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I am making so many “hey mutuals!” posts but this one is serious and it applies to everyone who sees this post actually. PLEASE REBLOG.

I just had to block someone with this flag as their pfp -

For those who don’t know, this is the MAP pride flag. This flag represents pedophiles.

Please reblog so people know that they are not welcome anywhere. Mutuals I BETTER see y’all reblogging this

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Tuberose

Agave Amica (A-gav-a Ah-me-cah)

Symbolic meanings include Dangerous pleasures, Funerary, Pleasures that inevitably cause pain, Sweet Voice, and Voluptuousness.

Possible Powers include Amourous Madness, Calming the Nerves, Harmony, Lost Virginity, Lucid Sexual Dreams, Peace, Pyschic Stimulation, Restore Happiness, Seduction, and Warding off Negativity and Evil.

Folklore and Facts

There is a legend around the power of the Tuberose's fragrance and its ability to seduce a young girl into losing her virginity.

It was believed that breathing in the fragrance throughout the night in a bedroom would incite sexually indecent lucid dreams.

Tuberoses were covered by young woman, who wore them in their hair and tucked them in the cleft of their bosom.

Its essential oil is a favorite scent used by the finest quality perfumers.

Tuberose is a cultigen (not found in the wild), grown by the ancient Aztecs.

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Buchu

Agathosma Betulina

Symbolic meaning is of a good fragrance.

(? Hey, you smell real good girl, lemme get a whiff-)

Possible powers include Divination, Feminine Energy, the Moon, Prophetic Dreams, Pyschic Power, Water Element, and Wind Spells.

Folklore and Facts

Buchu plants are prized for their pleasant herbal fragrance.

To prepare to effectively peer into the future requires preparation. A few drops of Buchu essential oil or some Buchu Leaves in the bathwater will imbue additional power into a seer while soaking in the tub.

Add nothing else to the water. Allow the moisture from the magical bath to dry on the body without aid of a towel. Then a few drops of Buchu essential oil in a diffuser will additionally relax and help open the Mind's Eyes and the Mind's ears.

Buchu is applied to the skin as an insect repellant, as a deodorant, and for skin infections.

In manufacturing, the oil from buchu is used to give a fruit flavor (often black currant) to foods. It is also used as a fragrance in perfumes and colognes.

Buchu is a plant from South Africa. The leaf is used to make medicine.

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Blue Giant Hyssop

Agastache Foeniculum (A-ghast-ashy Foe-Nick-U-lum)

It symbolically means Cleanliness,

Possible powers include Plenty or Provision.

Folklore and Facts

Blue Giant Hyssop blooms prolifically, feeding hummingbirds, butterflies, and honeybees.

One acre can easily support beehives from summer until frost.

Blue Giant Hyssop often grows in clumps.

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Grains of Paradise

Aframomum Melegueta (Aff-rah-moh-mum Male-eh-gwit-ah)

The symbolic meaning is just- Judge.

(??)

Possible powers include Determining guilt, Divination, Fire Element, Love, Luck, Lust, Mars, Masculine Energy, Money, and Wishing.

Folklore and Facts

For the Melegueta plant it is all about the seeds which are usually obtained by the pod, with the seeds within known as the Grains of Paradise or Mbongo Spice.

Grains of Paradise spice seeds, either whole or ground into a powder. can be used to make wishes by holding the spice in the hand to make the wish, then tossing a little of it in each of the four directions beginning with North and ending with West.

In Igboland, Nigeria, Grains of Paradise and Kola Nuts are part of nearly every ceremony as the primary element before anything else, since Igbo traditional religious prayers and offerings always involve Grains of Paradise along with the reversed Kola Nuts.

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Korarima

Aframomum Corrorima (Aff-rah-moh-mum Core-or-E-Mah)

It symbolizes familiar comfort.

It's possible powers include Aphrodisiac, Love, Luck, Lust, Money, and Wishing.

Folklore and Facts

Korarima is a very popular spice used in Ethiopian recipes, Middle Eastern spice blends, and to spice coffee.

Make then carry or wear a pink and red sachet filled with Korarima seeds to entice romantic love.

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Mountain Knotgrass

Aerva Lanata (A-er-vah Lah-nah-ta)

It symbolically means tightly bound.

It's possible powers include fending off evil spirits, good luck hunting, Healing, Snakebite, Protection and well being for widows.

(How do you differentiate wishing a Snakebite on someone, or wishing a widow in their life well?)

Folklore and Facts

Mountain Knotgrass is one of the Ten Sacred Flowers of Kerala, India.

Moutnain Knotgrass is a traditional folk medicine remedy for snakebite.

Carry or wear a sachet of Mountain Knotgrass flower, leaf, and root, to fend off an evil spirit.

Carry or wear a sachet of its flower, leaf, and root for good luck when hunting.

A widow or widower can carry or wear a sachet of Mountain Knotgrass flower, leaf, and root for comfort and assurance of well-being.

The whole plant is used to treat skin diseases, cough, sore throat, indigestion, wounds and diabetes.

The roots and flowers are used to relieve headache.

The flowers are used for dissolving kidney stones.

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Ground Elder, Gout Weed, or Bishop's Weed

Aegopodium Podagraria(ee-goe-POE-dee-um pod-uh-GRAIR-ee-uh)

Symbolic meaning includes Anticipation or Precautation.

Possible powers include Abundance, Assimilating Newness, Connecting closer to the higher self, Grounding, Healing, and Higher Goals.

(Dayum, I should've posted this on New Years...)

Folklore and Facts

Ground Elder is considered to be a seriously undesirable weed for any garden.

Even though the plant will attract butterflies, it has an invasive, highly competitive habit.

When conditions are optimal, it prevents other ground covers from thriving and even prevents seedlings for shrubs and trees to firmly establish.

Because the highly attractive Ground Elder is so aggressive and difficult to control, new plantings have been banned in many places around the world.

Historically, Ground Elder was commonly used for various medicinal purposes that have wanted in modern times.

Because European monks once used it for various medicinal purposes, it can often be found growing near the ruins of European monasteries.

Historically used to treat arthritis and gout.

The leaves can be eaten both raw or cooked. For best flavor, harvest before the plant flowers. They can be used in soups, salads, or eaten as a vegetable.

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Adonis or Pheasants Eye

Adonis Annua (A-dawn-ih-sss Ann-u-ah)

Symbolic meanings include Painful recollections, Recollections of life's pleasure, Sad Memories, and Sorrowful recollection.

(Use in past cases of amnesia maybe?)

Possible powers include Love, Sex, and Promiscuity.

(? doesn't really do well with the symbolic meanings...)

Folklore and Facts

It is said that the Adonis flower contains the spirits of many men and women living in the same flower.

Regarding that belief, there was once a secret religious congregation called the Arioi or Areoi who lived on the islands of Tahiti prior to the arrival of nineteenth century missionaries in Polynesia. These people had a single promiscuous marriage of absolutely sexual freedom among themselves before and after marriage that consisted of 100 males and 100 females.

The Adonis Plant has gone extinct in the Flanders and Wallonia regions of Belgium.

(??? That paragraph followed by that single fact? It gave me severe whiplash.)

It is native to North Africa, Western Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe. The name Bird's Eye is also associated with the bird's-eye primrose. Pheasant's eye is also an alternative name for the poets narcissus.

In the UK, Adonis Annua is endangered and listed as a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.

The leaves and roots are poisonous to humans and livestock.

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Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum Pedatum (A-D-in-tuh-mm Ped-ah-tuh-mm)

The symbolic meanings are Bonds of Love, Confidence, and Traditional dancing.

Possible powers include Aphrodisiacs, Attracting Love, Beauty, Dancing, Feminine Energy, Invisibility, Love, Venus, and the Water Element.

(Whenever a plant includes Venus(Roman Goddess of Love), you can assume that it includes the Water Element. She was formed in the sea.)

Folklore and Facts

The Druids believed Northern Maidenhair Fern could bestow invisibility.

The Native American tribes used it as a symbol of their traditional dancing. Northwest Coastal Native American Tribes may include it as part of their traditional dance regalia.

There is an unproven belief that by holding a nosegay of self gathered sprigs of Rue, Broom, Maidenhair Fern, Agrimony, and Ground Ivy, one can gain intuition of who is and who is not a practicing witch.

Northern maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum L.) is a deciduous, perennial fern native to Wisconsin.

It’s native to regions of North America, temperate East Asia and Himalayas within plant hardiness zones 3 – 8.

Northern maidenhair fern is a member of the Adiantaceae, a sub-family of the Pteridaceae family.

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Black Cohosh

Actaea Racemosa (Acc-tay-ah Ray-cih-moh-sah)

It's only symbolic meaning is rough.

(Rough what? Sex? A rough life?)

It's possible powers include Courage, Fire Element, Love, Lust, Mars, Masculine Energy, Money, Potency, Protection.

(I guess that the Lust gives me a hint to what the rough means.)

Folklore and Facts

Sprinkle an infusion of Black Cohosh and rainwater, natural spring water, or distilled water around the perimeter of your house or on door thresholds to protect your housed against evil entering into it.

In the case of impotency ake and caeet a sachet of Black Cohosh.

In the case of meekness, make and carry a sachet of Black Cohosh for strength.

Black cohosh, a member of the buttercup family, grows in North America.

Native Americans used black cohosh for treatment of a variety of conditions including kidney ailments, malaria, sore throat, and menstrual cramps.

It has been used medicinally in Germany since the late 19th century.

Currently, black cohosh is promoted as a dietary supplement for menopause symptoms. It has also been promoted for other conditions, including menstrual cramps and premenstrual syndrome, and to induce labor.

The part of the black cohosh plant used in herbal preparations is the root or rhizome (underground stem).

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I've been staying somewhere I don't have wifi. Apologies for the lack of posts. But here's some pictures I took.

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Sweet Flag

Acorus Calamus (Ah-core-us Kall-ah-mus)

Symbolic meanings include Affection, Aflutter, Attracting Love, Delusion, Fitness, Lamentation, Love, and Lust.

(Aflutter means being in a state of nervousness or excitement. Love and Delusion being in the same flower seems aptly fitting.)

Possible powers include Aphrodisiacs, Emotions, Feminine Energy, Fertility, Generation, Healing, Inspiration, Intuition, Love, Luck, Lust, Money, the Moon, Protection, Psychic Ability, Sea, Subconscious Mind, Tides, Travel by Water, and Water Element.

(So,,, everything a woman could want???)

Folklore and Facts

Sweet Flag was a favorite plant of Henry David Thoreau.

As an addendum to the third printing of "Leaves of Grass", Walt Whitman wrote a section of poems titled "Calamus" that was inspired by Sweet Flag, devoted to affection, love, and lust.

Sweet Flag seeds can be strung on thread as beads and worn for healing purposes.

Place a small piece of Sweet Flag in each corner of the kitchen to guard against poverty and hunger.

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Buzz Button

Acmella Oleracea (Ack-mella Ole-race-ee-ah)

Symbolic meaning is attraction.

Possible powers include Healing and Toothache Pain Relief.

Folklore and Facts

When the small flowers of the Buzz Button plant are in bloom, they attract fireflies.

Buzz Button plant extract is called Jambu Oil, which is used as a flavoring, most especially in India, for such things as chewing tobacco and chewing gum.

Commonly used in cocktails in the USA.

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Sneezewort

Achillea Ptarmica (A-keel-ee-ah Puh-tar-mik-ah)

Subspecies. Ptarmica

It symbolically means tears.

(That's a sad ahh plant? Atleast we know how mothers in ye olde times guilt tripped their kids.)

Possible powers include expelling evil spirits.

Folklore and Facts

The act of actually sneezing is what gave Sneezwort the supposed power of being able to ride oneself of evil spirits by sneezing them out.

People make a tea from dried sneezewort root and use it for joint and muscle pain, toothache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, intestinal gas, tiredness, urinary tract problems, and loss of appetite.

Some people chew fresh sneezewort root for relief of toothache.

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Yarrow

Achillea Millefolium (A-keel-ee-ah Mill-ih-fole-ee-um)

Symbolic meaning include Courage, Cure and Recovery, and Lasting Love.

Possible Powers include Animal Communication, the Arts, Attraction, Beauty, Courage, Cure for Heartache, Divination, Exorcism, Friendship, Gifts, Harmony, Healing, Health, Joy, Love, Lucky, Pleasure, Protection, Psychic Power, Sensuality, Venus, and the Water Element.

(...how does Animal Communication tie into the rest of those??? Is it just wanting you to be a Disney Princess?)

Used in the past for medicinal purposes.

Folklore and Facts

Homer's hero of the Iliad, Achilles, supposedly used Yarrow on wounded soldiers under his leadership.

In traditional Yi Jing, which is also known as I Ching, dried Yarrow stalks are tossed to create the shape that is used to divine the feature.

It was also thought that if Yarrow was once used as a wedding decoration and it was then hung over a marriage bed, seven years of true love would be ensured.

Wear Yarrow for courage and protection.

Carry Yarrow to attract friends.

Yarrow is used to banish evil from any place, any thing, and anybody.

The Druids used dried Yarrow stems for Divination.

Yarrow essential oil is known as Blue Yarrow and its use for aromatherapy can be very helpful in easing worries and for calming the anxious worries.

A Divination to learn of one's true love was to pick the first stem of Yarrow seen on the grave of a young man, then to sleep with it under the pillow to dream the answer.

There was a time in Ireland when on May Day, unmarried girls would fill a stocking with Yarrow to sleep with it under the pillow and dream of the identity of their future husband.

Yarrow is believed by some to be the first herb in the hand of the baby Jesus, therefore making Yarrow a lucky herb forevermore.

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Sweet Yarrow

Achillea Ageratum (A-keel-ee-ah Age-err-at-um)

It's symbolic meaning is that of Courage(or being courageous).

Possible powers include Banishing Negativity, Clarity, Confidence, Courage, Discernment, Exorcism, Feminine Energy, Fragrance, Grounding, Healing, Lifting Melancholy, Love, Marriage, Protection, Physic Opening, Physic Power, Repeling Insects, Romance, Venus, Warding off Fear, and that of the water element.

(Imagine marrying someone and having sweet Yarrow there, but they get exorcised and the "person" you loved is now gone???)

Folklore and Facts

Sweet Yarrow was strewn on the floors of homes in the Middle Ages to add fragrance, but it was primarily relied upon to repel ticks, lice, moths, fleas, silverfish, and any other plague of insects that would regularly infest a Middle Age Household.

Often used during Handfasting and other alternative wedding rituals.

Make and then carry or wear a sachet of Sweet Yarrow to banish negativity.

Make a yellow sachet of SY, write fears on a small piece of parchment in black ink to place inside. Carry/wear the sachet to ward off or/and overcome the fears.

Make a sachet and then carry/wear for confidence and courage.

Make and wear a pink/red sachet of SY to invite romantic love that could lead to marriage.

Newly married couples make sachets of SY and hide them around the house where no one can find them, to promote respect, Romance, and love to eachother.