The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home - Arin Murphy-Hiscock 2018

Appendix

Ingredients and Supplies

This is a brief list of the associated energies of herbs and kitchen supplies to use for various spiritual and magical purposes. It is by no means exhaustive. If you’re looking for a good reference book to help you explore the energies associated with stones and plants, Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs and Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, & Metal Magic are good places to start.

✵ Blessing: olive oil, salt, water

✵ Protection: rosemary, salt, clove, angelica, bay, fennel, rue, sage

✵ Joy: lavender, lemon, orange

✵ Love: rose, basil, apple, cardamom, vanilla

✵ Communication: lavender, basil, carnation

✵ Purification: salt, fennel, rue, sage, lemon

✵ Abundance: basil, allspice, cinnamon, fenugreek seed, mint

✵ Energy and action: cinnamon, ginger, clove, chili peppers

✵ Health: ginger, lemon, apple, fenugreek seed, angelica, coriander, sage, orange

✵ Meditation: anise, frankincense, sandalwood

✵ Purification: angelica, sage, clove, salt, baking soda, lemon, rose

Basic Color Reference List

If a theme or energy you’re looking for isn’t on this list, think about the topic and choose the color that your intuition prompts you to pick. This is a good rule of thumb when looking at any color reference list: everyone is different, and one person’s red may be another person’s blue.

Colors

✵ Red: life, passion, action, energy, fire

✵ Pink: affection, friendship, caring

✵ Orange: success, speed, career, action, joy

✵ Yellow: intellectual matters, communication

✵ Light green: healing, wishes

✵ Dark green: prosperity, money, nature

✵ Light blue: truth, spirituality, tranquility, peace

✵ Dark blue: healing, justice

✵ Violet: mysticism, meditation, spirituality

✵ Purple: occult power, spirituality

✵ Black: protection, fertility, mystery, meditation, rebirth

✵ Brown: stability, home, career

✵ White: purity, psychic development, blessing

✵ Gray: calm, spirit work, gentle closure, neutralizing energy or situations