Magical Properties of Mint for Witchcraft (Over the Top Guide)

[Green-Witch-Jen]

I’ve written almost 100 of these herb guides, and I’ve been saving mint until I thought I could do it enough justice. It’s one of those herbs that everyone knows about. On a normal, non-magical way.

We all know the flavor and the smell, but not many of us (even experienced witches sometimes) truly understand the magickal properties and how you can work with it in your practice.

For me, mint is the workhorse of the cabinet.

It turns up in the back garden, escapes its pot, takes over a windowsill, and refuses to die, no matter how badly you neglect it. That stubborn, overflowing vitality is the whole secret of its magic.

It’s gentle enough to use every single day yet versatile enough to slot into almost any working you can name, from drawing money to guarding the threshold to reaching the dead. If you’re just starting out, this is the plant I’d put in your hands first.

The Metaphysical Properties of Mint

Mint’s energy is bright, moving, and quick, the kind of force that gets stagnant things flowing again. I reach for it whenever something needs to move, whether that’s money, physical sickness, or stuck thoughts.

• Prosperity & abundance: its signature gift, fast-growing and ever-multiplying
• Protection: for the home, the sleeper, and the traveller
• Purification & cleansing: clearing stale or heavy energy from a space or aura
• Healing: especially for the body’s lower workings and for lifting the mood of a sickroom
• Mental clarity & psychic sharpness: a wonderful ally before study or divination
• Travel & safe journeys: tucked into a shoe or a bag
• Underworld & spirit work: owing to its old ties with the dead

Magical Correspondences of Mint

Correspondence	Mint
Latin Name	Mentha spp.
Planet	Mercury (but Venus for spearmint)
Element	Air (Water for spearmint, Fire for peppermint)
Signs	Virgo, Gemini, Aquarius
Deities	Hades, Persephone, Demeter, Hecate
Chakras	Solar Plexus, Third Eye, Crown
Day	Wednesday
Folk Names	Garden Mint, Brandy Mint, Our Lady’s Mint, Lamb Mint, Yerba Buena
Sabbats	Litha (primary), Samhain, Yule

Mints Magickal Properties

Money & Abundance

If mint is famous for one thing in our craft, it’s drawing wealth.

I think the logic is beautifully simple: this is a plant that thrives, spreads, and returns no matter what, and that’s exactly the energy you want around your finances. A single leaf carried in the wallet to keep money coming and stop it slipping away is the first spell I ever taught, and it still works.

Beyond the wallet, I love building mint into a money bowl or jar, layering it with rice, a coin, a bay leaf carrying my intention, and a stone like green aventurine.

Brewed into a tea with cinnamon and a curl of orange peel, it makes a lovely prosperity drink to sip while you plan the week ahead and set your aims for abundance.

Protection & Purification

Mint has guarded homes for longer than any of us can remember. Long before witches started using it with intention.

It grew strewn across floors and tucked over doorways to keep harm out. Fresh sprigs on a windowsill or beneath the doormat raise a quiet, sweet-smelling barrier, and I refresh mine every new moon to keep the boundary strong.

It’s equally precious for clearing energy that’s gone heavy or stale. Burned as a loose incense in the corners of a room, or simmered and added to mop water, mint sweeps out what no longer serves and leaves a space feeling lighter. I keep a vase of it in any room where someone’s unwell, both for the body and for the murky energy that tends to gather around sickness.

Clarity, Dreams & the Otherworld

Mint sharpens the mind like little else.

A cup of mint tea before divination, study, or any conversation that matters clears the fog and brings my focus to a fine point. I store a pinch of dried leaf with my tarot, which keeps the cards bright and their messages clean.

Its older, deeper face is the one that ties mint to the dead. The plant carries a faint thread back to the underworld, which makes it a fitting offering for the chthonic powers and a beautiful herb for ancestor work at Samhain. Slipped beneath the pillow, it stirs vivid, often lucid dreams, so I pair it with lavender when I want rest rather than revelation.

Mint in Spellwork and Rituals

It’s a versatile herb you can use in a lot of different areas of your practice, so I can give you some examples of how you might use it, but this is really for you to explore and see what speaks to you.

I like it carried as a charm, brewed as a tea, burned as incense, infused into oil for dressing candles, simmered into a floor wash, or laid fresh upon the altar to call kind spirits near. Start with whatever you already have and let your own senses tell you how its energy wants to be used.

It can be part of a ritual or the focus of the spell. I’ll include an example ritual:

Mint Money-Drawing Rite

Process:

1. On a Wednesday during the waxing moon, sit at your altar with a green candle, a few fresh or dried mint leaves, and a coin.
2. Anoint the candle with a little mint-infused oil, working from the centre outward.
3. Light the candle, hold the leaves in your cupped hands, and warm them with your breath.
4. Wrap the leaves around the coin and hold it to your heart as you speak the chant three times.
5. Let the candle burn down safely, then carry the wrapped coin in your wallet until the next full moon.

Chant:

Leaf of green and growing fast,
draw me wealth that’s made to last.
As you spread and never cease,
let my fortune so increase.

Blessed be, and happy growing.

[SoMoteItBe]

Really glad you finally covered mint. It gets taken for granted because it’s everywhere and just because people use it day to day doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a whole lot of magick ability. I am a big fan of this herb if it wasn’t obvious

The underworld connection is interesting. Minthe was a Naiad of the river Cocytus and Hades’ lover. In most versions Persephone or Demeter trampled her into the ground out of jealousy and turned her into the plant. Oppian’s version has Demeter destroying her while Hades transforms the crushed remains so she’d live forever. That lines up with mint’s real-world stubbornness and the Greeks used it in funerary rites with rosemary and myrtle. It was also an ingredient in kykeon, the drink of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter has her accepting a mix of barley and water with pennyroyal mint instead of wine.

There’s also a mountain near Pylus named after Minthe with a sanctuary to Hades at its base. The Egyptians buried mint in tombs too, seeing it as wealth for the afterlife. So when it shows up in Samhain ancestor work, it’s not just a modern association. The plant has carried that connection for thousands of years.

[ThornAndRose]

Romans used mint in wedding wreaths for a happy marriage, and ancient Hebrews scattered it on synagogue floors for special occasions. It’s got a long history of blessing and consecrating spaces, not just clearing energy. Could be its own thread!

[SacredOak]

Mint honestly covers so much of this ground already. Mercury herbs like hazel and dill are good for communication work, and lunar plants like ginger and angelica can strengthen intuition when you lean into that side of things. The mental clarity piece and the protective qualities the guide describes, mint just kind of does all of it.

[SUPER_FAN]

Something I don’t see covered yet is boundary-setting with mint. It spreads aggressively, and that energy can show up in your workings too if you’re not careful.

When I do mint work for prosperity, I add a line like “only what is ethical and won’t overwhelm me” and then I physically pinch the stems to symbolize controlled growth. Abundance without containment just turns into chaos. That part matters more than people think.

[SHADOW_WORK]

Mint cuts through mental loops. When I burn a pinch alongside a written worry, the smoke carries the repetition out with it, and there’s room to think straight again.

I keep a small jar of dried leaves for exactly that.

[SilverBroomstick]

When you take a cutting from mint and root it in water on your altar, you’re doing sympathetic magic in real time, watching abundance literally grow from nothing. I started doing this a few years ago on the new moon. I cut a sprig, put it in water with a coin in the jar, and once the roots form, I use that water to anoint my wallet and the front door threshold.

The rooting water feels way more potent than tea made from dried leaves because the plant is still alive and actively growing in it the whole time. Dried leaves are already spent.

[BlueSkyThinker]

I love it for name and speech magic. Mint is so Mercurial that it’s perfect for sweetening communication.

Tuck a leaf under your tongue before a tough talk to keep your words cool and clear, then discard it. If you can handle the tingle, obviously. I also like writing the person’s name on paper, folding it toward me with a mint leaf inside, and placing that under a glass of water overnight to ‘re-mint’ the conversation.

[DailyGrind]

The whole ‘this mint does X and that mint does Y’ thing drives me slightly mad. In my training, spearmint and peppermint work almost identically for cleansing and protection. Pennyroyal adds home and family dimensions like couple protection and household peace. Catnip isn’t technically mint but it’s close enough, and it works for attraction and glamour. I treat everything else in the Mentha family like spearmint.

Correspondences are personal and shaped by your tradition, so this is just how I work. Experiment with different species and see what clicks with your own practice.

[Scorpio]

This might not be for everyone, but after I lost my grandmother last autumn, I started working with mint in my grief practice, and something shifted. I’d read about the Hades and Persephone link, so I put fresh spearmint on my ancestor altar next to her photo. Didn’t expect much. Within three nights though, I had the most vivid dream of her kitchen I’ve ever had, right down to details I’d forgotten since childhood, like the pattern on her tea towels.

I’m still not sure if it was the mint’s underworld correspondence or just my subconscious latching onto the ritual, probably both, but it opened something I couldn’t reach with mugwort or wormwood. I’m still thinking about it.

[Book-Nerd]

Culpeper’s Compleat Herbal is the book if you want to understand why mint carries the correspondences it does. He walks you through identifying properties based on a plant’s actual characteristics, which is where most modern correspondence tables trace back to anyway. Essential reading if you’re serious about working with herbs magically.

[Little-Wiccan]

Honestly, this belongs in the herbal magic communities. The depth of mint’s properties alone deserves a wider audience than just this thread.

[FernHollow]

Honestly, mountain mint is your brain’s best friend for psychic work. The menthol does what the whole mint family does, like purification and pain relief with that classic magic.

But the scent is what gets me. It lights up your cognitive clarity and memory, which makes it perfect for any heavy focus work.

[TheGreenMan]

Freeze mint leaves into ice cubes with moon water. Drop them in your ritual drinks throughout the week. It’s ridiculously easy and keeps that prosperity energy cycling daily without extra prep.

Also, if you grow chocolate mint, the slightly earthy undertone makes it a good base for incense blends. It works for grounding and abundance work at the same time.

[SpellBinder]

Mint has become one of my go-to herbs in ways I never expected. Like after a big argument at home, I stir a few sprigs into salt water and sprinkle it around the entryway. It feels like a mini reset, though I know that sounds simple.

I also keep a small sachet of spearmint tucked in my planner or wallet, and it helps me focus when I need to sit down with finances or studying. I stumbled across the fact that ancient Egyptians linked mint to Thoth, the god of wisdom, which made that whole practice click for me in a deeper way.

Mint was sacred to both Aphrodite and Freya, which sold me on working with it more broadly. So adding a leaf to love or prosperity spells just felt right. More confident, more intentional. Give it a try if you haven’t.

[WillowWren]

Mint works well for a quick uncrossing. Just rub a leaf between your palms, sweep your aura head to toe, then do a salt water wash after.

[AdventureSeeker]

So the mint trick for finding lost things is to write the item’s name on a fresh leaf with a marker, fold it once, and pocket it.

Then just search the usual spots. The quick-moving energy of mint tends to nudge you in the right direction faster than you’d expect. Not every time, but enough that it’s worth trying.

[quietcoven]

Mint is one of those herbs that just does a lot without much fuss. I’ve seen it shift the mood in a room before. Someone once put a bowl of mint leaves and salt on the table during a tense dinner, and the whole vibe got lighter. It’s subtle but noticeable.

For restless nights, a few mint leaves tucked in with chamomile can help quiet things down and sometimes brings nicer dreams. I’ve also heard of people keeping a sprig in the car or their bag for protection on long drives, especially through places that feel a bit off.

There’s old lore about mint tea as an aphrodisiac too, though I’ve never tested that one myself. Mostly I just like how practical it is. Something that grows like a weed but actually earns its keep in spellwork.