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Cunning Celt's Beginner Guide #6: Magical Properties of Common Fruits and Vegetables

I chose to write about fruit ‘n’ veg because you so often see magical properties of herbs, but these babies get left behind, and are a great resource, especially for kitchen witches.

Apple: red apples for love; gold apples for fame and popularity; green apples for prosperity.

Apricot: rejuvenation, love, longevity, healing; use in love spells to heal and reunite a couple whose relationship is on the rocks.

Artichoke: protection, use to get to the heart of a matter (peel away leaves to the heart).

Asparagus: power, protection, sexual stamina.

Avocado: glamours, love, lust.

Banana: protection (especially for travel), sexual stamina, fertility, prosperity.

Beans: butter beans to reduce stress, canary beans for happiness and success in the arts, black eyed peas for luck and psychic vision, fava beans for power, chickpeas for conquest, green beans for prosperity, red kidney beans for wisdom/love/healing.

Beetroot: prosperity, longevity, conquest, love. Juice may substitute for blood.

Blackberry: list, brings out the darker side of sex and sexuality (use sparingly), healing, wealth, protection.

Blueberry: protection, strengthen aura, strengthen determination.

Broccoli: protects against disease, protection, prosperity.

Brussels Sprouts: prosperity, protection, peace.

Cabbage: white for spiritual wholeness, green for prosperity, purple for power, red for love.

Carrot: psychic vision, lust, energy, willpower, fertility.

Cauliflower: protection, calms tempers.

Celery: communication, male virility, love.

Cherry: happiness, love. Juice may substitute for blood.

Corn: prosperity, protection, love.

Cranberry: can bond people together or tear them apart depending on how you use it.

Cucumber: alleviates stress and calms the mind, rejuvenation, glamours, lust, fertility.

Date: psychic cleanser, conquest, love.

Eggplant: wisdom/insight, purple for power and strength, white for purification and protection.

Elderberry: psychic protection, fidelity, spirit summoning, blessings, healing.

Fig: healing, peace, prosperity, happiness, fertility, creativity, protection.

Grapefruit: protection, uplifting, confidence.

Grapes: green for prosperity, purple for psychic and magical power, red for love and list and fertility.

Guava: fertility, sex, wealth, creativity.

Honeydew: love, marriage.

Horseradish: male virility, sex, fertility, purification, exorcism.

Kiwi: love, sex, prosperity.

Leek: exorcism, purification, protection, conquest.

Lemon; purification, love, beauty, longevity.

Lettuce: dark leafed for abundance, iceberg for calming, red leafed for employment; a money and prosperity vegetable.

Line: induce jealousy, command and compelling, release inhibitions, healing, protection.

Mandarin: cheerfulness, relaxation, calming, friendship.

Mango: love, sex, protection.

Mulberry: insight, inspiration, focus clarity, increased magical awareness, good for premonitions and precognitive abilities, protection.

Mushroom: illusions, glamours, love, psychic power.

Nuts: communication, money, luck, love, joy, produce quick results. Almonds for love; walnuts for prosperity and employment; peanuts to prevent poverty; pine nuts for lust; hazelnuts for wisdom; pistachio for love; pecans for prosperity; chestnuts for love and wisdom; cashews for luck and love; Brazil nuts for love.

Olive: wisdom, longevity, protection, prosperity, peace, fertility.

Onion: red for lust; white to clear obstacles; purple for power and seduction; yellow to dispel anger. Also healing, protection, exorcism.

Orange: prosperity, love, passion, creativity, luck.

Papaya: sex, fertility, wealth, lust, protection.

Parsnip: grounding, centring, prosperity.

Passionfruit: fertility.

Pea: peace, prosperity, beauty, love.

Peach: fidelity, happiness, longevity, love, protection, exorcism.

Pear: health, longevity, wisdom, protection, lust, love.

Persimmon: powerful fruit of luck for LGBT people.

Pineapple: prosperity, fidelity, luck.

Plum: summoning, spontaneity, love, protection.

Pomegranate: wealth, fertility, wisdom, luck.

Potato: sympathetic magic, protection, hearing.

Prune: longevity, beauty, clears obstacles.

Pumpkin: spirit honouring, protection from spirits, fertility, wealth.

Quince: love, protection, happiness.

Radish: red for love; white for spiritual protection.

Raisin: wisdom, longevity.

Raspberry: protection, courage, fun, playfulness, love.

Rhubarb: fidelity, protection, peace, happiness.

Scallion: communication, prevents misunderstandings.

Spinach: health, prosperity, energy, strength.

Strawberry: love, luck, infidelity.

Tangerine: love, cleansing.

Tomato: seduction, passion, love, prosperity, protection. Is a nightshade, so can be used in curses.

Turnip: cleansing, banishing, removes obstacles in love life, protection.

Watermelon: infidelity, luck.

Yam: summoning, love.

Zucchini: sex, fidelity, protection, prosperity.

Sources: Encyclopedia of Magical Ingredients by Lexa Rosean; Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham; The Real Witches’ Kitchen by Kate West; my own Grimoire.

Harry Potter's Courage Spell

Need:

1. pen and paper 2. cayenne pepper (passion/protection) 3. red pepper flakes (passion/protection) 4. chili powder (passion/protection) 5. cinnamon (success) 6. vanilla beans (positivity) 7. coffee grounds (dispels negativity) 8. one jar 9. red string (passion/strength) 10. yellow string (happiness)

Steps:

1. Write down on a piece of paper everything that you’re afraid of and want to overcome. Afterwords fold it up.

2. Then place the cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes and chili powder in the jar. Bury the piece of paper inside the peppers visualizing all of your fears, second guesses and doubts burning away and being replaced with a firey passion, courage and motivation.

3. Next, put in the cinnamon for success in overcoming your fears. Put in vanilla beans for positivity and then coffee grounds to dispel any negativity. When you’re done screw on the cap and say:

“Heart of a lion, these fears I will overcome. The days of me second guessing myself are done. Courage and strength will be my aid, my friends. I will be the one to win in the end.”

4. After, tie on the yellow string and then the red. Place the jar where you can see it. Touch it, hold it, etc whenever you need a reminder to be brave.

Witch's Money Bottle

What you will need:

5 each of three denominations of coin currency

5 kernels of dried corn

5 sesame seeds

5 cinnamon sticks

5 cloves

5 whole allspice

5 pecans

Place set of objects into a thin, tall bottle. Close the bottle well. Shake the bottle with your non-dominant hand for 5 minutes while repeating these or similar words:

Herbs and silver, Copper and grain; Work to increase my money gain

Place the money spell bottle on a table somewhere in your house. Leave your purse, wallet or cheque book near the bottle when at home. Allow money to come into your life. 

In light of the August Solar Eclipse ☀

Easiest Method of Finding Your Placements (For Beginners)

> Go to Astrotheme’s free natal chart calculator.

> Input your exact birth information (date, time, place) and name.

          - Click Next, and then again to confirm. (If you’d like to store your information for easy access to your chart later, sign up & add a birth profile.) The chart will look like this:

> Scroll down to the Display Parameters.            - Check the “Aspects and planet positions” box.            - Click Redraw, NOT New Horoscope.

> Scroll down to see the simplified lists of your placements (the first one to appear will be Positions of Planets, pictured below).

          - As you can see, this imaginary individual has her sun at 16 degrees in Capricorn, her moon at 9 degrees in Pisces, Mercury at 25 degrees in Capricorn and in retrograde (ᴙ), and so on.

 > Alternatively, you can hover over the symbols of the planets and asteroids to see their positions.