The herbs listed below should be easily obtained at any grocery store, and should not get a second glance from even the most rabid anti-magickal person.
Some ways to include herbs in your spells are to simmer them on the stove in a pot of water, to include them in ritual foods or drinks, to burn them in a fire, or to place them in a bag, doll, or pillow. You can also scatter them on your working altar.
*Anise*
Element: Air
Contacting other planes, divination, love, passion, preventing nightmares, protection,psychic development, psychic protection, purification, clairvoyance, cleansing, consecration, fertility, gain, good luck, happiness money, weddings
*Basil*
Element: Fire
Consecration, divination (esp. about love), exorcism, fertility, fidelity, good luck, happiness, harmony, love, money, passion, peace, prosperity, protection, psychic development, psychic protection, purification, strength,success, tranquility
*Bay*
Element: Fire
Consecration, divination, dreams, healing, love, passion, protection, purification, wisdom, wishes
*Caraway*
Element: Air
Fidelity, love, memory, passion, preventing theft, protection, retention, sensuality, consecration, fertility, gain, honesty, keeping, secrets, peace of mind, weddings
*Celery seed*
Element: Earth
Psychic development, Beauty, divination, fertility, love, passion
*Cinnamon*
Element: Air/Fire
Clairvoyance, consecration, divination, energy, good luck, love, money, passion, peace, prosperity, protection, success, communication, happiness, harmony, healing, inspiration, knowledge, meditation, purification, spirituality, tranquility, wisdom
*Cloves*
Element: Fire
clairvoyance, divination, exorcism, keeps away negative, forces, love, memory, money, passion, peace of mind, protection, purification, stopping gossip, cleansing, friendship, psychic development, release, spell- breaking
*Coriander* (also called Cilantro)
Element: Fire
Love, clairvoyance, divination, fertility, gain, health, keeping secrets, passion, peace, protection, retention, weddings
*Dill*
Element: Earth/Fire
love, protection, psychic protection, blessings, confidence, determination, dreams, fertility, gain, harmony, keeping secrets, money, passion, peace, prevents theft, retention, rest, sleep, tranquility
*Fennel*
Element: Air/Fire
Confidence, courage, fertility, longevity, love, Midsummer, protection,
psychic protection, purification, strength, commanding, consecration, divination, energy, gain, meditation, Summer rituals, virility
*Garlic*
Element: Fire
Magic, passion, protection, spell-breaking, strength, clairvoyance, commanding, confidence, consecration, courage, divination, healing, longevity, money, overcoming opposition, prevents nightmares, purification, stopping gossip, success, weather (fair)
*Ginger*
Element: Fire
Main magickal uses: love, passion, psychic protection, cursing, health, psychic development, sensuality, success
*Lavender*
Element: Air
Clairvoyance, cleansing, consecration, happiness, healing, love,
Midsummer, money, passion, peace, peace of mind, protection, psychic protection, purification, tranquility, blessings, chastity, divination, dreams, energy,
gentleness, good luck, grieving, harmony, keeping secrets, magic, meditation memory, retention, ritual, sleep, stability, virility, weddings
*Lovage*
Element: Earth/Water
Love, beauty, cleansing, consecration, money, passion, protection, psychic protection, purification
*Mace*
Element: Air
Clairvoyance, fertility, gain, good luck, love, protection
*Marjoram*
Element: Air
grieving, happiness, love, money, protection, psychic development, psychic protection, tranquility, weddings, animals, cleansing, courage, dreams (of love), harmony, peace, rituals for the dead, success
*Mustard seed*
Element: Fire
fertility, health, love, passion, protection commanding, cursing, exorcism, gain, good luck, sensuality, spell-breaking, strength, success, virility
*Nutmeg*
Element: Fire/Air
clairvoyance, divination, money, dreams, fertility, gain, love, meditation, passion, prosperity, protection, psychic development, rest, sleep
*Onion*
Element: Fire
exorcism, protection, clairvoyance, cleansing, contacting other planes, divination, healing, lunar rites, magic, purification, spell-breaking
*Oregano*
Element: Air
happiness, tranquility, animals, grieving, harmony, love, peace, protection, psychic development, weddings
*Parsley*
Element: Earth
divination, happiness, passion, protection, psychic, development, purification, clairvoyance, cleansing, consecration, fertility, good luck, invocation, meditation, rituals for the dead, speed
*Pepper*
Element: Fire
cursing, exorcism, passion, protection, commanding, sensuality, spell-breaking, stops envy
*Peppermint*
Element: Air
cleansing, consecration, dreams, happiness, healing, love, money, passion,
prosperity, protection, psychic development, purification, release, renewal, rest, sleep, animals, divination, endings, energy, exorcism, good luck,
grieving, spirit offering, success, transformation
*Poppy seed*
Element: Water
Dreams, Binding, clairvoyance, consecration, cursing, fertility, prosperity
*Rosemary*
Element: Fire
cleansing, confidence, consecration, courage, exorcism, good luck, grieving, happiness, healing, knowledge, love, memory, passion, peace of mind, prevents theft, protection, psychic development, purification, release, ritual, rituals for the dead, water rites/sea rituals, weddings, blessings, dreams, endings, energy, elves, fidelity, honesty, inspiration, invocation, longevity, meditation, new moon, prevents nightmares, sleep, strength, transformation, wisdom, Yule
*Saffron*
Element: Fire
Clairvoyance, divination, cleansing, commanding, consecration, exorcism, healing, magic, psychic development, purification, spell-breaking, weather(raises wind)
*Sage*
Element: Earth
cleansing, healing, longevity, money, passion, prosperity, psychic development, psychic protection, purification, wisdom, business, clairvoyance, consecration, divination, domestic harmony, energy, happiness, inspiration, keeping secrets, knowledge, love, Mabon, meditation, peace, retention, Samhain, tranquility, weddings, Yule
*Savory*
Element: Air
Passion, animals, attracts males, happiness, love, satyrs, sensuality, virility
*Spearmint*
Element: Air
consecration, happiness, love, money, passion, prosperity, protection, psychic development, animals, dreams, endings, exorcism, healing, good luck,
release, renewal, rest, sleep, spirit offering, success,
transformation
*Star Anise*
Element: Air/Water
clairvoyance, good luck, protection, psychic development, consecration,
divination, exorcism, fertility, gain, invocation, justice, love, money, passion, preventing nightmares, psychic protection, spiritual places
*Tarragon*
Element: Fire
commanding, confidence, courage, passion, protection, strength, animals, calming, keeping secrets, love, peace, prevents theft, retention,
sensuality virility
*Thyme*
Element: Air
clairvoyance, cleansing, consecration, courage, divination, dreams, exorcism faeries, happiness, healing, love, money, prevents nightmares, protection, psychic development, purification, compassion, confidence, contacting other planes, grieving, magic, meditation, Midsummer, passion, release, renewal, rituals for the dead, Summer rituals, wishing
*Turmeric*
Element: Fire
Passion, commanding, confidence, courage, exorcism, magic, sensuality, spell-breaking, strength
*Vanilla*
Element: Fire
love, passion, energy, new moon
*Wintergreen*
Element: Earth
Animals, contacting other planes, good luck, money