#herbal correspondences

mossytreeelf:

Here are some really basic herbs for your magic workings :

• Sage- Cleansing (properties : purification, wisdom, immortality)
  
• Lavender- Calming (properties : love, healing, sleep, dreams, divination)
• Rose- Opening (properties : psychic awareness, opening the heart, love)
• Eucalyptus- Inspiration (properties : healing, protection, purification, invigorating)
• Bay Leaves - Divination (properties : psychic powers, success, money)
• Cardamom- Arousal (properties : lust, sexuality, reigniting intimacy)
• Rosemary- Focus (properties : mental powers, banishing, purification, protection)
• Bergamot- Increasing (properties : manifestation, wealth, success, prosperity, adds power to magic)
• Oats- Grounding (properties : wealth, abundance, prosperity)
• Dandelion- Releasing (properties : divination, wishes, summoning spirits, releasing)
• Yarrow- Banishing  (properties : banishing, death, courage, psychic powers)
• Cloves- Luck (properties : driving away negativity, cleansing, prosperity)

In the past botanists such as Nicholas Culpeper associated plants with the planets, fixed stars and zodiac signs. The attributions were based on an intense study of a plant’s features, which included treats such as a thorny or prickly appearance, the scent emitted by the flowers or the entire plant, the plant’s life cycle, colors, metals contained in a plant, medicinal and other uses and of course plenty of folklore. Today plants are classified scientifically based on their genome, but their planetary lore is preserved and continues to evolve in the books of authors such as Stephen Skinner, Paul Huson, Scott Cunningham, Harold Roth and so on.

I find it fun and inspiring to continue this tradition and to explore its own inner logic. And since I spent the past 3 weeks gardening, I took to it and photographed the recent herb harvest according to the planets. The following series follows the Chaldean sequence. Photos by myself. Please share and credit.

Please visit my garden blog for further info on plants and their planetary correspondences: https://pflanzenkunst.wordpress.com/planetary-correspondences/

Fun Fact: The origin of the name Foxgloveis unclear. Some think it could have been originally called folksgloveand thus related back to the fae.

Element:Water

Gender Alignment: Feminine

Planets: Saturn and/or Venus

Correspondences

• poison
  
• fae/faeries
  
• protection
  
• divination
  

Common Uses

• used to increase psychic powers during divination
• used to break faerie enchantments
• used in rituals to commune with the fae/attract fae to your garden or home
  
• it has also been know to be used in death rituals due to its toxicity

Note: Foxglove is poisonous. Be very careful when dealing with this herb.

Correspondences:  divination, music, poetry, teaching, decision making, protection in the afterlife, self confidence

Gender Alignment:masculine

Planet:Venus

Element: Fire, Water

Common Uses

• Used in death rituals to protect the dead in the afterlife.
  
• Alder wood is used to balance action and emotion in spell work.
  
• Alder wood talismans increase the wearer’s power of speech.
  
• Used in magick to protect the heart and chest area.
  
• Used to shield the astral self from unwanted realms and intrusions.
  

Correspondences: increases energy, healing

Gender Alignment:masculine

Planet:Mars

Element:Fire

Common Uses

• Burn Allspice to attract wealth and good luck.
  
• Use to increase any energy or power in a spell.
  
• Used in healing spells of any kind.
  
• Used to honor great men/masculine people.
  

Correspondences:  protection, happiness, meditation, psychic ability

Gender Alignment:masculine

Planet: Mercury, Jupiter

Element:Air

Common Uses

• Hang an anise seed from your bed to restore youth.
  
• Used to ward off nightmares in dream spells.
  
• Add to potpourri to protect a room from evil spirits.
  
• Add to Holy Water for blessings, anointments, and exorcisms.
  
• The scent is said to be an aphrodisiac and is often used in sex and love magick.
  
• If it is burned while divining it is said to increase psychic abilities.
  
• Add to a ritual bath to increase divining and mental powers.
  

Correspondences: money, prosperity, anti-hunger, healing

Gender Alignment: feminine

Planet:Venus

Element:Earth

Common Uses

• Burn and put the ashes in an amulet to ward off hunger.
  
• Place a small jar of alfalfa in the pantry to ward off poverty and hunger.
  
• Carrying it with you while you gamble is said to bring good luck.
  
• It is said to bring luck is all monetary endeavors and should be kept with a small sum of money.
  
• Burn alfalfa a scatter the ashes around your property for protection.
  

Correspondences:  spirituality, protection, healing, faithfulness, lesbian love

Gender Alignment:Feminine

Planet:Venus

Element:Water

Common Uses

• Worn in an amulet, African violet is said to bring protection.
  
• Tea made from blue violets can increase romantic love.
  
• They are commonly used in protection spells regarding one’s love life.
  
• They also bring luck in love if worn close to the heart.
  
• They should only be worn for a total of twenty one days.
  
• Mixed with lavender in a sachet, they make a potent spell for amulet for attracting love and romance.
  

Correspondences:fertility, luck, healing, health, money, protection.

Gender Alignment: Masculine

Planet:Sun

Element:Fire

Common Uses

• Burning oak is said to draw out disease.
  
• Make an ‘x’ with oak twigs with red string to ward off evil.
  
• Acorns placed in windows protect from lightning and bring good luck.
  
• Catching an oak leaf is said to prevent you from catching a cold.
  
• Plant an acorn on a night of the new moon to bring wealth and prosperity.
  
• Hugging an oak tree has said to have medicinal properties, especially regarding diseases to do with fertility.
  

Correspondences: communication, intelligence, wisdom, curiosity, spiritual love, spiritual health, protection, sea and ocean

Gender Alignment:Feminine

Planet: Neptune, Mercury, Sun

Element:Water

Common Uses

• Tools and weapons made from Ash Wood are said to have magickal properties.
  
• The straight grain in Ash Wood is said to aid is directing energies.
  
• Ash leaves are said to bring prophetic dreams when placed under the pillow.
  
• Keeping Ash shavings are said to protect from drowning.
  

Correspondences:  love, immortality, friendship, healing, symbolizes the soul, fertility, vanity, beauty

Gender Alignment:feminine

Planet:Venus

Element:Water

Common Uses

• Burned as an offering to appease the dead.
  
• Apple cider can be used to replace blood in sanguine rituals or spells.
  
• Eat half an apple and throw the other half outside to bless a new house or dwelling.
  
• Apples are cut in half width-wise so the core appears as an star and used in harvest rituals.