Plants, Herbs, and Roots for LoveWritten by Sam Stevens
In column Plants, Herbs and Roots For Prosperity, I explain in detail how to practically use a plant material to attract things to you, so refer to that if you have never used plant matter in magic before. In brief, main methods of using plant material to draw love are: carrying substance on your person in a locket or a sachet, boiling herb and sprinkling residual water around your residence, putting a sprig of it under your bed or in your pillow and burning it as incense. Also with love attracting, just keeping living plant in your house can help increase your vibrations. Some flowers can also be dropped in a bath. Here is a list of common plants, herbs and roots used in love magic with some tips about how to use them: Apple Blossoms: One of simplest love attracting spells involves dropping these pretty blossoms in your bath. It is said to make others thing that you are more attractive than you are! Apple blossoms are also said to increase fertility. Carrying blossoms on your person increases popularity, flirtation and invitations. Althea Root: Sometimes also known as Marshmallow Root this herb is known as persuasion herb, this can be carried in a locket or sachet on your person. Traditionally, though, it is burned on charcoal with Apple and Rose blossoms to invite a proposal of marriage. Balm of Gilead: This energizing and protective herb is carried on person or burned as incense to keep a lover attracted and faithful. Bayberry: Bayberry is used a commercial oil. It is bought by men and worn on pulses to attract women. Bay: The leaves, which represent “the glory of love” are put in a bath and used to attract a soul mate. They can also be carried on person for same person. Black Snakeroot: This is traditionally burned on charcoal or concealed on person of a man to arouse a woman’s lust. It is most commonly used ingredient in Adam and Eve love spells. Caraway Seeds: Carried on person to increase lust in another. Place on your lover’s person they are said to stop infidelity. Cardamom: Sprinkled as a spice on food or tucked in a sachet under bed to arouse a lover. It is known as a compelling herb. Cinnamon: Used in love sachets and sprinkled under sheets of bed to increase passion between two people. It is also burned as incense to speed things up in a love affair.
| | What is Dowsing?Written by Sam Stevens
Dowsing is definitely an intuitive art and one of oldest forms of divination in world. Perhaps oldest and most familiar image we have a dowser is what is called a field or map dowser. This person walks over a landscape using a Y shaped or forked stick (sometimes called a doodlebug) to locate subterranean sources of water, oil or even precious minerals. The stick vibrates, crosses or shakes when substance is found. Some dowsers will use two sticks held in one hand, and when sticks cross, it signifies that a subtle astral or geopathic force has located natural resource. This kind of dowsing is also used to locate things such as buried treasure, lost persons, missing jewelry and stray golf balls! However, kind of dowsing we are concerned with in this article would be for purposes of divination. To do this you need to purchase or make what is called a “bobber” or a “pendulum”. This is simply a pointed object made of metal, crystal or wood that is attached to end of a string or a rope. Crystals make excellent pendulums. To diagnose disease, use a rose quartz crystal. For general divination, a silver, lapis, wood or hematite pendulum works well. A pendulum can be anything that appeals to you, that is personal, feels like it conducts energy and can be hung from a chain or string. For instance, I have a little silver acorn charm that works perfectly as a pendulum. Some people use keys or talismans or charms such as a crucifix or ankh. Pendulums can be bought commercially online and in New Age or Occult Stores. There are no strict rules around practice of dowsing, however there are two methodologies behind purpose of it. The first methodology involves using pendulum to answer a yes or no question. Some practitioners use a chart or a map, usually a square of paper with a circle drawn on it with words YES or NO written at four quarter points of circle.
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