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Sleep/Dream plants and herbs

Anise - Sachet beneath your pillow for protecting against unwanted dreams. Bay Laurel - Sachet beneath your pillow for restful sleep and prophetic dreams. Bay leaves - Place under your pillow or use in a sachet beneath your pillow to induce prophetic dreams. Bergamot - Sachet beneath your pillow to ensure a sound sleep and to encourage pleasant dreams. Caraway - Sachet beneath your pillow to promote dream recall. Catnip - Sachet near your bed provides protection while sleeping. Celery seed - Sachet beneath your pillow to help induce sleep. Chamomile - Drink a chamomile tea or burn as incense for restful sleep. Cinquefoil - Burn as an incense during divination to later bring dreams of your future partner. Dandelion root - Sachet beneath your pillow for sleep protection. Elder - Put elderberries or elderflowers in a sachet beneath your pillow to encourage vivid dreams or receive visions Holly - Tie a sprig to the bedpost to ward off unwanted spiritual visitors. Hops - Sachet beneath your pillow for increase the restfulness and serenity of sleep. Hyacinth - Guards against nightmares when burned as an oil, incense or used in a sachet beneath your pillow. Jasmine - Sachet beneath your pillow for inducing sleep or burn as an incense for prophetic dreams. Lavender - Sachet beneath your pillow or burn as an incense for peaceful sleep. Lemon verbena - Worn as a talisman to bed to prevent dreams altogether. Lettuce - Boiled lettuce water added to a bath promotes physical relaxation prior to bed for a good rest. Marigold - Scatter beneath the bed for protection while sleeping. Marjoram - Place beneath your pillow to bring about revealing dreams. Mimosa - Sachet beneath your pillow for prophetic dreams. Mugwort - Sachet beneath your pillow for prophetic dreams. Mullein - Sachet beneath your pillow to guard against nightmares. Passion flower - Place beneath your pillow to help promote sleep. Peppermint - Sachet beneath your pillow for peaceful sleep and bringing about prophetic dreams. Poppy seeds - Stuff a pillow with poppy seeds for relief from insomnia. Rosemary - Sachet beneath your pillow to prevent nightmares. Sage -  Write a wish on a sage leaf and place it under your pillow for 3 nights. If you dream of your wish, it will come true. If not, bury the leaf in the ground so that no bad will come to you. Scullcap - Sachet beneath your pillow for relaxation and peace. Spearmint - Sachet beneath your pillow for protection while sleeping. St. John's Wort - Sachet beneath your pillow to induce prophetic, romantic dreams. Thyme - Sachet beneath your pillow to ward off nightmares and ensure restful sleep. Valerian - Sachet beneath your pillow to encourage prophetic dreams and enhance lucid dreaming. Vervain - Sachet (white or blue ideally) beneath your pillow to ward off nightmares and negative energies. Violet - Crowns made of violet are said to help ease headaches and bring about sleep.

Plants and herbs for Employment

Note: These will not simply drop a job into your lap, you still need to put in the work to look for employment and apply for jobs, these are simply meant to increase your chances in being successful.

Basil - Sprinkle an infusion of basil outside of the building where you hope to be employed for luck in a job interview (be careful not to be seen!) Bay Laurel - Use a gold/silver marker to write your goal on a bay leaf, be as specific as possible - 'I will get [Job] from [company] by [Date]'. Burn the leaf while visualizing your success and then blow the ashes into the air to release your intention to the universe. Bergamot - Carry leaves in your wallet to attract luck related to career matters and higher-paying jobs. Job's tears - Carrying three will assist in finding a good job. Kava kava - Carry for success and job promotion. Lavender - Carry a sprig or some in a sachet to increase positive changes, including changing career. Meadowsweet - Carried to boost career opportunities and secure employment. Pecan - While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and enjoying your job to help with job security/enjoyment. Sandalwood - Write your goal of finding a job/getting a raise on a chip and burn it, allowing the smoke to carry your intent,

Plants and herbs for Employment

Note: These will not simply drop a job into your lap, you still need to put in the work to look for employment and apply for jobs, these are simply meant to increase your chances in being successful.

Basil - Sprinkle an infusion of basil outside of the building where you hope to be employed for luck in a job interview (be careful not to be seen!) Bay Laurel - Use a gold/silver marker to write your goal on a bay leaf, be as specific as possible - 'I will get [Job] from [company] by [Date]'. Burn the leaf while visualizing your success and then blow the ashes into the air to release your intention to the universe. Bergamot - Carry leaves in your wallet to attract luck related to career matters and higher-paying jobs. Job's tears - Carrying three will assist in finding a good job. Kava kava - Carry for success and job promotion. Lavender - Carry a sprig or some in a sachet to increase positive changes, including changing career. Meadowsweet - Carried to boost career opportunities and secure employment. Pecan - While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and enjoying your job to help with job security/enjoyment. Sandalwood - Write your goal of finding a job/getting a raise on a chip and burn it, allowing the smoke to carry your intent.

🗝️⛤- Hekate -⛤🗝️

This is from personal practice, I encourage people to look into epithets and associations to find what works for them, these are just what works for me or information I use regularly in my own practice or have noted down in my grimoire.

Epithets: Aidônaia - Of the Underworld. || Trimorphis - Three-Formed/Three-Bodied. || Enodia - Of the Wayside/Crossroads. || Nyktipolos - Night wandering. || Atalos - Tender/Delicate. || Khthoniê - Of the underworld. || Kourotrophos - Nurse of the young. || Skylakagetis - Leader of the Dogs. || Apotropaia - The one that turns away/protects. || Phosphoros - Light bringing/Light bearing. || Angelos - Messenger || Dark Mother (Modern addition).

Colours: Black, white, red, silver, saffron/yellow, midnight blue, orange, lavender.

Symbols: Daggers, crossroads, keys, torches, entrance ways, gateways, phases of the moon, strophalos (Hekate's wheel), triple-formed statue.

Stones/metals: Moonstone, black tourmaline, hematite, smoky quartz, silver, gold, jet, amethyst, labradorite, onyx, jasper, obsidian, selenite, sapphire, clear quartz, lapis lazuli, serpentine.

Animals: Dogs, serpents, horses, polecats, boards, owls, goats, toads, crows, ravens, bats, spiders, black lambs, bull, wolves.

Food/Drink: Honey, pomegranates, garlic, leek, onions, raw eggs, cakes, honey, cheese, fish, wine, dark chocolate, milk, almonds, bread, sesame seeds, olive oil, water, mead.

Perfumes/incenses: Queen of the night, cinnamon, myrrh, mugwort, honey, lime, lemon, orange, verbena, frankincense, lavender, jasmine.

Plants: Aconite, belladonna, dandelion, yew, hemlock, cyclamen, garlic, mandrake, mint, palm date, oak, cypress, roses, lavender, poppy seeds, herbane, datura, sage, laurel, rue, saffron, valerian.

Misc: Cauldrons, witchcraft tools, bones and crow/raven feathers (ethically sourced).

Stones To Help With Stress

These stones are good for helping with stress and anxiety, keep in mind that they are to assist and bolster your coping mechanisms and not a replacement for actual mental health support!

Lepidolite

Amethyst

Citrine

Clear Quartz

Fluorite

Garnet

Hematite

Malachite

Rose Quartz

Turquoise

Black Tourmaline

Aquamarine

Blue Lace Agate

Lapis Lazuli

⚰️💀- Hades -💀⚰️

This is from personal practice, I encourage people to look into epithets and associations to find what works for them, these are just what works for me or information I use regularly in my own practice or have noted down in my grimoire.

Epithets: Ploutôn - Of wealth. || Polysêmantôr - Ruler of many. || Polydegmôn - Host of many. || Nekrodegmôn - Receiver of the dead. || Chthonius - Of the Underworld. || Eubuleus - Of good counsel. || Moiragetes - Guide or Leader of Fates.

Colours: Black, greys, deep purple, deep blue, silver, gold.

Symbols: Cerberus (three-headed dog), helm of darkness/cap of invisibility, bident or scepter, keys, cornucopia, chariot.

Stones/metals: Red coral, black coral, obsidian, garnet, diopside, onyx, black tourmaline, hematite, gold, silver, blue aventurine.

Animals: Dogs, screech owls, bats, moths, serpents, black horses, black herd animals like sheep or goats.

Food/Drink: Poppy seeds, pomegranate, olive oil, wine, milk, honey, dark chocolate, black coffee, sharp cheeses, flavored meats (especially lamb), whiskey, rum, caramel chocolate chip cookies, apples, figs, vinegar-y foods.

Perfumes/incenses: Apple, frankincense, myrrh, wormwood, sandalwood, cinnamon, rose, pomegranate, dragon's blood, mulberry.

Plants: Mint, tobacco, cypress, mint, patchouli, bay, pumpkin, yew, lavender, willow, oak, cinnamon, marigold, dandelion, daisies, lily, rose, rowan, poppy, daffodils, calendulas, asphodel, white poplar.

Misc: Coins, dark stones, bones (ethically sourced).

🧹 Quick Cleansing Practices 🧹

Burn birch bark and twigs to remove negative energies.

Place charged amethysts in a room to act as a spiritual cleaner, cleanse and recharge the crystal regularly to keep it potent.

Bathe with lavender (flowers,oils, soaps, etc. - ensuring they are body-safe) for spiritual as well as physical cleansing.

Using plain garden sage, grind it into a fine powder and burn it (ideally over a charcoal) to 'fumigate' your body of negative energies.

Add a small amount of salt to your bath water to help add spiritual cleansing.

Dragon's blood incense is a useful space cleanser, light it and walk it around your house, finishing at an exit (such as an open door/window) to chase out negative energies.