Spring Flower Magick

[Lunawolf]

Spring Flower Magick

From the Middle Ages through the Victorian period, flowers developed rich magickal associations and meanings that are still employed in everyday spells. The following are some suggestions for using spring flowers in your own magick:

Rose

Used in love spells for centuries, the color of the rose often notes the precise meaning of the offering today. For example, red is for passion or romantic love, yellow is for friendship, white is for chaste love, and pink if for a budding romance or to say you like someone a lot. To draw his or her attention your way, strew rose petals over an area a targeted lover will walk.

Lilac

Lilacs can be added to oil blends that help you see your past lives. Anoint your temples and the area known as the third eye, just above and between your eyesbrows, to get the best effect. Place them around your home to ward off evil spirits.

Primrose

Cultivate to attract faeries, and carry them to attract a highly charged sexual love.

Cowslip

This is another favorite of spring faeries: they will gladly come to live in a garden in which cowslip is growing. Use it in spells for seeking wealth and health, and place it near your front door when you wish to be left alone.

Violet

This early spring flower has many magickal uses. Add it to spells for protection, love, healing, and sleep. Place it under your pillow to attract a new lover to your bed.

Apple Blossom

Use in love spells and rituals that celebrate lifecycles. In Celtic mythology the apple is the symbol of the otherworld and of the goddess who has control of the rebirthing process.

Orange Blossom

Add to spells whose goal is not just love, but marriage. This doesn't have to be traditional mainstream marriage, but marriage as you see it is best for you and your partner. Carry at your own wedding to help make yours a sexy and sacred marriage in the image of the deities.

Daisy

Allow daisies to be a central feature of spells to attract love and lust. Don't forget the old folk custom of picking off the blooms of each daisy head while saying, "S/he love me not, s/he love me so" to divine whether someone you love loves you back.

Hawthorn

This is the ultimate faery plant, and in Ireland many people will not disturb a hawthorn bush in any way, knowing it is the home of faeries who can help or hinder. Tie wishing ribbons to hawthorn bushes so that friendly faeries can assist you in making them come true. Be sure to leave an offering or libation for them too.

Columbine

Add to spells for love. Wear them when you need to fortify your courage or willpower.

Crocus

Add in spells to attract love and use to adorn Ostara altars.

Jasmine

Use jasmine in spells for love, psychic dreaming, and to help find needed cash.

Daffodil

Use daffodils to honor the God and Goddess of Spring, to enhance both their fertility and your own. Use them also in wishing charms and love spells.

Flowering trees also have their place among the symbols of Ostara and Easter.

The pink blossoms of the dogwood tree have been symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus, just like the lily.

Apple blossoms speak of love and new life.

Hawthorn blossoms begin to bud in England and Ireland around Ostara, and at Beltane they are collected as magickal and sexual talismans.

In the Celtic tree calendar it is the alder tree - a tree connected with psychic and regenerative powers - that rules over the month of Ostara.

Ostara

Edain McCoy

[tracelle]

Apr. 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM A lovely list thank you. I love the colours you selected too.