Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants - Juliet Diaz 2020

Hibiscus
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

love, peace, healing

Hibiscus plants are known for their large, colorful flowers—they bring so much color into your garden or home—and they have many uses. You can crush the blossoms until they release a sticky substance, which you can then use to blow bubbles. Hibiscus tea is valued all over the world, and being high in vitamin C, it is quite tart and delicious. Hibiscus comes in beautiful vibrant hues, including red, yellow, peach, or white. In Hindu traditions, the red hibiscus symbolizes the goddess Kali. Tahitian and Hawaiian women often wear hibiscus in their hair.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Hibiscus teas and liquid extracts can help treat a variety of conditions. In Ayurvedic medicine, hibiscus promotes hair growth, and can prevent your hair from going gray. It can help balance your hormones and keep your body temperature cool. Hibiscus is also good for the skin, and can relieve acne.

Healing Hibiscus Waters Ritual

This powerful but gentle spell offers a soothing vibration, one that evaporates from the water and into the air all around you, permeating your energy field.

WHAT YOU NEED

Clear glass bowl

5 to 7 fresh hibiscus blossoms

Rose quartz

Rose essential oil

WHAT TO DO

· Fill your glass bowl with cold water.

· Place the hibiscus blossoms in the water, letting them float.

· Add the rose quartz and let it sit at the bottom of the bowl, and then add 1 to 2 drops of rose essential oil.

· Place the bowl in the room that needs the most harmony and love—you can put it in the living room to bring everyone together and ease tension, or keep it in the bedroom to rekindle and fire up passion. You can also just place it next to you to heal your heart, and sit with your bowl while you journal, writing for self-love.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Hibiscus has an affinity for love and passion. She works on the sacral chakra to help you to rediscover your zest for life. Though commonly worked with to promote intimate love, hibiscus paves the way for love of all kinds, including discovering your purpose in life. Hibiscus teaches you to flow with life rather than against it, and to find harmony in all that you do.

PLANT WISDOM

Hibiscus brings harmony to us all. Place bouquets of fresh hibiscus all around your home during the spring and summer, leaving your windows open to circulate her balancing energies and loving flow. Dreaming of hibiscus means that you have been drowning in self-pity and self-hate; she has come to help you swim back to the top. She brings new breath into your life.