So, y’all, is marigold an item in witchcraft?

[mark]

I have SO MANY flowers everywhere, and it’s got me wondering if I can do anything with it. I can’t find anything on it.

Discussion

[Sabina_389]

Marigolds have some history for being used in ancestral work and also correspond with the sun. Being that it’s a mild psychoactive, it was also used in some ceremonial practices to induce visions causing it to sometimes be associated with divination and dreams. Scott Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs has a section on it

[ElegantDimensions]

Anything is potentially an item in witchcraft.

[aikidharm]

Everything is an item in witchcraft.

[Hungry-Industry-9817]

I just did a quick google search and it gives the healing properties and what they symbolize.

[No1Minds]

I saw a story once where a man in India was taking the old marigolds from the temples, drying them and making them into incense sticks.

[Schizolina]

[Marigold be they Tagetes or Calendula both have uses in witchcraft.](https://www.google.com/search?q=marigold+witchcraft)

[pwebb3372]

Marigold: Fire Element
Used for: protection, love divination, rotes of the dead, consecration.
Can be made into a balm good for the skin and insect bites, dries flowers.
Beltane and Samhain association.
I trim the flowers from the seed heads and use in bath salts, bath bombs, candle spells, protection spells. Then i share the seed with our local seed library.

[ZeeiMoss]

I believe it’s used mostly in law matters unless I’m thinking of something else.

Either way, like someone else said, everything has a purpose in witchcraft!

[basementmagus]

Two books with entries on Marigolds, Encyclopedia of Magical herbs by Scott Cunningham, and Mastering Herbalism by Paul Huson, are worth the read. If I recall from memory, they have solar and Jupiterian associations.