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INSPIRATION
(See also: Imagination, Creativity)

Moon/Neptune/Mercury/Waxing Moon/Nearly Full Moon/Fire/Water/East
Tool: cauldron
Color: light blue, pink, purple, silver, violet, white, yellow
Charm: blue sonata
Animal: butterfly, carp, eel, firefly
Number: 1, 5, 9, 11, 33
Stone: blue lace agate, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, jade, opal, clear quartz, selenite, blue topaz, tourmaline, zircon
Potion: wine
Plant: acacia, angelica, balm of Gilead, benzoin, bougainvillea, cannabis, cinnamon, cinquefoil, clove, cranberry, cypress, dogbane, dragonís blood, fir, frankincense, ginger, hazel, iris, jasmine, laurel, lavender (thrown into a fire, especially at Midsummer), lily of the valley, moss, oak, green oak (added to Midsummer bonfire), orchid, reed, rose, rosemary, rowan, rue, sandalwood, tangerine (oil), vanilla, vervain, willow
Goddess: Aa (She Who Inspires), Artemis Caryatis, Badb, Bast, Benzaiten, Boand, Brigid (Flame of Inspiration, Lady of Bright Inspiration), Canola, Cardea, Ceibhfhionn, Cerridwen (White Lady of Inspiration, Keeper of the Cauldron of Inspiration), Coventina, Gonlod, Gwendydd wen adlam Cerrddeu, Hokmah, Iamanja, Isis (Leader of the Muses), the Muse, Nimuë (White Lady of Day), the Ocean Mother (Muse of Inspiration), Sulis, the White Goddess, Yemaya
God: Bacchus, Dionysus, Mimir, Ogma, Soma
Evocation: Amergin
 
architectural inspiration: Goddess: Athena - Plant: acanthus, lotus
artistic inspiration: Plant: iris - God: Credne
creative inspiration: Moon - Color: violet, yellow - Animal: caterpillar, newt - Stone: amethyst, chrysocolla, moonstone, green tourmaline, turquoise - Plant: iris, lilac, lotus, orris root, rose, rosemary, ylang ylang - Goddess: Benzaiten, Brigid, the Muses
higher/divine inspiration: Color: blue - Stone: blue celestite, blue onyx, peridot - Plant: honeysuckle, iris - Goddess: Awen, Ceibhfhionn, the Muses
literary inspiration: Goddess: Aa, Aya
oracular inspiration: Plant: laurel
poetic inspiration: Charm: the sound of wind in willow trees - Plant: grapevine, hazelnut, willow - Goddess: Sarasvati
practical inspiration: God: Ptah
spiritual inspiration: Pisces - Animal: firefly
sudden inspiration: God: Zeus

inspiration in battle: God: Odin
inspirational meditation: Color: light blue
inspirational speech: Plant: trumpet vine
 
to attract inspiration: Stone: tourmaline - Plant: dragonís blood, tuberose

to inspire:

courage: Stone: carnelian, tigerís eye
faith: Stone: amazonite
fear: (See: Fear)
love: Evocation: the Apsaras
positive emotions: Plant: pine