Herbs
don’t just look pretty in the garden or taste good in cooking – stretching back
many centuries herbs have also had many other uses from combating ailments and
calming the mind to attracting love.
Three
herbs with long standing associations when it comes to finding and keeping love
are:
Rosemary
Rosemary is a common herb, popular in
gardens and the kitchen but did you know rosemary used to feature strongly on
wedding days? Traditionally the bride had sprigs of rosemary tucked into her
bouquet and the groom wore a sprig of the herb as an early form of the modern
day buttonhole flower. Rosemary was also given as a wedding favour to guests –
small bunches of the herb, hand tied with gold ribbon, were handed out to
bestow love and remembrance.
Thyme
Herbal folklore
recommends wearing a sprig of thyme in your hair as it is supposed to make you
irresistible to the opposite sex! Try this at your own peril though because
bees are also attracted to thyme!
Marjoram
Another kitchen and garden staple,
marjoram was linked to the goddess Aphrodite – better known as the Goddess of
Love. It was said to have grown in her garden on Mount Olympus in Greece.
Legend tells us marjoram was included in the garlands used to bless the happy
couples on their weddings days. The herb
is linked to long-term love and enduring relationships and its scent is claimed
to bestow happiness.
Try A Love Spell…
According to tradition if a ‘maiden’ wants
to see a vision in her dreams of her future husband then she should put a sprig
of thyme in one of her shoes and a sprig of rosemary in the other. Then she
should lightly sprinkle the shoes with water three times and place them by the
side of her bed, say a prayer and fall asleep. Apparently it’s even better if
you can time it right to do this love spell on a night with a full moon!
In my contemporary novel How Do You
Spell Love? one of the characters called Summer uses herbs, crystals and
essential oils to cast all variety of spells to help people...
HOW DO YOU SPELL LOVE?
Modern day witch Summer needs to figure out why her long-term boyfriend’s become so distant.
Her best friend Kat is battling to forget about her ex and sort her life out.
Things are complicated enough for both of them - but then Summer meets Tom, and Kat meets Alex.
Tom is the town’s building planning officer and the environmental enemy as far as green-living Summer is concerned.
Architect Alex is in charge of the controversial new housing development that Kat and all the locals have been campaigning against.
Will the girls be tempted to fraternise with the enemy? Can they allow themselves to get involved with the men responsible for destroying the town’s beautiful meadows by building executive homes on them? And if they do, will they be brave enough to admit it to each other?
In desperation Summer decides to breaks the rules and call on her magical powers for help but she might just have made matters even worse… Is everything falling apart or does life (and magic) work in mysterious ways?
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