Yesterday I was working in one of my gardens. I was pulling up a few weeds here and there. A man approached me wanting leaves from someone else's plot. I explained that they did not belong to me. He had a think accent and brown skin. I assumed he was Indian.
I gave him some peppermint which made him happy. He was very pleased to explain that various dishes can be cooked with this herb. Peppermint tea is a little bit more common. I have had peppermint with some vegetable soy protein in the past.
Aleister Crowley associated peppermint with the path of Aleph and it is an air herb. This makes it good for divination or visualization. There is a very strong scent given off by peppermint. This is why it has the air association.
Peppermint tea is very good to drink if you feel nauseous. It can ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. It is a digestive and a cup of tea is a great way to finish a heavy meal. Bronchitis and pneumonia can be eased as well by this tea and breathing in a steam with the herb in it. When you have a headache you might try making a peppermint poultice.
Insects don't like the smell of peppermint. You can get rid of ants by spraying the essential oil.
There was a visit to my garden yesterday. I pulled out some weeds. It is nettles which overrun my garden. These are quite easy to pluck out. My decorative cabbage had disappeared. There was only the root left.
In the greenhouse I have started some Vervain. This is an herb to rekindle lost love. I am going to be working with it in the future. A tradition witchcraft herb this is and for magick I shall use it. In my life the desire for love has become a little bit confusing. I wish to reawaken feelings within myself to change the way I currently feel about love. As a purification herb it will be used to restore feelings of lost innocence. This pertains to much of the work I am doing as a sorceress and witch.
In Kabbalistic pathworking I am currently working on the 11th path. This is to restore lost innocence and bring back the inner child. It is a path of new beginnings and finding a prophetic wisdom to inspire new work.This path is linked to The Fool card in the tarot.
Vervain can be used many ways in magick. The leaves can be made into a tea to give you prophetic abilities. A maceration in oil can be placed on your third eye chakra to give you psychic vision. Ritual baths can include a sachet of Vervain to cleanse you before embarking on ritual magick. It can dried and burned on a self-igniting piece of charcoal as an incense to purify your space.
