====== Broom ======
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latin_names: Cytisus scoparius
folk_names: Banal, Basam, Besom, Bisom, Bizzon, Breeam, Broom Tops, Brum, Genista Green Broom, Irish Broom, Irish Tops, Link, Scotch Broom, Hog Weed
gender_tags:  Masculine
planet_tags: Mars
element_tags: Air
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effect_tags: Purification, Protection, Peace, Wind, Spells, Divination, Home protection
part_tags: fresh flowers
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===== Magical Uses =====

Broom is used in purification and protection spells, and is hung in the home to keep evil out. Also, an infusion of broom sprinkled through the house exorcises poltergeists.

Although the infusion was once used as a drink to increase psychic powers, this can be dangerous because the plant is slightly poisonous; carry instead for this purpose.

To raise the winds, throw broom into the air while invoking the spirits of the Air, preferably from a mountaintop. To calm the winds, burn broom and bury the ashes.

If you do outdoor spells (which is the best place to perform magic) sweep the ground with broom prior to your workings, if it grows nearby.

===== Aromatherapy =====

Various varieties of broom can be found in nurseries. The sweet fragrance of yellow broom flowers is certainly cheering, but its magical energies are more diverse than may be imagined.

//Protection//: Collect the fresh flowers from the plant with thanks. Place them in a jar of water and set in the house. Sit or stand before them, inhaling the delicious aroma. Visualize your home as a guarded, secure place. Feel and see the energy from the flowers traveling into you, mixing with your own energy and then streaming out (perhaps from your outstretched fingertips) into the walls and doors to form a protective barrier around your home. Leave the flowers in the house to continue to permeate it with protective energies. Alternately, sniff them to bolster your own personal protection.

//Purification//: The sweet scent of the fresh flowers also purifies our thought processes, bodies and souls. You needn’t cut the blooms for this purpose-simply bend down or sit on the Earth beside the short plant and smell away.

//Peace//: Inhale the sweet aroma of fresh broom flowers and allow it to promote calm and tranquility within yourself. Place in every room of the house to spread soothing energies.
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