Sirona Knight (with her son Skyler)

My favorite smell is lavender.  The scent is calming and gives me a wonderful sense of well-being.  I make lavender mist by putting fresh flowers in water, and heating them up, straining the flowers, and putting the scented water in a squirt bottle.

 I mist everything--chairs, pillows, bed linens, even my cats and dogs!  I stuff lavender flowers into a knee-high nylon stocking, knot it at the top, and then put the stocking in my bath to scent the water.  A lavender bath always gives me peaceful dreams.  I carry a small lavender sachet in my purse, and I smell it whenever I feel stressed out or want to get rid of a headache.

 My son and I make a lavender herbal oil.  We collect the fresh flowers, put them in a ceramic pan with about 1/2 cup carrier oil such as apricot or extra-light olive oil, then heat the oil slowly.  We let the oil cool, strain the flowers out, and bottle it.  I also add dried lavender flowers or a few drops of lavender oil to incense.  I have found that lavender is a potent scent for love magic because it attracts men.  I use dried lavender flowers to make Love Magic Charm Bags.  Here are the instructions so you can make one too!

Love Magic Charm Bag - From Sirona's new book, Dream Magic:  Night Spells
and Rituals for Love, Prosperity and Personal Power

List of Items Needed:
A pinch of mugwort
A pinch of dried lavender flowers
A pinch of dried violet flowers
A small piece of rose quartz
A small white cloth bag or sock
To dream of your lover, put equal parts of mugwort, rose buds and petals,
violet, and lavender flowers, into the white sock.  Add a small piece of
rose quartz, and say nine times,
"Magic bag of white
Bring my love to me tonight.
As I will, so shall it be!"
Place the white bag inside of your pillowcase while you sleep to encourage
dreams of romance and love.


Sirona Knight is the author of:

*Dream Magic: Night Spells and Rituals For Love, Prosperity, and Personal Power (HarperSanFrancisco)

*Celtic Traditions (Kensington/Citadel Press)

*The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Runes (Sterling Publishing)

*Love, Sex, and Magick (Kensington/Citadel Press)

*The Shapeshifter Tarot (Llewellyn Publications)

*The Pocket Guide to Celtic Spirituality (Crossing Press)

*The Pocket Guide to Crystals and Gemstones (Crossing Press)

*Moonflower (Llewellyn Publications)

*Greenfire (Llewellyn Publications)

Sirona is currently working on "Exploring Celtic Druidism" for Career Press/New Page Books.  She is  also working on an article on focus, interviewing Mark Victor Hanson, the
Chicken Soup author.

You can contact Sirona by e-mailing her at: bluesky@dcsi.net or go to her web site at www.dcsi.net/~bluesky/