#bay laurel
Allspice:
Abundance, healing, motivation, protection, vitality, amplification, energizing, revitalization, inspiration, boosting, prosperity, success, and regard.
Anise:
Fertility, warding, adoration, bliss, psychic ability, protection, unity, fortune, happiness, romance, fecundity, union, and compassion.
Bay Laurel:
Victory, prosperity, justice, power, psychic ability, warding, transformation, amplification, wealth, respect, protection, and divination.
Cayenne:
Courage, warding, confidence, vitality, ambition, banishment, valour, protection, loyalty, longevity, magnificence, determination, and purification.
Cinnamon:
Abundance, amplification, confidence, speediness, romance, luck, protection, glamours, happiness, wealth, protection, and courage.
Cloves:
Empowerment, warding, abundance, positivity, luck, achievement, confidence, attractiveness, glamours, optimism, hope, protection, and triumph.
Coriander:
Fortification, restoration, desire, prophecy, defense, revitalization, curative, lust, pleasure, insight, protection, healing, sensuality, and divination.
Cumin:
Luck, protection, balance, manifestation, regard, security, attraction, warding, fortune, harmony, shielding, affluence, and fortitude.
Galangal:
Hex-breaking, healthiness, banishment, sensuality, prosperity, purification, healing, longevity, lustfulness, attraction, and dispelling.
Ginger:
Banishment, romance, sensuality, cleansing, hex-breaking, attraction, love, abundance, prosperity, compassion, adoration, and expelling.
Nutmeg:
Restoration, prosperity, tranquility, longevity, cleansing, elegance, glamours, beauty, healing, abundance, luck, calming, and purification.
Paprika:
Protection, spirituality, fortune, alignment, generosity, affection, romance, magnificence, sensuality, warding, security, and connection.
Pepper:
Activation, protection, connection, hex-breaking, purification, shielding, energizing, banishment, warding, charging, and fortifying.
Star Anise:
Divination, prosperity, awareness, abundance, protection, warding, prophetic dreams, psychic power, insight, affluence, wealth, and connection.
Turmeric:
Confidence, purification, fertility, abundance, protection, banishment, hex-breaking, cleansing, wealth, fortune, warding, and safety.
Purification Bath
- Make a strong infusion by pouring boiling water over nine bay laurel leaves and two tablespoons of anise seeds.
- Let it reach room temperature.
- Strain out the botanicals and add the liquid to your tub of water.
(fromThe Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)
Moroccan Ritual Ink
For writing charms and talismans:
- Boilmyrtleand bay laurel leaves and twigs in water.
- Strain out the solids.
- Mix the remaining liquid with ink.
For written love spells:
- Gently warm rosewater and pour it over a few saffron threads.
- Strain and add the liquid to existing ink or mix up your own with alcohol and gum arabica.
(fromThe Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)
Black Cat Oil
- Essential oil of clary sage or dried crumbled sage or clary sage leaves
- Essential oil of bay laurel or dried crushed bay leaves
- Essential oil of myrrh or solid myrrh resin
- A bit of steel wool
- Fine iron shot
- If you have a black cat, pick a hair off the sofa and add it to the mix.
- Blend with sweet almond oil, unless using for hexes, in which case blend with castor or mineral oil.
Black Cat Oil is used to break bad spells and hexes, but also to attract positive attention from the opposite sex. If protection is your major desire, blend the ingredients into castor oil and jojoba oil. If romance is your motivating factor, substitute sweet almond oil for the castor oil.
(fromThe Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)
A windowsill full of bay laurels and all of them are putting out new growth.
e-offering for Apollo, #063
Blessed (Belated) Ostara!