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Saffron
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Fire
- Plant Part: entire plant
- Properties: Prosperity, healing, love, happiness, lust, strength, psychic powers, clairvoyance, wind raising. Increases sexual prowess in men. Use liberally when working with the chakras. Burn, wear, carry or drink to help develop and strengthen psychic awareness. Can be a substitute for orange. Also used with other herbs for healing.
Sage
- Gender: male
- Planet: Jupiter and Venus
- Element: Air and Earth
- Plant Part: leaves
- Properties: Fertility, longevity, immortality, wisdom, protection, healing, maintaining health, prosperity, wishes, money, purification. Burn and walk the smoke to the four corners of a room to repel and rid negative energies and influences. Especially good when moving into a new home. Used when meditating. Ask the Goddess to guide your speech while brushing your teeth with sage and rinsing your mouth with spiced wine. Used in sachets and amulets for all healing spells. Burned or placed near a personal object of the person for whom a healing spell is being cast. Can be used in an infusion to aid digestion or as a part of a honey wine to fight colds and fever. When applied in compresses it can ease many skin discomforts, including dandruff. If made into cream it is good for muscular pain and if dried and smoked, sometimes gives relief to asthma. Can also be drank as a tea to promote a hasty healing.
Sagebrush
- Properties: purification, exorcism
Sandalwood
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Air and Water
- Plant Part: wood, resin
- Properties: Purification, cleansing, protection, healing, exorcism, spirituality, meditation, astral projection, psychic powers. Burn to enhance your meditations and healing spells. Use the wood for a healing wand, or decorate a healing wand with a piece of the wood. Burn to cleanse and purify yourself or the home by passing the smoke over your body or through the house. Used with other herbs in developing spirituality.
Sarsaparilla
- Properties: love, money
Sassafras
- Properties: health, money
Savory, Summer
- Properties: mental powers
Scullcap
- Planet: Jupiter
- Element: Earth
- Also Known As: Skullcap
- Plant Part: entire plant
- Properties: Love, fidelity, peace, meditation, clarity of thought. Use in a bath for calming the aura of tensions and stress. In tea form, drink before meditation. Burned for relief of disharmony and disruptive situations.
Senna
- Properties: Love, healing. Relaxes the bowel and aids in defecation.
Sesame
- Properties: money, lust
Shallot
- Properties: purification
Skunk Cabbage
- Properties: legal matters
Slippery Elm
- Properties: halts gossip
Sloe
- Properties: exorcism, protection
Snakeroot
- Properties: luck, money
Snakeroot, Black
- Properties: love, lust, money
Snapdragon
- Properties: protection
Solomon's Seal
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Fire
- Plant Part: leaves and root
- Properties: Protection, exorcism, cleansing. Burn for cleansing rooms and yourself of negative influences. Carry in an amulet or sachet for protection in all sorts of situations. Use with other herbs in dream pillows.
Sorrel Wood
- Properties: healing, maintaining health
Southern Wood
- Properties: love, lust, protection
Spanish Moss
- Properties: protection
Spearmint
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Air
- Plant Part: entire plant
- Properties: Healing, love, mental powers. Use in a bath for strength and vitality. Carry the herb in a sachet for healing, or drink in tea form. Burn for healing spells, especially respiratory.
Spider Wort
- Properties: love
Spikenard
- Properties: Love, calming, balancing, inner peace.
Squill
- Properties: money, protection, hex-breaking
St. John's Wort
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Fire
- Also Known As: Scare-devil, Goat Weed, Amber, Fuga Daemonum, Herba John, John's Wort, Klamath Weed, Sol Terrestis, Tipton Weed
- Plant Part: entire plant
- Properties: POISON. Power, strength, protection, love, divination, happiness, calming, maintaining health, banishing, exorcism. Used in protective charms, and to ward off fever and illness. Use the leaves in a necklace to ward off sickness and tensions. Incense form is best for banishing or exorcising, or repelling negative thoughts and energies from yourself or others. The tea form increases courage and will power. Carry to strengthen your courage and conviction, or when you are about to confront a nasty situation. Gather on Midsummer's Eve, pass through the smoke of bonfires to purify and hang in the house as protection and ward against nightmares.
Stillengia
- Properties: psychic powers
Straw
- Properties: luck, image majick
Strawberry
- Properties: love, luck
Sugar Cane
- Properties: love, lust
Sulphur
- Also Known As: Brimstone
- Properties: Exorcism, protection. Smells like rotten eggs.
Sumbul
- Properties: Love, luck, health, psychic powers.
Sunflower
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Fire
- Properties: Fertility, wishes, health, wisdom. The seeds are eaten by women to increase fertility. Welcomes and invites the blessings of the Sun into the garden.
Sweet Pea
- Properties: Friendship, chastity, courage, strength, happiness, love.
Sweetgrass
- Properties: calling spirits
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