Decide on your intent, be it health, protection, love, etc. Fill bottle with corresponding herbs and flowers. Seal and display in your home.

 Smudging is a great way to purify a space. 

Fresh chamomile, comfrey, lavendar, rosemary,and rue stocks about 6 - 10 in long.. Plus any other protection herbs you like.

While holding the bundle so that cut ends align start at stems and as you wind the string around the bundle working your way to the bottom and back up say "Protection and safety, these I call, to protect each room and every hall. Protection and safety always known, keep ill will from this sacred…

Here is a fun easy way to add some herbal magick to your craft plus it look pretty! lol

Protective Door Wreath

basic grapevine wreath / fresh chamomile,lavendar, pennyroyal stocks or any other protection herb./ ribbons, flowers, crystals etc

Start at top of wreath and working clockwise say "Circle round, circle round, my home is safe from roof to ground"

Once herbs have dried remove and us in other protection workings…

The Dark Moon is a good time to do protective magic and to banish things from your life. …

#8 – Khadija

Source: “Uppity Women of Medieval Times”, Vicki León, ISBN 1-56731-250-1 (1997)

Behind almost every great religion founder, there’s a great woman.  Mohammad and Islam were no exceptions.  An orphan who’d had a tough life as a shepherd, Mohammad in his twenties got a job as escort to a trade caravan headed from Arabia to Syria.  The owner of the caravan was a widow in her forties named Khadija.  She was an aristocrat from the key…

Leaves:   During long cold winters, during which we inevitably indulge in extra fatty foods, the dandelion leaf is a perfect food to help us lose that extra weight and to detoxify from the comfort food we consumed while it clears congested lymphatic fluid that has gathered. Being a bitter herb the leaqves break down fats and aid digestion. They are filled with Vit A, Vit C, Potassium, Iron, B Vits, Magnanese, and Silicia. The leaves are best enjoyed when they are young and tender....I prefer…

I decided to put this in a blog post instead of the message thread because it ended up being longer than I thought seemly for a message response.  It's an interesting topic.  

I'm not completely sure where to begin, which is why I've been mulling over this topic since I first saw it pop up in my email!  

I have quite a few animals around me and my house, but they are the usual kinds.  I live in Mississippi, so I've got tons of birds, mostly the…