Nettle – The Fierce Healer and Protector
nettle can be carried as a charm, added to protection baths, or woven into amulets for strength. Its sting reminds us to honor our boundaries and protect our sacred space with fierce love.
Angelica – The Archangel’s Herb
Angelica’s root and stems are powerful in protective charms, floor washes, and incense blends. Adding Angelica to a bath is said to cleanse the aura and restore vitality. Burning it with other solar herbs creates an atmosphere of safety and empowerment.
Mugwort – The Dreamwalker’s Herb
Mugwort is the herb that blurs the edges between waking and dreaming, seen and unseen, memory and magic. Known across cultures as a gateway plant, Mugwort supports prophetic dreaming, divination, energetic protection, and womb wisdom. Whether burned, brewed, or bathed in, it invites you into altered states and intuitive depth—an herb of thresholds and transformation.
Bay – The Crown of Victory
Bay remains a magical powerhouse for anyone reclaiming their voice, vision, or spiritual will. Whether burned before a reading, stirred into a soup, or tucked into your pillowcase, it reminds you: you are crowned by your own clarity, and you are protected by your own purpose.
Rosemary: the all purpose ally
In magical traditions both ancient and modern, Rosemary is revered as a guardian herb. It wards off negative energies, breaks attachments, and purifies both body and space. Hung above doorways, it shields the home. Burned as incense, it clears away residual heaviness. Carried in a pouch, it sharpens memory and protects during travel—physical or spiritual.
Root and Folk Magic
What traditions are acceptable for you to practice? Obviously, start with the ones that you inherit. If other traditions come naturally into your lives – meaning that friends or loved ones bring them in, honor them and utilize them if it feels appropriate. If you want to learn others, ask for help.
Spellcasting
The first thing anyone must do before they even think about creating a spell is to be clear on what they want. Do you want to be more prosperous? Do you want to be healthier? Do you wish to keep your enemies away? Do you want your luck to improve? You have to be super clear about what you want in order to create or use a spell to serve you.
The second thing – which is even more important – is that you must create your spells using the credo which is essentially “Lest it harm none.”
Essences
For thousands of years, people have been using essences or liquids from natural products in magic and other mindful practices for a number of reasons:
To enter altered states of consciousness.
To ground the body or focus the mind.
To cleanse.
To clear.
To heal.
We’re talking about everything from herbal salves used on skin conditions, to drinkable potions used by shaman in order to achieve visions for their tribe, to essential oils that we inhale during yoga, to gingko biloba tea brewed to improve memory.