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Cabbage

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for:
luck

Cactus, Peyote

Gender: male
Planet: Mercury
Element: Water
Used for:
protection, chastity

Camellia

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for:
riches

Camphor

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for:
chastity, health, divination

Caper

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Used for:
potency, lust, luck

Caraway

Gender: male
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Used for:
Used in love charms to attract a lover. Add to love sachets and charms to attract a lover in the more physical aspect. Also a mild stimulant for digestion. Protection, Passion

Cardamon

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Used for:
lust, love

Carnation

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
Once worn by witches to prevent capture and hanging. Produces added energy in ritual when used in incense.

Carrot

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Earth
Used for:
fertility, lust

Cashew

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
money

Catnip

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Used for:
Its flowers and leaves have often been used to treat colds and insomnia. It lowers fevers, dries up postnasal drip, gets rid of bad headaches and relieves sore aching bones due to colds and flu, when taken in tea form, 2-3 times daily. As an incense it may be used to consecrate magical tools. Cat magic, familiars, joy, friendship, love. Creates a psychic bond between cat and 'owner'. Used in love charms and incenses.

Cattail

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Used for:
lust

Cayenne pepper

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
An excellent flu fighter. Promotes fast recovery, stops internal and external bleeding, said to prevent heart attacks and also helps with depression and headaches. Also makes a fine liniment- quickly bringing blood to the surface of the skin, use either cider vinegar or alcohol as base for the liniment. Dilute with rose water or distilled water, heating the vinegar or spirits before using them.

Cedar

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
healing, purification, money, protection

Celandine

Gender: sun
Planet: Fire
Element: Helps the wearer escape unfair imprisonment and Used for:
entrapment. If worn, cures depression.

Celery

Gender: male
Planet: Mercury
Element: Fire
Used for:
Mental and psychic powers, lust.

Chamomile

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Water
Used for:
Use in prosperity charms and rituals. Induces sleep. The tea brings peace and tranquility for those times when you need to do a ritual but are seething with anger or hurt. If you wash your face and hair with camomile, it will attract a lover. Is an excellent herb both internally and externally for calming. Great for digestion, fevers, burns, anti-inflammatory for wounds, and sedative for nervous disorders. And relieves stomachaches and diarrhea in infants and small children (always using in diluted form). In tea form, made of 2 teaspoons of the herb steeped for 5 minutes in a cup of boiling water is a gentle sleep inducer. Chamomile also makes an excellent insect repellent, simply splash some tea on face arms and feet. It is also a good hair rinse for blondes. Plant camomile in your garden to be the guardian of the land, and you will have certain success. Good as a meditation incense, for centering, peace, sprinkle in your home for protection, healing, money.

Cherry

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Used for:
love, divination

Chestnut

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Fire
Used for:
love

Chicory

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Air
Used for:
removing obstacles, invisibility, favours, frigidity

Chili Pepper

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Used for:
fidelity, hex-breaking, love

Chrysanthemum

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
protection

Cinnamon

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Used for:
Use in incenses for healing, clairvoyance, high spiritual vibrations. Reputed to be a male aphrodisiac. Use in prosperity charms.It is recommended as a skin astringent and digestive aid in tea form. Ground, or taken with milk, good balance after a heavy meal or dessert. Also used for diarrhea, dysentery or general indigestion. It is an excellent aromatic and makes a good anointing oil for any magical working. Spiritual quests, augmenting power, love, success, psychic work, healing, cleansing.

Cinquefoil

Planet: Jupiter
Element: Earth
Used for:
Hang on house entrances as protection. Use in spells and charms for prosperity, purification and protection. sleep, prophetic dreams.

Citron

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Air
Used for:
psychic powers, healing

Clove

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Fire
Used for:
Worn to drive away negativity and stop gossip. Cloves strung on a red thread can be worn as a protective charm. It has a mild antiseptic quality for toothaches (chew), or in tea form it is an expectorant for colds, also good foe nausea or vomiting. It is an antibacterial, antiseptic, and analgesic, which means it helps prevent disease and infection. Dispel negativity, protection, money, incense against gossip, vision, cleansing. exorcism, love, money

Clover

Gender: male
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Used for:
Associated with the Triple Goddess. Used in rituals for beauty and youth. Four-leaved clovers are carried to see fairies, heal illness, avoid military service, avoid madness, and as a general good-luck charm. To dream of clover is considered very fortunate, especially for young people.protection, money, love, sucess, exorcism.

Coconut

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for:
purification, protection, chastity.

Comfrey

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Used for:
A herb of Hecate, used in rituals to honour the Goddess in her Crone aspect.Has been known to slow bleeding, aid colds, ease burns. As a poultice or a tea, comfrey may be applied to bites, sores, rashes, broken bones, and cuts. Also a good ingredient for lotions to soothe sunburn. Safe travel spells, money, healing. safety during travel, money.

Coriander

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Used for:
Used in love spells and charms. An old coriander spell is to take seven grains of coriander and grind them in a mortar, saying 'Warm seed, warm heart, let them never be apart' three times. Drop the seeds into wine and share with your lover.If added to wine, it makes a serviceable love potion for 2 consenting parties. Also used in love sachets and charms.Protection of home, peace , good in ritual drinks, incenses for longevity and love, security. health, healing

Corn

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Used for:
protection, luck, divination

Cotton

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Earth
Used for:
luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magic.

Cowslip

Gender: female
Planet: venus
Used for:
Cattle were once hung with cowslips to encourage healthy milk production. Cowslip flowers were believed to bring luck in love to the wearer. In Suffolk, milkmaids would wash their faces in milk in which cowslip petals had been infused on Beltane, believing that it would make their faces glow and attract their beloved during the Beltane celebraations. Were traditionally woven into funeral wreaths to be laid on the deceased one's grave at the full moon, for thirteen moons after his or her death. Posies of cowslips, placed under the pillow, were said to allow contact with the dead in dreams.healing, youth, treasure finding.

Cucumber

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for:
chastity, healing, fertility

Cumin

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Used for:
protection, fidelity, exorcism

Curry

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Used for:
protection

Cypress

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Used for:
Connected with death in all its aspects. Cypress smoke can be used to consecrate ritual objects. longevity, healing, comfort, protection

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