Whole cloves, clove powder, and clove oil can be used in spells by adding it to an incense blend, adding it to a pouch, dressing a candle, or turning the dried flower into a charm.
Clove incense can also be used to add energy to your spells and sacred space.
The magical effects of cloves give it the power to add energy to your money spells, protection spells, luck spells, love spells, mental health spells, and more! It can also help speed up other spells and make manifestation happen faster!
Our complete Materia Magicka contains everything you need to know to work with Cloves in spells, rituals, and healing.
Latin Name
Syzygium aromaticum
Gender
Masculine
Elemental Correspondences
Fire
Air
Planetary Correspondences
Sun
Jupiter
Signs that Rule Cloves
Aries
Deities that Rule Cloves
Osiris
Oya
Chakras that work with Cloves
Root chakra
Sacral chakra
Solar plexus chakra
Cloves’ Magickal Properties & Meanings
Use cloves in:
Anxiety Relief: Diffuse clove essential oil during meditation and mental health healing rituals.
Banishing Spells: Boil the whole spice in water for 11 minutes. Forcefully sprinkle the water around your space to banish harmful energies.
Breaking Hexes: Add ground cloves to ground black pepper. Mix well, then dress and burn a black candle.
Cleansing Crystals: Make a decoction from whole cloves and use this water to cleanse your crystal ball or water-soluble crystals.
Courage Spells: Carry three clove buds to fill your aura with courage and strength.
Divination: Drink clove tea before reading tarot cards, pendulums, crystals balls, runes, and more to increase your psychic abilities.
Empathy Spells: Dress a pink candle or light green candle with the ground spice to help people better understand emotions and needs.
Exorcisms: Burn the spice as incense to drive away baneful, harmful energies. This is a great white sage smudge replacement.
Friendship Spells: To keep friendships strong, add one clove for each friend to a pink bag.
Longevity Spells: Enchant and drink clove herbal tea while visualizing yourself as protected, internally and externally.
Love Spells: Steep cloves in wine to add romance to your evening.
Luck Spells: Create a good luck charm by adding cloves, cinnamon, bay, basil, and your favorite good luck herbs to a green sachet bag. Visualize success!
Mental Clarity: Create a personal aromatherapy stick by adding salt and clove oil to a small, glass vial. Open and smell whenever you need a boost of mental clarity.
Money Spells: Add the ground herb to your cinnamon blend in our famous cinnamon money spell to boost its power. You can also dress a green candle in a money candle spell!
Passion: Surround a red candle with 7 whole cloves and burn to add passion to your life.
Psychic Shielding: Carry three whole cloves to increase the strength of your psychic shield.
Protection Spells: Make a decoction from the whole spice and use the water to draw protection sigils on your home.
Stop Gossip: Baked goods always make friends. Bake a spiced cake with cloves, visualizing gossip stopping as you do. Offer the cake as a gift to those who have been gossiping.
Wealth Spells: Sprinkle the ground spice into your wallet to pull wealth into your life.
Food prepared with and teas made with cloves can be consumed at daily food levels by healthy people with no underlying health conditions. Whole cloves can be a choking hazard and are too hard to eat and digest, so be sure to remove them from any foods you’ve cooked with the whole spice. Never ingest clove oil, as its eugenol compounds can be toxic in high amounts. Always check with your doctor to discover if it is safe for you to ingest cloves, especially at daily and medicinal levels.
What are the side effects of cloves?
Ingesting clove oil can lead to dizziness and coma. Clove oil on the gums has the potential to cause gum tissue damage. High concentrations of clove oil on the skin can cause skin burns. Inhaling smoke from clove cigarettes has the potential to cause damage to your lungs.
What diseases can cloves cure?
When paired with your doctor’s advice, the eugenol in cloves has been seen as effective against localized pain. On its own, it cannot cure disease.
What are cloves good for?
Medicinally, cloves are great for helping soothe localized pain and reducing free radicals through antioxidant compounds, under a doctor’s guidance. In cooking, this herb’s dried flower buds are used in desserts, savory dishes, and medicinal broths. In magic and spells, they are used for luck, wealth, protection, and mental strength.
What are the health benefits of cloves?
While still undergoing research, it is thought that cloves’ impressive health benefits could boost the immune system, providing important nutrients and antioxidants to help your body fight free radicals, loss of bone density, cell death, and more. Always consult your doctor before using cloves as a health supplement.
What is clove tea good for?
While still being studied, cloves in tea blends are said to contain antimicrobial properties which can help you fight bacteria in the mouth and some side effects of food poisoning. Drinking a tea blend that contains cloves can help add antioxidants to your body; these compounds fight free radicals and increase overall health and longevity in people without chronic illnesses. Before ingesting clove tea, it’s important to check with your medical doctor to make sure it’s safe for you to take on a daily basis.
Are whole cloves edible?
Yes, whole cloves are edible, but be sure to chew thoroughly; their hard texture can make them a choking hazard. Doctors, scientists, and researchers recommend not eating more than 2 whole cloves a day. Always consult your doctor before starting an herbal health regimen.
Can I use cloves as a spice in kitchen witchcraft?
Clove essential oil should only be used in aromatherapy. The effects of cloves’ scent and energy make it perfect for reducing anxiety, promoting mental clarity, and assisting with respiratory symptoms.
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