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This is not a foolproof method, but as I’m making my personal ward, I’m finding that there’s very little information about the plants in my area. I have pokeberries on my farm, so I’ve decided to look into their magical use but I didn’t find anything. To improvise, I meditated with a few and looked up their medicinal use. They were used to induce vomiting, so I decided to use them as a stain with salt and vinegar for my wooden ward. They will get rid of bad energy that enters my life, the pokeberry energy throws out the bad energy and leaves me without so much negativity. (Just a warning, pokeberries are toxic, so don’t eat them under any circumstance)
So in that, I realized that every correspondence seems to somehow relate to the herb’s medicinal properties or something similar, so if you have a herb that doesn’t have a well known correspondence, look into it’s medicinal properties. I think you’ll find that meditating with that herb and asking it what it can be used for works well too, but either works and both together works very well. Happy crafting everyone, peace and blessings.
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How to figure out an herbs correspondences
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I love, love, love what you are doing and how you are developing a relationship with the plants around you rather than just looking up a list of correspondences! I love that you are using the plants growing near you rather than ordering plastic bags of old dry stuff! Yes! This, this is how it’s done!
Pokeberry does have magical protective qualities, and you are right, a plants medicinal qualities are often related to their magical properties and illustrate not just what the qualities are, but how they work. I would encourage you to delve into botanical folklore, too. Many of these plants have stories associated with them, and those stories can be drawn upon to learn a plant’s true power.
I have this in my Audible library: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35888551-botanical-folk-tales](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35888551-botanical-folk-tales)
and there are other books of botanical lore (with varying quality of scholarship) available on the subject as well.
It is far, far better to learn about a plant, and *from* a plant, hear and tell its stories, learn its nourishing, healing or baneful qualities, taste them if they’re edible, sit with it, grow it, observe it in the wild or in your garden rather than just looking it up on a chart. It’s the best path to plant magic, at least as far as I’m concerned.
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I sometimes group herbs together by smell or taste, because those broad similarities tend to tell you what “type” of herb you have. Not everything is safe to taste or even apply to the skin, but sometimes you can tell by the season or terrain something is growing in what category it would theoretically fall under.
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Yesss! So weird, I just recently started doing something like this because none of my magickal herbal/plant books had any information about the lambs ear plant? Nor could I find very much about it online (which seems strange to me) Anyway I love it so much and I put it in my herbal apothecary regardless, and as usual i looked up the medicinal uses (which again not much information on it) found a couple sources that its used for wound dressing and antiseptic things like that so I did the same thing as you where I equated that to the magickal properties being along the lines of ’emotional & spiritual wound healing” as well as a few other properties but yes! I’m glad you mentioned this for others. 🙂
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This is lovely! I’m extremely new to all of this but it makes sense to me. I would like to try using certain herbs I’ve always loved (herlichrysum, vetiver, and tulsi) if I can, I feel I am drawn to them
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Oh thanks! Honestly I never thought to do this, what a treat to find this post, especially while I too have been curious about my local plants recently that have grown. Normally I meditate for a while on them and the uses for them pop up, but this seems quite quick.
