Celtic Tree Month of Hazel 8/5/2020

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• Planet: Mercury
• Element: Air
• Symbolism: Wisdom & Divination, Poetry & Science, Playfulness & Enchantment, Healing Arts
• Stone: Topaz, Pearl
  • Topaz is a natural magnifier of psychic abilities, a mood and confidence builder, can help fight depression, inspires creativity, and brings positive energy to your life.
  • Pearl is known to have been historically used to treat issues with the digestive tract, muscular systems, and skin. Asian royalty used pearl powder for centuries to prevent the build up of melanin and to preserve beauty through aging and sun exposure as well as for many other beauty reasons.Pearl is also associated with strengthening your inner wisdom and nurturing the growth of pure love. It is a mood booster, enhancing feelings of good will and self-love. It can also be used to calm emotions and heal the negative inner voice.
• Birds: Crane
  • Crane is commonly associated with resurrection, renewal, and physical and spiritual rejuvenation. It is also a symbol of healing and peacefulness. Yet another symbolic representation of crane is that of creation through deep focus. Seeing it could be taken to mean that the person is eager to take charge of the situation and get matters into his/her hands. In Asia, cranes symbolize long life and happiness.
• Color: Orange
  • Orange symbolizes happiness, optimism, successful intention, communication, mental work, career.
• Deity: Hermes, Aemgus, Artemis, Diana
• Folk Names: Coll

Medicinal properties: 

• To clear a stubborn cough, finely powder the nuts and mix with water and honey.

• The leaves can be used in teas to treat such ailments as varicose veins, circulatory problems, fevers, diarrhea and excessive menstrual flow.

• Hazelnuts are a good source of protein, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.

 Magickal properties: 

• Forked sticks are used to find water or buried treasure.
• If outside and in need of magickal protection quickly draw a circle around yourself with a hazel branch. 
• To enlist the aid of plant fairies, string hazelnuts on a cord and hang up in your house or ritual room. 
• Hazel wood is used to gain knowledge, wisdom and poetic inspiration. 

• Hazel wood is excellent for making all purpose magickal wands. 
• Wands made of this wood symbolize white magic and healing.
• Weave hazel twigs into a crown. Put this on your head and wish very hard. Your wish may come true!
• Twigs of Hazel are placed in window frames to protect the house against lightning, and three pins of hazel wood driven into your house will protect it from fire.

The Hazel encourages us to seek out information and inspiration in all things and emphasizes the value of the enquiring mind and of learning of all kinds. Just as the hazel concentrates all its goodness and its continued existence in the kernel of its fruit, so we attain wisdom by reducing knowledge down to its purest form and passing it on down the ages. Through meditating on the essence of wisdom, we gain creative inspiration. Like the limbs of the hazel, we must remain pliant in our approach to learning. Concentrated thought in an open mind can, like the hazel, become a connection with the divine source of all things. The hazel teaches us the noble arts of learning, teaching, communication, and healing.

The hazel produces its nuts in fall, after having spent the year building the inner strength to protect them. The shell of this nut is so hard, in fact, and contains its treasure so well, that is was the inspiration for the phrase “in a nutshell.”  Born under the sign of the hazel tree, you also have an inner treasure to offer – the fruits of your knowledge. Your wisdom and ability to communicate ideas make you capable of transforming the thoughts and opinions of others. Be careful how you wield your word-wizardry. (Credit to Kim Rogers-Gallagher, and Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook 2000)

Born under this sign, you are wise and have the ability to communicate ideas, making you capable of transforming the thoughts and opinions of others.  This is the best time of year to focus on gaining wisdom and absorbing knowledge. Cast spells to heighten your senses and concentration.

In Irish mythology, the Aes Sidhe (Fairy) spirit lived in the hazel tree. They even named one of their gods after the hazel – Mac Coll or “son of the Hazel” – and he became one of the three earliest rulers of Ireland. The hazel tree was so important that anyone who cut it down could be sentenced to death. I highly recommend visiting this website to learn more about the celtic lore behind hazel.

When placing Hazel on your altar, you may honor it with your own words of thanks, or the one below:

I honor the energy of hazel, the tree of wisdom.

I will heed my own inner intuitions, and will be wise and informed in my choices.

So mote it be.

(http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Hazel.htm)

This would be a good month to do something creative such as writing poetry, painting, crafting, etc. You may also wish to play around with science experiments. 

Here are a few spells you may wish to try during the tree month of hazel:

Red Candle Healing Spell:

Ingredients:

• Red Candle
• 2 pieces of paper
• Cauldron or fire-safe dish

Instructions:

1. Cast your circle.
2. Draw a picture or write the name of the person with an illness, disease, wound, or health issue on a piece of paper.
3. Make sure the problem is clearly outlined or write the exact area affected by the problem and what the problem is.
4. Meditate, concentrating on filling your red candle with healing energy. You may wish to hold it during the meditation.
5. Light the candle.
6. Light the paper you’ve written on with the fire of the red candle and drop it into the cauldron/dish. Picture the flame destroying the concern you are spelling to heal. Imagine the fire removing all traces of illness and disease from that person.
7. On the other paper, draw or write the person’s name without the affliction they have. Imagine that the places where that person is affected are being filled with light and health.
8. Place the paper under the red candle and allow the candle to burn out on it’s own.

Power of Three Healing Spell

You will need:

• 3 candles (1 each of purple, blue and white)
• Myrrh oil
• Mint oil
• Sandalwood oil
• 3 pieces of quartz
• 3 small pieces of paper

Instructions:

1. Anoint each candle with the three oils and form a triangle with the candles on your altar. Anoint the stones as well, placing one in front of each candle.
2. Write the name of the person who is ill on each piece of paper and place them in the center of the triangle.
3. Light the candles and focus on the person whose name you’ve written. Think about them being healthy and free of their symptoms. Focus all your concentration on this person. 
4. Repeat the following three times:

Magick mend and candle burn,

Illness leave and health return

5. Leave the candles to burn for three hours. Then you may snuff them out. Remember: never blow a candle out with candle magic. 
6. You may do the ritual 3 nights in a row for best results even though there will be improvement after the first one.