Monthly Archives: April 2017

  • Ruler: Moon, Jupiter
  • Type: Water
  • Magickal Form: Rain falling during a storm, or collected and saved.

Collect the first spring rainwater and add it to love baths to attract a new partner. It is a great way to cleanse and renew yourself before opening your heart to love again. Use summer rainwater for lust spells, fall rainwater for charisma, and winter rainwater for courage, power, and endurance. Stand in the rain to wash away bad vibes and negativity, and to heal feelings of loss.

From: The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients

Got questions about life? Need answers? wisdom? guidance? Here is a basic (but by no means complete)  list of herbs, spices, fruits, gemstones, and food that promote and enhance wisdom along with a short explanation as to how to use them:

  1. Azalea – flowers and plants bring knowledge of the beyond.
  2. Beeswax – when burned send prayers directly to heaven.
  3. Bristles – pluck the bristles from a man’s beard to increase wisdom.
  4. Chestnuts – eat for love and wisdom.
  5. Crossroads – when looking for the right direction invoke Hekate at the crossroads.
  6. Cypress – burn the leaves to receive the wisdom of the Goddess.
  7. Eggplant – carve your name in it and then cook and eat it for wisdom and guidance.
  8. Gold – colloidal gold when ingested reveals secret wisdom.
  9. Grapes – eat purple grapes on a dark or full moon to gain psychic insight.
  10. Hazel – branches are a powerful divination tool.
  11. Herring – eat to increase wisdom.
  12. Jade – carry to attract wisdom.
  13. Jalup – rub the oil on purple candles for wisdom.
  14. Lamp – oil lamps can light the way or inspire answers.
  15. Malachite – opens the subconscious and allows deeper understandings.
  16. Maple – the trees attract wisdom.
  17. Molasses – scry in a bowl of molasses and seek Hekate’s wisdom.
  18. Myrhh – burn it to gain wisdom.
  19. Obsidian – breaks illusions and promotes realistic thinking.
  20. Olive – a gift of wisdom from the goddess Athena.
  21. Owl – brings messages and represent the wisdom of Hekate.
  22. Pear – eat one on your birthday for wisdom.
  23. Pepper – eat purple peppers on Thursday for wisdom.
  24. Pomegranate – drink pomegranate juice to ingest the wisdom of the Goddess.
  25. Raisin – eat sun dried raisins for wisdom and longevity.
  26. Solomn’s seal – sleep with a root under your pillow for wisdom or prophetic sight.
  27. Yogurt – brings insight when eaten on a new moon.

Keys were traditionally made of iron. Consequently, it made good sense to touch a key whenever danger threatened. Keys were considered lucky, and commonly placed under a child’s pillow to keep him or her safe while asleep.

To find an old key is magical. It is said that the finder will experience spiritual mysteries and have prophetic dreams. They will become a channel of communication between heaven and earth. A rusty key is a good omen, as it indicates an inheritance.

Wearing an old-fashioned key will unlock spiritual doors. Perform spells with identical keys, which are then worn by lovers to protect their relationship from infiltration. A key given to a lover who is going far away will keep you in his or her heart.

When lovers exchange keys, it is believed that they are unlocking each other’s hearts. It symbolizes love and happiness.

In Japan, three keys tied together create a powerful lucky charm that attracts love, health, and wealth.

Keys can also be used as a magickal charm or talisman when something needs to be unlocked in some way. For example, Jewish midwives put the key to the synagogue into the hand of a woman who was about to give birth, in the hopes that the association would help the baby “unlock” the door of the womb. Keys were also buried with people in order that the gates to the Underworld would open easily.

It is considered bad luck to drop a key, and even worse luck to accidentally break one. To break a key is an unfortunate omen: it predicts a broken relationship. It is also considered bad luck to jangle bunches of keys on Wednesdays. However, jangling keys can avert the evil eye, and this can be done on any day of the week.

Losing keys is considered an omen of some disaster, usually involving a death.

People turning twenty-one years old were often given cardboard keys to celebrate this milestone of maturity and independence. A popular song in 1912 mentions this custom in the following lyrics:

I’m twenty-one today,
Twenty-one today.
I’ve got the key of the door,
Never been twenty-one before.

Information collected from a variety of sources.

  • Ruler: Ellegua, Mercury
  • Type: Brass, copper, silver
  • Magickal Form: Attached or unattached to a door

Gaining access is always an issue in spellcraft. Doorknobs often provide an innocuous and subtle way to influence another person. Doorknobs can also be used in personal rituals to open metaphorical doors. Rub a small dab of coconut oil into a doorknob and as you turn it, make a wish concerning something or someone you wish to access. Carry a doorknob with you when you feel that too many doors are closed in your life. Continue to carry until you feel things opening up.

From: The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients

When the Moon is at the full,
mushrooms you can safely pull,
but when the Moon is on the wane,
wait ere you think to pluck again.

Along with oysters, mushrooms have always been considered aphrodisiacs. The aphrodisiacal effect was increased if the mushrooms were picked at the time of the full moon.

Primitive people treated mushrooms with great respect, as it was so difficult to determine whether they were safe to eat. Even experts on mushrooms need to remember the old saying, “There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.”

Many mushrooms have “magical” properties, the toxins within them seeming to provide a gateway to another world. Images of fairies, elves, and goblins inevitably have a mushroom or toadstool nearby. In Chinese Mythology, mushrooms were one of the sacred foods eaten by the Immortals; they induced bodily lightness. Further, the fly agaric mushroom was said to grow only during times of peace and prudent leadership.

  • Ruler: Neptune
  • Type: Vegetable
  • Magickal Form: Raw, cooked

This is the “flower” of illusion and many mushrooms are actually hallucinogenic. All mushrooms hold the property of fantasy and are eaten to invoke glamour or to create illusions.

  • For love they should be cooked in soups with paprika and/or fish.
  • To create glamours, or illusions, eat them raw.

The hallucinogenic effect of fungi has always been known, and used by shamans and warriors preparing for battle. Native Americans used hallucinogenic mushrooms in rites to produce visions, or embark on vision quests.

Rock paintings dating back at least 2000 years ago in the Tassili Plateau in southern Algeria depict shamans, apparently dancing around, holding mushrooms in their hands, with mushrooms sprouting from their bodies.

The Hebrews considered mushrooms as sacred and only priests were allowed to eat them.

Mushrooms were considered a delicacy in Roman times, but there was always the problem of determining whether or not they were edible. Emperor Claudius had this problem solved, as he used a food taster to eat some of his food first. Unfortunately, the mushrooms his taster tried one night produced no immediate effects. Consequently, Emperor Claudius ate them, and both he and his taster died. It is widely believed that his second wife, Aggripinna, who wanted her son Nero to have the throne, deliberately poisoned her husband.

Collected from various sources

  • Black – Absorb and dispel negative influences, Mystery, Rememberance, Eternity, Constancy
  • Blue – Healing, Peace, Astral projection, Fidelity, Sleep, Unity
  • Brown – Animals, Helps connect to the rythms and energies of the Earth
  • Gold – Activity, Money, The God, The Sun
  • Green – Abundance, Calm, Fertility, Prosperity, Neutralize difficult situations, Renewal, Freshness, Hope
  • Indigo – Clairvoyance, Healing, Past lives
  • Orange – Attraction, Energy, Friendship, Willpower, Endurance, Strength
  • Pink – Romantic love, Peace
  • Purple – Communication with higher level beings, Connection with the Divine, Ending quarrels, Healing, Tranquility, Patience, Trust, Deep Sleep, Healing serious illnesses
  • Red – Courage, Lust, New life, Desire, Passion, Sexuality, Strength, Enthusiasm
  • Red Violet – Hidden knowledge
  • Silver – Psychic abilities, Spirituality, The Goddess, The Moon
  • Turquoise – Spiritual Knowledge
  • White – Good fortune, Healing, Purification, Virgin Goddess
  • Yellow – Creativity, Communication, Intellect, Knowledge, Youth, Mind Power, Light, Purity, Happiness, Wisdom

See Also: The Magickal Meanings of Colors

  • Nature Spirits: Plant faeries
  • Herbs: Basil, chives, dragons blood, geranium, thistle
  • Colors: Crimson red, gold
  • Flowers: Daisy, sweetpea
  • Scents: Pine, bay, bergamot, patchouli
  • Stones: Ruby, garnet, sard
  • Trees: Pine, bay, hazel
  • Animals: Bear, wolf
  • Birds: Hawk, magpie
  • Deities: Kali, Hathor, Anahita, Ceres, Ishtar, Venus, Bast
  • Birth stone: Diamond
  • Birth flower: Daisy or sweet pea
  • Zodiac Signs: Aries (until April 19) and Taurus (April 20 onwards).

Power Flow:

Energy into creating and producing; return balance to the nerves; change; self confidence; self reliance; take advantage of opportunities; work on temper and emotional flare-ups and selfishness.

From: Moon Magic
Art by Jane Haworth

“Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.” ― C. JoyBell C.
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Do not use any ingredient if you are allergic to it. There is always something else that can be used, or substituted.
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