Acacia | Burn for altar offering, use with meditation, aids psychic powers, inspiration, protection, Lughnassadh passage. |
Acorn | Used in workings to bring about fertility. |
Agate | To bring insight or help deal with a dangerous situation. |
Agrimony | To dispell hostile Magick or returning it to sender, protection, promotes sleep, calming. |
Alder | Use to entice the Elemental Air. |
Allspice | Burn for prosperity. |
Almond | Use when need to invoke the energies of Jupiter, use for clairvoyance & divination. |
Amaranth | Immortality, spirit communication, death passage, use at Samhain. |
Angelica | Sprinkle around house to ward off negativity, protection (this herb is one of the most powerful protective herbs known to Western natural Magick, divination, serves to bring energies of healing and blessing on a person or place. |
Anise | Purification, protection, aids psychic power, divination, seeking answers, entices spirits to aid in spells/spirit contact, deflection of negativity. |
Apple | Connection to the Underworld, rebirth, immortality, food for the dead, use at Samhain, love, health, chases off disturbing dreams & provides protection in the dream state, banishing & exorcism. |
Asafoetida | Exorcism & protection, banishing, drive off spirits, purify. |
Ash | Protection, healing, prosperity, prophetic dreams, passage, use at Beltane, health, insight. |
Asphodel | Used in workings directed toward the dead, assists the dead in their transition. |
Avens | Exorcism, purification, love. |
Banana | Fertility, prosperity. |
Barley | Fertility, offering to the Faeries. |
Basil | Protection, purification, courage, used as an incense in invocations to Mars, wealth, love, repels negativity, used to banish fear, weakness & confusion. |
Bay | Used at Yule & Imbolc, psychic power, strength, purification healing, burn when using wish Magick. |
Bayberry (POISONESS) | Use as scented candles, transition. |
Bay Laurel (POISONESS IF CONCENTRATE) | Protection, divination. |
Beans | Use to dispell spirits, divination, clairvoyance. |
Belladonna (POISONESS) | Use at Samhain, astral travel, psychic powers, visions, love. |
Benzoin | Purification, prospertity, exorcism, use in meditation for balance and inner growth. |
Bergamot | Sucess. |
Beryl | To bring sucessful end to conflict, Faery contact, protection against hostile Magick. |
Betony | Burn at Litha for protection, banish hostile Magick & malevolent spirits, prevent nightmares, house protection, psychic awareness. |
Birch | Protection, purification, wards negativity. |
Blackberry | Use at Lughnassadh, protection, health, prosperity. |
Blackthorn | Defence, deflect negativity, retribution, protection, Otherworld contact, returns evil to the sender. |
Boneset | Exorcism, protection, deflection. |
Borage | Protection, psychic powers, courage. |
Briar | Protection, dreams, divination, clairvoyancy, enhance a witch's powers, defence. |
Broom | Purification (sweep the circle), hang indoors for protection (Faeries do not like this plant). |
Bryony | Increase witch's power, protection. |
Burdock | Wards negativity, protection, purification, healing. |
Camphor | Used to invoke the Moon. |
Caraway | Worn as amulet or hung in the home to discourage theives. |
Cardamon | Burn for love spells, use in love sachets. |
Carnation | Protection, strength, offering to Goddess. |
Carnelian | Help overcome shyness, protection of depressive effects. |
Catnip | Love, cat Magick, relaxant before clairvoyancy/vision work, protection, effective charm for a woman that wishes to become pregnant. |
Cedar | Purification, banish hostile spirits, invaluable in exorcism, sucess. |
Celandine | Visionary, prophetic dreams. |
Centaury | Banish hostile Magick, good for general Magick, use to open up the Magickal states of consciousness, provides additional force to any spells |
Chamomile | Meditation, rest, purification, calmness, prosperity, protection, blessing, healing, medicinal, visionary/dreamwork. |
Cherry | Creativity, chips are burnt at Sabbats. |
Chicory | Silence, secrecy. |
Cinnamon | Invoke the Elemental Fire, clear away inner or outer limits, protection, spiritual & psychic powers, sucess. |
Cinquefoil | General Magick to increase strength, prosperity, protection, purification, divination dreams. |
Citron | Eat to increase psychic ability. |
Clary Sage | Use for clarity of sight in divination/psychic/vision work, calming, relaxing. |
Clove | Burn for wealth, purification, wards negitivity, banishing/releasing, exorcism, protection. |
Coltsfoot | Use to heighten visonary experience & to assist Magickal dreamwork. |
Comfrey | Healing, carry for safe travel, use for workings connected with Saturn. |
Coriander | Health, protection. |
Cumin | Prevents theft, burn for protection. |
Cypress | Banishing/releasing, binding, death, immortality, eternity. |
Daffodil | Protection, banish hostile energies. |
Daisy | Grown to attract positive attention from nature spirits of all kinds, love, protection. |
Damiana | Vision work, healing. |
Dandelion | Psychic power, spirit contact, Otherworld connections, protection. |
Dianthus (Carnation) | Protection, power, health, regeneration. |
Dill | Seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flower for love, also used for banishing, blessing, rational thinking. |
Dittany Of Crete | Astral travel, spirit communication, powerful materializing effect, used when needing to summon spirit into full visiable appearance (not into a mirror or crystal). |
Dragon's Blood | Binding, changes, courage, energy, strength, power, exorcism, protection. |
Elder (POISONESS SEEDS) |
Wards negative thoughts, blessing, use flowers as altar offering, use berries as Esbat wine, protection, banishing/releasing, defence, deflection, retribution, use at Litha, visions, spirit contact, healing, exorcism. |
Elecampane | Contact with nature spirits, psychic powers, divination, Otherworld contact. |
Elm | Attracts elves, love, attracts Faery contact, heightens dreamwork, energy, protection. |
Eyebright | Use as charm for clarity & insight, drink when suffering from depression or when beginning a period of study/aids mental powers. |
Fennel | Protection, blessing, healing, sucess, hung over doors at Litha, ward negativity, purification. |
Fern | Burn indoor for protection, burn outdoors for rain, banishing/releasing, exorcism, use at Samhain & for the Otherworld. |
Feverfew | Wards sickness, wards accidents in travel. |
Fir | Use at Yule & for the Underworld. |
Foxglove (POISONESS) | Defence, protection, return to sender, deflection. |
Frankincense | Protection, blessing, spirituality, meditation, power, anointing, strength, energy, exorcism, use at Yule, Beltane & Lughnassadh, consecration, vision work. |
Fumitory | Exorcism, purification, banish hostile spirits, special connection with the energies of the Earth. |
Furze | Burn at Ostara for protection, preparation for conflict. |
Garlic | Braid of garlic hung in the kitchen will keep hostile forces at bay & bring health & happiness, flowers for altar offering, cloves for protection, exorcism, ward negativity, healing. |
Ginger | Protection, healing, love, sucess, psychic power, exorcism, deflection, return to sender, spirit contact. |
Hawthorn | Protection, enhance witch's power, use at Beltane, wards negativity, attract Faeries, use in fertility Magick. |
Hazel | Use to invoke wisdom, healing, protection, luck, invoke Otherworld aid, enhance witch's power. |
Heather | RED : use to start or end an affair, WHITE: protection, PURPLE : spiritual development & invite spirits at Samhain. |
Hellebore (POISONESS) | Use for ritual of Magickal invisibility, blessings & protections for animals, vision work, psychic power, exorcism, astral travel. |
Hemlock (POISONESS) | Purification, protection, astral travel, consecration. |
Henbane (POISONESS) | Use to invoke Saturn or Earth energies & the powers of the Underworld, spirit contact. |
High John The Conqueror | Protection, banish hostile Magick & spirits, use as charms for love, luck and sucess. |
Holly (POISONESS) | Protection, banish hostile spirits & spells, energy, strength, power, insight, deflection. |
Hops | Vision work, promote Magickal dreams, health, aids sleep. |
Horehound | Use of this brings Mercury energies into most kinds of natural Magick, brings clarity to the mind & heightens intuition. |
Horsetail | Fertility Magick, invocations of Saturn. |
Houndstongue | Silence, secrecy, control the energies of Mercury in ritual. |
Houseleek | Protection against lightning & storms, aids weather Magick. |
Hyssop | Protection, purification, wards negativity, cleansing. |
Ivy | Use for any work that involves Saturnine qualities. |
Jasmine | Aphrodesiac qualities, love Magick, protection, healing, anointing, balance, use at Ostara, divination, dreams, insight, astral projection. |
Jimsonweed (POISONESS) | Deflection, return to sender, ward negativity, protection. |
Juniper Berry | Purification, chases off lingering spirits at end of ritual, deterrent to theft, vision work, spirit contact, exorcism. |
Kelp | Psychic powers, wind spells, protection. |
Lady's Mantle | Use to invoke any feminine form of the divine, strengthens the working and improves the focus of any spell. |
Lady's Slipper | Wards negative energy, return to sender, protection, deflection. |
Lavender | Stimulant to the psychic and visionary senses, use for vision work, Magickal dreamwork, meditation, calming, energizing, attracts elves, purification, peace, love, use at Litha as an offering, anointing, exorcism, use to honor Ancient Ones, cleansing, Sidhe contact, opens psychic centers, spirit contact. |
Leek | Use in weather Magick, protection against lightning. |
Lemon Balm | Oldest medicinal herb, sucess, health, love. |
Lettuce | Use for Magickal workings with the Elemental Water, mild sedative. |
Lilac | Use with the Underworld, use at Beltane, exorcism, protection, cleansing. |
Linden | Immortality, protection, use with the Underworld, good fortune, sleep, love, relaxant, use with Magickal dreamwork & other visionary states. |
Loosestrife | PURPLE : restores harmony, brings peace. |
Lovage | Love Magick, fertility charms for gardens/fields. |
Mandrake (POISONESS) | Use for calling upon spirits, communication with the dead, spirit offering, exorcism, protective watcher. |
Marigold (Calendula) | Use in marriage spells, clairvoyant dreams, protection, enhanced pyschic powers, divination, Faery offering, use at Beltane & Mabon, consecration. |
Marjoram | Love, protection, wealth. |
May-Apple (POISONESS) | Spirit contact, death, spirit offering. |
Mastic | Spirit contact, enhance psychic powers, strength. |
Mint | Protection, prosperity, use as altar offering for helpful spirits. |
Mistletoe | Fertility, creativity, Magickal amplifier, potent protective powers, banishes disruptive spirits & hostile Magick. |
Moonwart | Love, divination, prosperity. |
Motherwort | Protection (esp. against hostile Magick), strengthens the wearer (if worn) & helps banish depression. |
Mouse-Ear | Controls the energies of Mars, banish hostility/quarreling/violence, dispells hostile Magick, consecration. |
Mugwort (Artemesia) | Psychic power, dreams, banishing/releasing, divination, cleansing, Magick mirrors & crystal balls, use at Litha, astral projection, strength, protection, healing. |
Mullien | Energy, courage, exorcism, divination, protection, return to sender, deflection, health. |
Mustard | Fertility, health, protection. |
Myrrh | Protection, wards negativity, purification, consecration, blessing, use at Mabon & Imbolc, exorcism, power. |
Nettle | Protection, exorcism, return to sender, deflection, courage. |
Nightshade (POISONESS) | Use as amulet to protect against Magickal attack. |
Nutmeg | Use for Moon & Sea Magick, Magickal dreamwork, prosperity. |
Oak | "Tree Of Power" in Ancient symbolism, energy, use in Weather Magick/Earth Magick, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, burn wood for good health, strength, power, protection, wards negative energy. |
Oats | Wealth, offering for the God. |
Orange | Use to invoke the Sun, protection, peels for love, incense for good fortune, divination. |
Oregano | Love, protection, wealth. |
Orris Root | Power, protection, divination, deflection. |
Paprika | Protection, wards malevolent energy, deflection. |
Parsley | Use when dealing Magickally with the souls of the dead or afterlife, purification, protection. |
Patchouli | Use at Samhain, use with the Underworld & passage, use incense for drawing money, fertility. |
Pecan | Prosperity. |
Pennyroyal (POISONESS) | Immortality, reincarnation, use at ceremonies to lesson fear of death, help with the recently deceased with their transition to the afterlife, deflection, power, protection, wards negative energy. |
Pepper | Grow for protection, wards negativity. |
Peppercorn | Protection, power, deflection, exorcism. |
Pine | Brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, use pine needles in money spells. |
Plantain | Place under pillow to drive away nightmares & evil spirits. |
Pomegranate | Use with Underworld, passage, hidden wealth, attainment, protection, deflection, secret knowledge. |
Purple Heather | Peace, cleansing, spiritual attainment, use at Samhain, Imbolc & Lughnassadh. |
Rose | Love Magick, awaken deeper aspects of love (compassion and devotion). |
Rosemary | Use with Moon or Sea Magick, protection, banish nightmares & hostile spirits, purification, wards negativity, love, health, grow to attract elves, blessing, consecration, courage, exorcism, strength, cleansing, use with Otherworld, Sidhe contact. |
Rowan | Protection, banish hostile spirits & hostile Magickal workings, purification, divination, grow to protect home, inspiration, burn in fire to call upon spirits for help. |
Rowan Wood (Mountain Ash) | Binding, divination, secret knowledge, calling upon spirits, calling upon the Sidhe for aid, psychic power, protection. |
Rue (POISONESS) | Exorcism, health, enhance Magicks, return to sender, deflection, retribution, wards malevolent & negative energies, protection, purification, banish spirits, blessing, consecration. |
Saffron | Use in meals for rituals of the Sun. |
Sage | Purification, cleansing, protection, wisdom, health, immortality, spirit and Otherworld offering, exorcism, use at Yule & Mabon. |
Sandalwood | Meditation, intuitive power, protection, spirit contact, exorcism, wards negativity, use to invoke the Elemental Air, vision workings. |
Savory | Help chase away glum moods & bring happiness, love Magick. |
Skullcup | Protection, healing, passage to the Underworld. |
Soloman's Seal | Consecration, charges, fixative qualities, use as an offering to the Elementals for their aid, protection. |
Southernwood | |
St.John's Wort | Burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, health, willpower, banishing/releasing, use with Otherworld, power, protection, bunch of herb hung over door in house will protect against hostile Magick & spirits. |
Star Anise | Burn for psychic power, good fortune. |
Straw | Attracts Faeries, do not burn Magick-infused straw as it will bring ill fortune, protection of an area. |
Strawberry | Use to invoke the energies of Venus. |
Tamarisk | Exorcism, divination, deflection, return to sender. |
Tansy | Immortality (helps recently deceased with their transition), use flowers for Otherworld offering, health. |
Thistle | Protection, warding/changing bad luck, use at Mabon, exorcism, deflection of negative energies, return to sender, spirit contact. |
Thyme | Protection, attracts Faeries, purification, use in healing spells, wards negativity, use at Litha, psychic power, use with Otherworld. |
Trefoil | Use to decorate altar, protection, luck. |
Tumeric | Protection, cleansing, purification. |
Turnip | Use as Samhain lanterns, wards negative energies, protection, passage, rebirth. |
Unicorn Root (Ague Root) |
Protection, return to sender, exorcism. |
Valerian | Purification, protection, cleansing, consecration, blessings, power, purging, releasing. |
Vervain (Verbena) | Burn at Litha, use as altar offering, love, purification, creativity, wards psychic attack, aids visionary work, protection, inspiration, added to spells for increased effect. |
Vetivert | Love, money, wards negativity, deflection, wards malevolence, retribution |
Wheat | Fertility, wealth. |
Willow | Death, Underworld, passage, deflection, spirit contact, protection, love. |
Woodruff | Changes, clear barriers, overcome obstacles, protection, use at Beltane, sucess, psychic awareness. |
Wormwood (Absinthe) (POISONESS) | Binding, divination, exorcism, use at Samhain, spirit evocation, protection, dreams, psychic power, scrying, sacred to the Moon, purification, visionary work, use to seek prophetic visions of the future, banish negative forces, hinder hostile Magick. |
Yarrow (Arrowroot) | Love Magick, marriage, exorcism, releasing, divination, psychic power, protection, dreams, guidance, courage, wards negativity, defence. |
Yew (POISONESS) | Protection against Spirits (esp. the dead), exorcism, laying a ghost to rest, spirit contact, transitions, death/rebirth, use with Underworld, use at Yule. |