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Basic herbs and their symbolism

Clove -Exorcism, love, money, and protection 

Lavender - Magickal uses include love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace. Promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and bath spells.

chamomile -Love, healing, and reducing stress, success, hex breaking.

Basil - Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits. Associated with Candlemas.

Bay leaves - Protection, good fortune, success, purification, strength, healing and psychic powers. Write wishes on fresh leaves and then burn the leaves to make the wishes come true.

Mint - Promotes energy, communication and vitality. Draws customers to a business. Use dried leaves to stuff a green poppet for healing. Can also draw good spirits when used during a ritual.

Cinnamon - Spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength, and prosperity.

Aloe - Protection, love and luck. Place on the grave of a loved one to promote peaceful energy. Thought to relieve loneliness and assist with success.

Rose - Magical uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic peace/happiness, and lasting relationships.

Rosemary - Health, love, protection, purification. Can be used as a substitute for many herbs. Associated with Fey.

Sage - Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss. Carried to improve mental ability and bring wisdom. Used in healing sachets & incense. Promotes spiritual, mental, emotional & physical health and longevity. Removes negative energy.

Witch Hazel -Magickal uses include chastity and protection. Carry to ease grief over a lost love. Use in a sachet to reduce passions. Use in love spells and spells to ward off evil. 

Vanilla Bean - Magickal uses include love, lust, passion, and restoring lost energy. Carried to increase energy & strengthen mental abilities.

Vinegar - Banishing, binding, averting evil.

Tangerine - Promotes energy, strength, and vitality. Awakens joy and dissolves negativity.

Sunflower - Energy, protection, power, wisdom, and wishes.

Thistle - Healing, protection. Use in sachet or amulet to aid in speedy recovery from surgery or illness. Hang in the home to ward off thieves and unwanted visitors.

Thyme - Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others. Wear a sprig to ward off unbearable grief or provide strength and courage when needed. Burn or hang in the home for banishing, purification, and to attract good health for all occupants.

Most of these herbs can be found around the kitchen making them easy herbs for beginner witches’.

These ingredients can be used in spells rituals, spell jars and satchels.

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I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

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Magic = correct spelling

Magick = lame, coined by crowley because he didn’t want to be lumped in with stage magicians

Magicc = Objectively funny

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Happy international women's day bitches!!

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Is there anything more on brand than missing my kitchen and plants after being at my parents’ house for five days. 

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Poisonous Plants Print by lvcernarivm

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The Signs and Gardens II:

Aries: A high window on the housing block. Slender orchids sprout from glass bottles packed with ash and soil, strung like wind chimes from the balcony above. The sun rises through colored glass.

Taurus: An abandoned amusement park. Wild mint and honeysuckle grow between the ties in rollercoaster tracks. A patch of cultivated wild ginger behind the midway games.

Gemini: An empty concrete pool. Dandelions and thistle sprout from the cracks, scars bleeding white and purple.

Cancer: A garden shed, paint faded to the same color as the sky. Rusted tools lean against soft wood. The orange cat that made her home beneath the dry sink.

Leo: A Mojave dawn. Wild licorice and prickly pear cling to the impression of some ancient undersea trench. Hills of heavy stone, worn smooth by the wind.

Virgo: A vegetable garden, drowned and teeming with river grasses. Valley copses turned to ponds when the old stone aquifer overflowed.

Libra: The deep woods. Honey drips from shaded ash boughs upon a patch of white yarrow, grown golden and strong.

Scorpio: A road flanked by coniferous trees. Cattails sprout from the trunks of cars where the spring melt set in. Black stone parts for bouquets of daisy and asplenium.

Ophiuchus: An orchard nestled in the valley shade. Crabapples dashed, fallen ripe on old brick planters. A visitors stand, full of baskets at the ready, sign faded in the soft morning fog.

Sagittarius: The water-wheel still. Young river birch and dogwood growing wild. Morning cloak butterflies dance, skimming the surface of the overflowing well.

Capricorn: Frost blankets an old park square overrun with winter onion. A kestrel eats beneath the aluminum slide, staining the snow red. A stag watches with disinterest as it nuzzles the earth for pale stalks.

Aquarius: The greenhouse of a grand estate. Overgrowth flows from broken glass and worn cobble. Rare and delicate things creep into old rain-soaked parlors.

Pisces: A full moon over a quiet wood. Concrete long overrun with grasses. The mouth to an old subway sits yawning, drinking in the rain. Mushrooms cling to the walls, growing from between the slats of the rusted escalator.

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Brilliant idea

Kitchen witch hack: need room temp eggy for your baked goods? Hold in your titties till it feels right.

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We're getting at least 18 cm of snow over the next two days - a lot for Germany. So 'll spend the afternoon reading and learning about snow magic

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It’s a beautiful Imbolc morning!

Have an intention-filled day

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W.I.P

Honestly I don't think I'll ever stop adding to this post 😅

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I need this in my kitchen!! 🥰

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Cr: thewitchystuff (tumblr)

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I need to reconnect with my practice

Not gonna lie, one of the reasons is that I have the feeling my cooking and baking suffers when I'm not connected to it