#plant magic
Live Plants and Animals in Magic
So, genuine question here, why does it seem so rare to find magic that utilizes live plants and animals these days? I’m honestly curious and would love to hear your thoughts on the matter!
Is it due to a lack of convenience? A lack of predictability? A fear of offending spirits? Risk vs reward calculations? Something else altogether?
I admit that using live plants and animals in magic is not always the answer but they do seem to have their time and place! Just like bones and dried plants do. Different things for different times and all that.
For example: there’s a particular plant I tie a spell to every year and therefore need to take care of it so it continues to thrive. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship though and we each get something out of it. Yes, there’s a risk that the plant might die but the rewards have outweighed the risk for me.
There are also heaps of folklore around blessing or hexing cows (and by extension the prosperity of the family), especially in the valley near me. I’m sure other areas are the same and yet I only ever hear about it locally and rarely online.
Even creatures as small as spiders can be utilized without killing them so why do I so rarely see anyone talking about it?
Is it happening and I just don’t notice? Is it no longer convenient? Do people not find it effective? Let’s chat!
Transfer pots can be a really great way to get a jump on the growing season. You can start your plants indoors and move them outside when the weather permits, starting your growing season with a more mature plant!
Of course, you can just use small pots and repot into the ground, but transfer pots save you some work and a bit of stress on the plants since you don’t have to disturb their roots in the process.
This is a method that I’ve used for both regular planting and guerrilla gardening.
Instructions below the cut, let’s gooooooooo!
I’m just going to bump this up because it’s that time again! These pots:
1: Reuse waste paper!
2: Have great drainage!
3: Let your seedlings’ roots air prune for easier transplanting!
4: Compost themselves when you transplant!
5: Eliminate one especially annoying source of waste plastic!
Bundling today with rosemary, lavender, and roses from the garden
Making lavender shortbread thumbprint cookies with a blackberry-mint prosperity jam.
Making oils with calendula and chamomile from the garden! I can’t wait to make enchanted salves with these babies.
A list of sites, pdfs, books, and apps for green, nature, and plant witches in the US. Feel free to add on, request specific resources, or let me know if there are any broken links.
Plant Identification and Uses
New England Wild Plant Identification (GoBotany)
Medicinal Plants of the Northeast (Brandeis University)
Native Plants of the Northwest(pdf)
Native Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Pacific Northwest
Native Plants of the Southwest Organized by State
List of Native Southeastern Plants (Fish and Wildlife List)
Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia (Forest Service pdf)
Guide to Common Medicinal Herbs (Rochester Medical Center)
Planting Resources
Growing Calendar - When to Plant and Harvest
Identify Your Soil Type (with the help of the Pioneer Woman)
Top Houseplants for Improving Air Quality
Top-Rated Apps
PlantSnap Plant Identification (Apple and Android)
Garden Answers Plant Id (Apple and Android)
GrowBuddy (a Marijuana Grow Journal App)
Moon Gardening (tracks plant growth and moon phases - Apple)
Gardroid (Vegetable garden tracker - Android)
Plant Diary(Android)
A good place for new green witches to start as planting season approaches!
Making trope graphics is too fun.
This ebook is basically #merthur with the serial numbers filed off and also it’s not Arthuriana and it ends a lot better.
A guide by gumnutmagic on Instagram
I thought it could be useful in spells and knot magic !
In the Celtic tradition, nettles are great to ward off spirits when worn, protect your home and may also boost your sexual performances if placed under the mattress.
Uses in magic:
- When doing a spell to help separate yourself from someone or to banish them, using a thorn to represent them can be a powerful metaphor.
- If you do blood magic, use the thorn (AFTER THOROUGHLY CLEANING IT) to lightly prick your side. Another powerful metaphor.
- If you are doing a hex jar that requires shaking, these are good additives to it.
Symbolism:
- Can represent a person who is causing you pain and suffering
- Can represent a hardship.
- Can represent physical/emotional pain
I harvested some off a dead tree once, and I’ve never known what to do with them, so this is helpful!
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/
As the wheel turns to spring, life begins to stir in the soil and earth magic grows more powerful with every day.
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Witch Grass For Banishing & Breakup Spells
Witch Grass (Couch grass) is a hardy plant that can be used for banishing, good luck, dominating a lover, causing separation and binding the actions of another. This is a very versatile plant that can be very helpful or harmful depending on your intention. If you wish to banish an evil spirit from a house burn some Witch Grass and carry the smoking plant material throughout the entire home. To attract or dominate a lover make a strong tea with Witch Grass and pour it all over your body after you take a shower. Don’t towel dry, allow yourself to air dry or use a blow dryer if you’re in a hurry. To help dispel sadness carry a small pouch of Witch Grass on your person and annoint it with Sweet Orange essential oil once a week.
If you wish for a couple to break up you will need some Witch Grass, some Catnip, 2 white candles and some vegetable oil. Carve the name of one of the people into one of the candles and the other name into the wax of the other candle. Anoint both candles with vegetable oil. Sprinkle Witch Grass on one of the candles and Catnip on the other candle. Place the candles about an inch apart and light them with a match, say the following prayer over the candles 7 times-
“Apart, Apart, You 2 Need to Be Apart, Time To Move On, Time To Go Oh, Apart, Apart, Apart!”
Let the candles burn for 1 hour and then snuff them out. Every night move the candles one inch further apart from each other and light them with a match and say the above prayer over them 7 times and snuff them out after an hour. When the candles have burned all the way down wrap the wax remains up with some cloth and bury them in the woods or the desert.
Witch Grass is native to North America. The plant grows best with full sunlight in sandy soil. Medicinally Witch Grass can be used as a diuretic. Witch Grass is associated with the astrological sign of Sagittarius, the element of earth and the planet Jupiter.- Zwahk Muchoney (Image from Unsplash.com)
“The intimate associations between the worlds of witches, witchcraft and plants can be likened to an ancient fabric draped upon bony shoulders. Like a verdant shroud, the clandestine power between witch and plant serves as a well-worn cloak connecting dreaming and waking. In both their revealed and concealed powers, plants have long held secrets which manifest at the interface between human and spirit power. The plants carry the stories if only one will take the time to listen.”
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The Witch’s Cabinet:
Plant Lore, Sorcery and Folk Traditions
1. ‘Plants & Witches: A Folkloric Apothecary’
by Corinne Boyer
Cool names to call a plant:
- Narcissus
- Astrid
- Mr Big
- Pascal
- Dido
- Scooby
- Serabe
- Berlioz
- Kingsley
- Ernesto
- Mr Bombastic
- Khaleesi
- Ted
- Sheen
- Spartacus
- Daphne
- Bo
- Antoinette
- Victoire
- Totoro
- Arwen
- Lancelot
- Dora
- Aspasia
- Cerridwen
- Frodo
- Theodora
- Good old Al
- Nyx
- Wendel
- Bilbo
- Ron
- Pluto
- Hamish
- Romeo
- Gandalf
- Succulenny
- Lilith
- Katrina
- Dickinson
- Arnold
- Tina
- Stud
- Casper
- Bruno
- Xavier
- Golem
- Stabby
- Steve
- Leafy Joe
- Roberto
- Wayne
- Ru Paul
- Trina
- Wesley
- Rosa
- Lovelace
- Churchill
- Isabela
- Cacticus Finch
- Leo
- Nessie
- Mirabel
- Plantela Anderson
- Hershey
- Winston
- Klaus
- Walt
- Captain Jack Spucculent
- Prickles
- Queenie
- Denny
- Neville
- Peter Planter
- The Plant
- Professor Sprout
- Greenie
- Dumbledore
- Caesar
- Morgana
- Cleo
- Proserpina
- Venom
- Grendel
- Thor
- Huitzilopochtli
- Erin Potovich
- Belladonna
- Loki
- Anubis
- Beowulf
- Norman Reedus
- Jude
- Thorn
- Vitus
- Sextus
- Tarquin
- Hugo
- Daenerys
- Lola
- Bob
- Olga
- Rami
- Speckles
- Wanda
- Sharon Needles
- Tutu
- Ken
- Søren
- Epenine
- Link
- Dolly Planton
- Spreaddy Mercury
- Ripper
- Eve
- Mando
- Tobias
- Augustus
- Polina
- Rasputin
- Tiberius
- Nathaniel
- Boba
- Terry
- Britney
- Yoda
- Russel
- Prince
- Tigeress
- Mei Mei
- Hermione
- Kovu
- Stitch
- Chewbacca
- Minerva
- Danny de Leafo
- Zeus
- Drusilla
- Count Succulent
- Buffy
- Magnus
- Hera
- Osiris
- Metis
- Xin
- Rupi
- Titania
- Shakespeare
- Odin
- Nala
- Momo
- Raja
- Manuel
- Bob the cactus
- Oscar
- Lumiere
- Hanlu
- Rori
- Sabrina
- Ola
- Jyn
- Groot
- Venus
- Guinevere
- Ceres
- George Spikel
- Marley
- Cher
- Penelope
- Helen
- Pedro
- Isaac
- Irina
- Ariel
- Sylvia
- Wolfric
- Sirius
- Bellatrix
- Matteo
- Quinn
- Andor
- Yelena
- Xerxes
- Mack
- Namaari
- Camille
- Yennefer
- Clarissa
- Gregoria
- Ciri
- Morrigan
- Queen Laleafa
- Dahlia
- Austen
- Seelie
- Brontë