visual language will gain its own power over time if used regularly, in the way that egrigores or sigils can gain power if used consistently over time :) It can become a real magical tool, not just a mnemonic device!
During spirit work, just clearly communicate that your sporadic presence has nothing to do with your dedication 🤷
When you conjure/talk to/pray to gods, spirits, or anything, address the fact that your communication/rituals/etc ARE going to be sporadic. Explain yourself and ask the spirits to extend understanding.
Some spirits/gods/etc are going to demand regular routine. AND IF THEY EXPECT THAT, then you guys need to get on the same page ASAP as to whether or not that's possible.
Spirits can be incredibly forgiving and understanding, but unless you tell them why you are sometimes around and sometimes not, they do not necessarily know what's going on.
Your spirit guide may have not read the DSM-5. Obelon the Fox-Man might not be up-to-date with the 2025 diagnosis criteria for ADHD, and Obelon might not recognize that you are struggling with a disorder that can mimic inattentiveness. Obelon might be asking why you appear to be so enthusiastic, and yet only call for him once every 5 weeks.
Just explain!! Explain what you are comfortable explaining. Give them reassurances and ask them to not misinterpret your ability to be present.
At all costs, avoid making your path a carrot that you dangle in front of yourself to try and force yourself to fix your brain through sheer force of will.
If the way you talk to yourself about your path sounds like someone struggling with unhealthy dieting, maybe it's time to readjust.
"I just need to do my daily offerings, on schedule, for two weeks. Then I will have earned researching tarot spells."
Maybe it's not a good idea to intentionally include witchcraft in a cycle of reward and denial that will ultimately drain joy from the process until your passion is a withered husk.
Witchcraft isn't going to force your brain to change any more than Stardew Valley was going to force your brain to change. Or that time you got super into succulents. If your time spent studying wool quality in heritage European sheep breeds didn't cure your disorder, witchcraft won't either.
Witchcraft, I think, deserves to be something that is a part of your joy - not a part of a system of stressful attempts at making yourself into someone you're not because "real witches" all do such-and-such routine (I assure you, they do not) so you must force yourself to do it too.
(Incidentally, if you have a 'streamlined ritual for the important stuff' and it becomes a barrier that prevents you from practicing, then maybe that's not a good idea for you - or maybe it's not as simple and streamlined as you need it to be)
STOP trying to build a static path. Lean into temporary hyperfixations.
There is SO MUCH to learn in witchcraft. It's never-ending. The more you learn, the more doorways open for you with more things to learn behind them.
This is not college, you do not have to declare your major. You don't have to wait to decide on your 'magic specialization' before you start learning.
This is not college, you don't have to take semesters of boring general ed classes before you're allowed to start studying what interests you.
Unless you are getting into very serious initiations, learning stuff, advancing your skills, and building your path is not going to shut doors and prevent you from getting into something else.
If something excites your interests, GET INTO IT! Don't force yourself to ignore what you're passionate about because you think serious, responsible witchcraft is supposed to be rigid, boring, and tedious. (It isn't!)
Avoid declaring your major. As in, maybe the idea of energy glamours is super exciting, so on day 1 you create a lesson plan that will realistically take you 70 weeks to complete. Based on your history, is it reasonable that you will maintain this specific interest in glamours for over a year?
Avoid making lesson plans that intentionally slow you down and make shit boring for no good reason. If energy glamours interest you, are you (*scrolls up*) using energy glamours as a carrot to force yourself to engage in a tedious magical workout routine? Is the reason the lesson plan takes 70 weeks because you decided to spend weeks slowly moving through each phase so you have time to spam energy work exercises?
You know yourself better than I know you. Maybe wanting to slow down and engage in your focuses in a new way is the goal. Of course, listen to yourself first!
But if you have a temporary burst of energy and focus to learn a new skill, and learning that skill won't require you to make unhealthy personal or financial decisions, why not just lean into it and explore it moment by moment, wherever your interests take you?
I think you'd probably learn a lot more doing and undoing 20 glamours in a week, because you're freaking out about how fucking cool it is, than if you practice 1 basic glamor exercise once a day because that's what real disciplined witches do, and then 11 days later you forget it once and never do it again and now your interest has faded because glamouring is just another boring chore.
Invest some time and energy into figuring out exactly what your bare minimum of responsibility and upkeep actually is.
How often do you need to recharge your wards to keep them functioning normally?
Once you've explained your own needs and limits, how often do your spirits actually request offerings?
Are you 100% sure the spirits you're working with expect offerings in the first place?
Are those offerings expected to be physical, or do thoughts and prayers suffice?
How often should you perform a personal cleansing to keep yourself feeling magically refreshed?
Feeling anxious or guilty over whether or not you're supposed to be taking certain actions is NO FUN.
It is much less fun if you don't actually know how often you need to do these things. Then it's just all guessing, all the time, and nothing is ever good enough.
If at all possible, avoid putting yourself into a situation where you feel that you are supposed to be doing something responsible in your practice, but you're never sure exactly what it is.
Spend some practice time, learn some skills, and make notes, to discover whether or not you do have any minimum engagement requirements in the style of practice you want. And most importantly, having clear 'deadlines' so you don't have to keep guessing at what you're forgetting about this time.
Recommended tips for research as a beginner witch/practioner:
Research as a beginner can at times feel stressful if you don't know credibilties or anything about the craft really. So, I'm going to share some tips I use in my practice and would recommend when researching witchcraft.
Research what interests you. If research begins to feel like a task instead of genuine interest or fun, there will be problems down the line with researching thoroughly. That isn't to say don't research things that bore you, it means that you should take what resonates with you and from there you can begin to build the framework for your personal craft.
Does the source align with your moral standing and personal beliefs? If the answer is no, time to find a new source. For example, if a source is fully against any harm towards another person and tries to push that narrative on the reader/viewer (or vice versa) and it's not something you personally align with, find another source. The most important example of this is many authors are bigots, terfs or cultural appropriaters. Remember to research the author and their practice before trusting what they have to say.
What may work for some people will not work for you. Do not feel inclined to do everything a certain way as said by a certain practioner. The point of witchcraft is to develop your own habits and outlooks. Crystals and astrology may work best for someone, but you may have an inclination towards herbs and palmistry for example. You do not need to practice every form of witchcraft out there. So circling back to the first point, pay mind to what sparks joy and what aligns with your abilities.
Take everything with a grain of salt. Learn to question what you learn. As witchcraft and spirituality have been practiced in many cultures for many years, things have evolved and been taken from one context to the next. Research various practices and rituals as well as the authors and cultures who promoted said practices
Use multiple sources. Blindly believing one post can be harmful, especially when concerning topics that can be a manner of physical safety (fire hazards, dressing candles, consumption and burning of herbs) or spiritual safety (spirit work, baneful work, trickster spirits). The more research the better, as it solidifies understanding too.
Do not rely solely on social media, but use it as a crutch to what you already know. Many content creators care more about views or aesthetics than educating. But many creators also DO care about what they're putting out there and have genuinely good tips and tricks for various practices. Just be wary.
Don't worry about aesthetics or perfection when you're just learning. Don't let pinterest photos of altars downplay your own craft and beauty. Right now, you're learning new topics and there's plenty of time later to find pretty altar tools or to neatly scribe in a leather journal. Don't let it distract you from research, and ultimately, the goal is to grow.
Have fun with it! There are so many research topics, and it can be as expansive or specific as you make it. Remember this isn't supposed to be stressful, it's supposed to be rewarding.
(Please add your own tips too if you'd like!)
Herb’s Properties part 3
Aloe: femininity, healing, protection, beauty, love
Anise: dreams, youth, lust, blessing, cleansing, divination, offerings, protection, spirit protection
Alfalfa: protection, money, happiness, grounding, fertility
Bayberry: Good fortune, luck, healing, and stress relief.
Clover: money, prosperity, luck, happiness, spirit work, fae, protection, healing
Clove: healing, prosperity, friendships, money
Catmint: healing, animal magic, relaxation, calmness, happiness, psychic ability, love, wishes, meditation
Cayenne: strength, curses, protection, heartbreak, curse breaking, love
Chives: protection, balance, divination
Lemongrass: psychic ability, divination, cleansing, communication, protection, love, luck, jobs
Magnolia: love, fertility, meditation, psychic ability, healing, strength
Mint: communication, energy, money, spirit work, cleansing
Olive leaf: healing, luck, protection, cleansing, fertility, offerings, blessings
Raspberry leaf: fertility, femininity, menstrual cycle, lunar magic, love, creativity, protection
Saffron: healing, offerings, wealth, strength, blessing, cleansing, psychic ability, sleep
Paprika: spell work, energy, psychic ability, curses, creativity
Tarragon: luck, calmness, secrets, peace, love, protection, meditation, spirit work
Valerian: spirit work, absorption of negativity, protection, self acceptance
Spirulina: power, strength, health, luck
Wheatgrass: cleansing, protection, blessing
Ylang Ylang: beauty, love, luck, happiness, relationships
Ko-Fi Herb’s Properties Part1 Herb’s Properties Part2
Landscape Retaining Walls Providence An example of a mid-sized coastal full sun backyard stone retaining wall landscape in fall.
Measuring out boards for this year’s project. I need to measure and cut 2 boards for the unphotographed side, and then it’s time to start digging. This layer will end up ground level with the yard, and will support both the buried water reserve, and hopefully keep my yard from continuing to sink because its washing out under the fence XD this step should keep me busy through april!
O dear!
I haven't posted things in a while now, simply because I'm very busy at the moment. Now that the new year has started, my studies have also started and I have to study a lot. In the bookshop I work in, which is down in the valley in the small village, I also have a lot to do at the moment.
Please forgive me :) I'm still active on Tumblr so don't worry
In my free time I'm currently reading a lot about astronomy and stars and herbalism. Or rather, about healing herbs, oils and elixirs. I am very interested in this. I'm reading also a lot about psychology right now.
In general, I just read a lot. xD
Have a wonderful day Ellie :>
Beef - Quick and Easy Hamburger Stroganoff This hamburger stroganoff recipe uses canned cream of mushroom soup and cream of chicken soup for an easy beef stroganoff to serve over egg noodles.