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An Invaluable Herbal Grimoire Reference Guide

By Graphia, The Wordsmith Witch

Image credit: ©️Dana Freeman

No matter what your spiritual path looks like, every Witch can benefit from possessing a thorough, comprehensive Herbal Grimoire. Many practitioners include such contents as a guide for the magical correspondences of different herbs, a list of various herbal substitutions for spellcrafting, and last, but not least – a reference section that lists commonly found baneful herbs and their toxicity levels.

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This herb correspondence chart is the culmination of years of research. We hope this reference guide will help you to understand the magical properties of herbs, roots, flowers, barks and resins. It is our goal to provide others with accurate sources of information to enrich their lives and their Craft. What are some ways you can implement the information in the following guide into your own practice?  Click on the link below to view the chart.

Herbal Grimoire

Esbat Soap

Esbat Soap

This take (the cleansing recipe a step further in that it is designed to prepare you for the working elements of ritual and Magick, when you will need the additional ability to focus and control.

Add the following to liquid shower gel:

tbsp rosemary leaves

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

6 drops frankincense oil

6 drops sandalwood oil

4 drops jasmine oil

4 drops oil of orange

(you can literally scrape the oil from the outside of an orange using a blunt knife)

21st November S. H. Current Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

Current Moon Phase

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Tommorow the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this phase the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else you know was on the date the person was born.

Custom Planetary Positions

November 20, 2019 (21 November 2019)

07:00 pm GMT  (6:00 AM AEDT)
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Scorpio 09
Moon:10 Virgo 05
Mercury:11 Scorpio 35 Rx
Venus:23 Sagittarius 31
Mars:00 Scorpio 58
Jupiter:27 Sagittarius 23
Saturn:17 Capricorn 00
Uranus:03 Taurus 41 Rx
Neptune:15 Pisces 56 Rx
Pluto:21 Capricorn 12

True Lunar Node:09 Cancer 12 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:10 Cancer 25 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):22 Pisces 26

Chiron:01 Aries 40 Rx
Ceres:01 Capricorn 44
Pallas:05 Sagittarius 19
Juno:05 Libra 54
Vesta:17 Taurus 30 Rx

Eris:23 Aries 27 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:1
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

To calculate the time and date for your local planetary positions in the past, or present, or future this link can be used to go to a website so you can covert your local time into GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

To convert to your local time for current planetary positions

If you have questions about using any of the links please leave them in the comment section as others may have the same question and it is easier to answer once than many times via email. Thank you.

DO IT YOURSELF BATH SALTS

DO IT YOURSELF BATH SALTS


Base Ingredients:

Epsom salt

Sea salt

Baking soda 

Optional ingredients: Finely powdered herbs, powdered oatmeal, powdered milk, food coloring 

Fragrance: Essential oil blends or Fragrance oils as desired. 


Directions: 

All ingredients must be water soluble, or be in such a finely powdered state that it is invisible in the water. 


Also, if your salt is a large crystal type, grind your salt first in a food processor until it is finely ground.combine all dry ingredients in a large zip-lock bag; mix well. Add fragrance and/or coloring slowly, squinch up the bag and really mix well. Keep mixing. Mix some more. Pour into a glass container – plastic will eat up any fragrance you put in. 

THE BEWITCHING BATH

THE BEWITCHING BATH

This bath is guaranteed to turn you into a love Goddess!. 


Ingredients:

Oranges

Fresh mint leaves 


Simply fill the tub with warm water, and add five whole navel oranges and a bunch of fresh mint leaves. Get in the tub. Peel the oranges and squeeze the juice into the bath water. Rub the fruit onto your hair and skin. Eat a few slices and anoint yourself. 


Do the same with the mint. Rub it into the body and hair and chew on a leaf or two. (You should be physically clean before taking this bath. Do not soap off when you’re done.) Let your body and hair air dry, now dress for your date. 


The combination of orange and mint will make you irresistible! 

IRISH HEALING WATERS SPELL

IRISH HEALING WATERS SPELL


Take equal parts of lavender, violet, and rosemary. Empower them and Then boil them in a pot with about a quart of water over medium heat. When the water is richly colored and the herbs are scenting your kitchen, drain The water off into a jar. A plain coffee filter works great for this.


Place the jar in sunlight for an entire day to absorb the radiant energies of the sun. You can do this on a Wednesday to add the healing powers of mercury to the spell* Occasionally look at the jar and add your own energies to it. 


Just before sundown fetch the jar and hold it firmly between your hands Just below your naval. Feel your desire to be well filling the jar and with your minds eye see it glowing brightly as the sun. Chant these words until you have filled the jar with as much energy as it will hold. 


By the herb and by the sun 
Wellness and I are now as one 
Strengthening energies now are merged. 
Baneful energies now be purged 


Anoint spots where illness lurks or on your belly if you are unsure where the source of discomfort lies. Or pour contents into bath water. 

BATH FOR HEALING AND TO REMOVE PAIN

BATH FOR HEALING AND TO REMOVE PAIN


Materials required:

Muslin bag

Dead sea salts

Lavender herb

Lavender oil. 


Fill your muslin bag half way with the dead sea salts, add two teaspoons of lavender herb and one drop of lavender oil. Tie up the bag and include in your bath. Close your eyes and feel your body soak up the healing herb, salt and oil. 


Chant the rhyme: 

Pains and Aches and Evil Things 
Fly from me on rapid wings! 
Leave my body, don’t return 
For peace and quiet I do yearn. 
Surround me in Her radiant light. 
Magic power pure and white 
Banish forces of the night! 

LAVENDER BATH BOMBS

LAVENDER BATH BOMBS

Lavender essential oil is reassuring, soporific, and is often the first choice of aromatherapists for treating emotional or mental stress. It also reduces muscular pain, whether from illness or physical exertion, and soothes the skin. 

Ingredients:


4 cups Epsom salts

2 cups Sea salt

1 cup non fat powdered milk

 2 cups oatmeal ground to a very fine powder in a food processor or coffee grinder. 

40 drops of lavender essential oil 


Mix together all the dry ingredients in a large bowl, sieve if you wish, then add the lavender 10 drops at a time, thoroughly mix it through. Do this 4 times, so that the lavender essential oil is distributed. 

Lavender Bath & Lavender Bubble Bath

LAVENDER BATH

This spell will refresh and cleanse you.

To begin, cast a circle in your bathroom. Call the elements, and light a lavender colored candle. Then blend in a muslin bag a teaspoon each of lavender flowers, chamomile flowers, and dried crushed rosemary.

Hang the sachet under the faucet, and draw your bath water, allowing it to pour down through the herbs. Add a half cup of lemon juice to the bath. When you settle into the tub, lean back, relax, and take three deep breaths.
Close your eyes and focus on the excess tension and stress in your body. Feel the herbs and lemon draw it out of your muscles and mind. 


Thoroughly clean your tub when you are done to remove any residue of negative energy from the bath water.

LAVENDER BUBBLE BATH

1 bunch Lavender

1 large bottle clear organic shampoo 

5 drops oil of Lavender

Clean wide-neck jar with screw top 


Place Lavender head down in the jar. Cut down to fit. Add shampoo and Lavender oil. Close and place in sunny window Strain and re-bottle. Use 1 tbsp. in a bath. 

 

Rejuvenating Bath

Rejuvenating Bath

This bath will aid in sinus relief and cold symptoms, increase metabolism and ease muscular pain. It is a very rejuvenating bath. 1/2 cup each of yarrow flowers, elder flowers, mint leaves and rose petals. Place in a cheesecloth or nylon bundle and let seep in the bath for a few minutes and enjoy. The bundle can be used to gently scrub the body as well. Also, prepare a hot infusion of Chamomile, yarrow flowers, elder flowers and mint leaves to drink while in the bath.

Everyone Needs Some Me Time to Relax and Center

We all have days we wish we could just hibernate and hide from everyone. This is when you need to have a special care package ready to go to relax you physically and mentally and recenter yourself spiritually.

I have a small kit made up in advance for when I take this me time. Mine includes a long incense sticks or cones of either sandalwood or jasmine (lavender is also very good for relaxing with), my favorite Celtic music bookmarked on my computer to find it easier, a big handful of my favorite Epsom salts in a Ziploc type bag or other holder, a smudge stick, a bar of scents soap, a black taper and a white taper candle, my favorite lotion, and a robe (type depends on the temperature in my home). I also shut off my cell/mobile phone and anything else that someone could call me on like Skype.

Allow a minimum of 2 hours for yourself to get the benefits you deserve.

I do a smudging in my den and bathroom and also myself. Then get into my usually hot bath with the salts. I soak for a while until I feel my muscles completely relax m(draining cooled water and adding more hot if I feel the need to) than I use one of my scented soaps to wash with (my hair is tied up because I wash it in the sink before getting into my bath or just leave dry, no one says you have to wash your hair just because you take a bath). After getting out of the bath and drying off I rub lotion on every part of my body I can comfortably reach just to feel the wonder of what the deities choose to make us into thousands of years ago.

Then if I feel like it put on my robe and go into my den or bedroom. Depending on my mood whether I stay in the robe or lay down skyclad.

Once in my den or bedroom,  I have a small table next to the daybed in my den so the black candle is set on the southwest corner and the white in the northeast. I light the black candle first asking Hades and Persephone to take away all the negative energy, anger, resentment, envy, etc I may still be harboring inside myself.  Next, I  light the white candle asking Ra and Mother Earth to fill me with love, positive energy and to be grounded. I then light the incense I choose while enjoying the scent of the incense and listening to the music  I do a relaxation technique (which I will describe below) and then I let my mind to float free not focusing on any one thought especially if it is a negative one. I usually wind up falling asleep and many times have had messages and/or vision brought to me by my ancestors, guides, some deities. These dreams I write down what I can remember of them when I awaken. The dreaming does not happen every time.

The two most important things to take away from this experience is one does not feel guilty for taking the time to pamper and nurture yourself because we all need to. The other thing is to take a is relaxed, centered mind, body, and spirit from reconnecting them all.

RELATION TECHNIQUE: Starting with your toes and working up the body tighten each muscle as you take as deep a breath as you can then allow the muscle to completely relax as you slowly exhale all the air you took in. This should take you at least 15 to 20 minutes to get all your muscles relaxed and your mind to slow down.

A great place you can get your incense, soap, candles and smudge sticks is Magickal Necessities. Below are the links for the items available:

Incense Cones

Soaps

Smudge Sticks

Chime (smaller) Candles

Love Bath to Attract Suitors

Walking the Dragon

Love Bath to Attract Suitors

 

This is a type of love bath, but it is not the only bath that you can use for this. It is not as potent as satchels, but it will help you to attract more positive potential significant others. It allows you to clear your own energies as well as to attract another person to you.

Ingredients:

1. 4-5 Drops Jasmine Essential Oil

2. ½ Cup Lavender Flowers, Dried

3. ¼ Cup Sea Salt

4. 3 Tablespoons Chamomile Flowers

Directions:

1. Use the herbs as you normally would to make an herbal bath, and add the jasmine essential oil right before you get in. make sure to stir the water three times.

2. Repeat this mantra three times when you get in the bath and three times before you get out. “I will attract someone to love. I will be attractive to someone who will love me. Love is in my grasp.”

3. Soak for the desired amount of time but for no less than twenty minutes. It’s important that you are not using artificial light during this bath.

 

Wicca Herbal Magic: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Wiccan Herbal Magic
(with Magical Oils, Baths, Teas and Spells)
Sophia Silvervine

Winter Ritual Bath

Winter Ritual Bath

During the Winter Solstice/Christmas Season we often place too much emphasis on celebrating and sharing this joyous holiday. It is often helpful amongst all the stress to atune to a quiet, internal spirituality. To begin to do so, prepare a ritual bath with oils of rosemary, pine and orange. Add a touch of patchouli for grounding. Light gold and green candles and immerse yourself in the watery solitude to refresh your weary holiday spirit. Meditate on the Winter Goddess and her lesson of stillness. Find the cool and clean space she offers, free of clutter and activity. It is the season for centering and grounding and for defining who we really are. After the bath, take your journal and write down your goals by candlelight. Contemplate the coming re-birth and identify which direction you wish to channel your energies and focus your intentions.

-This bath was adapted by one written by Karri Allrich

Pagan Crafting for Tuesday, January 10th – Lavender Bath Treatment

Black Cats - My entry #4Lavender Bath Treatment

Lavender essential oil is reassuring, soporific, and is often their first choice of aromatherapists for treating emotional or mental stress. It also reduces muscular pain, whether from illness or physical exertion, and soothes the skin. I can’t think of a more perfect herb for a relaxing bath.

Ingredients for a lavender bath treatment:

4 cups epsom salts
2 cups Sea salt
1 cup non fat powdered milk
2 cups oatmeal ground to a very fine powder in a food processor or
coffee grinder-use the old fashioned kind
40 drops of lavender essential oil

Mix together all the dry ingredients in a large bowl, sieve if you wish, then add the lavender 10 drops at a time, thoroughly mix it through. Do this 4 times, so that the lavender essential oil is distributed.

I then put the mix in glass jars and put a pretty sticker on the jar with all the ingredients and the date when I made it.

 

Making your bath salts

Making your bath salts

 

Commercial bath salts will do absolutely nothing on an esoteric level – they have too many chemical additives and artificial perfumes – so it is a nice touch to make your own using single essential oils, blends and/or herbs. The fact that you have mixed them yourself means they are infused with your own vibration and therefore will work on a very subtle level. Matching your bath salt perfume to your incense perfume does wonders for your inner self.

 

You will need

• • 3 PARTS EPSOM SALTS

• • 2 PARTS BAKING SODA

• • 1 PART ROCK SALT (or Borax)

• • BOWL FOR MIXING

• • ESSENTIAL OILS IN YOUR CHOSEN PERFUMES

• • HANDFUL OF HERBS (optional)

• • NATURAL FOOD COLOURING

 

Method

Mix the first three ingredients thoroughly in the mixing bowl. Use your hands as this will enable you to imbue the salts with your own energy. This is your basic mixture and can be perfumed or coloured in any way that you please.

 

Note: It is wise when using essential oils to mix them first if you are using a blend to allow the synergy between the oils to develop.

 

Add your colouring first and mix to your satisfaction, then follow with your oil or blend a drop at a time. Add the herbs to the mixture and combine thoroughly. Be generous with the oils since the salts will absorb a surprising amount without you realizing. Your nose, however, as with all oils and perfumes is the best judge – there is no right or wrong amount.

 
When you wish to use your salts, add approximately 2 tablespoons to a full bathtub and mix well.

Preparation for Spell Working – The Ritual Bath

Preparation for Spell Working – The Ritual Bath

 

Several processes become automatic when preparing for spell work. If you choose to wear special clothing, then this has to be prepared before you actually start your personal preparations. We give below some suggestions for personal robes which can be laid out with some ceremony before you begin.

 
Important magical workings require you to take a ritual bath which cleanses, purifies and clarifies your energy so that you are able to get the best results possible. Many practitioners prefer to take a ritual bath before performing any magical workings. For what you may consider ‘lesser’ magic you do not need to bathe, but may prefer to cleanse yourself by running your hands over your body before you embark on any working.

 

Ritual Bathing

 

Ritual bathing arose in times gone by from a perceived need to be in as ‘virgin’ – that is, unsullied – a state as possible. This is what gave rise to working skyclad, i.e. without clothes, so that there were no encumbrances between the practitioner and his or her gods or deities.

 

Ritual Bath

 

As you mix in your salts, bless the water and charge it with your intent – be that a particular magical working, a relaxing evening or a successful meeting. The candles used in this ritual can be in the colours of the Elements or those most appropriate to your purpose, for example – pink (tranquility), blue (wisdom), green (self-awareness) and red (passion). For spiritual matters, use purple.

 

You will need

• • HOMEMADE BATH SALTS

• • VOTIVE CANDLES ACCORDING TO YOUR NEED

• • LARGE WHITE CANDLE

• • ESSENTIAL OIL TO REMOVE NEGATIVITY (e.g. rosemary)

• • LARGE GLASS OF MINERAL WATER OR JUICE

 

Method

Anoint the large white candle with the essential oil and ask for positivity, health and happiness as you do so. Do the same with the votive candles according to your need. You may, if you wish, inscribe a symbol to represent your purpose on each candle.

 

Run your bath and mix in the bath salts.
Light the candles, first the white one followed by the votives. Place the latter safely around the bath. The white candle should be placed wherever you feel is safest. You have now created a sacred space for yourself.

 
Lie back and enjoy your bath and at some point drink your water or juice visualizing your whole system being cleansed inside as well as out. Before you get out of the bath, thank the water deities for this opportunity to prepare thoroughly for the new energies available to you. If you are to perform a magical working, then keep your mind focused on that intent.

 

On this occasion, for safety’s sake, when you have finished your bath, snuff out the candles.

Lady A’s Specialty of the Day – Magickal Witches Bath


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Magickal Witches Bath

Ingredients:
Oranges, Fresh mint leaves

This bath is guaranteed to turn you into a love Goddess!

Simply fill the tub with warm water, and add five whole navel oranges and a bunch
of fresh mint leaves. Get in the tub. Peel the oranges and squeeze the juice into the bath water.

Rub the fruit onto your hair and skin. Eat a few slices and anoint yourself. Do the same with the mint. Rub it into the body and hair and chew on a leaf or two.

(You should be physically clean before taking this bath. Do not soap off when you’re done.)
Let your body and hair air dry, now dress for your date.

The combination of orange and mint will make you irresistible!

Whispering Woods Ogham Course – Lesson Six – The Fordeda’s

Whispering Woods Ogham Course – Lesson Six 
The Fordeda’s  

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Fifth Aicme (Consonants) Forfedas
The Forfedas (extra letters) were invented in the Old Irish period (725 CE to about 950 CE), several centuries after the peak of Ogham usage. They appear to have represented sounds felt to be missing from the original alphabet.

They are not found in any stone inscriptions. It is thought that the Benedictine monks added the forfedas in an effort to make ogham a more literary alphabet with which to record in.
The five forfeda are given as an additional vocalic aicme, with the values, found in Auraicept na n-Éces, (De dúilib feda) and In Lebor Ogaim.

It should be noted that the five forfeda are only known from manuscript tradition, which attributes to them a variety of values.

 

(ch / k) Éabhadh   (EHV-uh)

Aspen (True Tree)
Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main states:
Snamchain feda, most buoyant of wood, that is ebad, aspen, with him, for fair swimming is wood; that is a name for the great raven. Hence it was put for the letter named the Ogham ebad, for e is a name for salmon, and it is written by ea like the alphabet of the fauna:
From the word-oghams of Mac ind Oic:
Comainm carat, synonym for a friend, aspen, e, in the forest. Hence for its synonymous Ogham letter.
Cosc lobair, corrective of a sick man, woodbine for the Ogham letter, which has taken a name other than it, ebad, aspen, ea.

 
oi (th) Ór    (Oir)

Ivy
Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main states:
Sruitem aicdi, most venerable of structures, i.e., oir, oi, spindle tree, according to fact. Hence it was put for the letter owing to the identity of the name that is between them, to wit, oir is the name of each of them.
From the word-oghams of Mac ind Oic:
Silad clann, growing of plants, that is ur, heath, u with him, for it is uir, the soil of the earth, that causes the growing of the plants that are put into it. Growing of plants, again, said of the soil of the earth, is said of the Ogham letter which has taken the same name with it, each of them is ur.

 
ui (io, ph) Uilleann    (Uilen)

Honeysuckle
Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main states:
Tutmur fid uilleann, juicy wood is woodbine, that is woodbine with him, for it is a name for honeysuckle. Hence it was put for the Ogham named woodbine, ui; for hence was woodbine put for it, for it is a name for honeysuckle.
From the word-oghams of Mac ind Oic:
Cubat n-oll, great equal-length, woodbine, i.e., honeysuckle. Hence for the Ogham letter which it has taken from it, woodbine, ui.

 
ia (p / pe) Ifín     (Iphín)

Gooseberry
Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main states:
Millsem feda, sweetest of wood, that is gooseberry with him, for a name for the tree called pin is millsem feda. Gooseberries are hence named. Hence it was put for the letter named pin, for hence pin, or ifin, io, was put for it.
From the word-oghams of Mac ind Oic:
Amram blais, most wonderful of taste, pin or ifin, gooseberry. Hence for the letter that has taken its name from it, pin or iphin, io.

 
ae (x / xi) Eamhancholl    (Emancholl)

Phagos
Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main states:
Luad soethaig, expression of a weary one, i.e., ach, ah! uch, alas! that is emancoll, ae, with him, for emancoll is taken for ach, though it may be taken for something else. Finit WordOgham of Morann.
The name Eamhancholl means “twinned C”, referring to the shape of the letter, and gives no indication of sound value.
Quiz:
1. The Forfedas were invented in the ___   _____ period.
2. Comainm carat, is which Ogham?
3. Honeysuckle is called?
4. The name Eamhancholl means ________   __.

 

 

Source: Researcher & Author: Crick

Website: The Whispering Woods