Hawthorn | This Druid sacred tree, closely connected to the planet Mars and the element of fire, brings the influence of happiness, fertility, and protection. Traditional Uses: 1) To promote and happiness and alleviate depression, sew into a blue cloth and wear or hang in the home. 2) To protect your home (especially from lightning and storms) place in a white pouch inscribed with a protection rune and hang from a high point in your home. 3) For fertility, place in a cup along while visualizing your desired outcome. Leave for 3 days during waxing moon (between new and full moon). After 3 days, bury in earth or sew into green pouch and carry with you.Magickal uses include chastity, fertility, fairy magick, fishing magick, and rebirth. Also used for success in matters related to career, work, and employment. Place around the bedroom or carry to enforce or maintain chastity or celibacy. Sacred to the fairy. Used to decorate maypoles. Used in weddings and handfastings to increase fertility. Wear while fishing to ensure a good catch. Wear or carry to promote happiness and protect against lightning. Keep in a house to repel ghosts and evil spirits. An infusion of the herb used to wash floors will remove negative vibrations.Also Called: Hawthorne, Haw, May Bush, May Tree, Mayblossom, Mayflower, Quickset, Thorn-apple Tree, Whitethorn, Bread and Cheese Tree, Quick, Gazels, Ladies’ Meat |
Hay | Pregnancy and fertility. |
Heal All | Uses include all purpose healing and successful gambling. |
Heather | Protection, luck, and immortality. Dip in water and sprinkle it around in a circle to bring rain. Carry in sachets or charms to protect against rape and other violent crimes. Hang or use in home decorations to promote peace. Burn with fern to bring rain.
Also Called: Ling, Scotch Heather |
Heliotrope | Cheerfulness, gaiety, prosperity, and protection. Use in rituals of Drawing Down the Sun or in magickal workings requiring strengthening of the solar aspects of the self. Place under the pillow to induce prophetic dreams. It is said that if you sleep with fresh heliotrope under your pillow, you will dream of the person that has stolen from your home.
Also Called: Turnsole, Cherry Pie |
Hemlock | Use to paralyze a situation. Note: Highly poisonous, do not consume. |
Henbane | Dried leaves are used in the consecration of ceremonial vessels.
Used in love sachets and charms to gain the love of the person desired. Thrown into water to bring rain. Also Called: Hogs Bean, Devil’s Eye, Henbells, Sukran |
Henna | Attracts love if worn close to the heart. Wear to ward off the evil eye and provide protection from illnesses. Also great for temporary tattooing and hair coloring. |
Hibiscus | Attracting love and lust, divination, and dreams. Carry in a sachet or burn as incense to attract love.
Also Called: Kharkady |
Hickory | Legal matters, love, lust, and protection |
High John | Connected to the planet Mars and the element of fire; High John is used to promote abundance, love, success and happiness.
Traditional Uses: An “all purpose” herb, the uses of High John include strength, confidence, conquering any situation, obtaining success, winning at gambling, luck, money, love, health, and protection. Useful in all ritual work pertaining to prosperity. Wash hands in an infusion of the herb before playing games of chance. High John the Conqueror Root Oil Also Called: High John the Conqueror, John the Conqueror, Jalap Root |
Holly | Marriage, dream magick, luck, and love. Planted around the outside of the home for protection. Used as a decoration at Yule. When carried by men, is thought to heighten masculinity.
Also Called: Tinne, Bat’s Wings, Hulm, Hulver Bush, Holm Chaste |
Hollyhock | Increase success in the material world, increase flow of money, or acquire new possessions. Grown near the home to help the success of the family flourish. |
Honey | For attraction and solar magick. |
Honeysuckle | Draws money, success, and quick abundance; Aids persuasiveness and confidence, sharpens intuition. Ring green candles with honeysuckle flowers or use honeysuckle in charms & sachets to attract money. Crush the flowers and rub into the forehead to enhance psychic powers.
Also Called: Woodbine, Jin Yin Hua, Dutch Honeysuckle, Goat’s Leaf |
Hops | Relaxing and sleep producing; a fantastic herb for dream pillows. Believed to increase the restfulness & serenity of sleep. Also used for healing rituals, sachets, and incense.
Also Called: Beer Flower, Hop Flower |
Horehound | Sacred to Horus. Protective; helps with mental clarity during ritual; stimulates creativity/inspiration; balances personal energies. Excellent for use in home blessings. Place near doorways to keep trouble away.
Also Called: White Horehound, Hoarhound, Marrubium, Bugleweed |
Horseshoe Chestnut | Magickal uses include money and healing.
Also Called: Buckeye |
Hyacinth | Promotes peace of mind and peaceful sleep. Attracts love, luck, and good fortune. Named for Hiakinthos, Greek God of homosexual love, this is the patron herb for gay men. Guards against nightmares when used as an oil, burned as incense, or included in dream pillows. Carry in amulet or sachet to ease grief or the pain of childbirth. |
Hydrangea | Hex-breaking, love drawing, bringing back a lover, fidelity, and binding. |
Hyssop | The most widely used purification herb in magick. Lightens vibrations and promotes spiritual opening; used for cleansing and purification. Said to protect property against burglars and trespassers. Used to consecrate magickal tools or items made of tin. The best herb for physical cleansing and washing of temple, ritual tools, or oneself (bath magick). Add to baths & sachets, infuse and sprinkle on objects/people for cleansing or hang in the home to purge it of evil & negativity.
Also Called: Yssop, Ysopo |
Indigo Weed | Protection
Also Called: Baptisia |
Iris | Attracts wisdom, courage, and faith. Use fresh iris flower to purify an area. Represents a belief in happy reincarnation. Symbolizes faith, wisdom, and valor. Useful for consecrating ritual wands. Used in rituals designed for baby blessings. |
Irish Moss | An excellent luck herb. Carry or place under rugs to increase luck and ensure steady flow of money; carry on trips for protection & safety; use to stuff luck or money poppets. Add to luck oil to increase its strength. An excellent gambler’s herb. Sprinkle an infusion of the herb around a business to bring in customers. |
Iron Weed | Carry in a purple flannel bag for control over others, including boss and co-workers (not recommended – remember the law of threes). |
Ivy | Protection, healing, fertility, and love. Hang an ivy plant in front of the home to repel negative influence and discourage unwanted guests. Mix in a sachet with Holly as a wedding gift to provide protection to the newly married couple. Place ground ivy around the base of a yellow candle on a Tuesday, then burn the candle to discover who (if anyone) is working negative magick against you. |
Jamaican Ginger | Gambling luck |
Jasmine | Uses include snakebite and divination; good for charging quartz crystals. Use in sachets and spells to draw spiritual love and attract a soul mate. Carry or burn the flowers to draw wealth and money. Use in dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas.
Also Called: Pikake, Ysmyn, Jessamin, Moonlight on the Grove |
Jezebel Root | Used for spells and castings for money and achievement. Also used to place curses and hexes. |
Job’s Tears | Luck in finding employment, wishes, and blessing. Used in counts of 3 or 7 in charm and mojo bags to attract luck, wishes and money. Carrying three will assist in finding a good job. Count out seven seeds while concentrating on a wish, then carry the seeds with you at all times for seven days — the wish should come true by the end of the week. |
Juniper | Banishes all things injurious to good health; attracts good, healthy energies and love. Juniper berries can be carried by males to increase potency. Use a string of juniper berries to attract love. Burn for magickal protection. Place a sprig of juniper near the door to a home or with valuables to help safeguard against theft (but keeping locking the doors, too!). Use juniper oil in magickal workings to increase money and prosperity.
Also Called: Juniper Berries, Ginepro, Enebro, Wachholder |
Kava Kava | Uses include aphrodisiacs; potent sacramental drinks; potions; induces visions; astral work; travel protection. Carry for success and job promotion.
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Knotweed | Binding spells, health, and cursing Knotweed is used in spells to bind and restrict someone. Perfect for when you want to control somebody’s movements or symbolically tie something down. |
Kola Nut | Peace, removing depression, and calming |