Extensive Herb and Stone Meanings List

Welcome to the Extensive Herb and Stone Meanings page, where we believe that every candle tells a story and serves a purpose. By incorporating specific herbs and gemstones, each candle is infused with unique energies that resonate with your intentions. Here, you’ll discover the meanings behind the herbs and stones we use, exploring how they can amplify your rituals and create a harmonious blend that supports your journey toward self-discovery and empowerment. Embrace the magic of customization and let the wisdom of nature guide your path as you light your candle and ignite your intentions.

Herbs:

Forget Me Not: The name comes from an ancient legend, it is magic associated with the language of flowers with true love- the love that never dies. Also symbolizes friendship. Symbolizing remembrance and true love, these delicate blooms are used in candles for emotional healing and strengthening connections.

The One Thousand-Day Red: Known for its vibrant energy, this herb is associated with passion and vitality, making it ideal for candles aimed at igniting desire and creative inspiration. Loyalty, unquenchable love, and never give up. 

Mint: Fresh and invigorating, mint is used to promote clarity, prosperity, and protection, enhancing focus during meditation or ritual work. Great for removing spiritual and emotional blockages that are keeping your intentions from coming to fruition.

Lavender: Renowned for its calming properties, lavender is used in candles for relaxation, tranquility, and spiritual cleansing, fostering a peaceful atmosphere. Recommend lavender to all witchcraft beginners because of its wealth of uses and universal appeal. Lavender can be added to almost any magical working to provide stress relief, increase psychic abilities, clear out spiritual energy, and bring balance to a space.

Red Rose Petal: The rose is the Queen of the flowers and an expert in all things related to love. Red rose petals are used in a wide variety of spells and rituals, because this flower is said to have the most positive energy of any living thing on the planet. A classic symbol of love and devotion, red rose petals are included in candles to attract romance and enhance emotional connections.

Sage: Sage is the wisdom of elder and ancient generations. Sage can be burned to clear the spiritual residue from an area, cleanse the aura, and offer spiritual protection. Often used for purification, sage in candle magic helps clear negative energy, and promote wisdom and clarity in decision making.

Yarrow: Associated with courage and protection, yarrow is used in candles to strengthen resolve and enhance resilience during challenging times. Can be used for marriage, improving courage, love and priendship, psychic abilities, and hex breaking.

Clover: Clover has a long history as a medicine and can help speed magical and emotional healing, and has always been a magical talisman.

Mugwort: Talisman for safe travel, both is waking life, and in dreams. Known to it’s connection to dreams and intuition, mugwort is utilized in candles to enhance psychic abilities, promote vivid dreaming, and help you recall them.

Nettle Leaf: With its protective qualities, nettle leaf is used in candles for casting off negativity and fostering strength in personal endeavors. Magical use for cleansing, protects from danger, and protects health.

Bay Leaf: Magically associated with success, wisdom, and divination. Used in candles for manifesting goals and enhancing mental clarity.

Rosemary: The jewel of the Mediterranean, the magical associations include protection, improving memory, wisdom, health, and healing. Symbolizing remembrance and fidelity, rosemary is included in candles to boost memory and strengthen bonds in relationships.

Lemongrass: Clearing up confusion, smoothing out chaotic energy, and opening roads and lines of communication. Refreshing and uplifting, used in candles for purification, promoting positive energy, and clarity of thought.

Thyme: Thyme magic is used for purification, psychic cleansing, divination, healing, enhances memory, eases sleep, and courage/confidence in one’s endeavors.

St. John’s Wort:Often associated with joy and optimism, this herb is used in candles to ward off negativity, enhance emotional well-being, power of the sun, fertility, purification, healing, and positive energy.

Basil: Basil is one of the first herbs recommended to new witches because it’s useful in practical magic. Its energy is generally positive and is good at attracting money and love. Revered for its protective and purifying properties, basil is used in candles to attract love and prosperity while enhancing spiritual awareness.

Jasmine: Called, “Queen of the Night”, it is associated with the moon and feminine energy- which has long been associated with seduction, sensuality, love, meditation, spirituality, harmony, and prosperity. A symbol of sensuality and love, jasmine is included in candles to invoke passion and promote emotional healing.

Clove: Magically, the clove is associated with protection, purification, mental ability and healing. Known for its warming and protective qualities, close is used in candles to enhance strength and ward of negativity.

Cinnamon: Cinnamon possesses a great amount of energy, and a pinch can be added to anything to rev up the power level. It is also excellent for spells and charms involving money. Magically, cinnamon is associated with success, action, healing, protection, energy, love, prosperity, and purification.

Dandelion: Associated with longevity, enhances psychic ability, intuition, spiritual and emotional cleanser. Symbolizing resilience and growth, dandelion is used for wishes, new beginnings, and promoting personal transformation.

Ze Lan:  Ze Lan is a tenacious life-giving symbol. Magical associations for health, healing, increase positive energy. Used to enhance vitality, and support emotional well-being.

Mulberry Leaf: Has strong adaptability, the meaning of vitality, the worship of life. Magically, it’s associated with courage and strength. Used to promote peace and harmony in relationships.

Herba Pyrrosiae: Known for its calming effects, this herb is used for emotional healing, spiritual grounding, peace, and to help remove depressed energy.

Gynostemma: Used for purification, health, and spiritual growth.

White Snake Grass: Often used for protection and purification, this herb is included in candles to enhance clarity and spiritual awareness. Known for grace, vitality, and the implication of caring for healthy growth.

Catnip: Catnip is all about the moon, night, and fantasy. It’s blended to attract love and luck, make you more charming to others, or put you in the right mindset for magic. Known for its playful and uplifting qualities, it is also used to attract joy, and foster a lighthearted atmosphere. 

Eucalyptus Leaf: The holy tree for the Aboriginals, it represents the division of underworld, earth, and heaven. The magical use for protection, healing, and purifying- negative energy disappears in the place where you burn candles with Eucalyptus leaves. Used to promote clarity in thought and spirit.

Hyssop: Magivally associated with cleansing, purification, protection, and spiritual healing. The name derives from a Hebrew word designating a plant used to purify the Temple.

Ginko Biloba: For centuries, it has served as a symbol of hope and peace in Asia. Moreover, it enhances mental functioning, stimulates creativity, and increases positive energy. 

Fennel Seed: Known for its protective qualities, fennel seed is used in candles to attract abundance and support personal transformation. Associated with courage, strength, and cleansing.

Chrysanthemum: Commonly associated with love, flirtation, hope, and innocence. Symbolizing joy and longevity, used to promote positivity and attract good fortune. Used in magic associated with children as well.

Butterfly Pea: With its vibrant blue hour, butterfly pea is used for creativity, and inspiration, encouraging open-mindedness and exploration. 

Roselle: The Roselle is inviting, beautiful, and loving; but also strong and confident. Used for love, independence, passion, magical catalyst, divination, balancing chakras. It’s a perfect meeting of both the sensitive nature of water, and the passionate force of fire. Enhanced emotional balance, attract love, and compassion.

Carnation: Also known as gillyflower, the carnation has a wonderful healing energy and makes an excellent gift for the sick. Carnations are used for protection, strength, energy, luck, and healing. Symbolizing admiration and love, they are used to strengthen relationships, and promote emotional healing.

Peony: You can work with Peony spirit on issues such as anger, anxiety, or banishing. Find assistance for your business through peony. Protect yourself, family, or friends from danger, relieve nightmares. Discover hidden things or promote opportunities, success, prosperity, and enhance love’s presence. 

Lily: Lily is associated with the moon, water, emotion, and love. It can be used for protection: to keep unwanted visitors away, spirits, negativity, and curses. It also can be used to repel targeted love magic, or used to break spells regarding love. Symbolizes purity and renewal, also used for spiritual growth, and to promote a sense of peace and tranquility. 

Fig: Inspires strength, faith, and enlightenment. Great in love spells, fertility spells, and protection spells. The knowledge that this plant is said to bring, also makes it very good for divination spells. Prosperity, and deepen personal connections.

Violet: A symbol of modesty and faith, violets are used to promote tranquility, emotional balance, peace, hope, harmony, protection, luck, love, sleep. Encourages peace, particularly among people.

Lotus: Representing enlightenment and rebirth, lotus flowers are used to foster spiritual growth, inner peace, blessing, meditation, and protection.

Sophora: Known for its protective and healing properties, sophora is used to support emotional well-being and ward off negativity. Use for protection, keep away evil, protect against the evil eye, and to keep unwanted visitors from your home.

Stones:

Clear Quartz: Has the function of focusing, concentrating, and expanding memory and is the synthesis of all energies. Knows as the “master healer”, clear quartz amplifies energy and intention, making it ideal for enhancing the power of candle spells and promoting clarity of thought.

Red Agate: Has a health-promoting effect on the human body, and it also has very good symbolic meanings like auspicious protection to ward off evil spirits and to ensure peace. Associated with strength and courage, used to promote stability and confidence during challenging times.

Yellow Agate: Symbolizing joy and optimism, yellow agate is used to attract happiness and enhance creativity. Helps you to increase concentration, willpower, memory, and logic. Reinforce courage, confidence, happiness and prosperity into lives.

Rose Quartz: The stone of unconditional love, used to foster compassion, emotional healing, and harmonious relationships. Get along sweetly with your lover.

Turquoise: Known for its protective properties, turquoise is used to promote communication and emotional balance, enhancing spiritual awareness. Success, a symbol of auspiciousness and happiness.

Colored Fluorite: This stone is known for its cleansing properties, to clear negative energy, and promote focus and clarity in intentions.

Obsidian: A powerful protective stone, used to shield against negativity and enhance personal strength and self-reflection.

White Turquoise: Associated with tranquility and healing, used to promote emotional balance, spiritual growth, relieve stress, repair your heart, and give you more care and love.

Shell: Symbolizing intuition and emotional healing, shells are used to enhance connections to ocean’s energy and promote inner peace.

Garnet: In Spanish astrology’s, the garnet represented the sun. Known for its energizing properties, it is used to enhance spiritual insight and promote truthful communication.

Lapis Lazuli: The blue color of lapis lazuli is a color meaning of hope, symbolizing peace, auspiciousness and goodness. Wisdom and self awareness, used to enhance spiritual insight and promote truthful communication.

Rubellite: A variety of tourmaline, rubellite is associated with love and compassion. Used to attract romantic energy and emotional healing.

Tiger Eye: Known for its grounding properties, tiger eye is used to promote stability, confidence, and protection during times of chance. Meaning peace and health, it is also a symbol of success in business. It can enhance the aura. 

Aventurine: Aventurine has remarkable healing effects of the body’s heart and lung problems. It is said that green aventurine corresponds to the heart chakra, and also increases the flexibility of the body’s muscles. Associated with luck and abundance, also attracts prosperity and enhance creativity.

Fluorite: Represents life, hope, and health. It is comfortable, quiet, makes people feel stable. Known for its ability to absorb negative energy, promote mental clarity, and enhance balance.

Strawberry Quartz: This uplifting stone is used to enhance joy, love, and emotional healing, fostering a positive atmosphere. The color of pink is the color of love, and it signifies a happy marriage, and improve the luck of love.

Red Adventurine: Associated with motivation and leadership, used to inspire action and drive toward personal goals. Motivates one to take physical action that makes dreams come true.

Amazonite: Known for its calming energy, communication, emotional healing, and fostering inner peace. Has the power to turn dangers into successes and send you confidence. It also means wealth, and it can bring good luck to people.

Amethyst: Has the symbolic meaning of peace- also represents faithful lobe and can symbolize wisdom and courage. A powerful stone for spiritual growth, promote tranquility, and aid in meditation.

Citrine: Known as the “merchant’s stone”, citrine is used to attract wealth, success, and positive energy, fostering abundance and joy. Can make us feel confident, and has a calming and calming effect on people who are nervous, as it can reduce fear and eliminate guilt.