Fresh and astringent, with a distinctly citrus aroma, lemon balm is an essential herb in the witch’s magical garden.
From encouraging rapid personal growth to finding inner peace after a period of mourning, here’s 9 reasons to add a jar of lemon balm to your witchy cabinet.
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Accelerate Rapid Growth
If you want a new project or goal to take off quickly, try incorporating this fresh, youthful herb into your magical life.
Known for its invasive, tenacious nature, lemon balm takes over gardens quickly. But beware! Using lemon balm in magic often works too well.
Pay careful attention to avoid allowing your new endeavor to take up too much space in your life.
Dispel Darkness and Grief
After appropriately mourning the loss of a job, friendship, or even person, you sometimes still feel stuck.
Use this herb in a sachet or incense blend to move past grief and loss.
Burn it on a charcoal disk or throw it into a ritual fire. As the smoke rises, visualize any residual pain or struggle releasing into the sky.
Its bright, cheerful fragrance encourages positive thinking.
Encourage Tenacity
Lemon balm grows rapidly even in tough conditions, making it an ideal choice for spells to achieve breakthroughs.
If you need an extra push to get past a plateau and achieve a personal or professional goal, hang a bundle of dried lemon balm in your workspace.
Or, dilute (affiliate link —–>) lemon balm essential oil in a carrier oil (like jojoba or olive oil) to create a personal anointing oil for success.
Take a cleansing ritual bath.
If you periodically indulge in ritual baths, this herb makes a great addition to a bath for clearing away negativity and psychic junk.
Stuff some (fresh or dried) in a cloth, draw string bag and steep it in your bathwater as you steep tea.
Or, add a few drops of its essential to some Epsom salt and “scrub away” icky vibes if they prove especially stubborn.
Add it to moon water.
Add its lunar energy to your next batch of moon water for a well-rounded sacred tincture.
Especially nice to keep on hand for rituals you plan later in the month to honor moon goddesses and deities.
Work with bees.
Lemon balm attracts bees with its sweet, sunny aroma.
If you feel connected to the energy of bees or want to work with them in a spiritual way, plant lemon balm in your magical garden along with other bee-friendly herbs and flowers.
This living offering pay homage to the spiritual energy of these essential, sacred animals.
Embrace your femininity.
Add this herb to passion spells to increase feminine desire.
Ruled by the universal feminine energy, it’s an appropriate addition to rituals, tinctures, and potions for this purpose.
Planning a romantic meal with your (consenting) partner?
Consider boiling a pot of water on the stove with fresh lemon balm leaves several hours before your at-home date.
Then, get cooking. 😉
In spells for joy.
Use this herb as a substitute for lemon in spells for happiness, joy and jubilation.
Its aromatic properties give it a similar metaphysical energy to lemon.
Perfect for happiness teas and brews for this purpose.
For wisdom.
Add this herb to sachets, brews, and oil infusions to increase sagacity in your affairs.
Particularly when met with a crossroads or major life decision, lemon balm aids clear thinking and judgement.
For this reason, also consider adding it to a simple court case spell. For example, surround the Justice Card from the tarot with fresh lemon balm and allow it to dry in order to encourage carefully weighed court decisions.
Lemon balm magical properties
This plant has aphrodisiac qualities that increase the desire to have intercourse.
Since ancient times, sorcerers recommended lemon balm in love mixtures for cases where a couple is bored, lacks enthusiasm, and romance.
Lemon balm can be used to influence love. Soak the herb in wine for several hours, strain it, and share it with a friend. Or, have the plant with you like a love charm that will help you find love.
It is also used in magical cures, and Pliny said its powers were so great that if a sword cut someone, the lemon balm would help with recovery. Although sword wounds are rare today, lemon balm is still used in sachets and healing incenses.
It can also be used in spells to ensure success, and if you are a beekeeper, rub this herb against the hives and attract new bees, while keeping old ones.
- Lemon balm essence: Protects, cleanses, and clarifies the Aura.
- It reinforces the desire to live, stimulates creativity, and artistic expression, That’s why writers and actors uses its aroma a lot. It brings clarity to the mind and internal vision of people.
- It is good to attract prosperity.
- It activates the throat chakra.
- It is a natural deodorant and also repels insects.
Lemon balm spells
Love tea with lemon balm and honey
If you see that you or your partner are bored in a relationship, and you recognize that you lack the enthusiasm to keep on going, then you need to make this special tea.
This tea has the esoteric property of giving freshness and energy, paving the way for seduction.
You must do it at bedtime one Monday and Friday if you are a woman, and Tuesday and Friday if you are a man.
Things you need
- Five lemon balm leaves
- A teaspoon of honey
- A cup
How it’s done
Place the five lemon balm leaves and honey in a cup.
Then pour in this cup boiling water.
Leave it for a moment and take it for sips, that is, little by little.
Calming ritual with lemon balm
Lemon balm has incredible calming properties, and it’s fantastic to bring peace into our lives.
This lemon balm ritual is a great way to bring peace into your life and to reconnect with yourself on a deeper, more intimate level.
Things you need
- Some lemon balm leaves
- Matches
- A cauldron (or a plate if you don’t have one)
- A white candle
- A piece of paper
- A pen
How it’s done
Light up the white candle and say this out loud:
“White peaceful energy come my way,
Give me the peace of mind I deserve and keep bad energies and struggle away
White peaceful magic come my way
Give me all I want and bring calm and peace into my life”
Pick lemon balm leaves, burn them with the white candle flame, and put them into your cauldron or your place.
Then take a piece of paper and write down your desires.
Then repeat these desires, by saying them again and burn the paper with the white candle as well and put it in the cauldron.
Now take the ashes, open a window, visualize your life being happy, satisfying, calming, and peaceful and blow them away into the air, outside and watch them fade away by saying out loud:
“So be it!”
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