====== Orange ======
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latin_names: Citrus sinensis
folk_names: Love Fruit
gender_tags: Masculine
planet_tags: Sun
element_tags: Fire
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Love, Divination, Luck, Money, Purification, Joy, Physical Energy, Magical Energy
part_tags: essential oil, fresh zest
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===== Magical Uses =====

The dried peel and seeds are added to love sachets, and the flowers to those sachets designed to lead to wedded bliss. The fresh or dried blossoms added to the bath make the bather more attractive.

When you eat an orange, think of a question you want answered; it must be a yes/no question. Count the seeds in the orange: if they are of an even number, the answer is no. If odd, yes.

Orange peel is added to prosperity powders, incenses and mixtures, and the Chinese have long considered oranges symbols of luck and good fortune.

Orange juice is drunk in rituals in place of wine. An infusion of orange peels, drunk, will guard against later drunkeness, while the water distilled from orange flowers is added to love and lust potions and baths.

===== Aromatherapy =====

The colored portion of the peel or the essential oil releases the familiar, sweet, citrusy odor. Like neroli, this fragrance is ideal for self-purification, for transforming depression into peace or even joy, and for producing an increase in available bioelectrical energy when needed for both mundane and magical workings.

In larger amounts the scent may create the desire for sleep.
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