Tulip Magic: Blooming with Prosperity, Love, and Protection

When spring comes by again, gardens begin to bloom. Spring usually starts between Ostara and Beltane, closer to Beltane. During Beltane, celebrate spring at its peak and the soon-to-come summer. Flowers are abundant during Beltane, specifically ones of many colors like the tulip. Tulips appear in a variety of colors and make handy magickal tools. Tulips are connected to prosperity, which is vital during Beltane as crops need to produce as much valuable offspring as possible in case the summer is too hot for plants to prosper. Tulips are a great asset during Beltane for honoring spring and spells based on growth and prosperity. Before jumping into using tulips, though, you must first learn about their origins and how they can be used to your benefit. This article aims to help you gain a better understanding of the magick that tulips contain.

Origins of Tulips

The first tulips were discovered in Turkey around a thousand years ago, with their origin being tied to a story of star-crossed lovers—according to legend, a princess named Shirin and a stonemason, Farhad. The princess’ father opposed the union since it was lowly for royalty to marry someone from the working class. Her father gave Farhad a task to prove his worth, but while the stonemason was away, the king sent him a message saying that his daughter was dead. Filled with grief, Farhad took his life. Shirin heard of the betrayal and went after Farhad, but upon discovering his death, she killed herself, and when their blood pooled together, it formed the first red tulip.

Even if some don’t believe the legend of the first tulip, it doesn’t change that tulips did originate in Turkey and Persia. Merchants helped the flower spread throughout Europe as they wandered with their wares during the 1500s, which soon spread to the new lands. Tulips especially made their claim in Holland when botanist and head of the Hortus, Carolus Clusius, started the tulip trade. He wanted to use tulips for their medicinal uses, but the flower quickly gained popularity for its ornate nature. Today, of the nine billion tulips grown in Holland, seven billion are exported.

Magickal Uses and Specific Varieties

Tulips have a wide variety of magickal uses. Planting bulbs around your home before spring will give you a wide variety of colors to choose from when spring rolls around. One of the tulip’s main magickal properties is for love. Tulips make a vital addition to spells that increase desire, build relationships, settle emotions, and open the heart. Tulips can also project positive energy, such as gratitude, happiness, beauty, and prosperity. Wearing tulips can protect you from negative emotions and bad luck. But the different colors that tulips come in carry the most magickal powers.

Deep Purple

Deep purple tulips are often mistaken for black because they are dark, but they don’t share magickal properties. Deep purple tulips are ideal for spells relating to power and ambition.

When used under the full moon, they can banish spells.

Orange

Orange is associated with attraction and encouragement. If there is someone that you want to be drawn closer to you, use the petals and stems in an attraction spell.

Yellow

Planting yellow tulips near your front door and under windowsills will protect your home from those who want to cause you harm.

White

These tulips come in handy for purity and cleansing spells. Placing white tulips around your home each spring will cleanse the air and leave your house feeling fresh until next spring.

Combining Tulips with Other Flowers

While tulips have a wide range of magick alone, you can combine them with different flowers to gain a boost of magick or get a different magickal source altogether.

Daffodils

Daffodils are associated with love and fertility. Fresh ones combined with tulips placed in your home can bring an abundance of love and raise fertility should you try to start a family.

Dandelions

Dandelions can help you see that change can be positive. Tulips can help clear your mind for divination, and dandelions can boost the power of your Third Eye so that you can have clearer visions.

Forsythia

Forsythias can keep you calm when you are anticipating something. Combine them with tulips if you are waiting for love that has yet to arrive or occur so that you stay calm and not so eager.

Lilies

The Easter and tiger lily are associated with all aspects of spring. When combined with the tulip, you can expect a boost in fertility, rebirth, renewal, and abundance.

Violets

Violets bring tranquility and peace. Combine the petals of violets and tulips so you can feel calm and push back negative feelings that dare disturb your peace.

Tulip Alternative Medicine

There are not many writings on the tulip’s medicinal uses, mainly due to the high price of tulip bulbs in history—the price of tulip bulbs back in the day is equivalent to about $2,000 per bulb today! But there are some writings of a poultice that can soothe rashes, stings, minor burns, and scratches. Oil can also be made from tulips that can be used as a house freshener or added to baths as a mood lighter.

The beautiful array of colors that tulips offer will make a Witch eager to use them in their spells. Now that you know which color does what and what flowers you can combine with tulips, you should have fun incorporating tulips into your practice. To be ready for tulip magick during Beltane, aim to plant a garden of different colors tulips during the beginning of spring. That way, when Beltane comes around, you will have plenty of tulips to work with. Be sure, as you would with any aspect of nature, that you thank the tulips for growing strong enough for you to use before harvesting them. But with the right intentions and good thanks, you should have no issue using tulips in your spring magick.