Herbs and Plants for Witchcraft: Water Element Herbs

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These water element herbs are the perfect way to tap into the life-giving power of water.

Cleanse and purify yourself and your home with magical herbs, and add them to water element spells.

The water element is sensitive and intuitive, and these herbs nourish our souls with these aspects.

DO NOT INGEST THESE PLANTS unless you know for sure that it isn’t poisonous, doesn’t have any pesticides on it, and won’t interact badly with anything else that you have taken or will take.

Be smart and stay safe.

To keep track of the plants you know, make sure you use a Materia Medica.

Aloe

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Ointment

Aloe offers protection and luck. When placed on a grave, it promotes peace and relieves loneliness. It guards against evil influences, enhances success in endeavors, and banishes negative energy. Place it under your pillow for deep sleep. Grown in the home, it protects against accidents.

Apple

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Apple is used in spells for love, healing, and immortality. Its branches make powerful wands for emotion spells and love magic. Carve apples into poppets and use them during Halloween/Samhain or rituals for the dead. It is also used to honor gods of fertility and sexuality.

Avocado

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Avocado attracts love, lust, and enhances beauty. Its wood is ideal for making wands. It is beneficial for sex magic.

Balm of Gilead

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Balm of Gilead is used for love, spirit manifestation, protection, and healing. It alleviates stress and anxiety. Burn it to attract spirits or carry it to mend a broken heart. Steep in red wine for a love potion. Dress candles with its oil.

Banana

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Banana increases male potency and fertility. It attracts money and prosperity.

Belladonna

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Drug/Ointment/Potion

Belladonna was once used in “flying ointments” but is poisonous and should be used with caution. It helps in forgetting painful memories and healing from past hurts.

Birch

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Birch is used for exorcism, protection, and purification. Plant it near your home to guard against the evil eye and infertility. Use its twigs to make traditional witch’s brooms. Sacred to Thor, its wood is most potent when from a tree struck by lightning. Birch cradles protect the child within.

Blackberry

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Blackberry is used for healing, money, and protection. Bake into pies for Lammas celebrations or use with leaves in wealth spells. This plant is sacred to Brighid.

Cabbage

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Cabbage is beneficial for fertility, money, luck, and moon magic.

Camellia

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Camellia attracts riches and luxury, especially in spells for work or business.

Camphor

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Camphor enhances prophetic dreams and psychic powers, strengthens spells, and increases charisma and influence. Burn it to cleanse a new home or altar. It promotes chastity and health, and worn around the neck, it wards off colds.

Caper

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Caper increases potency, lust, and love.

Cardamom

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Cardamom is used for love, fidelity, and lust. Add ground seeds to warm wine or apple pies for a lust potion.

Catnip

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Catnip is excellent for magic involving or intended for cats. As a tea, it has a calming effect. It draws in love, beauty, and happiness. Use its large leaves as bookmarks for your Book of Shadows. When mixed with dragon’s blood, it helps to eliminate bad habits. Grown near the home, it attracts good spirits and luck. This plant is sacred to the goddess Bast.

Chamomile

Gender: Male
Planet: Sun
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Oil/Dust/Powder

Chamomile reduces stress and is beneficial for love and healing spells. Sprinkle water and chamomile around your home to break hexes and curses. Grown in a garden, it promotes plant health. Keep the herb with lottery tickets for luck. Burn it to attract money, remove stress, and aid in meditation. Wash your hands with chamomile-infused water before gambling or handling cards to improve luck. It also enhances sleep quality.

Cherry

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Cherry is excellent for love magic and divination, increasing happiness. The bark helps with lust, frugality, and persuading others to do favors for you.

Coconut

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Coconut enhances chastity, protection, and purification.

Comfrey

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Carry comfrey while traveling for a safe trip. Place it in luggage to prevent theft or loss. The root can be used in money spells. Use it in worship of Saturn. Comfrey is good for healing, both medicinally and magically. It increases beauty and aids in stability, endurance, and protecting your property.

Cucumber

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Cucumber is used for healing, chastity, and fertility. It is cooling and soothing, both physically and emotionally. Lay slices on your eyes to aid in astral travel.

Daffodil

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Daffodil is associated with love, fertility, and luck. It banishes negative energy and increases fertility. Wearing it on your chest brings luck.

Daisy

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Daisy promotes lust and luck and makes others see you as innocent. It is associated with babies and can be used to bless and protect them. Wear it to attract love.

Datura

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Datura, though highly poisonous and hallucinogenic, can be sprinkled around your home to break spells and banish evil spirits. Place leaves in your shoes to treat insomnia if your toes are pointed toward the nearest wall.

Dittany of Crete

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Burn Dittany of Crete to make spirits manifest. The juice drives away venomous animals. It is associated with Halloween/Samhain and communication with the dead.

Elder

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Elder improves sleep and was used by the Druids for both blessings and curses. It destroys enchantments placed on you, protects against negativity, and increases wisdom and wealth. It helps resist the urge to cheat on your lover and assists the dead in finding the Underworld. It is good for exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, and peace. The flowers can be used in wish spells. Do not burn the wood, as it is sacred to Hecate. Offer the flowers at your altar. Hang elder over doorways to guard against evil. It brings luck to newlyweds, and flutes made from its wood will conjure spirits. A spirit of the Earth is said to reside within these trees.

Elm

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Elm is used for love magic and protects against lightning. It is related to the Elves.

Eucalyptus

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Eucalyptus heals and protects. Use the dried leaves in poppets or pillows or to purify a building.

Foxglove

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Foxglove protects your land from evil when grown. It is toxic and should not be used without understanding its properties. Do not grow it in homes with pets or children. Use black dye made from foxglove to draw protective signs around your home. It attracts fairies and other magical creatures and can be used to commune with the dead.

Gardenia

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Gardenia promotes peace and protects from outside influences. Carry it to attract love, and burn it for health and peace for someone who is sick. The scent is spiritual and enhances the emotional charge of rituals.

Geranium

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Geranium is used for money, love, health, fertility, and protection. It helps overcome negativity and depression and lifts spirits.

Gourd

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Gourd is useful for protection magic.

Grape

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Grape increases fertility, mental powers, and money. In a ritual, have someone hand you the leaves as you visualize them turning into money.

Hellebore

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Do not eat or breathe in fumes! Hellebore makes you invisible and protects you. It blesses farm animals or pets, making it useful when working with familiars.

Hemlock

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Hemlock is highly poisonous. Solomon used this plant to consecrate his sword. It is extremely powerful magically and can destroy the libido. Carried as a charm, it protects you while traveling the astral plane. It is sacred to the goddess Hecate.

Henbane

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Henbane is another poisonous plant. Throw it in water to bring rain and use it for love charms.

Hibiscus

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Hibiscus increases lust, making it useful for love magic. It is also useful in divination.

Hyacinth

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Hyacinth brings peaceful sleep and calms the mind. It attracts many good things, including love and luck. It wards off nightmares and lessens the pain of childbirth. Named after Hiakinthos, the Greek god of homosexual love, it is useful in love spells for gay men.

Iris

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Iris purifies and brings wisdom. It makes you more courageous and increases faith. It purifies buildings and helps with reincarnation. It also blesses babies.

Ivy

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Ivy is good for protection, healing, fertility, and love. In the home, it banishes negative thoughts and unwanted guests. A gift of Ivy and Holly protects newlyweds. It is sacred to the gods Osiris and Dionysus.

Jasmine

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Jasmine heals snake bites and aids in divination. Use it to charge quartz crystals. It draws your soulmate to you. Burn or carry flowers to bring money. Jasmine helps with innovation and prophetic dreams. The essential oil increases sexuality.

Kava-Kava

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Drug/Ointment/Potion

Kava-Kava gives visions, protects, and brings luck. It is also an aphrodisiac and good for travel protection. Carry it when asking for a promotion at work.

Lemon

Gender: Male
Planet: Sun
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Lemon cleanses the spirit and body, helps with headaches, and flushes out impurities. Lemon peel can be used in love magic. It increases lifespan and draws new friendships. Serving a lemon pie to your lover ensures faithfulness.

Lettuce

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Lettuce increases chastity and love. It aids sleep and prophetic dreams. Lettuce is protective and useful for moon magic and male sex magic.

Licorice

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Carrying licorice attracts a new lover. It is used for love and fidelity, helps the dead pass on peacefully, brings passion to sex, and aids those who want to quit smoking.

Lilac

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Lilac drives away evil. Plant it on your property to protect your home and belongings. In a haunted place, it encourages ghosts to move on. Lilac also increases wisdom, memory, and luck.

Lily

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Lily is a fertility charm that symbolizes renewal and rebirth. It promotes marital happiness and prosperity for the home but breaks love spells. It keeps ghosts and unwanted visitors away from your home.

Lobelia

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Lobelia attracts love and prevents storms and damage from storms.

Lotus

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

The lotus symbolizes water and is sacred to Hermes, Oshun, and Osiris. It is used for love, protection, psychic powers, and spiritual growth. The lotus opens locks and new spiritual paths. Use the seeds to break love spells, and carry any part of the lotus for good luck.

Marijuana

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion, Incense/Perfume

Marijuana cleanses, protects, and has calming properties.

Mesquite

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Incense/Perfume

Mesquite is a plant of healing. Use it to fuel fires for rituals or in baths for purification.

Mimosa

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Mimosa is good for protection, love, dream magic, and purification. Use it in sleep pillows for prophetic dreams and in baths to break hexes.

Morning Glory

Gender: Male
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Morning Glory binds and banishes evil. It can make others attracted to you or vice versa. Wrap a morning glory vine around a poppet nine times to banish someone.

Mustard

Gender: Male
Planet: Mars
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Mustard increases fertility, mental powers, and protection. It enhances courage and strength. Carry it to guard against injury. Yellow mustard brings faith and success, while red mustard seed sprinkled around the house keeps thieves away.

Myrrh

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Incense/Perfume

Myrrh opens spiritual realms and aids in meditation and healing. It enhances all magic and brings peace when burned as incense. It exorcises evil and lessens the pain of loss and tragedies. Myrrh is sacred to the goddess Isis.

Myrtle

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Myrtle is a love herb. Worn, it increases fertility unless you are a new bride, in which case it delays pregnancy. Drinking myrtle tea preserves youthful beauty. It attracts friendship and money.

Papaya

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Hang papaya twigs and wood over a door to keep evil out of a home. Eating papaya with a loved one intensifies that love. Burn or use it in a bath with mandrake to break hexes.

Passion Flower

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Passion Flower brings peaceful sleep, draws friendship, increases libido, and makes you more popular. It calms arguments at home and washes away stress when used as a wash.

Peach

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Peach increases fertility, love, and wisdom. Carry a peach pit to ward off evil. It is good for exorcism and wishes. Carry the wood for longevity.

Pear

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Eating pears with your lover strengthens your love.

Periwinkle

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Periwinkle is powerful and often used in love spells. It draws money and offers protection. Gather it at specific moon phases for best results. It protects against evil spirits and is used in burial rituals for children. Gazing at periwinkle can bring back lost memories. It is the patron herb of witches.

Peyote

Gender: Male
Planet: Mercury
Uses: Drug, Charm/Talisman

Poplar

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Poplar represents old age and the loss of hope. The buds and leaves can attract money. Black poplar is a funeral tree sacred to Mother Earth and aids in divination.

Poppy

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Poppy increases fertility and love, draws in prosperity, aids in restful sleep, and brings good luck.

Rose

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Rose is ideal for love magic and enhances beauty. Rose tea brings prophetic dreams. The petals and hips aid in healing and can be sprinkled around the house to reduce stress. Useful in any goddess work, rose oil can be used to dress emeralds.

Sandalwood

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Sandalwood clears negativity when scattered around the home. It is good for protection, healing, and exorcism. The scent protects against evil spirits. The wood can be used for healing wands or write a wish on a chip of sandalwood and burn it. Sandalwood aligns the chakras and helps with meditation and concentration.

Skullcap

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Skullcap brings peace and relaxation, strengthens vows, and protects against someone else’s charms. It stops disharmonious situations.

Spearmint

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Carry or burn spearmint to aid healing. It brings love and protects while you sleep. Spearmint increases mental power and, when used in baths, boosts strength.

Strawberry

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Strawberry is good for love and luck. It attracts success and favorable circumstances. Carry the leaves to increase luck and ease the pain of pregnancy.

Sweetpea

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Sweetpea draws allies to you, makes others more loyal, and increases courage and chastity.

Tamarind

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Tamarind is good for love magic.

Tamarisk

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Tansy

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Tansy increases health, makes you invisible and immortal, and extends your lifespan. It is associated with death and rebirth and is good for Easter/Ostara rituals. Around the home, it keeps evil and police away.

Thyme

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Incense/Perfume

Burn thyme to purify your ritual space. Carry it to a funeral to keep negativity away. Thyme also increases psychic abilities when carried. Avoid pulling up wild thyme, as it draws powerful energy from the Earth. It boosts courage and keeps nightmares at bay when slept with under a pillow. It makes your allies more loyal and improves their opinion of you. Bathe in thyme before working with candles.

Tomato

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Tomato is perfect for love spells and healing spells, especially when dealing with cancer.

Valerian

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Valerian induces relaxation, aids dreams, love, and reconciliation after arguments. Use it in sleep pillows. It purifies ritual spaces, substitutes for graveyard dirt, calms emotions, and helps with insomnia.

Vanilla

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Vanilla is good for love and lust magic, increases mental power, and restores energy.

Violet

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Violet calms and increases creativity. It brings prophetic dreams and tranquility. The leaves protect from evil, and a crown of violets cures headaches, dizziness, and insomnia. Given during times of new beginnings, it brings luck. Violet grants wishes and speeds healing. Place on a child’s grave to aid those grieving the loss of their child.

Willow

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Willow is sacred to the Druids and often found in cemeteries. It protects from evil. Traditionally, brooms are bound from willow branches. Use willow for wands in moon magic. It brings love, enhances divination, aids healing, strengthens love, and helps overcome sadness.

Wintergreen

Gender: Female
Planet: Moon
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Wintergreen added to a bath brings good luck to children. It also purifies areas and breaks hexes.

Wolfsbane

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman, Drug/Ointment/Potion

Wolfsbane is a poisonous plant connected to werewolves and vampires. Use it to honor death by burning it at funerals and planting it on graves. It is an offering to Hecate and helps pierce the veil to other worlds. Wolfsbane increases invisibility and is used to consecrate ritual knives.

Yarrow

Gender: Female
Planet: Venus
Uses: Charm/Talisman

Yarrow aids healing and is used for weddings. It banishes negativity and fear, opens psychic powers, promotes courage, and helps with divination and love. Sit in a field of yarrow to ground yourself and relax. It helps newlyweds remain happy for up to seven years, banishes depression and anxiety, and is often used in love spells.

Yew

Gender: Female
Planet: Saturn
Uses: Charm/Talisman

The yew is the death tree, sacred to the goddess Hecate. It is good for curses and any ritual or spell concerning death. Yew helps raise the dead and protects against evil. It also breaks hexes.