Mugwort
Highlights :
Psychic Ability
Dreamwork
Divination
Lunar Cycles and The Feminine Cycle
Magick and Witchcraft
Goddess Artemis
Association with Magic and Witchcraft
Mugwort is an herb that is deeply associated with magic, medicine, and witchcraft. Its history runs deep throughout European and North American spiritual traditions. It has been associated with the Greek Goddess Artemis, and its botanical name is Artemisia. This lovely green herb is linked with cycles of the moon, amplifying power and enhancing your dreams. It can be identified by its silver hairs, along the leaves, which seem to reflect the moon’s glow.
It is used in many modern magical traditions and by eclectic witches of all kinds for a deeper connection to their craft or in rituals honoring the Goddess.
It has also been linked to many of the Middle Ages Witch trials, as it was commonly used to accuse those of practicing the craft. Whether these individuals actually practiced spellcraft is a matter of historical interpretation, but mugwort was often used as a renowned herbal medicine ingredient. It was used for healing wounds and scars as well, and helping women get their cycles back on track after pregnancy or other gynecological issues. Its use in herbal medicine by wise women and Witches alike has made mugwort live in our modern pcyhes has a classical “Witchcraft” herb that every practitioner should know.
Though this history has linked it closely with magic, it has a long history in Chinese medicine. Mediterranean and Roman practices, and Significant European magic alike. In the Anglo-Saxon “Nine Sacred Herbs,” Mugwort is one of the most revered for Dream workings. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, mugwort is used in ‘moxibustion’, a technique where dried mugwort is burned near the skin to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation.
Dream Work and Lucid Dreaming
Mugwort is an herb that expands dreams and psychic visions. Mugwort tea has been known as a vision tea for centuries by European practitioners. It encourages lucid and prophetic dreams, and can be an ideal herb to work with when asking for more specific dreams or requesting clarity on a question. A sprig of mugwort has been placed under pillows or burned before sleep to induce vivid, psychic dreams. It’s also an herb that aids in astral projection or other meditative experiences that rewire our psyches to be opened for receiving.
One of the most interesting parts of mugwort in the modern age is that scientists are starting to have a deeper understanding of what it actually does to our brains. Mugwort is primarily associated with producing longer and more vivid REM sleep cycles. This is the part of our sleep cycle where we already produce dreams, so being able to stay in this period longer and recall it better can only help spiritual seekers to access prophetic dreams even more clearly.
A pinch of mugwort added to spell bottles, charm bags, or candle spells will boost the power of the working and assist you in receiving messages. It’s an ally for witches and magicians since it can adapt its inherent magical power to the intent of your spell.
Psychic Ability and Visions
Similar to its effects on the dreaming brain, mugwort can be extremely helpful in promoting overall psychic ability or opening the mind when we are feeling extra blocked from our psychic powers.
Many witches burn, smoke, or ingest tea with mugwort before they begin spell craft or divination. Hanging mugwort in your home, or specifically near where you meditate, can be helpful for any form of divination you practice.
Mugwort is classified scientifically as a very mild oneirogen, from the Greek oneiros, meaning "dream," and gen, meaning "to create.” essentially marking it as a plant that produces or enhances dream-like states of consciousness. Often used to facilitate vivid dreams, lucid dreaming, or divination.
Artemis and the Lunar Cycle
The scientific name for mugwort is Artemisia, unsurprisingly named after the Greek Goddess Artemis, goddess of the hunt, women, and the moon. This association alone evokes a connection to the divine feminine and the moon. This is compounded by the Roman and Greek belief that mugwort could be used to associate with a specific deity or goddess.
During springtime Artemis festivals in Greece, held under the full moon, participants would ingest mugwort. This act ritually symbolized "consuming the goddess" to either obtain her wisdom or her powers for a short time.
The Feminine Cycle
Just as the goddess Artemis has been said to protect women in pregnancy and childbirth, mugwort has long been associated with easing pregnancy, relieving PMS symptoms, and regulating irregular menstruation. Some scholars say it may have even been used as an ancient form of birth control. Though this has been highly debated as to the historical accuracy, some newer medical research shows mugwort can have an “anti-implantation” effect, furthering the belief of Mother Nature’s first birth control in the Mediterranean world!
This also links back to its association with the lunar cycle, as women in Ancient Greece, and nearly everywhere in the world, would track their cycles and sync themselves to the moon.
Even if you are not suffering from PMS or attempting to regulate pregnancy pains, mugwort can still be a beautiful herb to include in your spiritual practice to get in touch with your divine feminine energy. It can also help you lean into the Goddess of the hunt, Artemis, or Diana, as she is seen in Rome.
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How to Incorporate Mugwort In Your Spiritual Practice
Here are a few simple ways to incorporate Mugwort into your metaphysical practice:
Sleep with mugwort under your pillow for lucid dreams
Create a sachet bag for lucid dreaming
Make mugwort tea to receive a relaxed energy and possibly a heightened dream state.
Harvest mugwort! This is a very common weed in some East Coast USA states. Find out if it grows near you and start looking!
Hang mugwort in a home for peaceful energy, or to promote your intuition.
Burn mugwort leaf or incense for Psychic power or before divination.
Create an altar to Artemis. Diana, or any other moon goddess, and add dried mugwort to the altar setup to honor them.
Utilize the liminal properties during the full moon for psychic power, and in the dark moon for inner workings and dreams.
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Associations
Planetary association: The Moon - all things feminine, inner work, lunar energy, etc.
Some classical herbalists also believe it has an association with Venus for similar reasoning.
Goddess association: Artemis or Diana
Color: Green (associated with silver because of the moon, and also the “silver” underside of the plant itself)
Some Spell Products With This Herb or Scent….
☁️💙✨🌌Lucid Dream Sachet Bag Spell Kit - Control your dreams, and receive psychic messages!
Our Lucid dream Spell Kit is designed to walk the practitioner through steps of making a sachet bag (sometimes called a mojo bag) that you put under your pillow or near the bed to promote lucid dreaming!
The instructions will show you how to create your potion paper, anoint the paper and the candle, how to bless each herb packet you've been given as well as tie the bag to " finish" or ignite your spell.
Each kit includes:
• Handmade Candle
• Lucid Dream Spiritual Oil - scented with candied apricot (Skin safe!)
• Traditional blue sachet bag and cord
• Three blessed herbs for lucid dreaming
- Cloves
- Mugwort
- Jasmine
• Petition paper
• Ritual Instructions – Easy-to-follow steps to guide your spellwork and manifestation ritual, written by a mother-daughter team with generational knowledge. Our instruction scrolls include affirmations as well, so you always have prayers and incantations while you work.
Our Psychic Vision candle is a beautifully handcrafted spell all in one. This candle is perfect for heightening your psychic senses, receiving clear messages from Spirit, or receiving psychic dreams.
Light when meditating, doing spellwork, or doing psychic readings for added power! Or light it whenever, and ask the universe to show you a sign for a question you’ve been pondering!
Scented with enriching notes of jasmine and water lily flowers, this candle is a light and airy scent you will find intoxicating.
You’ll find dried spearmint and mugwort atop this candle, both known for their potent ability to bestow psychic vision to their user.
These candles are adorned with beautiful art, a custom affirmation written on the back, and an enveloping combination of scent and herbal blends.
★ Scent notes- Jasmine, water lily, geranium
Wear as a perfume oil, use to anoint candles, oil diffusers, or use in any other part of your spell work!
Skin-safe and oil diffuser safe!
This combination of jasmine and white florals is perfect for enhancing your psychic abilities and intuition! It can be great to use for better intuition in your day-to-day life, or right before reading cards, mediating, or ritual work to receive messages more clearly.
This is also a great intention when you are asking the universe for a sign. Wear this oil throughout the day, or anoint a candle and affirm that by the end of this day, you will receive a clear answer to your question.
Includes essential oils for added potency.
Scent notes- Jasmine, water lily, geranium