rosemarinus
officinalis
PARTS USED
Leaves and small branches
GENDER: Masculine
ELEMENT: Fire
PLANETS: Mars /Mercury /Sun
FOLK NAMES
Compass Weed
Dew of the Sea
Elf Leaf
Guardrobe
Insencier
Libanotis (Greek)
Polar Plant
Sea Dew
POWERS
Clear Thinking
Contentment
Exorcism
Healing
Love
Lust
Mental Powers
Money
Protection
Purification
Sleep
Youth
Magical Uses
This is a good all around herb to have it in your cupboard.
Used primarily for contentment and happiness
to the home and to the person, a branch is hung,
food is cooked with it or it can be worn
to be a tension relieving and contented feeling.
This added to other appropriate herbs is a great boost for money,
when you don't need your own money making press,
just enough to say, cover those concert tickets you want.
Carried in a sachet, talisman or amulet,
this is a great guard against negative energies.
Tea is drank to improve
mental clarity and aid in the memory.
Rosemary, when burned, emits powerful
cleansing and purifying vibrations, and so is smouldered to
rid
a place of negativity, especially prior to performing magic.
It is one of the oldest incenses.
When placed beneath the pillow rosemary ensures
a good sleep and drives away nightmares.
Laid under the bed it protects
the sleeper from all harm.
Rosemary is hung on the porch and doorposts
to keep thieves from the house and is carried to remain healthy.
Placed in the bath it purifies.
A chaplet of rosemary, worn. aids the memory,
while the wood, smelled often, preserves youthfulness.
To ensure the latter, add a rosemary infusion to the bath water.
Rosemary has long been used in love and lust incenses
andother mixtures, andhealing poppets are stuffed
with rosemary to take advantage of its curative vibrations.
Rosemary infusion is used to wash the hands before healing
work, and the leaves mixed with
juniper
berries
are burned in sickrooms to promote healing.
If you wish to receive knowledge or the answer to a question,
burn rosemary on charcoal and smell its smoke.
Rosemary is grown to attract elves, and the powdered leaves
wrapped in linen cloth and bound to the right arm
dispel depression and make the emotions light and merry.
Rosemary is gerally used as a substitute for frankincence.
Source(s)
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham
Witchcraft
and Magic
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