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Herbs

Most people are not aware that Wiccans use herbs and fewer still understand the reason why. Wiccans understand that herbs, like people have gender, are ruled by a plant, work with an element and are offered to the God or Goddess. Herbs are an important element in Wiccan Magickal spells and most grow their own herbs in their personal garden.

Wiccan Ways to use Herbs

Charms and sachets - Fill a small bag, of the correct color or material, with herbs to make a charm or sachet. You can carry the charm with you, hang it in the house or car, or bury or burn it, depending on the purpose, and the spell you are performing.

Incense- Herbs can be burned as a ritual incense, such as the sage smudge used to clear negative vibrations from a space.

Bath - Make a sachet, and place it in your ritual or healing bath. Fragrant herbs like lavender make a very relaxing bath, and you can use certain herbs to alleviate skin and other conditions, such as using eucalyptus in a bath when you have a cold or flu.

Oils - Place herbs in an oil, let them steep for a few days, then strain. You can make annointing oils for you ritual work, beauty oils for your hair, skin and nails (try coconut or jojoba), or flavor oils for cooking and seasoning, such as steeping rosemary in olive oil.

Teas- Use herbs to make teas for healing illness. Some herbs can be used to mildly alter consciousness, such as valerian or kava kava which can facilitate trance like states.

Smoking- You can make herbal smoking mixtures which will also facilitate altered states of consciousness.

In spellwork, herbs can be sprinkled or placed around or within boundaries (such as your home, altar, or magick circle) to define a "territory" for your magick to work.

Cooking-Of course, you can always use flavorful herbs in cooking and seasoning your food. There are many healthful benefits, and they taste great! Always give all plant life respect, where ever you are- remember, the word "weed" is simply a value judgement! Dandelion, for instance, has many, many healing and nutritional qualities which are extremely beneficial not only to the wildlife which feeds on it, but to you, too! Learn to recognize the herbs around you- even in a city, there are many wonderful herbs growing wild, which you can gather and use. Herbs are Nature's gift- use them with wisedom and joy!

Below are more than 60 herbs commonly found in the kitchen, and the most popular and useful herbs in Wicca.

Angelica Root

Sun Fire Masculine Use in protection and exorcism incense, and also carry the root in a pouch as a protective talisman. Add to bath to remove hexes. Smoking the leaves can cause visions. Angelica protects by both creating a barrier against negative energy, and by filling it's user with positive energy. Removes curses, hexes, or spells that have been cast against you. Enhances the aura, giving a joyful outlook. Relieves tension headache, diuretic, beneficial to the stomach and digestion. Relieves buildup of phlegm due to asthma and bronchitis. Use with caution- Large doses can negatively affect blood pressure, heart, and respiration. If pregnant, can cause miscarriage.

Basil

Mars Fire Masculine Use in love and prosperity spells. Carry to attract wealth. Sprinkle basil over your sleeping lover to assure fidelity. Use it in a ritual bath to bring new love in, or to free yourself of an old love. Also used for purification baths. Sprinkle on the floor for protection, and burn as an exorcism incense.

Bay Leaves

Sun Fire Masculine Use in potions for visions, clairvoyance and wisdom. Place under your pillow to induce prophetic dreams. Carry to ward off evil, and scatter or burn for exorcism. Add to cleansing teas and baths. Scatter on the floor, and then sweep out for protection. The priestesses at Delphi are said to have chewed bay leaves to induce their visions and prophesies.

Blessed Thistle

Mars Fire Masculine Purification, hex-breaking, protection from evil- removes unwanted influences, particularly of malevolent intent. Strew to cleanse buildings or rooms, beneficial in healing spells. Strengthens liver function, combat hepatitis, aids memory purifies the blood stream. Good fof migraine, nausea, and gallstones.

Burdock

Venus Water Feminine Used in protection incenses and for healing, especially the feet. Carry as a protection sachet or burn for purification of a room. Rinse with a root decoction for ridding oneself of a gloomy feeling about yourself or others

. Bramble (Blackberry) Leaf

Venus Water Feminine-Powerful herb of protection, and used in invocations to the goddess Brigit, who presides over healing, poetry, sacred wells, and smithcraft. Also used to attract wealth. If twined into a wreath with rowan and ivy, will keep away evil spirits. A bramble patch is a favorite hiding place for faerie folk, use to invoke and attract faerie spirits.

Cacao (Chocolate)

Venus Water Feminine The Aztec's Food of the Gods. An aphrodisiac, a mild euphoric, and helps to heal depression. It is extremely effective in love potions and spells. Cacao is a required offering during Day of the Dead, can be used to appease restless spirits, or attract passed loved ones during seance.

Camellia

Moon Water Feminine Brings riches and luxury, expresses gratitude. Place fresh blossoms in water on altar during ritual to attract money and prosperity. Used in traditional Chinese medicine for treating skin conditions.

Caraway

Mercury Air Masculine Carry for protection against spirits who mean harm, especially Lilith. The seeds can be used to ensure faithfulness, and can be used in spells to attract a lover. Used in cooking, will induce lust.

Carob

Mars Fire Masculine Often used as a chocolate substitute, but although the flavor is similar, the correspondences are opposite. Useful for protection and prosperity (the dried pods were once used as currency). Can be burned as an incense to attract spirit helpers and familiars, or to deter poltergeists.

Catnip

Water Venus Feminine Animal magick and healing pets, increases psychic bond with animals. Use as a tea for happiness and relaxation. Can also be used during meditation, increases psychic abilities. Useful in love magick- try burning dried leaves for love wishes.

Cayenne Pepper

Mars Fire Masculine Use in hexes, or to break a hex. Use in love or separation spells. The fire or spark of the spirit, it adds power to any spell. Contains capsaicin, which acts as a stimulating digestive aid. Apply externally for joint pain. Aids circulation, blood pressure, and colds. Those with ulcers or chronic bowel disorders should avoid using in large quantities.

Cedar

Sun Fire Masculine Healing, purification, money, protection, love. Cedar smoke is purifying and can cure nightmares. Keep cedar in your wallet or purse to attract money, and use in money incense. It can also be used in love sachets or burned to induce psychic powers. Use to draw Earth energy and grounding.

Chamomile

Sun Water Masculine Chamomile tea is a great relaxer. Prosperity wishes, use to attract money, use as an amulet for prosperity. Use in sleep and meditation incense. Prepares body and mind for magick. Add to a bath or use to wash your face and hair to attract love. Bathe children in chamomile tea to protect from the evil eye, useful in breaking curses cast against you.

Cinnamon

Sun Fire Masculine Spirituality, success, healing, psychic powers, lust, protection, love. Burn cinnamon as an incense or use in sachets and spells for healing, money-drawing, psychic powers, and protection. Mix with frankincense, myrhh and sandalwood for a strong protection incense to be burned every day. A male aphrodisiac.

Cloves

Jupiter Fire Masculine Protection, exorcism, love, money, good luck. Use in incense to attract money, drive away negativity, purify, gain luck or stop gossip. Wear to attract the opposite sex or for protection. Worn or carried to repel negative energies around you, also said to protect babies in their cribs if hung over them strung together.

Coltsfoot

Venus Water Feminine Add to love sachets and use in spells for peace and tranquility. Smoke the leaves to aid in obtaining visions. A soothing expectorant and anti-spasmodic, which can be used to treat bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, and chronic emphysema. Caution: Do not use if pregnant or nursing!

Cumin

Mars Fire Masculine Burn with frankincense for protection. Mix with salt and scatter to keep away evil spirits and bad luck. Use in love spells. Steep cumin seed in wine to induce lust. Place the seeds on, in or near an object to prevent left. Burn with frankincense for protection.

Red Clover

Mercury Air Masculine Protection, money, love, fidelity, exorcism, success, clairvoyance, beauty. Brings good luck. Induces clairvoyant powers. Use for rituals to enhance beauty and youth.

Comfrey Leaf

Air Saturn Feminine A strong herb for protection against any type of negativity, especially when traveling, and particularly for protection in the astral realms. Very nutritious, beneficial for healing sprains, strains, fractures and sores. Also soothes an upset stomach.

Damiana

Mars Fire Masculine Sex magick, lust, love, visions. Use in lust spells. Use in love baths. Burn to enhance visions. Damiana can be prepared in a tea for use in sex magick. It is a mild aphrodisiac. It produces a marijuana-like euphoria when smoked. Good for enchanting a male lover. Damiana tea is the best thing for hangovers. Use caution with this herb.

Dandelion Leaf

Jupiter Air Masculine Divination, wishes, calling Spirits. Use the root in a tea to enhance psychic powers. Used in Samhain rituals. Sleep, protection, healing. A very nutritious and universally beneficial herb. Use in dream pillows and sachets, the leaves and flowers can be used in tea for healing.

Dill

Mercury Fire Masculine Hang in the doorway to protect your home, or carry to protect your person. Can be used in money spells. Add to a ritual bath to become irresistible to the one you desire. Use in love and lust spells.

Eucalyptus Leaf

Air Moon Feminine Uses include great healing properties, kills germs, infections, eases lung congestion, heart stimulant. Attracts healing vibrations and protection. Use to purify and cleanse any space of unwanted energies. Also useful in dream and sleep pillows.

Fennel Seed

Mercury Fire Masculine Healing, longevity, courage, vitality, virility and strength. Use for protection spells of all kinds. Prevents curses, possession and negativity. Use for purification. Gives strength, courage and longevity. Delicious flavor, purifies breath, aids digestion and weight loss.

Feverfew

Venus Water Feminine Love and protection. Include in charms or sachets. Also a strong herb for health and spiritual healing. Use to ward off sickness and bolster immune system. Protects travelers, keep in your suitcase or car the next time you travel. Excellent treatment for migraine headaches- eases inflammation and constriction of the blood vessels in the head, reduces sensitivity to light and nausea.

Dried Fig

Jupiter Fire Masculine Fertility, love spells- excellent ingredient in spell bags. Divination. Sacred to Dionysus, Juno and many others. Recommended for a Beltane altar. If placed on the doorstep before leaving it will ensure you will arrive home safely.

Flax Seed

Mercury Fire Masculine Use to keep the peace at home- place in a bowl to absorb negative energy. Useful in healing and protection spells. Also, carry flax seeds in your wallet or purse to attract money. Very nutritious, good for cholesterol

. Galangal Root

Mars Fire Masculine Psychic abilities, luck, money. For courage, strength, and for avoiding legal problems. Worn or carried, it protects its bearer and draws good luck. Placed in a sachet of leather with silver, it brings money. Powdered galangal is burned to break spells and curses. It is also carried or sprinkled around the home to promote lust. Worn as a talisman, galangal aids psychic development and guards the bearer's health. A mild hallucinogen- eat about three inches of the root for this effect. Use caution with this plant.

Gardenia

Moon Water Feminine Wear to attract love. Use in healing spells. Use in Moon incense, use to increase spirituality.

Garlic

Mars Fire Masculine Use is in protection spells- traditionally used to ward off vampires. Great healing properties, antiviral, antifungal, strengthening. The ancient Greeks placed garlic on the stone cairns at crossroads as an offering to Hecate.

Ginger

Mars Fire Masculine Love, money, success, power. Use in love spells. Eat before performing spells to increase your power.

Ginseng Powder

Sun Fire Masculine Rejuvenation, longevity and sexual potency. Use the root in spells to attract love, maintain health, draw money and ensure sexual potency. Carry to enhance beauty. Burn to break curses or ward off evil spirits. Make into a lust enhancing tea. Useful as an antidepressant, equalizes blood pressure, and aids digestion.

Hazelnut

Mercury Air Masculine Healing, protection, luck, clairvoyance, divination, inspiration, wisdom, defense, fertility, wishes. Hazel is an ancient Celtic tree of wisdom, inspiration, and poetry. In Celtic tradition, the Salmon of Knowledge is said to eat the 9 nuts of poetic wisdom dropped into its sacred pool from the hazel tree growing beside it. Ancient Irish tales tell of poets and seers "gaining nuts of Wisdom," a metaphor for heightened states of consciousness; this belief may have root in a potent brew ? hazelmead- made from hazelnuts that caused visions. To enlist the aid of plant fairies, string hazelnuts on a cord and hang up in your house or ritual room.

Hulled Hemp Seed

Saturn Water Feminine Healing, love, vision, meditation. Burn as an incense during scrying or to attract spirit guides. Also add to wax when casting candles. Rich in nutrients, add to healing formulas and spells. Also useful in love magick. Hibiscus Flower Venus Water Feminine Useful as an aphrodisiac and in love spells. Also use to induce dreams, and enhance psychic ability and divination. Soothes nerves, antispasmodic. Tea aids digestion, and sweetens breath. Helpful with itchy skin.

Holly Leaf

Mars Fire Masculine Luck, dream magick. An excellent protective herb, keeps away lightning, poison, evil spirits, and other malign forces. The wood is used for all magickal tools as it will enhance any wish you have. A powerful protection. Do not consume, for ritual use only.

Hops

Mars Air Masculine Use in healing incenses and spells. Put inside pillow to induce sleep. Tea helps with a restful sleep. Also drink tea after magickal practices to balance and refocus your energy back to ordinary reality. Use in healing sachets and amulets. Also burned during healing prayers.

Horehound

Mercury Earth Masculine As a tea to increase energy and strength, both physically and mentally- it increases concentration and focus. Carry or burn for protection wishes. Called the "Seed of Horus" by the Ancient Egyptians, it is excellent for blessing one's home. Gather flowering Horehound and tie with a ribbon, then hang it in your home to keep it free from negative energies. The leaves and stems are used in candies, cough drops and syrups. Used to treat asthma, coughs, colds, bronchitis, sore throats, and skin irritations. Also used as a diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, laxative, stimulant, and stomachic.

Hyssop

Jupiter Fire Masculine An excellent purifying herb. Use in purification baths and spells. Associated with serpents and dragons, and can be burned as an incense to call on dragon energy. Aids in physical and spiritual protection.

Juniper Berries

Sun Fire Masculine Useful for protection magick of all kinds. Makes a nice incense for protection. It can be burned or carried to enhance psychic powers. Attracts good, healthy energies and love. Aids in digestion, intestinal cramps, diuretic, eases arthritis. Banishes energies injurious to good health.

Mandrake Root

Mercury Fire Masculine Protection, love, money, fertility, health. Mandrake intensifies the magick of any spell. To charge mandrake root with your personal power, sleep with it for three nights during the full moon. A hallucinogen when used in tea- it has great power as a visionary herb, empowering your visions and propelling them into manifestation. A whole mandrake root placed in the home will bring protection and prosperity. Carried, it will attract love and couage.

Morning Glory Blossoms

Neptune Water Masculine Happiness, peace, visions. Place under your pillow to stop nightmares and induce beneficial psychic dreams. Sacred to the Aztecs. Do not consume, toxic.

Moss

Jupiter Earth Masculine To ensure good luck, especially with money, carry any type of moss removed from a gravestone. Use in prosperity spells, Gnome magick and spells to Mother Earth. Use in "Witch Bottles" for home and business. Place in your bra When a MALE lover is near to attract sexual attention

Mugwort

Venus Earth Feminine Use in dream pillows for prophetic dreams. Burn with sandalwood or wormwood in scrying rituals. Drink as a tea sweetened with honey before divination. The plain tea can also be used to wash crystal balls and magick mirrors. Leaves of mugwort can be placed around these to aid in scrying.

Mullein

Saturn Fire Feminine Protection and courage. Keeps away demons and nightmares while sleeping, also protects against wild animals. Useful in protection and exorcism spells. Invokes spirits, use on scrying tools to aid divination. This plant is the Original Witch's torch, used to illuminate spells and rites. Useful as an expectorant to clear and heal lungs, stops diarrhea and soothes hemeroids.

Nettles

Mars Fire Masculine Carry to remove a curse and send it back, or sprinkle around the house to keep out evil. Use in purification baths. Highly nutritious for anemia, skin disorders and allergies, restores health, expectorant, stops bleeding. One of the nine sacred herbs of the Anglo-Saxons.

Nutmeg

Jupiter Fire Masculine Luck, money, health. Carry for good luck, and to strengthen clairvoyant powers. Use in money and prosperity spells. A hallucinogen when made into a tea. TOXIC in large doses! Take no more than a pinch!

Orris Root

Venus Water Feminine Love, protection, divination. Use to find and hold love- a powder made from the root is used as a love drawing powder. Protection from evil spirits. Roots and leaves hung in the house, and added to the bath are good for personal protection.

Pau d`Arco

Pluto Fire Masculine Works best during the waning Moon- can be empowered by drawing down the Moon directly into the herb. The active ingredient is xyloidin, a very potent antibiotic and antiviral. Can relieve arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, eczema, gastritis, psoriasis, pyorrhoea, rheumatism, skin and nails, ulcers. Used to treat chronic candida. Potent tonic and cell regenerator, stimulating natural defenses and revitalizing the body. Also a sedative, an analgesic, and a diuretic.

Passion Flower

Venus Water Feminine Promotes emotional balance, peace, attracts friendship and prosperity. Heightens libido, use in love spells. Calming and soothing, promotes emotional balance, aid in sleep. Use to relieve nerve pain and hysteria

. Pennyroyal

Mars Fire Masculine Carry in a green bag to attract money and to aid in business transactions. Burn for protection in meditation and astral travel. Use for ridding negative thoughts against you, carry when dealing with negative vibrations of all kinds. Caution: stimulates menustration when consumed, and can induce miscarriage.

Peppermint

Mercury Fire Masculine Purification, sleep, love, healing, psychic powers. Promotes sleep and visionary dreams. Use in healing and purification baths. Burn as a winter incense. Very useful for stomach upset and heartburn, nausea, and to ease congestion during colds and flu.

Pine

Sun Air Masculine For sacred wisdom. Prosperity,fertility, healing.The Pine tree is an evergreen, its old title was "the sweetest of woods". Its needles are a valuable source of vitamin C and can loosen a tight chest. The scent of Pine is useful in the alleviation of guilt. Burn for strength, and to reverse negative energies

. Raspberry Leaf

Venus Water Feminine Protection, healing, love. Calming, promotes sleep and visions. Useful during pregnancy and childbirth, eases diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Beneficial to the kidneys.

Rose Petals

Venus Water Feminine Love, psychic powers, healing, luck, protection. Use in love spells of all kinds. Drink rose tea before bed for prophetic dreams. Domestic peace and happiness, promotes joy of giving. Helps clear away headaches, dizziness, mouth sores and menstrual cramps. Heart and nerve tonic.

Rose Hips

Venus Water Feminine Rose hips are very high in Vitamin C. Rose hips also contain A, B, E, and K, organic acids and pectin, and have a high concentration of iron. The hips are strung like beads and worn to attract love. A woman should eat rose hips during her menstrual period. A woman's lover should gather roses for this purpose. The earliest known gardening was the planting of roses along the most travelled routes of early nomadic humans.

Rosemary

Sun Fire Masculine Protection, love, lust, mental powers, exorcism, purification, healing, sleep, youth. Burn to purify and cleanse. Use in love and lust incenses and potions. Use for healing of all kinds. A tea of rosemary causes the mind to be alert. Circulatory, digestive and nerve stimulant. Heals headache, depression, and halitosis.

Sage

Jupiter Air Masculine Immortality, longevity, wisdom, protection, prosperity. Use in healing and money spells. Purifying, use as incense during sacred rituals-walk the smoke to the four corners of the room to repel and rid negative energies and influences. Especially good when moving into a new home. Heals wounds, aids digestion, eases muscle and joint pain, colds and fever.

Sea Salt

Saturn Earth Masculine Prosperity, protection, purification, consecration of ritual tools. Sprinkle a few grains around your sacred space to clear it of any unpleasant presences. Some ancient rituals call for pouring dry salt into a receptacle of water to symbolize the dissolving of evil.

Shavegrass

Saturn Earth Feminine Also known as Horsetail. Fertility spells. Nutritious, helps the body absobrb calcium, may help to strengthen bones, hair and nails. Control excess oil on the skin. Diuretic, helps to relieve urinary disorders. May help blood to clot, reduce fevers, and calm nervous tension. Also can be used in snake charming!

Scotch Broom Leaf

Mars Air Masculine A Druid sacred tree. Use in purification and protection spells and scatter to exorcise evil spirits. Burn to calm the wind. The branches are used to make traditional besoms. The tea can induce psychic powers, and its smoke is a sedative. Use in moderation, can be toxic.

Seaweed

Moon Water Feminine Offers protection to those at sea. Summons sea spirits and sea winds. Uses in sachets and spells to increase psychic powers. Scrub floors and doors of business with infusion to attract customers and bring in positive energy. Use in money spells. Fill a small jar with whiskey, add kelp, cap tightly and place in the kitchen window. Ensures a steady flow of money into the household. Helps regulate an underactive thyroid. Relieves the pain of rheumtism and rheumatic joints.

Spanish Moss

Jupiter Earth Masculine Luck, money, banish poltergeists- To ensure good luck, especially with gambling, carry Spanish moss. Use in "Witch Bottles" for home and business. Place around home, or burn to banish poltergeists.

St. John's Wort

Herbs are used to fill charms and sachets, as an incense, a bath sachet, oils, teas, smoking, spellwork and as a food seasoning. There are more than sixty herbs used in Wicca.

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Acacia- Burn on the atar to increase psychic powers and meditation aid.

Agrimmony-Protection, returns spell to the sender, aids sleep.

Allspice- Burn for prosperity

Angelica-Sprinkle about to ward off negaivity and for protection.

Anise- Purification, protection, entices spirits to aid in spells

Apple- Bury in the garden on Samhain as food for the departed spirits, love, share an apple with the one you love, health, attracts unicorns.

Avens- Purification, love

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Basil- Protection, walth, love, repels negativity

Bay- Burn for psychic powers, purification , wish magic

Benzoin- Burn for puricication, prosperity

Bergamot- Success

Betony-Burn at Litha for purification, protection, to be rid of nightmars (put in a pillow uner your own pillow to send away despair (spirinkle around doors and windows, psychic awareness

Blackthorn- Returns evil to the sender

Borage- Tea aids psychic powers, carry leaves for protection

Broom- Purification (sweep the circle) Hang indoor for protection- Faires do not like this jplant and by working with the devas, you aly also come to dislike the musty sent of the broom.

Burdock-Wards of negativity, purifies, protects, Can be used in whasing floors or wear the dried root strung on a red thread.

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Cardamon- Burn for love spells, use in love sachets

Carnation- Protection, altar offerings for Goddess, strength

Cassia augustifolias-Do not use tea during menstration or pregnancy for it will induce both menses and diarrhea and if used to bring on menses or to overcome constipation, may be folowed up after the desired effect with a tea of China Black, chamomile and rose hips. Also called Indian Senna Leaf.

Catnip-Love and eat magic

Chamomile- Meditation, rest (drink in tea), purification, calimness, prosperity, incense for the God.

Cinnamon- Burn for spiritual and psychic powers, proteciton, success

Cinquefoil-Prosperity, proteciton, puification, divination, dreams

Chives-Bury for wealth

Clove- Burn for wesalthk , purification and ward off negativity.

Colesfoot

Comfrey-Root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel

Corlander-Health

Cumin- Prevents theft, burn for protection.

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Dandelion

Dianthus-

Dill-Seed draws money, leaves for proteciton, flowers for love

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Elecanpane

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Fennel-Protection, sacred to the God, hung over doos at Litha

Ferns- Burn indoors for protection, outside for rain

Feverfew- Wards sickness, wards accidents in travel

Foxglove- Caution, Poisonous, although digitalis comes from it. Grow in the garden for protection of house and yard

Frankincense- Proteciton, blaessing, spirituality, mediation, power

Furze/gorse- Burn at Ostara for proteciton and as prpartation for any confict.

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Garlic- Sacred to Hecates, flowers for altar offering, cloves for protection.

Gentian

Ginger- Love, success

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Hops- Health, aids sleep

Hyssop-Purification, wards negativity

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Kelp-Wind spells, protection, psychic powers

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Lavender-Attracts elves, burn for purificaiton, peace, used in bath for purification;, burn at Litha as offering, love, psychic awareness.

Lemon balm- Success, health, love,-soak in iwne for three hours, remove and serve wine.

Lemon Verbena

loosestrife- Purple restores harmony and brings peace. Can be sprinkled in the cornrs of rooms or given as a gift to bring about an accord.

Lovage

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Mace-Burn for psychic power

Marigold- Marriage speells, clairvoyant dreams when put in a pillow. Mixed with water and rubbed over the eyelids to see faireis, protection enhanced psychic pwoers, pick in full sun.

Marjoram-Love- protection, wealth

Mint- Proection prosperity, altar offering for helpful spirits

Moonwort-Divination, love prosperity

Mugwort- Divination. Rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magic mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night.

Mullein-Protection, divination, health, courage

Mustard- health, protection and fertility]

Myrrh- Protection, ward of negativity, burn for purificaiton and consecrations, usually combined with frankincense.

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Nastartium

Nutmet- Burn for prosperity

Nuts and cones- Use to tip wands for fertility magic

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Oats- Wealth, offering for the God

Orange- Peels for love, incense for good fotune, divination

Oregano-

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Parsley-Purification, protection

Patchouli- Insence for drawing money, fertility, earth, underworld

Pecan- prosperity

Pepper- use in amulets or grow for protection, wards negativity

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Rose

Rosemary-Burn for purification, wands negativity, protection, love, health, gorwn to attract elves, blessing, consecration.

Rowan- Wands and ammulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for diviation, fires to call upon spirits for help, gow for protection of the home, inspiration.

Rue-Blessings, consecration, protection, use in altar oil, health

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Sage- Protection, wisdom, health

Sandalwood- Burn for protection, full moon Esbats, Wards negativity, spirit offering.

Savory

Solomon's Seal- An offering to the elemental for their aid, protection

Star anise- Burn for psychic power and good fortune

St. John's Wort- (Sealroot- Dropberry) Burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, health, willpower, gathered at Litha

Straw- Attracts feries. Do no burn magic infued straw as thqt will bring ill fortune. Can be used as an image to protect an area and when no long needed, release and spread to the winds.

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Tansy- Health

Terragon

Thyme- Wards negativity, Burn for purification and healing spells.

Trefoil- Decorate altar, proteciton , luck, when making one, leave a bit of ginger or milk poured into the ground as payment to the faries.

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Valerian

Vervain- (Verbena)-Gather/burn at Litha, altar offereing, love, purification, draws riches, creativity, wards psychic attack

Vetivert- Love, money, wands, negativity

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Wheat- Fertility, wealth

Woodruff- Add to Beltane wine to clear away bnarriers, protection, success, changes, psychic awareness.

Wormwood- Caution- Poisonous-If burned, use in well ventilated area, perferably outdoors. evocation, divination and scrying, stronger when combind with mugswort, a Sanhain, protection, sacred to the moon.

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Yarrow-Divination, love, happy marriage, a wedding bouquet wards negativity, defense, proteciton, gahter at Letha.

Yaw- Caution- Poisonous. Yule symbol of death and rbirth. Used for dagger handles.

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Trees and Bushes

Alder-Whistles entice the Elemental Air-Water magic, strength

Apple- Love, Spirit food

Ash- Wnnds, protection. Use leaves for prophetic dreams and prosperity, study, health, enhances magic, besom, stang

Birch- Protection, purification, wards negativity, blessing, health, beginnings, besom

Blackberry- Protection, health, prosperity, pies for Lughnassadh

Briar- Add to tea for clairvoyant dreams

Cherry- Chips burned at Sabbats, creativity

Elder-Caution- Seeds are poisonous. Wards negaive thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, wood not to be burned as it is sacred to Hecates, See fairies in these trees at Litha. Flowers may be used as an altar offring, berries may be made into Esbat wine, the flowrs may be added to a candle spell address to Hecate during the new moon. Cleansing, offering

Fir/Pine- Prosperity, birth and rebirth, stang

Foxglove- Caution- Poisonous although digitalis comes form it. Grow in the garden for protection of house and yard.

Hawthorn-Powerful wands, fertifity magic, protection, Purity, proteciton, wand, attracts fairies

Hazel-String the nuts on a cord and hang it in the house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, protection and luck. Wisdom, all around Witch's wand

Heather- Red to start or end an affiair- White- for potection, putple for spiritual development, use at 'Samhaim to invite spirits to visit.

holly- Enhances magic

Ivy- Fertility, love

Lime Tree-(Linden)- Bark used for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, sleep and love

Mountain ash, (Rowan)Proection, enhances magic, stang

Oak The God, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, use galls in charms, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health.- Fertility, power, balance, protection, success, stang

Poplar- Success

Rowan- see Mountain Ash

Vine- Grape- happiness

Willow-Burn bark with sandalwood for divinition, love protection Moon magic, wishing, spirits,death passsage, besom

Yew- Caution- Poisonous- Yule symbol of death and rebirth used for dagger handlesm ostcguc awarebessm spirits, death passage.