Sage Leaf cut (Salvia officinalis)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Burned or added to washes to cleanse a person or space.
• Carried for wisdom and clear judgment, and kept in the study.
• Used in wish magick: a wish is written on a sage leaf and slept on before the leaf is buried.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Added to money and business blends and to cleansing baths.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Used in Jupiterian incenses and talismans for wisdom, honour and increase.

A Simple Working

• Take three whole sage leaves, or a small paper packet of sage, and a pen.
• Write a single, clear wish on a slip of paper and fold the sage inside it.
• Place it under your pillow for three nights.
• Each night, hold it and speak the wish before sleeping.
• On the fourth day, bury it in the earth.
• Light a blue or purple candle at the spot to close the work.

Pairs Well With

• Rosemary: another herb of memory and cleansing.
• Bay leaf: for wish magick and Jupiterian success.
• Cinnamon: adds speed to money blends.
• A purple chime candle: for wisdom and Jupiter work.

What You Receive

Cut and sifted dried sage leaf, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Garden sage is a grey-leaved shrub of the Mediterranean, grown in European kitchen and monastery gardens since Roman times. It was used to season meats, to whiten and rub on teeth, and was traditionally used in folk herbalism for the throat.

A medieval saying from the medical school of Salerno asks, “Why should a man die while sage grows in his garden?”

An old English belief held that sage thrived in the garden when the household’s business prospered and withered when it failed. The Romans gathered it with ceremony, and it was a fixed herb of medieval monastery gardens.