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

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

Moon Magic, feminine energy, spiritual development

There is quite a story about this little fern: As far back as the 16th century, moonwort was believed to be an extraordinarily powerful plant. Her power? She could control iron. She could open a door locked with iron and could literally pull iron shoes off horses hooves. It was said that the Earl of Essex in Devonshire, England, put his horses out to pasture in a field covered in moonwort and they lost all their shoes as a result.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

You can pack moonwort around a fresh wound to speed healing, and some varieties can be eaten.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Unsurprisingly, moonwort is a powerful plant for Moon Magic! She helps particularly with intuition, death and rebirth, and spiritual development. Her feminine power sings so loudly that it vibrates into the depths of anyone who works with her. Moonwort can help you navigate your journey to awakening your own feminine power and reclaiming your sacredness. Work with moonwort to bring Moon energy into your spellwork; even if it’s daytime, you can use moonwort to harness the energy of the Moon and bring it into you work. Add rose of Jericho to truly explode with Moon energy.

PLANT WISDOM

Moonwort brings light to who we are: We are not one thing: We are not titles, we are not our jobs, and we are not our life choices. We are expansive beings, colored in a variety of different shades. So often we get stuck in this notion that we need to embody only one thing—if we are Witches, we can only do “Witchy” things and if we want to “look like Witches,” we can only wear or love dark and black things. This is of course ridiculous—the commercialized idea of a Witch—you can love pink and listen to heavy metal. Moonwort helps you to remember to be you, to be unique and not get stuck by limiting yourself to other people’s vision of you. When moonwort appears in your dreams, she is working with you as you would work with clay, molding your energies to a more harmonious balance.