What can herbs be used for? I am doing a few pages in my grimoire related to herbs and their correspondences. I already have protection, prosperity, healing, and love? What else should I/could I add?
I'm neither an herbalist nor a green witch, but (since I can't seem to stop researching all kinds of stuff) herbs can also... help you travel the astral plane; add their magickal power to your own; aid in divinatory and/or lucid dreaming; cleanse and/or purify a space; clear or banish residual energies; calm the mind (which might fit under "healing"); enhance psychic powers; and -- no joke -- just make a space nicer with a pleasant aroma, or make your food taste better. :-)
Herbs are like the jack of all trades for me. Growing them has magic, seeds, fruits, petals, and stems have magic. Even oak leaves.
I use them, mostly, for ingredients in spells, coordinating to their natural uses. Rosemary for protection, Jasmine for divination, rosepetals for glamours, oak for luck and stability, wildflowers for general happiness and cleansing.
Herbs and plants are also often used for smudging and candles, as well. Sage is well known for this, as is mugwort. Woods work too, Im sure youve heard of cedar, sandalwood, and santo palo.
Even protection, like rosemary and holly over doors.
Rituals as well, such as yule wood.
Dieties like certain types of plants, and are even connected to them. You can use them for offerings. Popular plant offerings are sage, apples, plums, and wildflowers.
I'm neither an herbalist nor a green witch, but (since I can't seem to stop researching all kinds of stuff) herbs can also... help you travel the astral plane; add their magickal power to your own; aid in divinatory and/or lucid dreaming; cleanse and/or purify a space; clear or banish residual energies; calm the mind (which might fit under "healing"); enhance psychic powers; and -- no joke -- just make a space nicer with a pleasant aroma, or make your food taste better. :-)
Keep away unwanted spirits, people. Add a smile to your day.
Green witch here:
Herbs are like the jack of all trades for me. Growing them has magic, seeds, fruits, petals, and stems have magic. Even oak leaves.
I use them, mostly, for ingredients in spells, coordinating to their natural uses. Rosemary for protection, Jasmine for divination, rosepetals for glamours, oak for luck and stability, wildflowers for general happiness and cleansing.
I use them for charms, too.
Heres my herb ref. Board
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Herbs and plants are also often used for smudging and candles, as well. Sage is well known for this, as is mugwort. Woods work too, Im sure youve heard of cedar, sandalwood, and santo palo.
Even protection, like rosemary and holly over doors.
Rituals as well, such as yule wood.
Dieties like certain types of plants, and are even connected to them. You can use them for offerings. Popular plant offerings are sage, apples, plums, and wildflowers.