I know this does seem to have a place in a herbal study/blog.... but I was searching online for hints on what to do with my two big geranium plants that I have outside this summer for the winter I thought - 'I think I will look in my Cummingham's book and see what magical properties they may have... And I was surprised to see that quite a bit was written about them by Scott. So here is an entry on geraniums.
Geranium
(Pelargonium maculatum and P. odoratissimum )
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Fertility, Health, Love, Protection
Magical Uses: Geraniums of all types are protective when grown in the garden or brought into the home freshly cut and placed into water.
The geranium protects against snakes, for:
"Snakes will not go
Where geraniums grow."
A plot of red geraniums, planted near a Witch's cottage, told of coming vistors by their movements. The flowers were magickally charged to point to the direction of the approaching strangers and thus warn the Witch of their impending arrival.
Banks or pots of red geraniums are quite protective, and strengthen health.
Pink-flowered geraniums are used in love spells, while the white varieties increase fertility.
Curanderos in contemporary Mexico cleanse and heal patients by brushing them with red geraniums, together with fresh rue and pepper tree branches.
The rose geranium (Plargonium graveolens) with its highly scented leaves, is used in protection sachets, or the fresh leaves are rubbed onto doorknobs and windows to protect them.
All of the scented geraniums have various magical properties, most of which can be deduced from the scent (nutmeg, lemon, peppermint, etc.). Nutmeg-scented geraniums possess much the same power as nutmeg, and so on.
[From Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs]
Here are some links for growing and caring for geraniums:
and here is the information I was looking for:
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