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ALOE VERA

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Soothing, Cooling, Luck, Nurturing, Protection.

HEALING: hydration, great for irritated skin and eczema. Also can be used for burns and infected skin. Add Aloe Gel with Honey for a calming face mask.

SPIRITUAL: Being a water element. Aloe is great for calming emotions and when placed around the home or business gives luck and a peaceful aura.

MAGICAL: Aloe added to your magic or altar boost the luck of the magic. Great addition to prosperity and love rituals. A protection omen. Many indigenous cultures use aloe plants to guard against the evil eye.

BAY LEAVES

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: Sun

GENDER: Masculine

ZODIAC: Leo

KEYWORDS: Psychic Powers, Peace, Strength, Protection, Healing, Purification, Wisdom..

HEALING: Full of lots of minerals vitamins including A & C. Antiseptic, antioxidants, anti-cancer and helps with digestion.

SPIRITUAL: Carry bay leaves to boost your psychic powers and to give you strength.

MAGICAL: Write on bay leaves your wishes and burn them during the day when the sun is out.Carry these leaves for protection and wisdom.Sleep with bay leaves under your pillow for peaceful and prophetic dreams.Burn bay with other protective herbs for protection and to ward off evil.

BLACK PEPPER

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: MARS

GENDER: Masculine

KEYWORDS: Stimulation, Fiery, Exorcism, Protection, Action.

HEALING: As an essential oil, use to ease stiff muscles, or to help with digestion (mix with carrier oils)..

SPIRITUAL: Restores Sexual Energy, helps break through self doubt, Calms mental stress.

MAGICAL: Mix Pepper with Salt to spread around the home to remove evil energies. Wearing black pepper in an amulet or bag helps not only stop you from having envious thoughts but repelling others from having envious thoughts towards you.

CARDAMOM

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

DEITIES: Venus, Erzulie

KEYWORDS: Strengthening, Sweetener, Lust, Love, Fiery.

HEALING: Soothes chronic respiratory problems, stomach cramps and indigestion..

SPIRITUAL: Promotes strength to clear indecisiveness. Encourages spirit of adventure and new horizons. Improves focus and memory recall.

MAGICAL: Use grounded cardamom is love potions and give as offering to desired love goddess. Carry cardamom seeds as an amulet as strength and to help you focus during magical rituals.

CLOVES

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: Jupiter

GENDER: Masculine

DEITIES: Heru

KEYWORDS: Expansion, Strength, Energizing, Dynamic, Protection, Love, Money

HEALING: natural antioxidant, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, anesthetic.

SPIRITUAL: Clove bud essential oil inspires the spirit on its true path, enhances inner strength and vision.

MAGICAL: Burning clove attracts prosperity. Use in money magic. Also burning clove incense purifies the area and raises the vibration. Carry cloves in your pocket to attract the opposite sex and money. Also add sage on your altar to be revealed the correct path to take.

COCONUT

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

DEITIES: Yemaya, Obatala, Kalampatu, Hainuwele, water and ego deities.

KEYWORDS: Protection, Purification, Emotions, Ego, Binding, Chastity.

HEALING: Great for hydration, coconut flour adds fiber. Also potassium. Use the meat or oil on scars to aid in rehydrating the skin. Drink for stomach cramps. Suawn protection.

SPIRITUAL: Helps with depression, unexplained weight gain or loss. As weight is a direct result of EMOTIONS!

MAGICAL: Half the coconut, removing the water inside; and place other protective herbs and talismans, put it back together and bind it with desired tools (ribbons, string or candle wax) then bury the coconut in your yard to protect your home or business. You may also hang the whole coconut in your home. Also can be used for dealing with the ego/physical body. A sacrifice by breaking the coconut.

CUMIN

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: Mars

GENDER: Masculine

KEYWORDS: Protection, Exorcisms, AntiTheft, Power, Pungent, Fidelity.

HEALING: Boosts immune system.

SPIRITUAL: Soothes mental weakness & exhaustion, also aids in healing those numb emotions!

MAGICAL: Carry Cumin to give a peaceful and calm mind. Use along with Salt, Sugar or Frankincense in a dry herb mixture to spread outside of the home or business for protection and to block negative energies. Add to love potions, or love spells to keep your love faithful!

FERN

(Male Fern)

ELEMENT: Air

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Masculine

ZODIAC: Gemini

CHAKRA: Throat

TAROT: The Lovers/Gemini

KEYWORDS: Luck, Love, Attraction

HEALING: Vitamin A & C for vision and immune system health (eat sparingly). Removes parasites.

SPIRITUAL: Fern is great for spiritual work associated with healing of the throat chakra. Place around home for better communications when receiving intelligence..

MAGICAL: As stated above, use this plant around the home or garden for communications and balancing thoughts (Air) and for good luck in your home or business.Fern is carried by males to attract a feminine energy.Also used for love and luck spells. Add fern to your incense rituals.

FLAX SEEDS

ELEMENT: Air

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Masculine

ZODIAC: Gemini

DEITIES: Any prosperity, love, or protection deity. Hulda (the Teutonic Goddess who is known to first teach mortals to cultivate flax and spin into thread and weave to make fabrics)

KEYWORDS: Protection, Healing, Physic Powers, Love, Money, Beauty.

HEALING: High in Omega-3 fatty acids, Vitamin B-1, Copper, Magnesium, fiber, Anti-oxidant, Digestive Health, Cancer Prevention, Anti-inflammatory. (many other health benefits)

SPIRITUAL: Fern is great for spiritual work associated with healing of the throat chakra. Place around home for better communications when receiving intelligence..

MAGICAL: Add to love healing and money magic.Flax seeds are used in money spells; place in pocket or purse and carry with you.Place flax seeds in your shoes to ward off poverty.

Altar Magic: Along with your offerings and candles place a jar on your alter; fill with flax seeds as well as coins, this money ritual should be repeated each day to attract money.

GARDENIA

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Healing, Peace, Love, Spirituality.

HEALING: If you or a loved one are sick, send or place the flowers in the room. They encourage healing.

SPIRITUAL: Dried gardenia flowers are burned as incense or scattered around the home or spiritual buildings to induce peaceful vibrations.This flower is also used in love spells and magic to attract peaceful and loving deities.

MAGICAL: Place on altar for the same reasons to heal illness, or to bring peace to your dark emotions.

GINGER

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: Mars

GENDER: Masculine

KEYWORDS: Power, Success, Money, Love, Heat, Comfort, Warm, Strength.

HEALING: Ginger is used to cure motion sickness, nausea, hangovers and headaches/migraines. It's also placed on illness on the physical body. Great also for Antioxidant, Anti Fungal, colds, arthritis, prostate health, and to heal the scalp.

SPIRITUAL: Eases anxiety, helps with focus and inspiration. Stimulates optimism, boost self confidence and encourages your initiative to take actions and move forward with life.

MAGICAL: Eat ginger before you begin money or love spells, giving them power since you have been heated/fired up by the ginger.For a successful loving home or a successful business plant ginger roots around home or business building.Add ginger to rituals to ensure success.

GRAPES

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Silky, Smooth, Money, Mental Powers, Fertility, Dreams, Garden/Faerie Magic

HEALING: Antioxidants, heart health, easing blood pressure, slowing and preventing cancer. Super Food. Potassium enriched.

SPIRITUAL: Calming emotions and getting emotions to flow. SOLAR PLEX diet. If you are working on your solar plex, grapes will help ease and transform and get it flowing. Increases mental fertility and meaningful dreams and visions.

MAGICAL: Place on altar for money spells. Or eat grapes after money incantations and spells. Because of their health benefits eating grapes or raisins raises fertility levels.

FAERIE MAGIC: (if you practice) offer grapes to natures entities. Place fake grapes in your fairy garden arrangements. Pictures of grapes in your garden or home also draw in these energies.

HEMP

(Hemp Seeds)

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Saturn

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Love, Visions, Healing, Mediation, illusions, Divinations.

HEALING: Hemp Seeds contain the perfect balance of 20 amino acids to sustain good health. They are considered a good fat.Other health benefits have be studied through this herbs. We know this! Lol

SPIRITUAL: Great for divinations of love. Take hemp seeds and walk around a church 9 times, and ask the seeds to show you who will come. This should be done around midnight or you may create your own magick.Hemp even in a seed form is great for scrying with a magic mirror. It opens up psychic energy and allows you to see into the mirror and be revealed visions.

Marijuana or Hemp is legally bought in the form of seeds that can be purchased. Burning marijuana, as an incense, during mediation is great for healing, receiving visions and prophecies.SMOKING: Smoking marijuana creates one to enter into a trance of illusions, being that it is connected to Saturn. And can be used in the form of healing and artistic creativity. And should be used in that form. Of entering a higher state of conscious. Use sparingly in this form.

TOTEMS: They are great for animal totem practices. Sprinkle into your pet or totems offerings. As animals are our spiritual connections asking them to guide you.

MAGICAL: Place on altar for money spells. Or eat grapes after money incantations and spells. Because of their health benefits eating grapes or raisins raises fertility levels.

FAERIE MAGIC: (if you practice) offer grapes to natures entities. Place fake grapes in your fairy garden arrangements. Pictures of grapes in your garden or home also draw in these energies.

There are many other hemp benefits such as paper and industrial ways to utilize this plant. Hemp usage would be healthier on humanity and Mother Nature, being that it yields nearly 4 times as much

HIBISCUS

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

DEITIES: Pomba Girda, Erzulie, Venus.

KEYWORDS: Lust, Love Desires, Divination, Attraction

SPIRITUAL: Hibiscus are a divination tool. So like cowrie shells, bones, or tarot cards, hibiscus flowers are used for readings and gaining insight into a situation.

MAGICAL: red hibiscus flowers are brewed into teas to aid in lust powers. Drink this tea before associated rituals for a added creation power. Be mindful with hibiscus that this is a lustful herb and should be used correctly! (From the heart!) Add to rituals, satchels, baths for the element of water, feminine and Venus attraction. This herb will naturally attract what you like. Swiftly. Will induce cravings of physical desires.

HONEYSUCKLE

ELEMENT: Earth

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Virgo

TAROT: Hermit/Magician

DEITIES: any love, abundance, protection or prosperity deity.

KEYWORDS: Lust, Love Desires, Divination, Attraction

HEALING: this herb or plant form can be used for all throat illness. Sore throats, colds, flu, tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia. Respiratory problems as well as TB (Tuberculosis)

SPIRITUAL: Use Honeysuckle to balance throat chakra and balance communication about feelings and emotions. Especially about how you feel about love or to psychically communicate to a loved one. Helps strengthen psychic powers and works to clear the mind.

MAGICAL: Honeysuckle is known as the “love bind” use to psychically communicate about love. You can use the incense or flower to help promote dreams about love and passion that you want to come to the light.When placed home or business space to promote prosperity. Will attract positive friends and boost confidence.Use a green candle and ring (circle) with honeysuckle flowers to attract money, or place them in a vase in your home or business for the same purpose.Grown in your garden will protect garden and bring an abundance of growth.Voodoo: In voodoo the twining canes are magically used to bind lovers together. Said to aid love, romance, sexuality and conjugal relations and said to aid in the encouragement of fidelity in marriage.To open up communication with the third ere, use honeysuckle along with other herbs and place in a small purple bag. Tie it shut. Using a dark purple marker, draw an eye on the front. Rub the bag on your third eye chakra (forehead) whenever performing divination's or needing psychic sight. Sleep with this bag under your pillow every night.

JASMINE

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

DEITIES: any love, abundance, protection or prosperity deity.

KEYWORDS: Love, Money, Rich, Powerful, Sensational, Prophetic Dreams.

HEALING: This is a feminine herb, good for menstrual health and hormone balance. Also great for women during delivery to help with contractions. Also relieves tension and depression.

SPIRITUAL: Boost and restores sexual vitality and encourages sexual expression. Helps express intimate emotions and emotional fulfillment.

MAGICAL: if carried burned or worn, jasmine draws in wealth and money.Jasmine attracts spiritual love (self love)Drinking before bed time heightens prophetic dreams.

LAVENDER

ELEMENT: Air

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Masculine

ZODIAC: Gemini

CHAKRA: 3rd Eye

TAROT: Hermit

KEYWORDS: Peace, Love, Sleep, Protection, Soothing, Reassuring, Happiness, Longevity, Calming.

HEALING: This is a feminine herb, good for menstrual health and hormone balance. Also great for women during delivery to help with contractions. Also relieves tension and depression.

SPIRITUAL: Calms anxiety and helps sooth insomnia. Great for relaxations and a peaceful nights rest. Lavender plants help uplift depression and give on a feeling of happiness. Lavender encourages love and compassion for others.

MAGICAL: Rub lavender on the paper before you write your love notes or spells. Use in love satchels. Place lavender under your pillow and meditate on your wishes. Once worn by sexual workers to attract customers. The scent of lavender attracts masculine energies.

LEMON

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Moon

GENDER: Feminine

DEITIES: Beyonce, Oshun, Aphrodite, Jambhala (Buddhist God), Isis, Auset and other Mother Goddesses.

KEYWORDS: Refreshing, Cleansing, Bright, Light, Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship,

HEALING: Lemons are high in Vitamin C and citric acid, which aids in the treatment of acne as well as fighting your flu symptoms. Lemons are also is a natural energy booster. Drink lemon water not only for a healthy digested system but also a natural energy booster & DETOX!

SPIRITUAL: Did you know the Ancient Egyptians believed that eating lemons and drinking lemon juice was an effective protection against a variety of poisons, and that recent research has confirmed this belief?Use lemons to detox the mind body and spirit!

MAGICAL: Use lemon water to wash amulets, jewelry, and any magical tools obtained second hand. The juice is added to baths during full Moon for its purification powers.Add lemons to your spiritual purification bath.Lemon flowers are appropriate for use in love spells.Lemons may be used in as an ingredient or substitute for magick spells and formulas related to lunar matters (compassion, dreams, family, fertility, gardening, healing, love, peace, promoting sleep, prophecy, prophetic (or psychic) dreams), psychic awareness, sleep, and spirituality).

LEMONGRASS

ELEMENT: Air

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Masculine

KEYWORDS: Lust, Psychic Powers, Repellent, Zesty, Fresh, Invigorating.

HEALING: relieves physical tension and eases muscle spasms, muscular aches. Soothes indigestion and constipation.

SPIRITUAL: Like the sun after the rain, lemongrass clears emotional fog allowing you to see things clearly. Encourages positivity for depressive or sad feelings. Removes mental clutter, insomnia and promotes good dreams.

MAGICAL: Use Lemongrass in teas to boost your psychic powers. Plant around home to repel snakes, or sneaky people due to its high etheric properties.

NUTMEG

ELEMENT: Fire

PLANET: Jupiter

GENDER: Masculine

KEYWORDS: Cheering, Refreshing, Fortifying, Health, Luck, Money, Fidelity, Faithful, Uplift.

HEALING: Indigestion, Muscle Aches, Anti-stroke, Alzheimer's, mental illness, lifts depression anxiety and helps ease insomnia and restless sleep. Arthritis, Cold Sores, Sties, Boils.

SPIRITUAL: Dissolves fear and promotes self confidence. Balances out mood swings to the brighter side of things.String nutmeg and put on babies car seat or around neck to help with teasing issues.

MAGICAL: Carry as a good luck charm or amulet. Nutmeg is added to money spells and rituals. Dress with green candles for prosperity magic.To ensure your lovers fidelity, try the 4 corners nutmeg spell

ORCHIDS

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Love, Psychic Powers, Desires, Manifest, Fertility, Wisdom, Thoughtfulness, Beauty.

SPIRITUAL: Pregnancy (postpartum) Flower therapy, Self Esteem.

MAGICAL: Love spells, baby making. Fertility clinics, purposeful pregnancy.Visualization Manifesting Techniques.Put flowers on your altar or in the home to boost psychic powers.Pink Orchids: Although each color has a different use. The pink orchid encourages pure affection and charm. Also the official flower of Mothers Day!

PASSION FLOWER

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Friendship, Companionship, Peace, Sleep, Joy.

HEALING: Once used as a natural sedative. Helps with ingestion and seizures. (Please research more before using to heal seizures!)

SPIRITUAL: Passion flower calms the mind and body of agitation and promotes peaceful sleep. Great for anxiety and restlessness.

MAGICAL: Carry Passion flowers around to attract friends and to gain popularity. If you are going into the public or social settings carry Passion flowers to stop shyness and nervousness from social anxiety. Placed inside the home or business this beautiful flower will give a loving peaceful aura and calm troubles.

PATCHOULI

ELEMENT: Earth

PLANET: Saturn

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Grounding, Opening, Mysterious, Fertility, Money, Lust, Desires.

HEALING: used to heal acne, eczema, and damaged skin. Hydrates and nurses dry skin. Soothes nervous exhaustion and stress.

SPIRITUAL: Raises low sexual energy, helps overcome the feelings of emotional vulnerability. Great for grounding and centering the body, mind and spirit.

MAGICAL: Money rituals, place on money or use to dress green candles. May be used in fertility spells, or in love spells. Patchouli attracts lovers and promotes lust or sexual desires. This in a dry herb form may be used in replace to graveyard dirt Bc of its strong earthly element.

PEACH

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Love, Wishes, Fertility, Longevity, Wisdom, Exorcism.

MAGICAL: Peach is associated with love, put peaches on your altar or in your magic as an offering. Serving peach or peach pie to a desired loved one will draw them in. And add longevity to a current love relationship.Also used as fertility and an offering to fertility deities.Bc of its fertile nature. Peaches also boost wishes. Make a wish and eat a peach.Eating Peaches also encourages wisdom.Carrying a peach pit gives the wearer longevity and immortality.A peach tree branch or a wand made of peach wood wards off evil and negative energies. And are used to perform exorcisms.

PECAN

ELEMENT: Air

PLANET: Mercury

GENDER: Masculine

CHAKRA: Third Eye

KEYWORDS: Employment, Money, Prosperity, Intelligence.

MAGICAL: Pecans are added to prosperity and money rituals.While eating Pecans, VISUALIZE yourself working and enjoying your career/job.Place pecans around your job in places they cannot be found to ensure longevity at your workplace.

STRAWBERRY

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Luck, Love, Romance, Fertility.

HEALING: the leaves brewed in teas make for a great natural laxative.

SPIRITUAL: Strawberries increase fertility and add zest to physical love.

MAGICAL: Strawberries are known as a love food, an aphrodisiac and can be used in physical attraction spells.The leaves are carried for luck.If pregnant, place strawberry leaves in a bag and carry to decrease pregnancy pains.

THYME

ELEMENT: Water

PLANET: Venus

GENDER: Feminine

KEYWORDS: Gentle, Warming, Soothing, Courage, Love, Purification, Sleep, Health, Healing, Psychic Powers.

HEALING: Boost immune system, helps with respiratory illness and viral infection and symptoms.

SPIRITUAL: Helps with grounding. Balancing mental awareness and focus. Lifts depression and moves restricted emotions, releasing them and giving a feeling of calmness.

MAGICAL: For purification rituals burn Thyme.Carry and smell to give courage.Use in spiritual bath to remove old emotions and move forward.Carry to promote good health.Place under your pillow or drink as tea to increase psychic powers.FAIRY MAGIC: This herb also allows you to see fairies and spiritually understand the fairy kingdom.