ACACIA: Burn for Altar offerings, aid psychic powers, mediation
AGRIMONY : Protecion, returns spells to their sender, promotes sleep
ALDER : whistles entice the element Air
ALL SPICE : burn for Prosperity
ANGELICA: sprinkle around the house to ward off negativity, protection, divination
ANISE: purification, protection, entices spirits to aid in spells.
APPLE: bury in the garden on Samhain's as a food for departing spirits, love (share and apple with the one you love) health, attracts unicorns
ASH: wands, protection, leaves can be used for prophetic dreams, prosperity
AVENS: purification, love
BANANA: fertility, prosperity, (I mention this for those in tropical climates because the flowers are heraphroditic and can be used in altar offerings for the Goddess and God as one - Shiva Ardhanari can be used for this aspect of the divine
BASIL: protection, wealth, love, repels negativity
BAY: burn for psychic powers, purification, wish magick
BENZOIN: burn for Purification, prosperity
BETONY: burn at Liths for purification, protection, to be rid of nightmares (put a dream pillow under you'r own pillow) to send away dispair (sprinkle around doors and windows psychic awareness
BIRCH: protection, health, prosperity, wards negativity
BLACKBERRY: protection, health, prosperity, and used in pied at Lughnassadh
BLACKTHORN: returns evil to the sender
BORAGE: teas aid in psychic powers, carry leaves for protection.
BRIAR: add to tea for clairvoyant dreams
BROOM: purification (sweep in circle) hang indoors for protection (faeries do not like this plant, and by working with the Devas, you might also come to loath it's scent)
BURDOCH: wards negativity, purifies, protects (can be used for washing floors or wear the dried root strung on a red thread)
CARDAMON: burn for love spells, use in love sachets
CARNATION (Dianthus): protection, altar offering for the goddess, strength.
CASSIA AUGUSTFOLIAS (Indian Senna Leaf): CAUTION; Tea not to be taken during pregnancy or menstruation. (this tea will induce both Menses and diarrhea, and if used to bring on menses or to overcome constipation, may be followed up after the desired effect with a tea of CHina Black, chamomile and rose hips)
CATNIP: love and magick
CHAMOMILE: meditation, rest (drink in tea) purifiaction, calmness, prosperity, incense for the God
CHERRY: chips burnt at sabbats, creativity
CINNAMON: burnt for spiritual and psychic powers, protection and success
CINQUEFOIL: prosperity, protection, purification, divination dreams
CITRON:eat to increase psychic ability, (the traditional Yule fruitcake usually includes this herb in it's ingredients
CLOVE: burn for wealth, purification, and to ward off negativity
COMFREY: roots or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel.
CORIANDER: health
CUMIN: prevents theft, burn for protection
DILL: seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flowers for love
ELDER: CAUTION; seeds are poisonous, Wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, wood NOT to be burnt as it is sacred to hectate, see faeries in these trees at Litha, flowers may be used as an altar offering, berried may be made in to esbat wine, the flowers may be added to a candle spell addressed to Hectate during the New Moon
ELM: attracts elves, Love
EYEBRIGHT: tea for aiding mental powers.
FENNEL: protection, sacred to the god, hung over doors at Litha
FERNS: burn indoors for protection, ouside for rain
FEVERFEW: wards sickness, wad accidents in travel
FOXGLOVE: CAUTION; Poisonous, although digitals comes from it. Grow in garden for protection of the house and yard.
FRANKINCENSE: protection, blessing, spirituality, meditation and power
FURZE/GORSE: burn at Ostara for protection and as preperation for any conflict
GARLIC: sacred to hectate, flowers for alter offering, cloves for protection
GINGER: love, protection
HAWTHORN: powerful wands, fertility magick and protection
HAZEL: string the nuts on a cord and hang it in the house or ritual room, to help invite the plant faeries, used for wands, healing, protection, luck
HEATHER: red to start or end an affair, whit for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at Samhain to invite spirits to visit.
HOPS: health, aids in sleep
HYSSPO: purification, wards negativity
KELP: wind spells, protection, psychic powers
LAVENDAR: attracts elves, burn for protection, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as offering, love and psychic awareness
LEMON BALM: success, health, love, (soak in wine for three hours remove and serve wine)
LINDEN (lime tree):bark used for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, sleep and love
LOOSESTRIFE: purple restoresharmony and brings peace (can be sprinkled on the corner of rooms or given as a gift to bring about an accord
MACE: burn for psychic power
MARIGOLD: marriage spells, clairvoyant dreams (in a pillow) mixed with water and rubbed over the eyelids to see faeries, enhances psychic powers, pick in full sun
MARJORAM: love, protection, wealth
MINT: protection, prosperity, and altar offering to helpful spirits
MOONWORT: divination, love, prospertiy
MUGWORT: divination, rub fresh onto crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on a full moon night
MULLEIN:protection, divination, health, and courage
MUSTARD: health, protection, fertility
MYRRH: protection, wards negativity, burn for purifiaction and consecrations (usually combined with frankinsence)
NUTMEG: burn for prosperity
NUTS/CONES: use to tip wands for fertility magick
OAK: the GOds, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, use galls in charms, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health
ORANGE : peels for love, incense for good fortune, divination
PARSELY: purification, protection
PATCHOULI: incense for drawing money, fertility, earth, underworld
PECAN: prosperity
PEPPER: use in amulets, or grow for protection, wards negativity
PINE: brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, pine needles used in money spells
ROSEMARY: burn for purification, wards negativity, protection, love, health, grown to attract elves, blessing, consecration
ROWAN: wands and amulets for knowledge, insence of leaves and berries for divination, firest to call apon spirits for help, grow for protection in the home, inspiration
RUE: blessings, consecrations, protection, use in altar oil, health
SAGE: protection, wisdom, health
ST. JOHNS WORT: burn at Litha to send away negativity wear for invinsibilty, health, willpower, gathered at Litha
SANDALWOOD: burn for protection, full mon esbats, wards negativity, spirit offering
SOLOMONS SEAL (Drop Berry, Sealroot) :an offering to the elementals for their aid, protection
STAR ANISE: burn for psychic power, good fortune
STRAW: attracts faeries do not burn magick-infused straw as it will bring ill-fortune, can be sued as an image to protect an area (whne no longe needed release and toss in the wind)
TANSY: health
THYME: wards negativity, burn for purification and healing spells
TREFOIL: decorate altar, protection, luck, when taking one, leave a bit of ginger or milk poured on the ground as an offering to the faeries
VERVAIN (verbena) Gather/burn at Litha, altar offering, love, purification draws riches, creativity, wards psychic attack
VETIVERT: love money, wards negativity
WHEAT: fertility, wealth
WILLOW: burn bark with sandalwood for divination, love, protection
WOODRUFF: add the Beltaine wine to clear awa any barriers, protection, success, chnages, psychic awareness
WORMWOOD (absinthe): CAUTION; poisonous. If burned use in well ventilated area, preferrably outdoors, evocation, divination and scrying (stronger when comibned with Mugwort) at Samhain protection, sacred to the moon
YARROW:divination, love, happy marriage, (a wedding bouquest) wards negativity, defence, protection, gather at Litha
YEW: CAUTION; Poisonous. Yule is a sybol of death and rebirth, used for dagger handles

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