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Some photos on this page are from The Herbal Nexus Where there is more information on herbs. |
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IDENTIFICATION/INFORAMTION OF TREES, HERBS AND OTHER PLANTSTREES ASH The ash, known as a Father Tree, offers a safe passage to travellers, especially on sea journeys and those who settle in other countries. It was a holy tree to the Celts and as late as the nineteenth century in Killura in Ireland a descendant of the original sacred ash of Creevna, was used as a charm against drowning. After the Potato famine in Ireland, emigrants took the tree with them to to the US to guard them from harm. ELDER A tree of the White (Moon) Goddess of the Celts, this is the tree that is said to belong to all female gods whose protection extends to the home and family. Known as a fairy tree, elder wood absorbs personal and spirit negativity and is said to strengthen intuition and clairvoyance; so it is a good tree to use for protection during divinatory or psychic work. HAZEL Traditionally a tree of wisdom and justice, it marks boundaries, against unjust treatment. Hazel rods were taken by Irish settlers to the US to keep away snakes. It also is said to offer protection against storms and household disasters if a charred hazel twig from one of the festival fires or burned on Easter or May Eve is kept in the family hearth. OAK
WILLOW The Willow, another tree sacred to the Moon Goddesses, offers protection to home and to self and leaves or branches are hung in the home for this purpose. It also frees blocked emotions. HERBS CHAMOMILE ~ Chamaemelum nobile
Money, quiet sleep, affection and family CHIVES
COMFREY ~ Symphytum sp.
Safety during travel, money LAVENDER ~ Lavandula angustifolia
Love, protection, especially of children, quiet sleep, long life, purification, happiness and peace ROSEMARY ~ Rosemarinus officinalis
Love, passion, increases mental powers, banishes negativity and depression, nightmares; also for purification, healing, quiet sleep, preserves youthfulness SAGE ~ Salvia officinalis
Long life, wisdom, protection, grants; wishes, improves memory ; a Halloween, Samhain herb, the beginning of the Celtic winter THYME
Health, healing, prophetic dreams, increases psychic powers; improves memory, love and love divination, purification, courage YARROW
Courage, love, psychic powers, divination, banishes negativity; brought into house at Midsummer for protection against illness and domestic strife
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