Basil (Ocimum basilicum) — from the Greek basilikon, 'royal' — is the fragrant king of kitchen herbs, native to Asia and beloved from India to the Mediterranean. In India, holy basil (tulsi) is a goddess in plant form, tended daily in courtyards; in Italy a pot of basil once signalled love from a windowsill; in Haiti it guards shops and drives off ill fortune. Few plants are so universally cherished.
Basil is the great domestic blessing-herb: where it thrives, tradition says, poverty and discord cannot. It draws wealth — carried in pockets to attract customers, added to tills and prosperity floor washes — and it draws and keeps love, calming quarrels between partners and sweetening new courtships. Protective and luck-bringing, a living basil plant works as a small green guardian for the entire household. Its magic is warm, generous and thoroughly practical.
Basil ministers to the household's two treasuries: its money and its affections. Use it for businesses that need customers, kitchens that need peace, and couples who need the small daily magic of shared meals. Unlike fiercer herbs it works through flourishing — the better you tend the plant, the better it tends you. A window with basil in it is a house under friendly protection.
Basil loves the waxing moon and Friday (Venus's day) for love, Thursday (Jupiter's) for money. Water and harvest it in the morning; use it fresh whenever the household needs its blessing renewed.
Every herb has its nature — and so do you. Your numerology reveals the energies you were born to work with.
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