Correspondences for Fertility

 

PLANET: Moon, Full Moon

ELEMENT: earth, water

DIRECTION: South, in Ireland

SYMBOL: yoni

NUMBER: 7, 8

COLOR: dark blue, green, emerald green, red

JEWEL: amethyst

INCENSE: patchouli, pine, violet

ANIMAL cattle, horse, pig, fish, serpent, snake, dove, parrot

PLANT: banana, bistort, bodh tree, carrot, chickweed, cuckoo flower, cucumber, cyclamen, dock, fig, fly agaric, gentian, grape, juniper, *lettuce, mandrake, *mistletoe, olive, peach, pine, *pomegranate, poppy, *pussy willow, *rice, sage, *St. John's Wort (gathered naked on Midsummer Eve), sunflower, violet, 'wheat

 

INVOCATIONS: Anjea, tree spirits, Wadj Wer (the Mighty Green One)

Goddesses:

Abundantia, Aditi, Althaea (She Who Makes Grow), Ama- terasu, Anahita, Anath, Aphrodite, Aradia, Arianrhod (the High Fruitful Mother), Artemis, Asherah, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Atarga- tis, birth goddesses, Bona Dea, Brighid, Ceres, Cerridwen, co- bra goddesses, Cybele, Demeter (Mother of Abundance and Fertility), Diana, Durga, Earth goddesses, Freya, Frigg, Ganga, Goda, Habondia, Inanna Ishtar, Isis (the Green One), Ix Chel, Kadesh, Kore, Laflah, Lakshnii, Latona, Maeve, Mardofl, Mater Matuta, Myrrha, Nemain, Nerthus, Oya, Parvati, Renenutet, Rhiannon, Rosmerta, Sita, Smyrna, Sri Lakshmi, Syria Dea

 

Gods:

Haddad, Adonis, Amun, Attis, Bel, Chango, the Dagda, Di- onysus, Ea, El, Enki, Eros, Freyr, Haddad Hapi, Hermes, indra, Jaguar, Khonsu, Kronos, Liber, Min, NUthm, Father Nanna, Pluto, Priapus, satyrs, Shiva, Tammuz, Zeus Chronius

 

FOR:

Children:

Invoke: Anahita, Astarte (Conceiving Womb), Hathor (mother of Children), Heket (to get pregnant), Kishitnojin (to get pregnant), Kwan-Yin (Hearer of Cries, for childless wom- en), Lucina, Sarasvati (procreation), Sasthi, Sung-Tzu Niang-Niang (the Lady Who Bestows Children), YemaYa (to cure infertility); Enki (male infertility), Mutinus, Obata- la (who makes barren women fertile), Wamala, Wep- wawet (who opens the way to the womb)

A Fruitful Marriage:

invoke: Xochiquetzal

A Son:

invoke: Sarasvati (the Bountiful, invoked by men who want sons); Chang Hsien

Fertility of Animals:

invoke: Artemis (Lady of all Wild Things), Epona (domestic animals), Hatmehyt (fish), Perchta (sheep and cattle); Damuzi, Enten

Fertility of Crops:

invoke: Al 'Uzza, Ashnan (grain), Durga; An (Father VMo Makes the Seed Sprout), Dainuzi (grain)

Fertility of the Earth:

Invoke: Damkina, Spandaramet, Teflus; Pan

Fertility of the Land:

Invoke: the Vanir; Baal, Serapis

Fertility of the Natural World:

Invoke:lnanna

Fertility of Plants:

Invoke: Al-Khidr (the Green One), Damuzi, Enlil

Fertility for Trees and Vines:

Invoke: Ningishzida (Lord of the Good Tree)

Plant: vervain root

 

From the "Wicca Handbook: By Eileen Holland