MANDRAKE
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Earth.Magical uses: A protective charm for the home. The root increases fertility in women and impotency in men when carried. Charge a mandrake root with your personal energy; sleep with it for three nights prior to the full moon. The root can be carried to increase courage.
MARIGOLD
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical attributes: Prophesy, legal matters, the psychic, seeing magical creatures, love, clairvoyance, dreams, business or legal affairs and renewing personal energy.
Uses: For internal use the flowers are prepared by infusion and recommended for the flu, fever, rheumatism, jaundice, and painful menstruation. Externally, buds are made into compresses for the treatment of burns. Marigold petal ointment can help chapped hands and varicose veins, also works wonders with eczema and inflammation. To ease inflammation, dip a compress into a strong marigold tea combined with an equal part of apple cider vinegar. Sprains can also be helped with marigold petals steeped in vinegar, or make a lotion with milk. Simmer 12 heads in 2 cups milk, steep, strain and apply. Also use as an antiseptic in first aid. Place the flower beneath the head at night to induce clairvoyant dreams. Sometimes added to love sachets. It should be gathered at noon.
MARJORAM
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Air
Magical attributes: protection, love, healing.
Uses: Add to all love charms; place a piece in rooms for protection. Give to a grieving person to bring them happiness.
MEADOWSWEET
G/P/E: Feminine, Jupiter, Water.
Magical uses: Protection against evil influences, promotes love, balance and harmony. A sacred herb of the Druids. Place meadowsweet on the altar when making love charms and conducting love spells to increase their potency. Wear at Lammas to join with the Goddess.
MINT (SPEARMINT charms made of the wood have special magickal properties. Wear fresh Myrtle leaves while making love charms, potions or during rituals for love.
NETTLE
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical attributes: To advert danger, protection, healing, courage, antidote for many poisons.
Uses: Use gloves to handle so as to avoid getting pricked. High in vitamin C and iron and when in tea form can ease asthma and increase your energy levels.
NUTMEG
G/P/E: Feminine, Jupiter, Air.
Magical uses: Clairvoyance and psychic power of visions.
OAK
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical uses: The Oak is a sacred tree in many cultures. A Witch will often seek out a grove of Oak to perform rites. It has always been considered unlucky to cut down an oak. After getting permission from the tree's Dryad, burn oak leaves for purification of ritual spaces. Oak is often used for all-purpose wands and they imbue great power. The acorns have been carried to increase fertility in women and to increase sexual appeal by men, preserve youth and to banish illness. Hang Oak over windows and doors to protect your house from evil spirits.
ONION
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical uses: Protection and healing. Place cut onions in a sick person's room to absorb the illness. Leave them overnight and throw away in the morning.
ORANGE
G/P/E: Feminine, Jupiter, Water.
Magical uses: The dried and powdered peel is added to love and fertility charms.
ORRIS ROOT
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical uses: Love, sexual appeal. Use in charms, amulets, sachets, incenses and baths.
PARSLEY
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Air.
Magical attributes: Fresh parsley leaves in tea form are a treatment for cramps, while dried root decoctions eases urinary infections and arthritis. Externally, crushed leaves relieve insect bites, and may be applied in poultice form to sprains.
Uses: Widely used as a culinary herb.
PATCHOULI
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Earth.
Magical uses: Aphrodisiac and attractant of lovers for either sex.
PENNYROYAL
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Earth.
Magical uses: Protection, weariness, deters insects. Avoid Pennyroyal while pregnant.
BLACK PEPPER
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical uses: Use in protective charms.
PERIWINKLE
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical uses: Protection against evil influences. Hang around doors and windows.
PIMPERNEL
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Air.
Magical uses: Wear to detect falsehood to prevent or know when others are lying to you.
PINE
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Air.
Magical attributes: Attunement to nature, centering, cleansing, healing, productivity, purification against illness, a good winter incense, fertility charms.
Uses: Pine buds prepared by decoction act as an expectorant and antiseptic. This same mixture can be used for inhalation for head colds, although it is easier to toss some needles in hot water. Green cones and needles can be added to bath water to ease muscle pains and swelling. For magic, pine is best suited for its aromatic qualities of bringing one back into balance, and enhancing connection with the natural world.
POPPY
G/P/E: Feminine, Moon, Water.
Magical uses: Eat poppy seeds as a fertility charm; just don't take a urine test at work for a few days afterward. Carry the seeds or dried seed-pod as a prosperity charm.
ROSE
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical attributes: Love, friendship, luck, protection, psychic power and divination.
Uses: Conserves of roses or rose petals in honey are often recommended for nausea and sore throats. Roses are high in vitamin C.
ROSEMARY
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical attributes: Improve memory, sleep, purification, youth, love, power, healing, protection, intellectual.
Uses: Promotes healing of wounds, acts as an antiseptic, and can be a mild stimulant. Good in teas for treating flu, stress, and headaches or body aches. Mental and physical booster. Used for treating (oil form) muscular sprains, arthritis, rheumatism, depression, fatigue, memory loss, migraine headaches, coughs, flu and diabetes. Excellent remedy for acne or cellulite. When the leaves are soaked in wine for two weeks, small glasses may be taken as a digestive aid. Oil of rosemary is excellent in hair conditioners, and the flowers of this herb may be added to lotion recipes to improve the complexion. Add to all purification bath sachets, love incenses, and protection incenses. Make a simple of rosemary and use it to cleanse the hands before working magic, if you have no time for a regular ritual bath. Burn rosemary and juniper as a healing and recuperation incense.
ROWAN
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical uses: Protection, good luck, healing.
RUE
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical uses: Protection, preventing illness, clearness of mind, purification of ritual spaces and tools, clearing the mind of emotional clutter.
THYME
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical attributes: Sleep, psychic energy, courage, healing, purification incense, magickal cleansing baths, a renewing of one's personal energy, warding off of negative energy.
Uses: Powerful antibacterial, antibiotic, and diuretic properties. It helps eliminate wastes from the body. It is used in treating whooping coughs, warts, rheumatism and acne. A strong antiseptic which when prepared by infusion is useful for poor digestion, exhaustion, colds, and infections, and with honey is an effective treatment for sore throats. Also used in tea form as a fever breaker, headache reducer and to be rid of intestinal worms, and can be used as a mouthwash. Also, a great insect repellent. Use both the leaves and flowers. This tea works best for headaches when taken cold. Take a magical cleansing bath in the spring of thyme and marjoram (used in tea form or whole herbs). A pillow stuffed with it cures nightmares.
TUMERIC
Uses: added to warm milk it regulates menstrual cycle.
VALERIAN
G/P/E: Feminine, Mercury or Venus, Water.
Magical attributes: Love, calming, sleep, purification or relaxing baths.
Uses: Use the dried, powdered root. Promotes relaxation while counteracting the effects of insomnia, anxiety, nervousness, headaches, pre menstrual syndrome and menstrual cramping. For sleep, before bed take 1 teaspoon of herb to 1 pint of water and simmer. Also acts as a good substitute for catnip. Use the fresh herb in spells of love, also to get fighting couples together. Used in the Purification bath sachet.
VANILLA
G/P/E: Masculine, Jupiter, Fire.
Magical uses: The bean is used in a love charms, the oil is worn as an aphrodisiac.
VERVAIN
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical uses: Ritual cleansing or sacred space, magical cleansing baths, purification incenses. Hang over the bed to prevent nightmares. Love and protection charms, Vervain is also an excellent for use in prosperity charms and spells as it brings good luck and inspiration.
VIOLET
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical uses: Mix with lavender for a powerful love charm. A Violet and Lavender compress will aid in eliminating headaches. The flowers are carried as a good-luck charm. The scent will soothe, clear the mind and relax the wearer.
WALNUT
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical uses: Carry the nut as a charm to promote fertility and strengthen the heart.
WILLOW
G/P/E: Feminine, Moon, Water.
Magical uses: Willow wands can be used for healing. The Willow will bring the blessings of the Moon upon those who plant it or have it on their property. Willows can be used to bind together witch's brooms and a forked willow branch is widely used in water witching and dowsing.
WITCH HAZEL
G/P/E: Masculine, Saturn or Sun, Fire.
Magical attributes: Protection, chastity, healing the heart.
Uses: In tincture form it is good as a mouth rinse and to ease hemorrhoids. As a compress, witch hazel can be applied to insect bites and other skin irritations.
WORMWOOD
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Air.
Magical uses: Wormwood is burned to gain protection from wandering spirits. Used in divinatory and clairvoyance incenses, initiation rites and tests of courage. Enables the dead to be released from this plane so they my find peace.
YARROW
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water.
Magical uses: Courage, love, marriage charms, dispelling negativity, psychic abilities, divination.
Uses: A very potent healer, it intensifies the medicinal action of other herbs taken with it. Helps eliminate toxins (good for colds). Most useful in its abilities to staunch blood flow. In poultice form, it is useful against infections and swelling. In magic there is evidence that yarrow was often used as a component in incantations. The tea drunk prior to divination will enhance one's powers of perception (a touch of peppermint brightens this brew up and always works better). Also drink the tea to stop arthritis symptoms such as swelling and inflammation associated with weather divination and generally end all aching, sore muscles, or stiff joints or back pain. A powerful incense additive for divination and love spells.
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