I perform this spell usually on New Year’s Eve, but this year I felt called to perform it on the night of the Winter Solstice. So, go with how you feel with this one. I remember seeing it online somewhere and changing it up to suit me and what I wanted.
This is a spell to let the universe know what you intend to bring into your life for the coming 12 months, it is important to not be too specific, you want to leave room for your universe to surprise you.
What you will need:
Pen and paper
Incense or your favourite dried herb (I usually use sage)
Black candle (or a white one)
Chalice with water in (a mug of wine glass works perfectly well!)
Quartz crystal (or any crystal that calls to you, or a favourite rock!)
Small jar
As you can probably tell my practice is very much based in how I feel in the moment and not necessarily ‘formal’.
On your piece of paper write down all the different things that you would like to bring in to your life, remember: keep it brief and general. For example: abundance, love, friendship, opportunities, healing. Be aware that things may come to you in ways that may surprise/shock you.
I remember one year asking for healing and the following January I ended up signed off work for a couple of months and was thrown deep into my shadow work and trauma. Did I have the opportunity to heal? Yes! Did it come as I had expected? NOPE!
Trust that your universe will bring exactly what is best for you. It may not feel amazing at the time, but it will always work for your highest interest…I think I will write a post on this later!
Here is what I say, once I have set up my altar. Do it in a way that feels right for you! I try to associate the different elements with the directions. Water – West, Incense/Air – East, Crystal/Earth – North, Fire/Candle – South. You may want to put them in different positions, have them in a line, or just put them where you want to. This is your spell after all.
I say:
Gods, Goddesses, Mother Earth, Father Sky, Ancestors, guides, my team of beings, the universe I give thanks and gratitude for all that I am, all that I have, and all that I have experienced.
(Sit with this for a little while, feel the gratitude welling up inside of you!)
With air I cleanse the past – light your incense/sage
With fire I ignite the future – light your candle
With water I vitalise the future – drink the water from your chalice/cup
With earth I manifest my desires – hold onto your crystal/rock and really let your desires pour into it.
To prepare for a prosperous New Year, for the highest good of all. So be it. Blessed be.
Wrap your crystal in your piece of paper, place it into your jar and place your jar in a place where it will be undisturbed. This year I hid mine in such a fantastic place I couldn’t find it for a few hours!
Make sure that the words feel right for you, I often adapt and change them depending on how I feel at the time, but this is my general baselines.
When the next year comes around find your jar and see how your desires have come into your life. And of course, repeat the spell if you so wish!
Came back to this spell, as I do every year. I think I’ll always complete it on the Winter Solstice in the lead up to the actual New Year. Reflecting on the changes of the past year, too many to list! Grateful for it all. ❤️
⭑ Take a walk through the forest or a park, don't use your phone or listen to music, rather listen to the sounds of nature actively. What can you hear?
⛤ Collect some leaves, rocks, pine cones, feathers or anything else that you think is pretty! Maybe use your bounty to decorate your home with it?
⭑ Go touch some grass! No, this is not a joke, let's go feel the grass between your fingers and toes.
⛤ Try to find some flowers and smell them, what can you compare the scents with? Preferably, go outside and find wild flowers instead if bought ones!
⭑ Take a bath in a lake or dip your hands and feet into the water (a river is perfect, too!) Close your eyes and just feel the water.
⛤ Have a little picnic on a meadow, at the lake, in the forest or at any other peaceful spot. It's a date with yourself and with nature!
⭑ If this is an option for you: do some gardening work. Get your hands all dirty with earth and mud!
⛤ Pick some wild flowers from a meadow and make a little bouquet with them. (But please don't rip out the roots!)
⭑ Talk to the trees. Yes, this sounds silly but a tree is a perfect listener and companion if you need to talk something off of your chest.
⛤ Watch the sunset or sunrise. Enjoy this magical moment. How many colors can you spot?
⭑ Get some houseplants and take good care of them every day. (If you have pets, make sure your new friends are not poisonous for them!)
⛤ Observe. What kind of birds, plants, flowers and trees can you find in your environment? What kind of animals can you meet in the forest nearby? (Maybe write your observations down in a notebook!)
⭑ Lay down on some moss, grass or sand and just exist and feel how the earth carries you.
⛤ Go plant some flowers!
⭑ Spend some time in nature without social media (maybe leave your phone at home!)
⛤ Take a walk in the rain and / or dance in the rain.
⭑ Watch a thunderstorm from a safe spot
⛤ Craft a moss jar (these are so cute and perfect if you want some more nature in your own home!)
⭑ Keep little jars or flasks of the elements in your home (examples: earth - moss/earth/sand, water - water from a lake/river or collected rain water, air - a feather, fire - ashes, a used match)
⛤ Be more attentive to your environment: when do you notices changes in the seasons?
⭑ Have a self-love day, because you are a part of nature as well and deserve your own love!
⛤ Try to actively appreciate nature: be more thankful for the food, the water, the warmth nature provides us
We are in a period of time where 5 planetary bodies are in retrograde.
What does retrograde mean?
It means that the planets/planetary bodies appear to be moving backwards in the sky from our perspective.
Planets currently in retrograde and their signs:
Mercury
Retrograde now: July 18 – August 11, fully in Leo
Most potent on July 31 during a cazimi (Sun‑Mercury conjunction at 9° Leo) — a day for truth but with care.
Saturn
Retrograde July 13 – November 27, moving from Aries into Pisces
A time to reflect on responsibilities, structure, and long-term goals.
Neptune
Retrograde July 4 – December 10: starting in Aries, later shifting into Pisces
Invites deep reflection on dreams, clarity, and spiritual alignment.
Pluto
Retrograde May 4 – October 13, in Aquarius at degrees 3°→1°
Focuses on transformation, power dynamics, and collective renewal.
Chiron
Retrograde July 30, 2025 – January 2, 2026, all in Aries (27°→22°)
Great for healing emotional wounds and reclaiming self‑empowerment.
How this may feel to you...depends on your own planetary/house placements heavily but in general terms...
There is an intensity to communications and around issues of identity with Mercury retrograding in Leo. We are being asked to review what is real and true for ourselves and on a collective scale, thanks to Saturn and Neptune. We are being called to delve into deep personal transformation and healing. Check in on any old projects, it might be time to go back to them and restart!
It is a time to review and reconnect with ourselves, to trust our intuition, to pause before reacting emotionally and embrace the inner healing we are being called to.
If you have your Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus in Aries you will probably feel this period of time quite intensely. Check in your Aries friends...Chiron moving through the sign the last couple of years has been a JOURNEY!!
Decode Your Birth Chart - A guided workbook to self discovery - By Astrobee Alchemy
Something that I have been working on for a long time. I have wanted to share more of what I love, but I wasn't sure how!
Hopefully this workbook will help at least one person understand more about their own birthchart and my messages are always open for support and guidance.
Lately I have found myself SURROUNDED by grasshoppers, from taking a ride on my car, to jumping out at me by the front door, to surprising in the back garden!
So, me being me, had to research what that could mean!
So grasshoppers navigate the world through vibration, literally sensing the 'vibes'. This is representative of our own dynamic intuition, and making the choice to follow it. Grasshoppers are able to move forward only, reminding us that even though we may feel like we have taken steps back, we are always moving forward, this is particularly true on our own healing journeys. They also represent prosperity and fertility, hopefully a good sign if I have been seeing multiple each day 😂
In the UK, you will find lots of blooming blackberry plants. This morning out on a walk me and my dogs stopped to enjoy some of these berries. These resilient plants offer us so much in terms of healing, health and wellbeing.
When we look at the blackberry plant we see the sweet berries protected by stems of thorns, we have to navigate these thorns to reach the juiciness of the fruit.
The thorns reminds us to guard our energy, to not let just anyone in to our inner worlds. A famous quote "we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds" (Good Will Hunting - Robin Williams) is one to keep in mind when this plant wants to make itself known to us.
They represent the hidden sweetness of life, navigating the sharp thorns to reach the berries, a reminder that it takes work, especially on a healing journey, to move through challenges. It requires effort, shadow work and emotional discomfort.
It is a plant of resilience, represent the cycles of life, the sweetness of reward after a challenge.
In witchcraft they were used to banish evil spirits, tie wishes to nature spirits and were associated with feminine magic.
The healing properties of blackberries are vast. The leave are anti-inflammatory and help with digestive problems, offer relief from diarrhoea and other stomach upsets. The leaves, made into a balm, can support skin irritation.
The flowers are often used in skin tonics and teas, recognised for their ability to balance energy and reduce inflammation within the body.
The berries are well-known antioxidants, support brain and heart health and blood sugar levels to remain stable. They are also a fantastic source of vitamin C and iron (another link to feminine magic, as iron is such an important mineral for female hormones)
Blessed be
This is a ritual for welcoming in the Spring Equinox/Ostara. For me it is a particularly important day as the tropical Sun moves into Aries and we get to begin a New Year, astrologically speaking. Aries Season is my favourite as I am an Aries Sun myself along with Venus.
I usually start the day by having a huge spring clean of my home and myself, indulging in all the self care and cleansing ritual in my bath - think lots of rose petals, rosemary and oils.
I will then dress my altar with different potted plants and green candles to welcome in the energy of Spring. I will then say a short speech to welcome in the energy and then I will begin my next stage.
Spring Equinox Journal Prompts:
What are the key themses that have come up the last six months in my life? Do I feel ready to achieve balance within these themes?
How do I feel about Spring? Do I feel ready to re-emerge?
Where in my life do I wish to blossom?
Where do I want to start fresh in my life?
Where am I feeling the spark of creativity and newness?
Aries Season:
What are you really passionate about? What is a burning desire you have?
When do you feel most alive?
What is your intention for your journey through life? What is it you want to bring to this world?
Who and what inspires you?
Tarot Spread Idea from @thrivethroughtarot on instagram!
Using the journal prompts to help me and the Tarot spread I will then choose 2-3 intentions for the next astrological year. I tend to keep them broad so that I can meet them in many different ways.
I wrote this ages ago for a previous blog that I had…I have been studying and reading tarot cards for 15 years and this is my interpretation of the major arcana.
I like to see things as stories and narratives to help me understand. I am a visual person and using my imagination I have been able to learn how to read tarot cards and their general meanings…of course these change depending on the context of the reading but this is just my interpretation of the stories behind the cards in the Major Arcana. I feel I need to say that anything I write here is open to interpretation and for entertainment purposes only…mainly my own entertainment!
The Fool
In the depiction the ‘fool’ is daydreaming about what he wants to achieve in the future, but there are unknown steps that he needs to take first before he can reach those goals. Will he choose to follow the butterfly into the unknown and possibly achieve those desires? Will he take the leap in his life? The sun shining down suggests that taking the leap is for the highest good of the Fool, but it would depend on the other cards surrounding it in the reading. If you look deeper into the image of the fool you will see that they are in mid-run…are they going to be able to stop themselves from taking the leap off the cliff into the unknown? Are they really paying attention to where they are going? Does it matter? This card shows the fool trusting the journey into the unknown.
The Magician
Within the image you can see the magician holding up their own wand and within the image there are representations of the four suits - cups, pentacles, swords and cups! There is also the infinity symbol and the magician is surrounded by plants, mainly roses and lilies (if you are using Rider Waite). I look at the Magician and he is performing a ceremony of some kind, like harnessing the power of the four different suits, balancing and harmonising energies. I feel that this card is about being a creator, we are the creators of our own realities. The infinity symbol to me signifies how what we put out into the universe always comes back to us. This is a creative, fertile card. The roses link to love and the lilies represent death in many cultures. Could there be a need to harness your own power to create the life you want? Release the old? Welcome in the new? Personally I would say that the magician is the divine masculine, taking control, taking action to move things in his life through his own power.
The High Priestess
Divine feminine power. The divine feminine is a more magnetic energy than the divine masculine, which is more dynamic. The high priestess is sat there, drawing in what is meant to come to her through her own infinite power and magnetism. She has the light and the dark on both sides and she is in the middle, perfectly balanced, at ease with herself. She is holding a scroll, but you can’t quite see what it is about. It is like she has this wisdom that she must keep to herself until the time is right to share it. The moon is linked to divine feminine energy, the waxing crescent is the first step towards a full moon. Maybe this card could represent for the ‘readee’ a step to embodying their divine feminine and being open to new wisdom and insight? (I say ‘their’ as we all have divine feminine and masculine energies within us) The circle on top/around her head could be symbolic of the full moon and that the wisdom of the divine feminine will be understood.
The Empress
Another strong, female figure in the major arcana. She represents to me the ebb and flow of the divine feminine. She is surrounded by plants and harvestables, signifying growth and fertility (not just the baby kind, but in all areas of life) the card represents the potential of contentment with what you have created and allowing life to bloom around you. The female symbol is a strong indication that the ‘readee’ needs to further embody their divine feminine and I always feel that it links to self-love and compassion for yourself and others. Look at how relaxed she is? She is just allowing life to happen around her and observe what is going on.
The Emperor
When I look at this card it screams Aries energy to me, usually it has representations of ram’s heads around it and to me it is a full on action card. The card that says it’s time to move forward with that project that has been on your mind and start taking action. This card represents masculine energy, strong, dependable, protective. Even in the background you can usually see mountains and rocky features. This is someone who has a strong foundation and is ready to move forward. The emperor has armour on, ready for anything, any possibility but still will strive on and forwards.
The Hierophant
A magical card. There are many different interpretations for this card but I am going to go with my own. He could be considered the masculine counterpart for the High Priestess. The symbolism is very similar, however to me the hierophant represents more of an ‘outward’ journey. The sharing of knowledge and wisdom, the preaching of what they see to be true after their inner work. It is more of a ‘material’ card focussing on bonds between others and guiding from a place of balance and truth. See the keys that are usually present in this card, the are crossed which symbolises balance and opportunity to open up to more truths. It can also mean that it is time to listen to the guidance of someone more knowledgeable than you are.
The Lovers
This card depicts two lovers, who are separate, but together. There is a divine being above them which the feminine aspect is looking towards. This card has many interpretations, it can literally mean the joining together of two partners in love, or a focus on the inner journey and self-love. To me the palms facing towards each other suggests an openness and a joining together - could be a partnership or friendship of some kind? It is like the divine being is orchestrating everything and guiding the journey of the two individuals to each other. Remember, though, we both have the divine feminine and masculine within us…could these aspects need to be balanced and brought together? The sun in the background always symbolises positive outcomes to me, but of course it depends on the other cards that surround this one.
The Chariot
Usually this card symbolises a journey - inner or outer. The two (usually sphinxes) creatures, black and white, are facing two different directions so the ‘readee’ may be confused about what path to take next. There may be two possible choices coming up in their life which they will need to distinguish between. Sometimes this card can mean a moving of home or workplace or moving away from things that are no longer serving you and there being lots of opportunities coming at you to choose from.
Strength
One of my favourite cards. To me it symbolises inner-strength, courage, determination. It symbolises the overcoming of obstacles. Look at how the woman (typically seen as a maiden) is able to control the situation and have the fierce lion submit to her? She doesn’t force it, she doesn’t hurt it. She is gentle, she is kinds, she is delicate and respectful. It’s almost like she is trying to help the lion and the lion is accepting her help despite not always being able to accept that they may need help and support. To me she is using her inner power - which isn’t about brute force - to create a connection which is mutually supportive.
The Hermit
I love this card too. For a long time this card symbolised my journey, and still does to some extent. This card asks the ‘readee’ to really take time for themselves, to go inward for the answers, shine the light in the darkest parts of themselves for that is where their gifts lie. Like a communion with yourself, when this card comes up I know it’s time to switch off my phone, my laptop and just meditate, journal and focus on me and my journey for a while. The hermit has accepted he is alone, but not necessarily lonely for his own light is guiding him. You are never alone if you fully see yourself.
Wheel of Fortune
To me the wheel of fortune symbolises a change in fortune - usually for the better but it depends on the context of the reading. From my perspective all changes are positive, even if they feel devastating at the time, change in life helps keep us aligned to our truest selves. The symbolism of the books shows me that through study of whatever it is you are wanting you can improve your chances, through looking deeply at things in your life. Generally though it is a signifier of success and abundance and destiny being fulfilled.
Justice
This card to me represents Libra - balance. That all things will balance out. For example if life has been feeling particularly hard this card could signify the balancing of energies and a positive outcome. It can symbolise that you need to make the right choice based on morality and what is right rather than what you may WANT. When this card comes in relation to legal matters or unbalanced relationships (say, you are putting in more effort or someone is being unkind to you) that things will become better, of course this relates to the other cards around this one in a reading.
The Hanged Man
Despite being hanged this man is at peace. He’s at peace with his place in the world and what he is doing and where he is going. He simply hanging around and allowing life to come to him. Like a beacon of light he is attracting opportunities to him. This card on the other hand may be reminding you that you are the creator of your life and it is time to take responsibility for what you have brought into your life. Through the trials of our lives we gain wisdom and strengthen our ability to discern what is for us and what isn’t.
Death
I did write a longer post about the Death card the other day, so I will try and keep this short and sweet! The Death card rarely, if ever, represents an actual death. It represents transformation, the dying of an old situation, relationship etc ready to birth a new one. A teacher of mine used to take out the Death card when giving readings to people as she didn’t want them to worry about it as some people just couldn’t grasp the concept that the Death card doesn’t necessarily mean death.
Temperance
For me this card can mean a multitude of different things. On one hand it may represent peacefulness coming into your life, moving away from troubled times into more peaceful ones. It can also ask us to ensure that we are doing things in moderation, not overstretching ourselves in our daily pursuits, not overdoing it in any area of our life. It also can signify a need to be patient and follow the ebb and flow of life.
The Devil
The Devil card asks us - what is holding you back? What limiting beliefs do you hold that prevent you from doing what you want to do? It can signify obsession and addiction and a need to look into your blindspots when it comes to your life - for example, where are you not admitting to yourself that certain behaviours are detrimental. The card may also signify something that is predestined, something we are bound to, not necessarily something evil!!
The Tower
I have written about my take on the Tower card before, so I will keep it short and sweet! The Tower card can symbolise a sudden change coming in someone’s life - it will relate to whatever the reading is about or could be just in general. It may feel tumultuous and chaotic but it is very similar to the Death card in that these changes often lead to wonderful things (even if it doesn’t feel like it at the time!)
The Star
This card, for me, can be interpreted in many different ways. To me it says hope, wishes being fulfilled, flowing with life and allowing the good vibes to flow. However, depending on the reading context it can mean that you need to be aware of where you are expending your energy. You can see that the woman is pouring two jugs, one into her ‘well’ (you know the saying fill your own cup etc) and the other is just being poured out onto the floor, a waste of water, a waste of energy. Where might you be wasting your energy?
The Moon
The moon card to me symbolises an inner, spiritual journey. A deep look into one’s self and one’s emotions. This card asks us to trust the ebbs and the flows of life. In the image the journey (the road) isn’t necessarily a straight line, it is up, down, left, right. If I get this card in a reading it tells me that as long as I trust and go with the flow I will get to my destination. This card can also symbolise feeling uncertain and unsure of the next steps to take but that feeling through the emotions around the situation will support the ‘readee’s’ progress.
The Sun
This is a beautiful card, and when I pull it I know that things are going to turn out positively. To me this card represents happiness in the area in question and an increase in general joy in someone’s life. It may be asking someone to focus on the good things in life rather than the not so good things! It’s a delightful card to have.
Judgement
The judgement card asks where are you ready to take responsibility in your life? Are you holding yourself accountable for your own actions and the life that you are creating? This card asks you to reflect on your own actions. It may be asking you to discern what is good for you in your life and truly take stock of the goings on within your existence. Judgement is usually seen in a negative light, but this card is about accountability and responsibility, not judging those that are different. Taking accountability for your actions is not the same as judging them. Sometimes the card may symbolise changes coming in and positive outcomes.
The World
This card symbolises success. It signifies change - be it internally, or moving home or moving jobs. But it says that whatever the outcome it will be successful. This card can symbolise travel and movement through life. It asks us to really think about what we wish to manifest in our lives and to show gratitude for what we have already created.
When I do tarot readings for myself or friends I always read intuitively so the meanings that I have learnt over the years may end up being completely irrelevant in context to the question I am answering, it is always best to trust that little voice. I do tend to use all 78 together and I do not read reversed cards, in my personal practice I always flip them over. I trust that the message needed will be revealed in the reading regardless of the way up the cards are, as they are all dualistic in nature and the meaning of the reading will be read either way.
Whilst learning how to read tarot it is always a good idea to learn the basic interpretations first, then create your own associations based on what you have learnt - they are your cards after all. Keep a journal of all the readings you give to yourself and willing victims to see what the cards (and your intuition) have to say when in certain combinations. You can find loads of different ways to read your cards, most commonly are the Celtic Cross spread. Here is a video explaining how to:
Ambergris: Lust, sex Anemone - health, protection, healing
Angelica: Protection, exorcism, remove curses and hexes, healing, visions, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house, increases life energy bringing warmth of Fire element, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house
Anise: Divination, psychic awareness, joy, dreams, luck, love, enthusiasm, Winter Solstice, entices the spirits to aid in spells
Apple: Love, healing, garden blessing, buried in the garden on Samhain as food for the departing spirits, to be shared with one you love, immortality, happiness, luck, broken heart, spirit food, the goddess
Betony: Love, healing, burn at Litha for purification, protection; place under pillow to be rid of nightmares; sprinkle around doors to ward off despair, psychic awareness
Burdock: Protection, healing, wards off negativity, purifies, protects (washing floors or dried root on red string around the neck), happy home, clears space & holds the space safe, spirit of north
Comfrey: (TOXIC) Money, root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel, protection, stress management, safe Journeys (Worldly or through Meditation) , Winter Solstice
Copal: Love, purification, exorcism, protection, spirituality, earth element, sets sacred space, allows guides and guidance to come
Dill: Love, lust, seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flowers for love
Dittany of Crete: Manifestations, astral projection
Dock: Money, healing, fertility
Dodder: Love divination, knot magic
Dogbane: Love
Dogwood: Protection, wishes
Dong Quai, Slices: Health, vitality, fire element rituals
Dragons Blood: Power, protection, exorcism, potency, love, courage, fortune, catalyst, magick power, strength, purification, stimulates action of other herbs in incense blend, stimulates movement of energy
Dulse: Harmony, lust
Dutchman's Breeches: Love
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Ebony: Protection, power
Echinacea: Strengthening spells, health, strength, wards off negativity or undesirable energies
Edelweiss: Invisibility, bullet-proofing
Elder: (CAUTION: SEEDS ARE POISONOUS, TOXIC) Money, wishes, theft protection, exorcism, healing, prosperity, sleep, wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, do not burn the wood of elder for it is sacred to Hecate, see fairies in the trees at Litha, flowers used as an alter offering, berries for esbat wine, flowers added to candle spells directed at hecate during the new moon, cleansing, offering
Foxglove: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Faeries and elves, lust, grow in garden for protection of the house and yard
Fragrant Bedstraw: Love
Frankincense: Exorcism, purification, protection, spirituality, power, meditation, blessing, concentration, banishing, courage, divination, healing, love, purification, consecration, sets sacred space, sets safe space for guides to come in, spirit of east or north
Fumitory: Money, exorcism
Furz/egorse: Burn at Ostara for protection and as a preparation for any conflict
Ginger: Love, money, success, power, aphrodisiac, psychic ability, apathy, lust, good health, magickal power, fire element rituals, brings into existence, bringer of the manifestation, 3rd chakra vitality, inner strength, stimulates flow of energy, spirit of south
Ginseng: Longevity, sexual potency, protection, healing, love, lust, wishes, beauty, vitality, fertility, desire, encourages a long lasting affect, strength
Goat's Rue: Healing, health
Goldenrod: Prosperity, money, divination, luck
Goldenseal: Money, healing
Gorse: Protection, money
Gotu Kola: Meditation
Gourd: Protection
Grain: Protection
Grains of Paradise: Love, lust, luck, money, wishes
Hawthorne Berries: 4th chakra strength and vitality, love, contentment
Hazel: Luck, fertility, protection, wishes, nuts strung on cord in house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, anti-lightning, love, aphrodisiac, wisdom, divination, mental powers, intelligence, inspiration
Heather: Luck, protection, red to start or end an affair, white for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at samhain to invite spirits to visit, rain making, spirituality
Hops: Healing, sleep, stress management, opens the channel in and out of the body in relationship with the universe
Horehound: Exorcism, healing, purification, protection, mental clarity, balance, banishing, opens air element within body & in the world, opens channel for clear communication
Juniper: Protection, love, exorcism, health, anti-theft, banishing, peace, wishes, aphrodisiacs, sets sacred space, spirit of north
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Kava Kava: Lust, protection while traveling, astral projection, visions, luck, visions, protection, love, opens one to receiving guidance and guides
Kelp: Wind spells, psychic powers, protection, connection to divine source through the physical and spiritual, unity, life-force strengthening, spirit of center
Knotweed: Health, binding spells, protection
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Lady's Mantle: Love, self control
Lady's Slipper: Protection
Larch: Protection, anti-theft
Larkspur: Protection, health
Lavender: Protection, call in good spirits, love, sleep, longevity, happiness, peace, healing, burn for purification, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as an offering, psychic awareness, chastity, liberation, menopause, childbirth, grief or loss, youthful vigor, stress management, travel, anger management, attracts elves
Magnolia: Fidelity, past lives, peace, sex, broken heart, beauty, wisdom
Mahogany, Mountain: Anti-lightning
Maidenhair: Beauty, love
Male Fern: Luck, love
Mallow: Love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake: (TOXIC) potency, exorcism, protection, fertility, money, love, health, protection, catalyst, prosperity, divination, increase psychic powers, aphrodisiacs, cursing enemies, building, banishing, protection in the subconscious, unconscious and underworld,
Maple: Money, longevity, love
Marigold: Prophetic dreams, protection, legal matters, marriage spells, enhanced psychic powers, pick in full sun, business and legal matters, clairvoyant dreams, mixed with water and rubbed on the eyelids to see fairies
Motherwort: Balances within, self empowerment, 2nd chakra
Mugwort: Astral projection, strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, divination, rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night, clairvoyance, purification, sex, renewal, fertility, clearing, sleep, visions, opens one to the teachings of the subconscious and unconscious self, 6th and 7th chakras
Mulberry: Protection, strength
Mullein: Exorcism, health, protection, courage, love divination, calling spirits, dreams, opens life energy flow through the body
Persimmon: Healing, luck, changing sex, insight into others
Petitgrain: Protection
Pilot Weed: Protection
Pimento: Love
Pimpernel: Protection, health
Pine: (TOXIC) Protection, exorcism, money, healing, fertility, brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, needles in money spells, spirituality, gambling, dreams, cleansing, banishing, purification, prosperity, employment, birth, rebirth, strength, life and immortality
Rowan: Protection, success, psychic powers, healing, power, wands and amulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for divination, fires to call upon spirits for help, grow for protection of the home, inspiration, wisdom, enhances magic, attracts faeries
Rue: Exorcism, protection, purification, break hexes, health, mental clarity, healing, blessing, consecration, use in altar oil, love, money and wealth, gossip management
St. John's Wort: (TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, courage, strength, happiness, health, love divination, burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, willpower, gathered at Litha, power, stress management
Star Anise: Psychic powers, luck, good fortune, spiritual powers
Stephanotis: Lust
Stillengia: Psychic powers
Straw: Luck, attracts fairies, do not burn magik infused straw, it will bring ill-fortune, used as an image to protect an area, image magick, fertility
Strawberry: Love, luck, joy, broken heart
Sugar Cane: Love, lust, prosperity, sympathy
Sumbul: Psychic powers, love, luck, health
Summer Savory: Mental clarity and strength, mental powers
Woodruff: Protection, money, victory, add to Beltane wine to clear away barriers, success, changes, psychic awareness, prosperity
Wormwood: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, BURN IN WELL VENTILATED AREA, PREFERABLY OUTDOORS TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, love, psychic powers, calling spirits, protection while traveling, evocation, divination, scrying (stronger when combined with Mugwort) at Samhain, sacred to the moon, good luck, clairvoyance, divination, safety in cars
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Yarrow: Hhealing, divination, exorcism, protection, courage, love, psychic powers, happy marriage (wedding bouquet), wards negativity, defense, protection, gather at Litha, happiness, fidelity, broken heart, prophetic dreams, spirit of south, clears, stimulates movement
