NATURAL REMEDY HERBS IN THE 22 TAROT CORRESPONDENCES

THE PLANETARY PLANTS

APPLE

CORN

"There is a brute wildness in the fennel-wands, reverence it well." In Sicily fennel is called finocchio, and finocchio is also the term for a homosexual. It is said with the scorn of the peasant, but finocchio is also, as here, the god, the androgynous god. The wands were used for the torches, such as these Bacchantes carried. They can be made to glow with fire, and throw sparks, and were part of all midnight revels. Here fennel itself represents that glow at the heart of nature, that light that comes not from the sun but from the depths, the sparks, the scintillulae of which Jung speaks in his Alchemical studies. It is the light that is in nature, ..."

Julian David, The Baccae of Euripides (484 - 406 BC), Mantis, Winter 1991. pp. 7 ff.

IVY Rinceau, in Barb, Diva Matrix

also HELIX as Ivy, in notes.

For ivy, see Otto.

"From Anavysos (Attica), c. 430-425 B.C. Mask of Dionysos in a cradle, which is decorated with sprigs of ivy." Bianchi, Mysteries.

VIP. see: Daphne and the Laurel, in 'The White Goddess', Robert Graves, p. 391.

DAPHNE, was a daughter of the PENEUS, or of the LADON.

The Mother of Daphne is TERRA. Enamoured by Apollo she flees and is changed into a laurel.

LOTUS

Maria the Jewess, p. 191

MOON-WORT (see Culpeper) LUNARY (BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA.)

The Moon-Wort is ALBEDO.

MYRR

The Kabiri were worshipped in Phrygia, and MACEDONIA.

Suggests a Phoenician origin for the word KABIRI e.g.

QABIRIM, or MIGHTY, also their appearance in Boeiotia, the country of the Phonician KADMOS.

They are deities of FERTILITY.

"From his blood sprang parsley, which therefore the initiates must not eat, lest the pollution of the death be upon them." [H.J.Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology, p.172.]

Parsley is associated homeopathically with urinary complaints, and is therefore within the rulership of Scorpio.

POPPY

WORMWOOD