House Plants for Spellcasting and Ritual Use

As a house plant witch, I have found that utilizing my plants in my rituals and spells helps heighten the energy and intent of them.

Using house plants in your spells doesn’t have to be fancy (in fact, most of my spell casting and rituals are simple). Here are three ways to incorporate your house plants into your rituals and spells:

  1. Write your intention on a piece of paper and bury it in the pot. You can also set the pot on top of it, or write the intention on the bottom of the pot, or even on the side. But use it as a vessel that will hold and uplift your intention and energy.

  2. Place crystals in your house plants and set the plant somewhere around your house to help elevate and bring good energy, while also protecting you (see below for good plant options for protection).

  3. As a stand in for a person. Some witches use poppets (little representations of people), but you can use your house plants as well. Careful when doing this, as you only want to use it for energy that will uplift and help the person of your intent, not harm (you don’t want to kill your house plant with bad energy, right?).

There are truly a myriad of ways you can incorporate house plants into your spells and rituals, and truly there is no wrong way. But why should you? Using your house plants as a focus of your intention will help remind you and uplift that energy each and every time you tend to it. House plants need regular watering and care, and each time you care for it, you’re reigniting your original energy of that spell.

That’s why they are very good for long-term spells and rituals, especially ones related to personal growth and healing. In this way, you can also sense if your spell is working by examining how your plant is faring. Are you taking too much care of it, meaning you’re holding on too tight to an outcome, or are you neglecting it, meaning you are fearing or dreading the outcome.

House plants are a great tool to help us delve into inner reflection that inevitably transforms our outer world as well.

Here are 8 options for house plants to use for various spellcrafting and rituals:

  1. Bromeliad: wealth, protection

  2. Monstera deliciosa: strength, discernment

  3. Hoyas: love spells, self-healing

  4. Philodendrons (especially micans, cordatum, or brasil): healing, spiritual development

  5. Cactus/euphorbia: protection

  6. Begonias (especially angel wing, polka dot): manifestation

  7. Alocasia: banishment, cord cutting

  8. Pilea peperomioides: abundance, wealth, friendship

In a pinch, if you need to cast a hex or curse, then I’ve got two options for you: croton or fiddle leaf fig! IYKYK! Haha!

Thanks for reading. Let me know what houseplants resonate with your witchcraft!

Samhain...a time for new beginnings

Blessed Samhain, witches!

It’s appropriate that my first blog post (after having this whole website thing for over a year), takes place on one of the most important holidays for witches. I find that I always have a creative surge between Mabon and Samhain and today felt like the perfect day to launch my online store and write my first blog post.

Today I’m feeling drawn to the rebirth energy that this holiday brings. While we can honor our ancestors and welcome the darkest part of the year, we can also see that in all destruction there is renewal and change. All death brings with it some form of change or movement. Something new must spring up because no energy is lost, just converted to something different, possibly better, possibly not, but needed all the same.

So today I will honor my deceased loved ones, those I knew in this lifetime and those I didn’t. I’ll light some candles, make an offering, and spend some quiet time thinking about them. I like to envision my ancestors spread out through time, like an infinite family tree. But generally I like to think about those I knew in this lifetime; those lost to me physically, but never spiritually. It’s interesting the messages and conversations we can have with our dead loved ones. They can still teach us so much, even in death. And if you think you’re just “imagining” the conversation, so what? Maybe it’s in your head, but who says it isn’t real?

As we head towards the darkest time of the year, think about how you can work on finding rebirth in it. What is something new that is calling to you? What can you let go of so you can begin again, so that when spring returns we are ready (or maybe already in the depths) for something fresh and exciting!

Happy communing with your dead loved ones, or trick-or-treating, or eating candy, or dressing up, or doing none of those things! May this day, and all others be filled with moments that ask you to pause and reflect on your journey in this life and what must die to be born anew!

Oh, and also go check out my new shop! Find it under “Treasures” in the tabs above!