Vegetables are one of the top five food groups. They are full of nutrients and filled with vitamins A and C, potassium, fiber, and folic acid, not to mention being low in fat and calories. Their health benefits are endless, and by making them a part of your daily diet, you will most likely have a more active and vital lifestyle.
The produce aisle is full of wonderful passive and active energies. A vegetable’s alchemic spiritual meanings are countless. Each one vibrates to its own frequency of love, health, happiness, or protection to bring a needed effect.
A dear friend long ago told me to make sure my plate was always full of colorful vegetables, as the more there were, the more nutrients I was sure to absorb. What she didn’t know was that vegetables are perfect to start your grocer’s magical journey. They are easy to manipulate and use. You can steam and bake them or add them to a healthy soup recipe.
In many cases, we are what we eat, and this goes for magic as well. We are the essence of what we portray and attract. If we portray negative energy, we attract it just as much we do positive. We are all made of the same spiritual frequency that attracts flies to a picnic.
In conventional medicine, there is always a pill for something; in Chinese herbalism there is an herb for what ails you. In magic, there is always a substantial essence to cause an effect that will fill your life with hope, dreams, and happiness.
Alfalfa
Green
Money, Financial Stability
For seven consecutive Thursdays, sprinkle fresh alfalfa on your front yard and backyard.
You can also let the alfalfa dry out in a dark, airy room. Once dry, grind it with a mortar and pestle and bottle it to use as incense when your finances start to dwindle.
Artichoke
Green
Protection
When placed in a black decorative bowl, artichoke protects a home from intruders.
Beetroot
Red
Love, Intention
Place three small beets in a pink cotton cloth and strategically place the bundle under the bed of the one you wish to stay.
Juice a fresh beet and use the tip of a feather to write your love, health, wealth, or protection needs on a clean sheet of paper. (Do not reuse the beet juice, blend a new beet each time you use one for this purpose.)
Cabbage
Green
Love Everlasting
Take off the first seven leaves of a green healthy cabbage and hold them together with a pink ribbon. On the top leaf, write the names of the couple that wish to stay together with a marker, preferably pink. Place the cabbage leaves in a decorative box and bury it. Only dig up the box if one person wishes to end the relationship, and then burn it all.
A dear friend of mine placed cold cabbage leaves on her breast to relieve the pressure before breastfeeding with remarkable results.
Carrot
Orange, Purple
Male Fertility, Female Fertility
Fill a flower pot with potting mix. Within the soil, bury pink and blue baby diaper pins and carrot seeds. Every time you water the seeds, visualize conception.
Eat the seeds to enhance sperm count, or place a handful of carrot seeds in a small orange drawstring bag and carry it with you for fertility.
Cauliflower
White
Spirituality of the Feminine
With your hands, shred two cauliflower florets. Light a white candle and place the shredded florets around it. Do this when a young woman has her first period to avoid heavy cramping, and for her to experience a normal cycle.
Celery
Green
Concentration
Arrange celery like a bunch of flowers and place them close to where you are studying. The celery will help you concentrate on writing or reading.
Chili Pepper
Green, Red, Yellow, Orange, Brown
Protection
Place four red chili peppers on the inside of the four corners of your home. The chili peppers will protect your home from negative entities. The more desiccated and shriveled the peppers become, the better they work.
Corn
Yellow
Wealth
Add cornhusks to the bottom of a vase, fill the rest of the vase with corn kernels, and use the filled vase as a centerpiece in the home. Change weekly if the corn is fresh to multiply the wealth you wish to have in all things that are important to you.
Cucumber
Green
Worry
Gather as many cucumber seeds as you can. Place them on a brown paper bag and dry them in a dark place. Once dried, place the seeds in a blue drawstring bag and keep them with you at all time. Let the seeds take your worries. When a worry appears, pick out a seed and throw it in your backyard. When you run out of seeds, start the process again, but only if you start to worry.
Garlic
White, Purple
One of the Five Magical Wonders—Protection
Garlic is in every household and used as a food flavor enhancer. Garlic is in practically every kitchen or restaurant on the planet. Its culinary uses are endless, and it appears in all sorts of dishes from one side of the world to the other, but its magical uses are potent and one of a kind.
These magnificent aromatic bulbs can ward away just about anything. Hang a garland of garlic in the home, especially in the kitchen or at the front door. Place some red ribbons around the garland for even more protection.
Burnt garlic peels ward away evil spirits during exorcism. Garlic opens pathways where there are none to be found.
On the first night of the Full Moon, place a few unpeeled garlic cloves on the front steps of your home and keep them there for three days. Then, take the cloves to a river and let the flow of the water open the pathways to your heart.
Ginger
Yellowish Brown
Happiness, Health, Money, Success
For health, place a ginger root on a white cotton cloth. Carve the name off the person who needs help and gently wrap it up and place it under their pillow.
Grind fresh ginger and add it to your bath as a beacon to attract money, and if carried, it will invite the man or woman of your dreams into your heart.
Green Beans
Green
Protection
For protection, display green beans in a bowl.
Green beans can also disperse negativity from the things we think we will never have or enjoy.
Horseradish
White, Beige
Spell Breaker
Gather four horseradish plants of the same length and width. Form a star shape with the four plants. Use a white ribbon to hold them together. On a piece of paper, write the hex you believe has been done to you and slip it beneath the ribbon. Somewhere outside of your home, use a meat cutter to chop up the plants. Hold your breath and hack into them. Once they are in little pieces, bury them and never let them see the light of day again.
Leek
Green
Love
To bring and keep two people together for always, use two healthy long green leek leaves and make an X. On a piece of paper, write the names of the people who wish to get closer. Then wrap the paper around the leeks with pink ribbon. Dig a small hole in the ground and gently place the leaves inside. Sprinkle the petals of a single red rose on top and then cover everything with dirt.
Lettuce
Green
Headaches
There are so many lettuce varieties that is impossible to name them here. All types of lettuce are feminine in nature.
At times over the years, I found my mother with her head full of iceberg leaves and a white cloth across her forehead to keep it in place. She swore by this unusual remedy for her headaches.
Mushrooms
Gray, White
Vision and Strength
Hold three mushrooms with both of your hands. Blow on them three times and give them the vision you wish to come true, then eat them.
Onion
White, Yellow, Red
Protection, Financial Stability
It is said not to let the peels of an onion fall on the floor or to throw them in the trash can. Instead, burn them to bring protection and financial stability.
Display an assortment of onions (from the white to the purple) in a bowl to protect you and your family from the unknown.
Parsley
Green
Purification
Parsley ensures the purification and stability of a peaceful and happy home. Always have a bunch of parsley in the house, and display as you would a bunch of flowers. Replace when the leaves start to wilt.
Potato
Brown, White, Red, Purple
Regenerating
The lore of this root is admirable. Its resilience over the years is unlike any other. It has been a staple diet within all cultures going as far back as 5000 BC. It simply multiplies by replanting. Always respect this vegetable. Be thankful for its simple nutrient, as it has kept the hungry and poor fed for countless centuries. It has been said that if you carry a tiny potato in your pocket, it will alleviate pain from arthritis and all bone-related manifestations.
Compost the peels in your garden. Give them back to the earth with the thought of generating new growth for your family, be it for financial reasons, love, or happiness.
Tomato
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Watercress
Green
Intuition
Place a large bunch of watercress on top of a brown paper bag and let it dry out naturally in a darkened room. Once dry, use a mortar and pestle to grind it as close as you can to a powder. As you grind the watercress, visualize being more aware of those around you and your surroundings. Place the powdered plant in a saltshaker bottle. Every day, sprinkle some on your hands and rub it in as if it were a cream. Your intuition will spike to recognize those with a good heart and those with an emotional one.