by Mother Oak
# Abalone ~ General use, containment of empowered herbs, stones, etc.
# Clam shells ~ Purification, love
# Conches ~ Love
# Cone shells ~ Protection
# Cowries ~ Prosperity, money
# Left-handed Whelks ~ Dramatic positive changes
# Limpets ~ Courage, confidence, physical strength
# Moon shells ~ Purification, peace
# Olive shells ~ Healing
# Oysters ~ Love, good fortune
# Sand Dollars ~ Wisdom
# Scallops ~ Travel, movement
# Tooth shells ~ Money
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Stones, gems, minerals & their properties A magickal mineral guide
by Mother Oak
# Agate ~ strength, courage, longevity, gardening, love, healing, protection
# Agate, Banded ~ bodily energy, ease stress
# Agate, Black ~ courage, successful competitions
# Agate, Black & White ~ guards against physical dangers
# Agate, Holly Blue ~ spiritual actualization, as one teaches, one also learns
# Agate, Blue Lace ~ peace, happiness, expands consciousness, soothing, wise, public speaking
# Agate, Brown/Tawny ~ success, wealth
# Agate, Green ~ health
# Agate, Moss ~ "gardener's talisman", healing, energy, riches, happiness, long life
# Agate, Red ~ healing, calmness, peace
# Amazonite ~ gambling, success, aligns astral bodies, unity with life, enhances creative expression
# Amber ~ luck, healing, strength, protection, beauty, love, calming, humor, joy
# Amethyst ~ dreams, overcoming alcoholism, healing, peace, love, protection against thieves, courage, happiness
# Ametrine ~ dispels negativity, aids decision making, meditation, relieves stress
# Andalusite ~ stimulates past memories, re-alignment and centering of self
# Angelite ~ protects, strengthens degenerate organs, excellent for creative people
# Apache Tear ~ luck, protection, grants forgiveness, understand in distress, ward off danger
# Apatite ~ good for communication, controls weight gain
# Apophyllite ~ loving attunement to body and spirit, stimulates intuition
# Aquamarine ~ banishes fears, calms nerves, imparts strength and control
# Aventurine ~ independence, strong legs and joints, helps in career change, mental powers, eyesight, gambling, money, peace, healing, luck
# Azurite ~ dreams, divination, healing, cuts through illusion, enhances communication
# Beryl ~ protection against evil gossip and rumor
# Black Coral ~ dispels negativity, fear of dark and unknown
# Bloodstone ~ halt bleeding, healing, victory, courage, wealth, strength, power, legal matters, business, invisibility, agriculture
# Blue Stone ~ used in many voodoo and conjuring spells
# Boji Stone ~ sense of joy, highly energetic, draws out pain
# Brown Stone ~ health, long life, and good fortune
# Calcite ~ spirituality, centering, peace, love, healing, purification, money, protection, energy
# Carbuncle ~ increase self-confidence and ability to fight
# Carnelian ~ protection, peace, eloquence, healing, courage, sexual energy, releases sorrow, envy, fear, apathy, and rage
# Celestite ~ clears speech, personal expression, highly spiritual, compassion, eloquence, healing
# Chalcedony ~ protects from evil eye, expression of emotional needs, honesty, alleviates regret
# Charoite ~ accelerates spiritual growth, enhances self-esteem, and the ability to love
# Chiastolite ~ deflects evil eye, aids insight, helps in transitional states
# Chrysocolla ~ peace, wisdom, love, take away fears communication, female energy, creativity, relieves ulcers and arthritis
# Chrysoprase ~ happiness, luck, success, friendship, protection, healing, money
# Citrine ~ cleans auras, detoxifies the body, anti-nightmare, protection, aids tissue regeneration
# Copper ~ energy direction, healing, luck, love, protection, money
# Coral ~ protection from evil, increases imagination, resolves conflicts
# Cross Stone ~ natural sign of the cross, protects from witchcraft
# Crystal ~ carried as a protection against jinxes and hexes
# Danburite ~ stimulates intellect, promotes self-assertiveness
# Diamond ~ spirituality, sexual dysfunction, protection, courage, peace, reconciliation, healing, strength
# Dioptase ~ attracts love, abundance, prosperity and health
# Emerald ~ mental powers, protection, love, attracts wealth, profitable dreaming
# Epidote ~ encourages spirituality, heals emotional wounds
# Fluorite ~ mental powers, comprehension, strengthens teeth and bones, stabilizing and calming
# Fossil ~ aids past life exploration, protection from spells
# Galena ~ harmony, healthy hair, medical students, promotes holistic studies
# Garnet ~ healing, protection, strength
# Gold ~ power, protection, wisdom, success, purifying, healing, balancing, attracts honors, masculine energy
# Gypsum ~ relieves stagnation, offers level-headedness
# Hematite ~ healing, divination, grounding, promotes common sense and level headedness
# Herkimer Diamond ~ soothes tension, sleep
# Hessonite ~ clears negativity, eliminates feelings of inferiority, gives courage to change
# Hyacinth ~ solace for a restless brain, and aid against insomnia
# Iolite ~ gives accurate visions, releases discord, strengthens liver, connection with soul
# Jade ~ symbol of charity, modesty, courage, justice, and wisdom, reduces eyestrain, negativity, promotes longevity, dreams
# Jasper ~ healing, protection, health, beauty
# Jasper, Brown ~ centering, grounding
# Jasper, Green ~ healing, sleep, compassion
# Jasper, Mottled ~ protection against drowning
# Jasper, Red ~ protection, healing, beauty
# Jet ~ dispels migraines and illness, protects finances, protection, anti-nightmare, luck, divination, health
# Kunzite ~ reduces insecurity, addiction, manic depression, gives maturity
# Kyanite ~ promotes clarity and understanding in dreamwork, enhances creativity
# Labradorite ~ brings recognition of destiny, connects one with the elements
# Lapis Lazuli ~ healing, joy, love, fidelity, protection, courage
# Lapis Lingua ~ cure melancholia, and bring success in love
# Larimar ~ confidence builder, good for sales, reduces depression, builds serenity
# Lepedilite ~ promotes self love, alleviates stress, anger, and tension
# Lignite ~ believed to restore lost senses to the possessor
# Lodestone ~ carry a pair, one to repel evil and one to attract good
# Madstone ~ treatment of rabies and snake bites
# Malachite ~ lucky money stone, aids sleep, asthma, travel, power, protection, love, peace, business success
# Marble ~ protection against the evil eye and witchcraft
# Moldavite ~ catalyst for important changes in life
# Moonstone ~ love, divination, sleep, gardening, protection, youth, dieting
# Morello Smokey Quartz ~ interpreting dreams, grounding, stimulates intellect
# Morganite ~ sisterhood, reduces over-emotion, heals pain of separation
# Mother-of-Pearl ~ protection, wealth
# Obsidian ~ protection, grounding, divination, peace
# Olivine ~ protects from enchantment and against depression
# Onyx ~ relieves stress, grief, strengthens self-control, dispels nightmares and aids marital happiness
# Opal ~ astral projection, beauty, money, luck, power
# Peacock Rock ~ fresh new outlook on life, strong healing properties
# Pearl ~ love, money, protection, luck, faith, charity, integrity, innocence, fights infection, stone of sincerity
# Pecos Diamond ~ stabilizes emotions, brings joyful feeling, aids creativity and initiation
# Peridot ~ protection, health, wealth, sleep, removes stress, fear, and guilt, activates personal growth
# Petrified Wood ~ carried for it's great legendary healing powers Connections with earth and nature, removes petty annoyances
# Phenacite ~ inner knowing, spiritual travel, increases energy of other stones
# Prase ~ resolves sexuality issues, sense of oneness with universe
# Prehnite ~ balances chakras, enhances personal relationships
# Pyrite (Fool's Gold) ~ money, divination, luck, increases memory, concentration
# Quartz ~ breaks bad habits, insomnia, headaches, channeling stone, enhances life force
# Quartz Crystal ~ protection, healing, power, lactation
# Quartz, Rose ~ fidelity, love, peace and happiness Reduces weight, wrinkles, self-assuredness, love stone
# Quartz, Rutilated ~ excellent for the birthing process, good for mothers
# Quartz, Sceptre ~ symbol of power, to focus energy within heart
# Quartz, Smokey ~ relieves depression, tension balances sexual energies
# Quartz, Strawberry ~ recalls past lives, eases tension in a relationship
# Quartz, Tourmalated ~ astral projection
# Rhodochrosite ~ strengthens mental power, finds new love, energy, peace, love
# Rhodonite ~ peace, anti-confusion
# Ruby ~ mental balance, improves circulation, protects sensitive natures, wealth, protection, power, joy, anti-nightmare
# Sapphire ~ love, meditation, peace, defensive magick, healing, power, money
# Sardonyx ~ leads to high position and financial rewards
# Selenite ~ flexibility, decision-making, clarity, strengthens spine, reconciliation, energy
# Serenity Stone ~ when nervous or distraught, handle this smooth black stone which reputedly dispels tension at a touch
# Serpentine ~ protection against snakes, serpents, and reptiles
# Silver ~ energy conductor, eases stress and improves speech, lucky feminine energy, invocation, love, dreams, peace, protection, travel, money
# Sodalite ~ healing, peace, meditation, wisdom, prophetic dreaming, endocrine system, eliminates confusion
# Sphaerocobaltite ~ loving stone, deeply relaxing and balancing
# Staurolite ~ protection, health, money, elemental powers, good luck
# Sugilite ~ spirituality, healing, wisdom, aids physical healing, reduces stress, strengthens heart, emotional balancer
# Sunstone ~ protection, energy, health, sexual energy
# Tanzanite ~ stone of magic, facilitates spiritual awareness, stimulates insight
# Tektite ~ wisdom through life experience, prevents emotional scars
# Tiger's Eye ~ money, protection, courage, energy, luck, divination
# Topaz ~ protection, healing, weight loss, money, love
# Tourmaline ~ love, friendship, money, business, health, peace, energy, courage, astral projection
# Tourmaline, Black ~ grounding, protection
# Tourmaline, Blue ~ de-stress, peace
# Tourmaline, Green ~ money, success, creativity
# Tourmaline, Pink ~ love, friendship
# Tourmaline, Red ~ energy, protection, courage
# Tourmaline, Watermelon ~ balance, love
# Trilobite ~ promotes leadership and management
# Turquoise ~ protection
# Turritella ~ eases domestic relations and group interaction
# Unakite ~ enhances sense of personal power, converts the negative into the positive
# Wonderstone ~ restores lost senses and protects from hexes
# Zincite ~ removal of energy blockage, cathartic, brings together those of a similar mind
# Zircon ~ aids sleep, self-esteem, promotes unity, stone of virtue
# Agate ~ strength, courage, longevity, gardening, love, healing, protection
# Agate, Banded ~ bodily energy, ease stress
# Agate, Black ~ courage, successful competitions
# Agate, Black & White ~ guards against physical dangers
# Agate, Holly Blue ~ spiritual actualization, as one teaches, one also learns
# Agate, Blue Lace ~ peace, happiness, expands consciousness, soothing, wise, public speaking
# Agate, Brown/Tawny ~ success, wealth
# Agate, Green ~ health
# Agate, Moss ~ "gardener's talisman", healing, energy, riches, happiness, long life
# Agate, Red ~ healing, calmness, peace
# Amazonite ~ gambling, success, aligns astral bodies, unity with life, enhances creative expression
# Amber ~ luck, healing, strength, protection, beauty, love, calming, humor, joy
# Amethyst ~ dreams, overcoming alcoholism, healing, peace, love, protection against thieves, courage, happiness
# Ametrine ~ dispels negativity, aids decision making, meditation, relieves stress
# Andalusite ~ stimulates past memories, re-alignment and centering of self
# Angelite ~ protects, strengthens degenerate organs, excellent for creative people
# Apache Tear ~ luck, protection, grants forgiveness, understand in distress, ward off danger
# Apatite ~ good for communication, controls weight gain
# Apophyllite ~ loving attunement to body and spirit, stimulates intuition
# Aquamarine ~ banishes fears, calms nerves, imparts strength and control
# Aventurine ~ independence, strong legs and joints, helps in career change, mental powers, eyesight, gambling, money, peace, healing, luck
# Azurite ~ dreams, divination, healing, cuts through illusion, enhances communication
# Beryl ~ protection against evil gossip and rumor
# Black Coral ~ dispels negativity, fear of dark and unknown
# Bloodstone ~ halt bleeding, healing, victory, courage, wealth, strength, power, legal matters, business, invisibility, agriculture
# Blue Stone ~ used in many voodoo and conjuring spells
# Boji Stone ~ sense of joy, highly energetic, draws out pain
# Brown Stone ~ health, long life, and good fortune
# Calcite ~ spirituality, centering, peace, love, healing, purification, money, protection, energy
# Carbuncle ~ increase self-confidence and ability to fight
# Carnelian ~ protection, peace, eloquence, healing, courage, sexual energy, releases sorrow, envy, fear, apathy, and rage
# Celestite ~ clears speech, personal expression, highly spiritual, compassion, eloquence, healing
# Chalcedony ~ protects from evil eye, expression of emotional needs, honesty, alleviates regret
# Charoite ~ accelerates spiritual growth, enhances self-esteem, and the ability to love
# Chiastolite ~ deflects evil eye, aids insight, helps in transitional states
# Chrysocolla ~ peace, wisdom, love, take away fears communication, female energy, creativity, relieves ulcers and arthritis
# Chrysoprase ~ happiness, luck, success, friendship, protection, healing, money
# Citrine ~ cleans auras, detoxifies the body, anti-nightmare, protection, aids tissue regeneration
# Copper ~ energy direction, healing, luck, love, protection, money
# Coral ~ protection from evil, increases imagination, resolves conflicts
# Cross Stone ~ natural sign of the cross, protects from witchcraft
# Crystal ~ carried as a protection against jinxes and hexes
# Danburite ~ stimulates intellect, promotes self-assertiveness
# Diamond ~ spirituality, sexual dysfunction, protection, courage, peace, reconciliation, healing, strength
# Dioptase ~ attracts love, abundance, prosperity and health
# Emerald ~ mental powers, protection, love, attracts wealth, profitable dreaming
# Epidote ~ encourages spirituality, heals emotional wounds
# Fluorite ~ mental powers, comprehension, strengthens teeth and bones, stabilizing and calming
# Fossil ~ aids past life exploration, protection from spells
# Galena ~ harmony, healthy hair, medical students, promotes holistic studies
# Garnet ~ healing, protection, strength
# Gold ~ power, protection, wisdom, success, purifying, healing, balancing, attracts honors, masculine energy
# Gypsum ~ relieves stagnation, offers level-headedness
# Hematite ~ healing, divination, grounding, promotes common sense and level headedness
# Herkimer Diamond ~ soothes tension, sleep
# Hessonite ~ clears negativity, eliminates feelings of inferiority, gives courage to change
# Hyacinth ~ solace for a restless brain, and aid against insomnia
# Iolite ~ gives accurate visions, releases discord, strengthens liver, connection with soul
# Jade ~ symbol of charity, modesty, courage, justice, and wisdom, reduces eyestrain, negativity, promotes longevity, dreams
# Jasper ~ healing, protection, health, beauty
# Jasper, Brown ~ centering, grounding
# Jasper, Green ~ healing, sleep, compassion
# Jasper, Mottled ~ protection against drowning
# Jasper, Red ~ protection, healing, beauty
# Jet ~ dispels migraines and illness, protects finances, protection, anti-nightmare, luck, divination, health
# Kunzite ~ reduces insecurity, addiction, manic depression, gives maturity
# Kyanite ~ promotes clarity and understanding in dreamwork, enhances creativity
# Labradorite ~ brings recognition of destiny, connects one with the elements
# Lapis Lazuli ~ healing, joy, love, fidelity, protection, courage
# Lapis Lingua ~ cure melancholia, and bring success in love
# Larimar ~ confidence builder, good for sales, reduces depression, builds serenity
# Lepedilite ~ promotes self love, alleviates stress, anger, and tension
# Lignite ~ believed to restore lost senses to the possessor
# Lodestone ~ carry a pair, one to repel evil and one to attract good
# Madstone ~ treatment of rabies and snake bites
# Malachite ~ lucky money stone, aids sleep, asthma, travel, power, protection, love, peace, business success
# Marble ~ protection against the evil eye and witchcraft
# Moldavite ~ catalyst for important changes in life
# Moonstone ~ love, divination, sleep, gardening, protection, youth, dieting
# Morello Smokey Quartz ~ interpreting dreams, grounding, stimulates intellect
# Morganite ~ sisterhood, reduces over-emotion, heals pain of separation
# Mother-of-Pearl ~ protection, wealth
# Obsidian ~ protection, grounding, divination, peace
# Olivine ~ protects from enchantment and against depression
# Onyx ~ relieves stress, grief, strengthens self-control, dispels nightmares and aids marital happiness
# Opal ~ astral projection, beauty, money, luck, power
# Peacock Rock ~ fresh new outlook on life, strong healing properties
# Pearl ~ love, money, protection, luck, faith, charity, integrity, innocence, fights infection, stone of sincerity
# Pecos Diamond ~ stabilizes emotions, brings joyful feeling, aids creativity and initiation
# Peridot ~ protection, health, wealth, sleep, removes stress, fear, and guilt, activates personal growth
# Petrified Wood ~ carried for it's great legendary healing powers Connections with earth and nature, removes petty annoyances
# Phenacite ~ inner knowing, spiritual travel, increases energy of other stones
# Prase ~ resolves sexuality issues, sense of oneness with universe
# Prehnite ~ balances chakras, enhances personal relationships
# Pyrite (Fool's Gold) ~ money, divination, luck, increases memory, concentration
# Quartz ~ breaks bad habits, insomnia, headaches, channeling stone, enhances life force
# Quartz Crystal ~ protection, healing, power, lactation
# Quartz, Rose ~ fidelity, love, peace and happiness Reduces weight, wrinkles, self-assuredness, love stone
# Quartz, Rutilated ~ excellent for the birthing process, good for mothers
# Quartz, Sceptre ~ symbol of power, to focus energy within heart
# Quartz, Smokey ~ relieves depression, tension balances sexual energies
# Quartz, Strawberry ~ recalls past lives, eases tension in a relationship
# Quartz, Tourmalated ~ astral projection
# Rhodochrosite ~ strengthens mental power, finds new love, energy, peace, love
# Rhodonite ~ peace, anti-confusion
# Ruby ~ mental balance, improves circulation, protects sensitive natures, wealth, protection, power, joy, anti-nightmare
# Sapphire ~ love, meditation, peace, defensive magick, healing, power, money
# Sardonyx ~ leads to high position and financial rewards
# Selenite ~ flexibility, decision-making, clarity, strengthens spine, reconciliation, energy
# Serenity Stone ~ when nervous or distraught, handle this smooth black stone which reputedly dispels tension at a touch
# Serpentine ~ protection against snakes, serpents, and reptiles
# Silver ~ energy conductor, eases stress and improves speech, lucky feminine energy, invocation, love, dreams, peace, protection, travel, money
# Sodalite ~ healing, peace, meditation, wisdom, prophetic dreaming, endocrine system, eliminates confusion
# Sphaerocobaltite ~ loving stone, deeply relaxing and balancing
# Staurolite ~ protection, health, money, elemental powers, good luck
# Sugilite ~ spirituality, healing, wisdom, aids physical healing, reduces stress, strengthens heart, emotional balancer
# Sunstone ~ protection, energy, health, sexual energy
# Tanzanite ~ stone of magic, facilitates spiritual awareness, stimulates insight
# Tektite ~ wisdom through life experience, prevents emotional scars
# Tiger's Eye ~ money, protection, courage, energy, luck, divination
# Topaz ~ protection, healing, weight loss, money, love
# Tourmaline ~ love, friendship, money, business, health, peace, energy, courage, astral projection
# Tourmaline, Black ~ grounding, protection
# Tourmaline, Blue ~ de-stress, peace
# Tourmaline, Green ~ money, success, creativity
# Tourmaline, Pink ~ love, friendship
# Tourmaline, Red ~ energy, protection, courage
# Tourmaline, Watermelon ~ balance, love
# Trilobite ~ promotes leadership and management
# Turquoise ~ protection
# Turritella ~ eases domestic relations and group interaction
# Unakite ~ enhances sense of personal power, converts the negative into the positive
# Wonderstone ~ restores lost senses and protects from hexes
# Zincite ~ removal of energy blockage, cathartic, brings together those of a similar mind
# Zircon ~ aids sleep, self-esteem, promotes unity, stone of virtue
Herbal symbolism what role the plants play in magick
by Mother Oak
Herb ~ Symbolic Value or Use in Magick
# Acacia ~ protection
# Adders Tongue ~ healing
# African Violet ~ spirituality, protection
# Agrimony ~ protection, sleep
# Alfalfa ~ prosperity, anti-hunger, money
# Allspice ~ money, luck, healing
# Almond ~ money, prosperity, wisdom
# Aloe ~ protection, luck
# Aloes, Wood ~ love, spirituality
# Althea ~ protection
# Alyssum ~ protection, moderating anger
# Amaranth ~ healing, protection
# Anemone ~ health, protection, healing
# Angelica ~ exorcism, protection, healing, visions
# Apple ~ love, healing, garden magick
# Apricot ~ love
# Arabic Gum ~ purify negativity
# Asafoetida ~ exorcism, purification, protection
# Ash ~ protection, prosperity, sea rituals, health
# Aspen ~ eloquence, anti-theft
# Aster ~ love
# Avens ~ exorcism, purification, love
# Avocado ~ love, lust, beauty
# Balm, Lemon ~ love, success, healing
# Balm of Gilead ~ love, manifestations, protection, healing
# Bamboo ~ protection, luck, hex-breaking, wishes
# Banana ~ fertility, potency, prosperity
# Banyan ~ luck
# Barley ~ love, healing, protection
# Basil ~ love, exorcism, wealth, flying, protection
# Bay ~ protection, healing, purification, strength
# Beech ~ wishes
# Beet ~ love
# Benzoin ~ purification, prosperity
# Be-Still ~ luck
# Betony Wood ~ protection, purification, love
# Birch ~ protection, exorcism, purification
# Bistort ~ fertility
# Bittersweet ~ protection, healing
# Blackberry ~ healing, money, protection
# Bladderwrack ~ protection, sea spells, wind spells, money
# Bleeding Heart ~ love
# Bloodroot ~ love, protection, purification
# Bluebell ~ luck, truth, constancy, strength
# Blueberry ~ protection
# Blue Flag ~ money
# Bodhi ~ fertility, protection, wisdom, meditation
# Boneset ~ protection, exorcism
# Borage ~ courage
# Bracken ~ healing, rune magick, prophetic dreams
# Brazil Nut ~ love
# Bromeliad ~ protection, money
# Broom ~ purification, protection, wind spells, divination
# Buchu ~ prophetic dreams
# Buckthorn ~ protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
# Buckwheat ~ money, protection
# Burdock ~ protection, healing
# Buttercup ~ prosperity, happiness
# Cabbage ~ luck
# Cactus ~ protection, chastity
# Calamus ~ luck, healing, money, protection
# Camellia ~ riches, gratitude, prosperity
# Camphor ~ chastity, health, divination
# Caper ~ potency, lust, luck
# Caraway ~ 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 magick, love, beauty, happiness
# Cattail ~ lust
# Cedar ~ healing, purification, money, protection
# Celery ~ mental powers, lust
# Chamomile ~ money, sleep, love, purification
# Cherry ~ love, divination
# Chestnut ~ love
# Chickweed ~ fertility, love
# Chicory ~ removing obstacles, favors, frigidity
# Chili pepper ~ fidelity, hex breaking, love
# China Berry ~ luck
# Chrysanthemum ~ protection
# Cinchona ~ luck, protection
# Cinnamon ~ spirituality, success, healing, power, lust, protection, love
# Cinquefoil ~ money, protection, prophetic dreams, sleep
# Citron ~ healing
# Clove ~ protection, exorcism, gossip, love, money
# Clover ~ protection, money, love, fidelity, exorcism, success
# Club Moss ~ protection, power
# Coconut ~ purification, protection, chastity
# Columbine ~ courage, love
# Comfrey ~ Safety During travel, money
# Copal ~ love, purification
# Coriander ~ love, health, healing
# Corn ~ protection, luck, divination
# Cotton ~ luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magick
# Cowslip ~ healing, youth, treasure finding
# Crocus ~ love, visions
# Cuckoo Flower ~ fertility, lover
# Cucumber ~ chastity, healing, fertility
# Cumin ~ protection, fidelity, exorcism
# Curry ~ protection
# Cyclamen ~ fertility, protection, happiness, lust
# Cypress ~ longevity, healing, comfort, protection
# Daffodil ~ love, fertility, luck
# Daisy ~ lust, luck
# Damiana ~ lust, love, visions
# Dandelion ~ divination, wishes, calling spirits
# Deerstongue ~ lust
# 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 magick
# Dogbane ~ love
# Dogwood ~ wishes, protection
# Dragons Blood ~ love, protection, exorcism, potency
# Dulse ~ lust, harmony
# Dutchman's Breeches ~ love
# Echinacea ~ strengthening Spells
# Edelweiss ~ invisibility, Bullet-Proofing
# Elder ~ exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
# Elecampane ~ love, protection
# Elm ~ love
# Endive ~ lust, love
# Eucalyptus ~ healing, protection
# Euphorbia ~ purification, protection
# Eyebright ~ mental powers
# 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, healing
# Fleabane ~ exorcism, protection, chastity
# Foxglove ~ protection (poisonous)
# Frankincense ~ protection, exorcism, spirituality
# Galangal ~ protection, lust, health, money, 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
# Grape ~ fertility, Garden magick, mental powers, money
# Grass ~ protection
# Ground Ivy ~ divination
# Groundsel ~ health, healing
# Hawthorn ~ fertility, chastity, fishing magick, happiness
# Hazel ~ luck, fertility, anti-Lightning, protection, wishes
# Heather ~ protection, rain making, luck
# Heliotrope ~ exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, Wealth, invisibility
# Hemp ~ healing, love, vision, meditation
# Henna ~ healing
# Hibiscus ~ lust, love, divination
# Hickory ~ legal matters
# High John the Conqueror ~ money, love, success, happiness
# Holly ~ protection, anti-Lightning, luck, dream magick
# Honesty ~ money
# Honeysuckle ~ money, protection
# Hops ~ healing, sleep
# Horehound ~ protection, mental powers, exorcism, healing
# Horse Chestnut ~ money, healing
# Horseradish ~ purification, exorcism
# Horsetail ~ snake charming, fertility
# Houndstongue ~ tying dogs tongues
# Houseleek ~ luck, protection, love
# Huckleberry ~ luck, protection, dream magick, 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
# Juniper ~ protection, anti-theft, love, exorcism, health
# Kava-Kava ~ 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
# Lemon Verbena ~ purification, love
# Lettuce ~ chastity, protection, love, divination, sleep
# Licorice ~ love, lust, fidelity
# Lilac ~ exorcism, protection
# 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
# Loosestrife ~ peace, protection
# Lotus ~ protection, lock-opening
# Lovage ~ love
# Love Seed ~ love, friendship
# Lucky Hand ~ employment, luck, protection, money, travel
# Mace ~ 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, legal matters
# Marjoram ~ protection, love, happiness, health, money
# Master Wort ~ strength, courage, protection
# Mastic ~ manifestation, lust
# May Apple ~ money
# Meadow Rue ~ divination
# Meadowsweet ~ love, divination, peace, happiness
# Mesquite ~ healing
# Mimosa ~ protection, love, prophetic dreams, purification
# Mint ~ money, love, lust, healing, exorcism, travel, protection
# Mistletoe ~ protection, love, hunting, fertility, health, exorcism
# Moonwort ~ money, love
# Moss ~ luck, money
# Mugwort ~ strength, 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
# Orris ~ love, protection, divination
# Palm, Date ~ fertility, Potency
# Pansy ~ love, rain magick, love, divination
# Papaya ~ love, protection
# Papyrus ~ protection
# Parosela ~ hunting
# 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
# 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
# Pistachio ~ breaking love spells
# Plantain ~ healing, protection, strength, Snake Repelling
# Plum ~ healing
# Plumeria ~ love
# Poke ~ courage, hex breaking
# Pomegranate ~ divination, luck, wishes, Wealth, fertility
# Poplar ~ money, flying
# Poppy ~ fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, invisibility
# Potato ~ image magick, healing
# Prickly Ash ~ love
# Primrose ~ protection, love
# Radish ~ protection, lust
# Ragweed ~ courage
# Ragwort ~ protection
# Raspberry ~ protection, love
# Rhododendron ~ peace, strength (poisonous plant)
# Rhubarb ~ protection, fidelity
# Rice ~ protection, rain, fertility, money
# Roots ~ protection, power, divination
# Rose ~ love, healing, love, divination, luck, protection
# Rosemary ~ protection, love, lust, mental powers, exorcism, purification, healing, sleep, youth
# Rowan ~ healing, protection, power, success
# Rue ~ healing, health, mental powers, exorcism, love
# Rye ~ love, fidelity
# Saffron ~ love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust, strength
# 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
# Skullcap ~ 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
# Solomon’s 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 ~ luck
# Straw ~ luck, image magick
# Strawberry ~ love, luck
# Sugar Cane ~ love, lust
# Sunflower ~ fertility, wishes, health, wisdom
# Sweetgrass ~ calling spirits
# Sweetpea ~ friendship, chastity, courage, strength
# 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, love, purification, courage
# Ti ~ protection, healing
# Toadflax ~ protection, hex breaking
# Toadstool ~ rain making
# Tobacco ~ healing, purification
# Tulip ~ love, happiness, dreams
# Turmeric ~ purification
# Turnip ~ protection, ending relationships
# 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 ~ ictory, protection, money
# Wormwood ~ protection, love, calling spirits
# Yarrow ~ courage, love, exorcism
# Yerba Mate ~ fidelity, love, lust
# Yerba Santa ~ beauty, healing, protection
# Yucca ~ transmutation, protection, purification
# Zinnia ~ love, lust, strength
Herb ~ Symbolic Value or Use in Magick
# Acacia ~ protection
# Adders Tongue ~ healing
# African Violet ~ spirituality, protection
# Agrimony ~ protection, sleep
# Alfalfa ~ prosperity, anti-hunger, money
# Allspice ~ money, luck, healing
# Almond ~ money, prosperity, wisdom
# Aloe ~ protection, luck
# Aloes, Wood ~ love, spirituality
# Althea ~ protection
# Alyssum ~ protection, moderating anger
# Amaranth ~ healing, protection
# Anemone ~ health, protection, healing
# Angelica ~ exorcism, protection, healing, visions
# Apple ~ love, healing, garden magick
# Apricot ~ love
# Arabic Gum ~ purify negativity
# Asafoetida ~ exorcism, purification, protection
# Ash ~ protection, prosperity, sea rituals, health
# Aspen ~ eloquence, anti-theft
# Aster ~ love
# Avens ~ exorcism, purification, love
# Avocado ~ love, lust, beauty
# Balm, Lemon ~ love, success, healing
# Balm of Gilead ~ love, manifestations, protection, healing
# Bamboo ~ protection, luck, hex-breaking, wishes
# Banana ~ fertility, potency, prosperity
# Banyan ~ luck
# Barley ~ love, healing, protection
# Basil ~ love, exorcism, wealth, flying, protection
# Bay ~ protection, healing, purification, strength
# Beech ~ wishes
# Beet ~ love
# Benzoin ~ purification, prosperity
# Be-Still ~ luck
# Betony Wood ~ protection, purification, love
# Birch ~ protection, exorcism, purification
# Bistort ~ fertility
# Bittersweet ~ protection, healing
# Blackberry ~ healing, money, protection
# Bladderwrack ~ protection, sea spells, wind spells, money
# Bleeding Heart ~ love
# Bloodroot ~ love, protection, purification
# Bluebell ~ luck, truth, constancy, strength
# Blueberry ~ protection
# Blue Flag ~ money
# Bodhi ~ fertility, protection, wisdom, meditation
# Boneset ~ protection, exorcism
# Borage ~ courage
# Bracken ~ healing, rune magick, prophetic dreams
# Brazil Nut ~ love
# Bromeliad ~ protection, money
# Broom ~ purification, protection, wind spells, divination
# Buchu ~ prophetic dreams
# Buckthorn ~ protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
# Buckwheat ~ money, protection
# Burdock ~ protection, healing
# Buttercup ~ prosperity, happiness
# Cabbage ~ luck
# Cactus ~ protection, chastity
# Calamus ~ luck, healing, money, protection
# Camellia ~ riches, gratitude, prosperity
# Camphor ~ chastity, health, divination
# Caper ~ potency, lust, luck
# Caraway ~ 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 magick, love, beauty, happiness
# Cattail ~ lust
# Cedar ~ healing, purification, money, protection
# Celery ~ mental powers, lust
# Chamomile ~ money, sleep, love, purification
# Cherry ~ love, divination
# Chestnut ~ love
# Chickweed ~ fertility, love
# Chicory ~ removing obstacles, favors, frigidity
# Chili pepper ~ fidelity, hex breaking, love
# China Berry ~ luck
# Chrysanthemum ~ protection
# Cinchona ~ luck, protection
# Cinnamon ~ spirituality, success, healing, power, lust, protection, love
# Cinquefoil ~ money, protection, prophetic dreams, sleep
# Citron ~ healing
# Clove ~ protection, exorcism, gossip, love, money
# Clover ~ protection, money, love, fidelity, exorcism, success
# Club Moss ~ protection, power
# Coconut ~ purification, protection, chastity
# Columbine ~ courage, love
# Comfrey ~ Safety During travel, money
# Copal ~ love, purification
# Coriander ~ love, health, healing
# Corn ~ protection, luck, divination
# Cotton ~ luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magick
# Cowslip ~ healing, youth, treasure finding
# Crocus ~ love, visions
# Cuckoo Flower ~ fertility, lover
# Cucumber ~ chastity, healing, fertility
# Cumin ~ protection, fidelity, exorcism
# Curry ~ protection
# Cyclamen ~ fertility, protection, happiness, lust
# Cypress ~ longevity, healing, comfort, protection
# Daffodil ~ love, fertility, luck
# Daisy ~ lust, luck
# Damiana ~ lust, love, visions
# Dandelion ~ divination, wishes, calling spirits
# Deerstongue ~ lust
# 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 magick
# Dogbane ~ love
# Dogwood ~ wishes, protection
# Dragons Blood ~ love, protection, exorcism, potency
# Dulse ~ lust, harmony
# Dutchman's Breeches ~ love
# Echinacea ~ strengthening Spells
# Edelweiss ~ invisibility, Bullet-Proofing
# Elder ~ exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
# Elecampane ~ love, protection
# Elm ~ love
# Endive ~ lust, love
# Eucalyptus ~ healing, protection
# Euphorbia ~ purification, protection
# Eyebright ~ mental powers
# 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, healing
# Fleabane ~ exorcism, protection, chastity
# Foxglove ~ protection (poisonous)
# Frankincense ~ protection, exorcism, spirituality
# Galangal ~ protection, lust, health, money, 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
# Grape ~ fertility, Garden magick, mental powers, money
# Grass ~ protection
# Ground Ivy ~ divination
# Groundsel ~ health, healing
# Hawthorn ~ fertility, chastity, fishing magick, happiness
# Hazel ~ luck, fertility, anti-Lightning, protection, wishes
# Heather ~ protection, rain making, luck
# Heliotrope ~ exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, Wealth, invisibility
# Hemp ~ healing, love, vision, meditation
# Henna ~ healing
# Hibiscus ~ lust, love, divination
# Hickory ~ legal matters
# High John the Conqueror ~ money, love, success, happiness
# Holly ~ protection, anti-Lightning, luck, dream magick
# Honesty ~ money
# Honeysuckle ~ money, protection
# Hops ~ healing, sleep
# Horehound ~ protection, mental powers, exorcism, healing
# Horse Chestnut ~ money, healing
# Horseradish ~ purification, exorcism
# Horsetail ~ snake charming, fertility
# Houndstongue ~ tying dogs tongues
# Houseleek ~ luck, protection, love
# Huckleberry ~ luck, protection, dream magick, 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
# Juniper ~ protection, anti-theft, love, exorcism, health
# Kava-Kava ~ 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
# Lemon Verbena ~ purification, love
# Lettuce ~ chastity, protection, love, divination, sleep
# Licorice ~ love, lust, fidelity
# Lilac ~ exorcism, protection
# 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
# Loosestrife ~ peace, protection
# Lotus ~ protection, lock-opening
# Lovage ~ love
# Love Seed ~ love, friendship
# Lucky Hand ~ employment, luck, protection, money, travel
# Mace ~ 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, legal matters
# Marjoram ~ protection, love, happiness, health, money
# Master Wort ~ strength, courage, protection
# Mastic ~ manifestation, lust
# May Apple ~ money
# Meadow Rue ~ divination
# Meadowsweet ~ love, divination, peace, happiness
# Mesquite ~ healing
# Mimosa ~ protection, love, prophetic dreams, purification
# Mint ~ money, love, lust, healing, exorcism, travel, protection
# Mistletoe ~ protection, love, hunting, fertility, health, exorcism
# Moonwort ~ money, love
# Moss ~ luck, money
# Mugwort ~ strength, 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
# Orris ~ love, protection, divination
# Palm, Date ~ fertility, Potency
# Pansy ~ love, rain magick, love, divination
# Papaya ~ love, protection
# Papyrus ~ protection
# Parosela ~ hunting
# 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
# 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
# Pistachio ~ breaking love spells
# Plantain ~ healing, protection, strength, Snake Repelling
# Plum ~ healing
# Plumeria ~ love
# Poke ~ courage, hex breaking
# Pomegranate ~ divination, luck, wishes, Wealth, fertility
# Poplar ~ money, flying
# Poppy ~ fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, invisibility
# Potato ~ image magick, healing
# Prickly Ash ~ love
# Primrose ~ protection, love
# Radish ~ protection, lust
# Ragweed ~ courage
# Ragwort ~ protection
# Raspberry ~ protection, love
# Rhododendron ~ peace, strength (poisonous plant)
# Rhubarb ~ protection, fidelity
# Rice ~ protection, rain, fertility, money
# Roots ~ protection, power, divination
# Rose ~ love, healing, love, divination, luck, protection
# Rosemary ~ protection, love, lust, mental powers, exorcism, purification, healing, sleep, youth
# Rowan ~ healing, protection, power, success
# Rue ~ healing, health, mental powers, exorcism, love
# Rye ~ love, fidelity
# Saffron ~ love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust, strength
# 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
# Skullcap ~ 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
# Solomon’s 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 ~ luck
# Straw ~ luck, image magick
# Strawberry ~ love, luck
# Sugar Cane ~ love, lust
# Sunflower ~ fertility, wishes, health, wisdom
# Sweetgrass ~ calling spirits
# Sweetpea ~ friendship, chastity, courage, strength
# 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, love, purification, courage
# Ti ~ protection, healing
# Toadflax ~ protection, hex breaking
# Toadstool ~ rain making
# Tobacco ~ healing, purification
# Tulip ~ love, happiness, dreams
# Turmeric ~ purification
# Turnip ~ protection, ending relationships
# 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 ~ ictory, protection, money
# Wormwood ~ protection, love, calling spirits
# Yarrow ~ courage, love, exorcism
# Yerba Mate ~ fidelity, love, lust
# Yerba Santa ~ beauty, healing, protection
# Yucca ~ transmutation, protection, purification
# Zinnia ~ love, lust, strength
Herbal Substitutions For magickal uses
by Mother Oak
THESE SUBSTITUTIONS ARE FOR MAGICKAL PURPOSES ONLY! Not to be used for medicinal, culinary, or any other purposes!
*Rosemary can be substituted for any other herb
*Rose can be substituted for any other flower
*Frankincense can be substituted for any gum resin
*Copal can be substituted for any gum resin
*Tobacco can be substituted for any poisonous herb
Herb needed - Herbal Substitution
# ACACIA-Gum Arabic
# ACACIA, GUM-Gum Arabic
# ACONITE-Tobacco
# ARABIC, GUM-Frankincense; Gum Mastic
# AMMONIAC GUM-Asafetida
# ASAFOETIDA-Tobacco; Valerian
# BALM OF GILEAD-Rose Buds; Gum Mastic
# BELLADONNA-Tobacco
# BENZOIN-Gum Arabic; Gum Mastic
# CAMPHOR OIL-Eucalyptus Oil; Lavender Oil
# CARNATION-Rose petals anointed with a few drops of Cinnamon Oil
# CASSIA-Cinnamon
# CASTOR BEANS-A few drops Castor Oil
# CEDAR-Sandalwood
# CINQUEFOIL-Clover; Trefoil
# CITRON-Equal parts Orange Peel and Lemon Peel
# CLOVE-Mace; Nutmeg
# CLOVER-Cinquefoil
# COPAL-Frankincense; Cedar
# COWBANE-Tobacco
# CYPRESS-Juniper; Pine Needles
# DEERS TONGUE-Tonka Bean; Woodruff; Vanilla
# DITTANY OF CRETE-Gum Mastic
# DRAGON'S BLOOD-Equal parts Frankincense and Red Sandalwood
# EUCALYPTUS OIL-Camphor Oil; Lavender Oil
# EUPHORBIUM-Tobacco
# FRANKINCENSE-Copal; Pine Resin
# GALANGAL-Ginger Root
# GRAINS OF PARADISE-Black Pepper
# GUM AMMONIAC-Asafetida
# GUM BDELLIUM-Copal; Pine Resin; Dragon's Blood
# HELLEBORE-Tobacco; Nettle
# HEMLOCK-Tobacco
# HEMP-Nutmeg; Damiana; Star Anise; Bay
# HENBANE-Tobacco
# HYSSOP-Lavender
# IVY-Cinquefoil
# JASMINE-Rose
# JUNIPER-Pine
# LAVENDER-Rose
# LEMON GRASS-Lemon Peel
# LEMON PEEL-Lemon Peel
# LEMON VERBENA-Lemon Grass; Lemon Peel
# MACE-Nutmeg
# MANDRAKE-Tobacco
# MASTIC, GUM-Gum Arabic; Frankincense
# MINT-Sage
# MISTLETOE-Mint; Sage
# MUGWORT-Wormwood
# NEROLI OIL-Orange Oil
# NIGHTSHADE-Tobacco
# NUTMEG-Mace; Cinnamon
# OAKMOSS-Patchouli
# ORANGE-Tangerine Peel
# ORANGE FLOWERS-Orange Peel
# PATCHOULI-Oakmoss
# PEPPERMINT-Spearmint
# PEPPERWORT-Rue; Grains of Paradise; Black Pepper
# PINE-Juniper
# PINE RESIN-Frankincense; Copal
# RED SANDALWOOD-Sandalwood mixed with a pinch of Dragon's Blood
# ROSE-Yarrow
# ROSE GERANIUM-Rose
# RUE-Rosemary mixed with a pinch of Black Pepper
# SAFFRON-Orange Peel
# SANDALWOOD-Cedar
# SARSPARILLA-Sassafras
# SASSAFRASS-Sarsaparilla
# SPEARMINT-Peppermint
# SULFER-Tobacco; Club Moss; Asafetida
# THYME-Rosemary
# TOBACCO-Bay
# TONKA BEAN-Deerstongue; Woodruff; Vanilla Bean
# TREFOIL-Cinquefoil
# VALERIAN-Asafetida
# VANILLA-Woodruff; Deerstongue; Tonka Bean
# VETIVERT-Calamus
# WOLFSBANE-Tobacco
# WOOD ALOE-Sandalwood sprinkled with Ambergris Oil
# WOODRUFF-Deerstongue; Vanilla
# WORMWOOD-Mugwort
# YARROW-Rose
# YEW-Tobacco
THESE SUBSTITUTIONS ARE FOR MAGICKAL PURPOSES ONLY! Not to be used for medicinal, culinary, or any other purposes!
*Rosemary can be substituted for any other herb
*Rose can be substituted for any other flower
*Frankincense can be substituted for any gum resin
*Copal can be substituted for any gum resin
*Tobacco can be substituted for any poisonous herb
Herb needed - Herbal Substitution
# ACACIA-Gum Arabic
# ACACIA, GUM-Gum Arabic
# ACONITE-Tobacco
# ARABIC, GUM-Frankincense; Gum Mastic
# AMMONIAC GUM-Asafetida
# ASAFOETIDA-Tobacco; Valerian
# BALM OF GILEAD-Rose Buds; Gum Mastic
# BELLADONNA-Tobacco
# BENZOIN-Gum Arabic; Gum Mastic
# CAMPHOR OIL-Eucalyptus Oil; Lavender Oil
# CARNATION-Rose petals anointed with a few drops of Cinnamon Oil
# CASSIA-Cinnamon
# CASTOR BEANS-A few drops Castor Oil
# CEDAR-Sandalwood
# CINQUEFOIL-Clover; Trefoil
# CITRON-Equal parts Orange Peel and Lemon Peel
# CLOVE-Mace; Nutmeg
# CLOVER-Cinquefoil
# COPAL-Frankincense; Cedar
# COWBANE-Tobacco
# CYPRESS-Juniper; Pine Needles
# DEERS TONGUE-Tonka Bean; Woodruff; Vanilla
# DITTANY OF CRETE-Gum Mastic
# DRAGON'S BLOOD-Equal parts Frankincense and Red Sandalwood
# EUCALYPTUS OIL-Camphor Oil; Lavender Oil
# EUPHORBIUM-Tobacco
# FRANKINCENSE-Copal; Pine Resin
# GALANGAL-Ginger Root
# GRAINS OF PARADISE-Black Pepper
# GUM AMMONIAC-Asafetida
# GUM BDELLIUM-Copal; Pine Resin; Dragon's Blood
# HELLEBORE-Tobacco; Nettle
# HEMLOCK-Tobacco
# HEMP-Nutmeg; Damiana; Star Anise; Bay
# HENBANE-Tobacco
# HYSSOP-Lavender
# IVY-Cinquefoil
# JASMINE-Rose
# JUNIPER-Pine
# LAVENDER-Rose
# LEMON GRASS-Lemon Peel
# LEMON PEEL-Lemon Peel
# LEMON VERBENA-Lemon Grass; Lemon Peel
# MACE-Nutmeg
# MANDRAKE-Tobacco
# MASTIC, GUM-Gum Arabic; Frankincense
# MINT-Sage
# MISTLETOE-Mint; Sage
# MUGWORT-Wormwood
# NEROLI OIL-Orange Oil
# NIGHTSHADE-Tobacco
# NUTMEG-Mace; Cinnamon
# OAKMOSS-Patchouli
# ORANGE-Tangerine Peel
# ORANGE FLOWERS-Orange Peel
# PATCHOULI-Oakmoss
# PEPPERMINT-Spearmint
# PEPPERWORT-Rue; Grains of Paradise; Black Pepper
# PINE-Juniper
# PINE RESIN-Frankincense; Copal
# RED SANDALWOOD-Sandalwood mixed with a pinch of Dragon's Blood
# ROSE-Yarrow
# ROSE GERANIUM-Rose
# RUE-Rosemary mixed with a pinch of Black Pepper
# SAFFRON-Orange Peel
# SANDALWOOD-Cedar
# SARSPARILLA-Sassafras
# SASSAFRASS-Sarsaparilla
# SPEARMINT-Peppermint
# SULFER-Tobacco; Club Moss; Asafetida
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Spells of Venice
How the Women of Renaissance Italy Got and Kept Their Men
by Bestia Mortale
As fashions have changed in recent years, a few bold souls in the academic world have begun to explore the underground histories of sex and magick in Western culture. Many of the resulting works, though interesting, are marred by the intellectual distance their authors fastidiously maintain towards these dirty subjects, but such is not the case with Guido Ruggiero, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, who seems to be able to take his curiosity into the archives while leaving many conventional restrictions at the door. Among his books, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985) and Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993) paint a fascinating picture of the widespread use of magick, especially love magick, in Renaissance Italy. I’ll try to pique your interest in his work, which I’d highly recommend, by highlighting a few of the things he describes.
Magick in Renaissance Venice was primarily the domain of women. Mothers passed knowledge on to their daughters, both about medicinal and magickal healing and about coercive spells, most often used to attract and bind the affections of men. The other main spell-casting group was renegade clerics, who horned in on healing and other magickal work thanks to its lucrative nature, but Ruggiero writes:
Clerics learned their magic from women. In turn, a surprising number of the women accused could read and write and were involved in passing on to other women a written as well as an oral culture.... There was a highly articulated discourse concerned with magical power over love that was widely understood and practiced in late-sixteenth-century Venice, ... dominated by women and women’s networks.
Healing, then as now, was big business, and was the more open, accepted side of magickal work, but healers were assumed to know other magick as well. Accusations of malicious witchcraft seem to have originated within the community of women healers, as an explanation of failed healings. When a sick child did not get well, for example, it seems to have been common practice to divert the parents’ anger and grief by accusing a competitor of having cast an evil spell. Despite the obvious short-term advantages of this practice, in the long run it created a strong public belief in the existence of nasty witches responsible for all manner of misfortunes. Since the witches themselves made the accusations, who was to doubt them?
One of the most common magickal practices was the divinatory casting of beans. Apparently, the beans were marked to represent various people and then thrown, sometimes together with other symbolic objects. The caster then interpreted the resulting placement of beans and objects to reveal the relationships of the people in question; as Ruggiero writes,
"the beans revealed their closeness/love or their distance/hate."
The beans could answer other questions, too, and were occasionally used for coercive purposes. Some of the other things that could be thrown in divination were coal, bread, small coins, rock salt and chains used to suspend pots over the fire.
Spells tended to rely heavily on the symbolic power of things. Ruggiero reports, for example, that when a wife concerned about her husband’s fidelity inventoried the contents of the mattress they slept on, she found there:
millet, sorghum, spelt, laurel, wheat, apple seeds, seeds of flowers from every month, peas, husks of sorghum and small bones that seemed to be from babies, coal, stockings, rocks of several types, pieces of wood of various kinds, and two nails plus two large needles one with the head the other without as was the case with the nails, needles with hard heads one of which was for sewing, whistling bones, and other things.
These were presumably the residue of many love spells, accumulated over years of mattress use. Seeds and objects of penetration stand out, with obvious links to sex. For more serious spells, menstrual blood and semen had strong symbolic power, as did anatomically correct wax votive statues that could be pierced with needles as appropriate. Live eels were also considered good phallic symbols.
The written word was regarded as one of the most powerful magickal symbols. Eating a sage leaf, for example, on which the "secret of the mass" had been written, was thought to bind a man effectively to the woman who fed it to him.
Christian symbolism in general was regarded as a particularly powerful source of magick. Although appeals to the Devil were not uncommon, the Venetians thought Christ a more powerful and equally accessible ally. Holy water and holy oil were thought to be among the most effective media for healing or binding in love.
A coercive spell was generally referred to as a "martello" or hammer, because it pounded the will of its target. It was commonly aimed at making loved ones miserable outside of the company (or bed) of the one on whose behalf the spell was cast. Men described themselves as sexually broken ("guasto") by such spells directed against them. Measuring was a common way of gaining power over a thing; healers would measure the swaddling of a sick baby, for example, so as to work a healing. One spell involved a woman measuring her lover’s penis with a candle, then burning the candle in church to bind him.
One thing above all that emerges from Ruggiero’s research is how widespread was the interest and belief in magick during this period. He quotes Cesare Lanza, prominent professor of theology at the University of Padua and devoted scholar of magick, testifying to the Inquisition in 1579:
If you knew those who are interested in magic and those who are greedy and if you had the eyes of Argos you would not be able to see all the evil that there is in this land. Today a lowly little woman does more than all the necromancers accomplished in the ancient world. Moreover, there is not a person who is not wearing some kind of charm with characters.
Magick, and love magick in particular, was both pervasive and still very much the domain of women, to the disgust of intellectual and religious men.
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by Bestia Mortale
As fashions have changed in recent years, a few bold souls in the academic world have begun to explore the underground histories of sex and magick in Western culture. Many of the resulting works, though interesting, are marred by the intellectual distance their authors fastidiously maintain towards these dirty subjects, but such is not the case with Guido Ruggiero, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, who seems to be able to take his curiosity into the archives while leaving many conventional restrictions at the door. Among his books, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985) and Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993) paint a fascinating picture of the widespread use of magick, especially love magick, in Renaissance Italy. I’ll try to pique your interest in his work, which I’d highly recommend, by highlighting a few of the things he describes.
Magick in Renaissance Venice was primarily the domain of women. Mothers passed knowledge on to their daughters, both about medicinal and magickal healing and about coercive spells, most often used to attract and bind the affections of men. The other main spell-casting group was renegade clerics, who horned in on healing and other magickal work thanks to its lucrative nature, but Ruggiero writes:
Clerics learned their magic from women. In turn, a surprising number of the women accused could read and write and were involved in passing on to other women a written as well as an oral culture.... There was a highly articulated discourse concerned with magical power over love that was widely understood and practiced in late-sixteenth-century Venice, ... dominated by women and women’s networks.
Healing, then as now, was big business, and was the more open, accepted side of magickal work, but healers were assumed to know other magick as well. Accusations of malicious witchcraft seem to have originated within the community of women healers, as an explanation of failed healings. When a sick child did not get well, for example, it seems to have been common practice to divert the parents’ anger and grief by accusing a competitor of having cast an evil spell. Despite the obvious short-term advantages of this practice, in the long run it created a strong public belief in the existence of nasty witches responsible for all manner of misfortunes. Since the witches themselves made the accusations, who was to doubt them?
One of the most common magickal practices was the divinatory casting of beans. Apparently, the beans were marked to represent various people and then thrown, sometimes together with other symbolic objects. The caster then interpreted the resulting placement of beans and objects to reveal the relationships of the people in question; as Ruggiero writes,
"the beans revealed their closeness/love or their distance/hate."
The beans could answer other questions, too, and were occasionally used for coercive purposes. Some of the other things that could be thrown in divination were coal, bread, small coins, rock salt and chains used to suspend pots over the fire.
Spells tended to rely heavily on the symbolic power of things. Ruggiero reports, for example, that when a wife concerned about her husband’s fidelity inventoried the contents of the mattress they slept on, she found there:
millet, sorghum, spelt, laurel, wheat, apple seeds, seeds of flowers from every month, peas, husks of sorghum and small bones that seemed to be from babies, coal, stockings, rocks of several types, pieces of wood of various kinds, and two nails plus two large needles one with the head the other without as was the case with the nails, needles with hard heads one of which was for sewing, whistling bones, and other things.
These were presumably the residue of many love spells, accumulated over years of mattress use. Seeds and objects of penetration stand out, with obvious links to sex. For more serious spells, menstrual blood and semen had strong symbolic power, as did anatomically correct wax votive statues that could be pierced with needles as appropriate. Live eels were also considered good phallic symbols.
The written word was regarded as one of the most powerful magickal symbols. Eating a sage leaf, for example, on which the "secret of the mass" had been written, was thought to bind a man effectively to the woman who fed it to him.
Christian symbolism in general was regarded as a particularly powerful source of magick. Although appeals to the Devil were not uncommon, the Venetians thought Christ a more powerful and equally accessible ally. Holy water and holy oil were thought to be among the most effective media for healing or binding in love.
A coercive spell was generally referred to as a "martello" or hammer, because it pounded the will of its target. It was commonly aimed at making loved ones miserable outside of the company (or bed) of the one on whose behalf the spell was cast. Men described themselves as sexually broken ("guasto") by such spells directed against them. Measuring was a common way of gaining power over a thing; healers would measure the swaddling of a sick baby, for example, so as to work a healing. One spell involved a woman measuring her lover’s penis with a candle, then burning the candle in church to bind him.
One thing above all that emerges from Ruggiero’s research is how widespread was the interest and belief in magick during this period. He quotes Cesare Lanza, prominent professor of theology at the University of Padua and devoted scholar of magick, testifying to the Inquisition in 1579:
If you knew those who are interested in magic and those who are greedy and if you had the eyes of Argos you would not be able to see all the evil that there is in this land. Today a lowly little woman does more than all the necromancers accomplished in the ancient world. Moreover, there is not a person who is not wearing some kind of charm with characters.
Magick, and love magick in particular, was both pervasive and still very much the domain of women, to the disgust of intellectual and religious men.
Copied from Mark Sumpter
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