Saffron

(Crocus saliva) Folk Names: Autumn Crocus, Crocus, Karcom, Krokos, Kunkuma (Sanskrit), Saffer (Arabic), Spanish Saffron Gender: Mannish Planet: Sun Element: Fill with enthusiasm Deities: Eros, Ashtoreth Powers: Love, Retrieval, Delight, Zigzag Raising, Yearning, Laboriousness, Forecaster Powers Ceremony Uses: The Phoenecians scorched saffron featuring in crescent-shaped cakes, which they ate in embellish of the Moon and Prosperity Goddess. Ashtoreth. Magickal Uses: Saffron is advance to love sachets as well as individuals hypothetical at raising dissolute feelings. It is hand-me-down in healing spells, and the distil is hand-me-down as a erase water for the hands previously to healing rituals. At one time in Persia (Iran) in the family way women wore a ball of saffron at the pit of the belly to foresee a immediately set. The distil, drunk, enables you to predict the intentional, and clearly ingesting saffron dispels navy. In fact, one immediate playwright warns opposed eating too furthest saffron lest one have to "die of skillful joy"! Saffron in the home keeps lizards from venturing in, and in the sphere of a chaplet of saffron drive protect you from inebriation (and drive believably be the concern of a few notes from your friends). Sheets were rinsed with a saffron distil in Ireland so that the arms and legs would be strengthened modish the relax, and the Elderly Persians utilized saffron to increase the curl.