====== Gardenia ======
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latin_names: Gardenia jasminoides, Gardenia spp.
folk_names: 
gender_tags: Feminine
planet_tags: Moon
element_tags: Water
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Love, Peace, Healing, Spirituality
part_tags: fresh flowers
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===== Magical Uses =====

The fresh blossoms are placed in sickrooms or on healing altars to aid in the process. The dried petals are also added to healing incenses and mixtures.

Dried gardenia is also scattered around a room to induce peaceful vibrations and is also added to Moon incenses.

Gardenias are used in love spells, and to attract good spirits during rituals. They are possessed of very high spiritual vibrations.

===== Aromatherapy =====

The fragrance of fresh gardenia flowers is unforgettable. Sweet, powerful energies rise from the moon-drenched blooms.

Smell fresh gardenias to unwind after a busy day. Smell with visualization to find a love or to magnify the love you share with another. To spread loving energies throughout your home, place the fresh flowers in water in every room.

The white, round blooms of the gardenia are symbolically linked with the Moon. On the nights of the Full Moon, place cut gardenias in vases of water. Sit before them (in moonlight, if possible) and inhale the delicious fragrance to instill spirituality and to link with lunar energies.

Dried, the petals have a fragrance reminiscent of strawberry jam.

True gardenia absolute isn’t currently available.
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