Magickal Uses of Lovage
Lovage: Planet Rulership: Sun
Element Rulership: Fire
Gender: Masculine
Sign: Taurus
Earth/Water
Main magickal uses: love Other magickal uses: beauty, cleansing, consecration, money,
passion, protection, psychic protection, purification
Lore: The main uses concern love and beauty, hence, one assumes, the name ”Lovage.
Lovage’s name comes from its inclusion in old recipes for love potions, which also
accounts for this feathery plant’s other common name, ”love parsley.” The Latin word
”Levare” means to ease or soothe. Some say the English name ”Lovage” directly
originates from Middle English ”loveache”. I’m inclined toward the more technical
explanation: Lovage goes back to a Latin word meaning ”Ligurian”, because the
herb flourished in ancient times in Liguria, a region that includes the Italian Riviera.
The name was garbled enough beyond recognition by the time it entered English in
Chaucer’s day, as ”love-ache”, or ”love parsley”. Nineteenth-
Century Shaker religious communities grew and sold Lovage as part of their commercial enterprises.
It is mainly a beauty and love herb, but is also associated with psychic sleep, energy, and purification.
Make a Tea of Lovage leaves or root and drink just before bedtime for psychic dreams,
or drink a tea to make the mind alert before business meetings or school.
Carry it in a sachet or charm on the person to attract love. Place the root in a mesh
bag and hold under the tap water when running a bath for cleansing, and for beauty
and attractiveness to the opposite sex. Add rose petals to the bath to enhance this property.
Add the dried and powdered root to cleansing and purification baths to release negativity.
Carry to attract love and the attention of the opposite sex.
Lovage dug up at night on Good Friday helps farmers chase the witches away.
Place Lovage leaves or flowers with seven rose buds in the bath water (in a sachet).
This will make you more attractive and love inspiring. Such baths are best taken
before going out and meeting new people.
Used in love incenses or sachets. Mix with other love herbs such as Damiana,
Black Snake Root or Meadowsweet to attract love.
Make a Tea of Lovage leaves or root and drink just before bedtime for psychic
dreams, or drink a tea to make the mind alert before business meetings or school.
Shamanic Magical Uses:
One of the herbs found in the Oseberg burial, Lovage is much liked by Lofn,
the handmaiden of Frigga who aids warring lovers in reconciliation. It can
be used in a soup or tea to help arguing, angry partners in mediation and
processing their problems. To call on Lofn while making an offering of lovage
can be a last-ditch effort before a divorce.
When doing divination about relationship problems, a stalk of lovage can be
brushed over the area of the reading before laying stones or cards, or powdered
dried lovage sprinkled on it.
This plant also acted as a sentry of the home; if planted in front of the house lovage
was supposed to keep off all evil forces, such as plague, snakes, insects etc.
Historical notes:
Given the plants medical and magical powers, it is no wonder that lovage was an
extremely important herb during the Middle Ages. Therefore a garden without this
plant would be very rare.
The roots and seeds of lovage are said to be used for erotic love alchemy.
Medicinally, lovage has been used for digestive complaints, skin problems, fever
and menstrual difficulties; according to Wicca literature, lovage is used to attract
a lover who accepts a person as they are, with no hidden intentions.
You will receive a 2x3 inch bag of 6-7slices. Home Grown form my garden.
