Five Finger Grass

Five Finger Grass

The five points of the leaf represent love, money, health, power, and wisdom. Stimulates memory, eloquence, and self confidence. Carry, burn, or wear to possess these traits. 

~Can be used in workings for business and house blessings, gambler's luck, spells to bring protection to a friend or loved one taking a journey. 

~Burn as an incense during divination to bring dreams of one's intended mate. 

~Frequently associated with ritual work involving romance. 

~Wash hands and forehead with an infusion of this herb nine times to wash away hexes and evil spells against you. 

~Fill an empty egg shell and keep it in the home for powerful protection from evil forces. 

~Wrap in red flannel and hang over the bed to ward off dark spirits of the night.

Also Called: Five Finger Grass, Synkefoyle, Witches Weed, Five Leaf, Tormentilla, Sunkfield, Bloodroot, Moor Grass, Goosegrass, Goose Tansy, Crampweed, Silverweed, Silver Weed, Sunkfield

Mock Orange (English Dogwood)

Mock Orange (English Dogwood)

Philadelphus Coronarius

Mock Orange or English Dogwood is a favorite of many gardeners for its sweet-scented blossoms. That statement is a mockery! Have you ever encountered this plant with all its glorious blooms on a sunny day and couldn't resist to get up close for a sniff of their sweet aroma only to be mocked, fooled and laughed to scorn by the Fae. If so, then you know why it is called 'Mock' as the aroma is light to nonexistent, but I will let you in on a secret that all tricksters in the Fae realm know, "Catch the Mocker by Moonlight!"

That's right, try smelling the blooms at night when the blossoms release their heavenly sweet aroma, which is why this plant makes for a perfect fit in any Moon garden. 

So, what magick can mock orange be used for? 

Temporary illusions and to give impressions from a distance, but remember just like this beautiful bush, it's enchantment only works from a distance as any would be target that moved in for a closer look and whiff would plainly see and know it is fake and a mocker of orange and hawthorn blossoms and a sneaky wearer of dogwood leaves!  

Ancestral Healing

“The collective pain-body is probably encoded within every human’s DNA, although we haven’t discovered it there yet.  ~ Eckhart Tolle

Having experienced the physical passing of four immediate family members in the last nine months has brought the importance of ancestral healing  front stage for me. I have very little doubt of the truth that previous generations have a profound affect on our lives, not just the knowledge, learning and teachings they past down while manifested in this realm, but the unseen and seldom heard, recorded DNA memories. In my own family, while my grandmother was still alive, she experienced an extreme act of violence that traumatized and raised her fear levels into a morbid terror and phobia of the outside world and other people. She lived the major part of her life closed and shut away from the world outside of her house, the simple act of opening the front door rather somebody was knocking or not, was overwhelmingly terrifying for her.  No one (that I can find) from previous generations before her had such a morbid fear and crippling condition anything like hers. But, strangely enough, we are reaching four and five generations out, and several family members that never knew her, not once ever met her and have very little knowledge of her,  now display, suffer and struggle with degrees of the same condition she had.We have a lot a little children starting out earlier in the therapist office and parents wringing their hands with worry that something unexplainable and terribly bad is wrong with their children. Running joke at family events is based in comparing the "shitty DNA" we each inherited. 

We do not realize that whatever has been done, felt or thought is within our DNA. We have inherited all the energetic patterning including our ancestors' thoughts, feelings, illnesses and reactions to both tragedies and celebrations.

Over the years, I have listened to other family members that knew my grandmother, make fun of her and down right belittle her. My own father made the horrible statements that her life was worthless and that she contributed nothing to humanity. But the one thing never heard from these people that knew her so well, was a family secret that got covered up, something that no one wanted to face...what actually caused her condition. Without that knowledge, her condition is unexplainable, just like the extended family being affecting by it today (it's just some shitty DNA we all inherited, right?). The answer to that question is "Yes and No", it is memory energy that will continue to be past along in our family DNA, but as an energy it can be changed and transformed into something more helpful and positive that won't bring with it such crippling affects. Healing ancestral  memory and energy requires honesty and truth, it requires someone in the family being able to pass on the truthful, non candy coated reality of their ancestor's lives. And it requires the younger and newer generations to have the interest in knowing the histories of those that went before them. 

Our ancestors exist not only in genes passed down through the generations, but also in an energetic pattern of thoughts, emotions, illnesses and karma which can effect every part of a person's life. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual issues can be healed such as alcoholism, depression, mental illness and various physical illnesses. Even criminality which has now been mapped by the Human Genome Project can be addressed by ancestral healing. 

If the family members laughing at my grandmother actually knew what had happened that eventually caused and helped to push her fears over into the morbid, I should hate to think they would not choke on their laughter. I would also hate to think that they would not take the time to consider and acknowledge everything handed down to her and all that she had been taught to believe inside her family circle that lent to the accumulation of "shitty DNA" patterns (Key words here: TAUGHT and PATTERNS) that left her defenseless to the final blow that destroyed all her hopes and dreams while she lived. And as for my father, I could only wish that his statement about grandma not contributing to humanity was true, but, fact is, we all contribute rather we want to or not. 

Normally, the things drawn into the DNA ancestral gene pools are usually the issues we would never want to be passed on and have others affected by them. I'm sure that my grandmother's travel between the veils has thus far been a heart wrenching experience for her to know and sense that her own blocked path and unfinished healing has now extended further into the lives of others coming after her (the more profound and frequent the symptoms showing up in the next generations are signs of her turmoil {grief and guilt}of feeling herself to be the cause). Which starts a chain reaction that will reach back into generations of those that came before her and of those that were here living on earth with her, having them add in and attribute their own "what I did and didn't do that helped cause this", thus sending forward an extremely strong current and vibration through the DNA that affects the greater percentage of people being born into the family's blood line. 

When working with your ancestors on certain issues, don't be surprised if and when you find an unbelievable plethora of seemingly unrelated issues, patterns, behaviors, beliefs, personality traits and characteristics tied into and feeding off of that initial issue. It is also worthy of mention that when it comes to DNA, "likeness attracts likeness", which means that patterns formed and passed on through your mother's family will more than likely match the patterns coming through your father's side also, I have even noticed similar patterns running through the relatives by marriage and not blood such as spouses of uncles, aunts and cousins, etc... 
If you find two people attracted to each other, one of the main things that seals the deal between them is that their DNA is bouncing and singing in harmony.

Incense Correspondence

Incense Correspondence 
(for ready made and manufactured products) 

• Almond - Burn for prosperity and fruitfulness, also healing and to help with overcoming additions

• Aloes - Burn to attract good fortune, love, strength and to raise spiritual vibrations

• Amber - Burn for insight into the past, divination and     emotional balance

• Apple - Burn for abundance, fertility, good fortune and luck, and love

• Arruda (Rue) - Burn for purification and expelling negative energies 

• Basil (Basilic) - Burn to attract fidelity and love, sympathy and wealth, also for protection or to expel evil spirits 

• Benzoin - Burn for psychic protection, clearing, purification,  protection and prosperity 

• Blue Berry - Burn to keep unwanted influences away

• Camphor - Burn to ward off evil and cleanse surroundings

• Carnation - Burn for healing

• Cedar - Burn for insight or power, also for virility in men

• Chandan (Sandalwood) - Healing, purification and protection

•  Cherry - Sacred to Venus, stimulates love

• Cinnamon - Burn for prosperity, wealth and success 

• Citronella - Burn as an aid for depression and healing 

• Clove - Burn for dispelling negativity, to stop gossip and to attract money 

• Coconut - Burn for protection and purification 

• Coffee - Burn for protection, curse breaking, healing, also as offering for ancestors 

• Copal -Burn to honor the Gods

• Dragon's Blood - Burn for protection and exorcism, also for good luck and to add strength to any spells

• Dammar Gum - Burn to lift the spirits and remove negativity, also for cleansing

• Diwali (Row of lights) - Light, love, wealth and spiritual prosperity 

• Eucalyptus - Burn for healing, to maintain good health and for protection.

• Frangipani - Burn for anything related to friendships and love

• Frankincense - Burn for solar energies, to create sacred space and raise positive vibrations

• Gardenia - Burn to attract good and peaceful spirits during ritual works, lunar magick and to raise vibrations

• Geranium - Burn to help with overcoming negative thoughts and attitudes, and to aid with balancing the mind and body

• Ginger -Burn for money and success, also for spiritual growth

• Goloka Nag Champa - Burn for meditation, has the same correspondence as sandalwood. All purpose, used in healing, protection and purification. Goloka is the eternal abode of Krishna.

• Green Tea - Burn for healing and calming the conscious mind 

• Gulab - Same correspondence as rose,  love, luck, grief and healing. Induces peace and harmonious vibrations

• Honey - Burn as offerings to the gods or spirits, also for healing, love and prosperity

• Honeysuckle - Burn for good health, luck and psychic powers

• Hyacinth - Burn for love, happiness and protection, also guards against nightmares 

• Kamasutra - Burn to enhance love and passion to spiritual levels 

• Khus (Khush) - Burn to alleviate stress, re-balance and heal the body 

• Kiwi - Burn to encourage fertility, physical love and passion

• Jasmine (Mogra) - Burn for luck, especially in matters relating to love, also to honor the Goddess'

• Juniper - Burn for protection, psychic powers and to guard against evil, hexes, and sickness

• Lavender - Burn to calm the mind, works for love spells and to attract a mate

• Lemon - Burn to clear the mind and help with studies 

• Lemon Balm - Burn for compassion 

• Lemon Grass - Burn to undo crossed conditions, ward off evil and clear negative energies

• Lilac - Burn for protection and exorcism, also peace and harmony 

• Lily of the Valley - Burn to restore happiness, improve focus and memory and for faery magick

• Lotus - Burn for inner peace and outer harmony, also aids in meditation and opening the mind's eye

• Lumiere (Light) - Burn to draw spiritual guidance 

• Magnolia - Burn for fidelity, loyalty and love

• Manjusheri (Tibetan) - Burn for ritual, ceremonies, and purification

• Mint - Burn to attract money and beneficial spirits

• Moldavite - Burn for dream works and meditation

• Musk - Burn for vitality and to heighten sensual passions

• Myrrh (Guggul)- Burn for protection, healing, purification and spirituality 

• Nag Champa - Burn as you would Sandalwood, sanctifying and purification, also for meditation, enlightenment and as an auric energizer  

• Opium - Burn for dream workings, lucid and prophetic

• Orange Blossom (Neroli) -  Fidelity, love and luck

• Oudh (Agarwood) - Burn for meditation, spiritual enlightenment, inner balance and peace

• Padmini Dhoop - Burn for inner peace, harmony and meditation 

• Panchvati Dhoop - All purpose, burn for healing, protection and purification

• Passionflower - Burn for peace and to calm the mind, and to aid with sleep 

• Patchouli - Burn for attraction spells

• Pine - Burn for strength, money and protection 

• Rose (Gulab) - Burn for love, luck, grief and healing. Induces peace and harmonious vibrations

• Rosemary - Burn for purification, healing, to prevent nightmares, and to dispel depression

• Saffron - Burn for healing and to strengthen psychic awareness, also for love, lust and healing. Great to use in element 'air' workings (associated with the wind)  

• Sage - Burn for purification and protection

• Tangerine - Burn to remove limiting thoughts and enhance creativity 

• Vanilla - Burn for mental powers, healing, love, lust and luck

• Vetivert - Burn for love, luck and money workings

•  Violet - Burn to calm the mind and relieve stress, stimulate creativity, draw prophetic dreams and visions, and to ward against evil spirits

• Ylang-Ylang - Burn for relaxations and to relieve anxieties, also for peace, love and used for faery magick

Backyard Magick ~ Part Two ~ "Rocks"

~ Rocks ~

Rocks are classified into three main categories: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Igneous rocks are formed from heat and fire, sedimentary rocks are formed from particles being pressed together over a long period of time, and metamorphic rocks are formed when a sedimentary or igneous rock changes form due to pressure and/or heat. 

Igneous rocks contain properties of both earth and fire. One common type of igneous rock is granite, a very hard stone. Magickally, granite can be used in spells for defense, protection, perseverance, stability and lasting passion.

Sedimentary rocks are great for energy combining spells. Sandstone, rock salt, chert, coal, dolomite, flint and limestone, just to name a few.

Metamorphic rocks, such as quartzite, slate, soapstone, gneiss, or phyllite can be used for causing change or transformation. 

Backyard Magick ~ Part One ~ "Dirt"

 ~ Dirt ~

"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."  ~Roald Dahl

Dirt is filled with the power of the earth, influenced and charged with the energies of the surrounding environment, it makes a very versatile ingredient for a variety of purposes in spell working. Dirt has the magickal attributes of strength and wealth, but it can have additional properties depending on where you gather it.  Graveyard  dirt is great for conjuring spirits or communicating with the dead, and it's also useful in magick intended to cause a termination or a waning of power. Use it for protection works, love, home and family, binding, injustice, ancestor works and spirit guidance.

While dirt found near large, old trees or found in agriculture fields or gardens, is especially powerful for wealth and to increase fertility, virility or for the germination of ideas, dreams and hopes. Fertility doesn't always mean child conception. Dirt from riverbanks, lakeside, or other ares prone to erosion is useful for transformative magick. Use the dirt where it is at, by casting your spell for transformation or reduction into the dirt covered area with high erosion and let the next rain wash it away.

Dirt gathered from sunny, grass covered areas will contain solar energy, while dirt from banks will lend help for prosperity and financial matters. The dirt from churches or temples of worship is considered 'holy' and purifying. 

There are a lot of ways to use dirt magickally, you can empower a pinch of dirt with an energy and then discreetly dust a bit of it over your body, your magick tools, or anythings else being used in the workings. Dirt can be used in 'gris gris' bags and used as feeding dust or powder also. Mix with spell waters, oils and herbs to make mud charms, or mix to make a liquid stain for painting and writing. With just a little creative thought, dirt can become a powerful spell tool. 

Home Protection Spell Charm

House into home,
I raise this protective dome
within no negative may roam.

No need for a great tome
Burn a black candle
Til' it all be gone

Van Van oil with soapy foam
Sage like a fine tooth comb
Dragon's blood to drown all drones

Hang the besom with some bone
Call the ancestors with an invisible phone
No reason to work it alone

Ring the bell in ritual tone
Welcome the black bird's song
My house is now a home.

                                         ~Cizz