by Horatius Piscinus on Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:25 pm
Salve Mari
This is gleaned from various sources:
Adonis: for matters of love: fennel, barley, roses.
Apollo: for prophecy and health: bay laurel, hyacinth.
Asclepius: for treating the sick, medical careers and institutions, and choosing doctors: butterfly weed, milkweed, mustard, opopanax, thin-leaf parsnip.
Carna: for general health and the family: arbutus, mulberry tree.
Castor and Pollux: for sea voyages and mercantile enterprises: frankincense.
Ceres: for agricultural produce, especially grains, family welfare, marriage, and funerary rites: barley, dittany of Crete, honey, hyacinth, milk, pennyroyal, poppies, spelt, storax, violets.
Chiron: for alternative treatment of the sick and medical knowledge: chiron vine, greater centaury, St. John’s wort, wormwood, yarrow.
Diana: for female rites of passage, chastity, childbirth, and hunting: hazel, jasmine, lavender, mandrake, rosemary, wormwood (artemesia absinthe).
Dis Pater: for benefiting the dead, vengeance or the ruin of rivals: cinnamon, frankincense, honey, ivy, mint, and pennyroyal.
Faunus: for male virility, welfare of the family, especially men and male children, and prophecy: peony, myrtle.
Faustus: for general happiness and celebrations: ivy, pine.
Hecate: for revenge: garlic, hemlock, mandrake, rue.
Hercules: for overcoming any difficulties, virility in men and male fertility, and to benefit the dead: henbane, herb Robert, opopanax, oregano, monkshood (aconite), and poplar.
Janus: for the beginning of any enterprise or activity, and the beginning of the New Year or the start of any new phase in life (school, career, marriage, birth of a child): bay laurel.
Juno: for faithfulness in marriage, for good marriage, for the benefit of women in general or the welfare of a community: iris, lily, orris root, saffron.
Juppiter: for all matters concerning a family or community: benzoin, cassia, cinnamon, holm oak, laurel, marjoram, saffron, sage, vervain.
Lares: for family matters (sale or purchase of property, career moves, marriage) myrtle, juniper.
Liber and Libera: for festivities, bounty, happiness in love relations: cinnamon, fennel, frankincense, honey, ivy, mint, pennyroyal.
Manes: for the benefit of a community or the dead in general: bay laurel, grain, honey, milk, myrtle, polar, olive oil, salt, violets, and wine.
Mars: for defense against all ills and disease of animals or people: cinnamon, laurel, peony, red clover.
Mercury: for all commercial enterprises, legal disputes, education, illegal activities, warning of crimes, birth and the passages of life for children, and the passage from life into death: dill, hellebore niger, marjoram, mercurialis, myrtle.
Minerva: for all domestic crafts and the arts, education, or any pursuit requiring skill and cleverness: ampelos or chiron vine, olive, rosemary.
Muses: for the arts or instilling poise and grace: couch grass, and white helebore.
Pales: for animals in general, shepherds and herders: basil.
Priapus: for protection of the family garden or property, virility in men and pleasure for women, and good fortune in general: lotus tree.
Proserpina: for the benefit of wild fields, care of the dead, easing the burdens of life or death, and vengeance on rivals: hyacinth, mandrake, mint, myrtle, parsley, rosemary, rue, violet.
Quirinus: for soldiers and veterans, especially in their military life or veteran benefits, farmers and workers in general, defense of a community and public institutions, especially in attaining harmonious resolutions: juniper, myrtle.
Robigo: for protection of plant life from disease: vervain (?).
Saturnus: for prosperity, general welfare of land and people: costus, fig tree, storax, violets.
Silvanus: for protection against dangers from the wild or to benefit produce from wild regions (hunting, foraging, lumbering): Italian cyprus root.
Venus: for love and happiness, children, pleasure of having children, flowers and flower gardens, and happy passage of the dead: ambergris, fennel, lily, marjoram, myrtle, rose.
Vesta: for benefiting the home and family, warm family relations, housework, especially related to the kitchen: bay laurel, corn cicely (or shepherd’s needle = scandix pecten Veneris), juniper, myrtle, "Venus' comb," and violets
M Horatius Piscinus
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