In green witch practice, a correspondence table is not a doctrine to memorize. It is a reference map. When you need a certain energy to support an intention, you can consult it to find suitable plants or stones. But more importantly, through actual contact with these natural objects, you form your own feelings and understanding.
Below is a summary of the energy properties of common herbs, stones, and trees for daily reference. The associations listed for each entry are intuitive summaries accumulated through tradition, not absolute rules.
1. Energy Properties of Common Herbs
Basil: Love, trust, abundance, courage, protection, purification, good luck, mental ability. Suitable for improving relationship harmony, boosting confidence, and clearing space.
Bay: Protection, purification, endurance, fidelity, psychic power, divination, wisdom, strength. Writing a wish on a bay leaf and burning it is a common wishing practice.
Chamomile: Purification, healing, soothing anxiety, calming children, gently transforming bad luck. Suitable for tea, pillow filling, and use with children.
Cinnamon: Healing, love, desire, success, purification, protection, money, psychic awareness. Strong energy; a small amount is enough. Often used as an “accelerator” in other formulas.
Clove: Protection, mental ability, attraction, purification, comfort. Adding three cloves to a protection sachet extends its effect.
Frankincense: Sacredness, purification, meditation, protection, joy, celebration, solar energy, dedication. An almost universal base for all rituals.
Lavender: Healing, love, happiness, soothing grief and guilt, sleep, tranquility, protection, purification, peace, household blessing, wisdom, children, marriage. Extremely versatile; one of the safest beginner herbs.
Mint: Purification, health preservation, mental clarity, protecting travelers, attracting money, health, love, success. Suitable for tea, cooking, and sachets.
Rosemary: Purification, protection, healing, longevity, enhancing memory and focus. Burning rosemary to purify a space is a long-standing practice.
Sage: Healing, longevity, health, psychic awareness, protection, purification. White sage for space purification is a common starting point.
Thyme: Purification, psychic cleansing, divination, healing, enhancing memory, sleep, courage. Suitable for bath salts and sachets.
Verbena: Purification, protection, blessing, communication with nature spirits, divination, inspiration, abundance, love, peace, healing. Known as an “all-purpose herb,” suitable for any positive-intention formula.
Yarrow: Marriage, courage, love and friendship, psychic power, hex breaking. Traditionally used to stop bleeding; magically used to enhance courage and protection.
2. Energy Properties of Common Stones
Amethyst: Psychic power, truth, balance, protection, healing. Suitable for meditation and dream work.
Aventurine: Good luck, abundance, health. Green aventurine is particularly attuned to natural energy.
Bloodstone: Health (especially of the blood), protection. Green base with red spots; steady energy.
Carnelian: Success, manifestation. Orange; suitable for pushing goals forward.
Citrine: Calming nightmares, aiding digestion, focusing the mind, enhancing creativity. Yellow; attuned to solar energy.
Hematite: Grounding, transforming excess or unbalanced energy, deflecting negativity, defense, healing, justice. Contains iron; avoid salt when cleansing.
Jade: Wisdom, abundance, fertility, health, protection. Green; smooth texture.
Jasper: Grounding, stabilizing energy, protection, courage. Red jasper is most common; can be buried in the four corners of a garden to stabilize energy.
Lapis Lazuli: Leadership, communication, stress relief, creativity, joy, harmony. Deep blue with gold flecks.
Malachite: Fertility, earth mysteries, strengthening connection to the natural world. Green with bands; particularly suitable for green witches.
Moonstone: Travel protection, children, love, peace, connection to the goddess. Milky white with soft sheen.
Snowflake Obsidian: Protection. Black with white spots; symbolizes winter nights and natural cycles.
Clear Quartz: Amplifying energy, storing power, enhancing psychic ability, absorbing negativity. An all-purpose stone that can pair with almost any energy.
Rose Quartz: Boosting self-esteem, encouraging self-love, emotional healing, fostering affection, transforming negativity into positivity. Pink; gentle energy.
Smoky Quartz: Grounding, clearing obstacles, enhancing intuition, turning thought into action. Gray-brown; steady energy.
Sodalite: Balancing emotions, enhancing wisdom. Dark blue with white veins.
Tiger’s Eye: Strength, courage, good luck, abundance. Brown-gold with bands; masculine energy.
Turquoise: Protection for children, focusing the mind and will. Pale blue with black veins; gentle energy.
3. Energy Properties of Common Trees
Birch: Purification, protection, banishing, children. Traditionally the first choice for making a cleansing broom.
Oak: Defense, thunder, strength, courage, healing, longevity, protection, good luck. Hard wood; symbolizes resilience.
Maple: Love, abundance, life and health, general fertility. Warm wood; suitable for tableware and furniture.
Pine: Purification, healing, mental clarity, abundance, banishing. Pine resin and pine oil are commonly used for cleaning and purification.
Cedar: Healing, spirituality, purification, protection, abundance, harmony. Strong fragrance; often used as an offering.
Rowan: Enhancing psychic power, divination, healing, banishing, peace, creativity, success, transformation. Also known as “witchwood.”
Poplar: Abundance, communication, banishing, purification. Also known as aspen.
Ash: Water, strength, intellect, will, protection, justice, balance and harmony, skill, travel, weather, wisdom. The World Tree in Norse mythology.
Willow: Love, tranquility, harmony, protection, healing. Flexible branches; suitable for weaving; attuned to lunar energy.
Witch Hazel: Protection, healing, peace. Traditionally used for skin care and reducing inflammation.
Honeysuckle: Psychic awareness, harmony, healing, abundance, happiness. Strongest fragrance in the evening; associated with transitional states.
Apple: Love, healing, harmony, longevity. Apple symbolizes life and fertility in many cultures.
Elder: Protection (especially from lightning), abundance, healing. Traditionally, permission must be asked three times before harvesting.
Yew: Spirits, the otherworld, death and rebirth. Toxic; associated with death and transformation; use with caution.
Hawthorn: Fertility, harmony, happiness, the otherworld, protection. Often used as a boundary marker; considered a fairy favorite.
Hazel: Mental ability, fertility, protection, wisdom, good luck. Associated with wisdom and prophecy.
4. How to Use This Correspondence Table
Start with a need, then look up the correspondence. Do not create a need just to use a certain herb. First determine your intention (healing, protection, abundance, peace, etc.), then find suitable materials from the table.
Prioritize personal intuition. If a certain plant or stone feels particularly attuned to you, you can use it even if the traditional correspondence does not fully match. Your personal connection with it matters more than any table.
A small amount is enough. Most formulas need only a pinch, a drop, or a small piece. There is no need to stockpile large quantities. Using less keeps materials fresh and their energy clear.
Record your experience. After using a material, note your feelings and results. These personal records will gradually form a correspondence table of your own, closer to your practice than any ready-made reference.
Respect the source. When gathering wild plants, take only what you need and no more than a quarter of what is visible. When buying, choose reputable sources and avoid endangered species.
This table is a starting point. Real knowledge comes from actual contact with these natural objects—touching them, smelling them, observing them, using them. Tables can be consulted, but connection must be built in person.
References
- Murphy-Hiscock, A. (2006). The way of the green witch: Rituals, spells, and practices to bring you back to nature. Provenance Press.
- Cunningham, S. (2000). Cunningham’s encyclopedia of magical herbs (2nd ed.). Llewellyn Publications.
- Green, M. (2002). Wild witchcraft: A guide to natural, herbal and earth magic. Thorsons.
- Beyerl, P. (1998). A compendium of herbal magick. Phoenix Publishing.
- Cowan, E. (1995). Plant spirit medicine. Swan, Raven & Company.
