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Hazel
Hazel, the tree of wisdom and learning, adds its strength to the bright fire burning.
Green Man Tree Oracle
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Planet: Mercury Element: Air Symbolism: Wisdom & Divination, Poetry & Science, Playfulness & Enchantment, Healing Arts Stone: Topaz, Pearl Birds: Crane Color: Orange 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: Wands made of this wood symbolize white magick and healing. 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. Magically, hazel wood is used to gain knowledge, wisdom and poetic inspiration. Hazel wood is excellent for making all purpose magickal wands. 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.
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The Hazel Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker
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The Fairy Bible by Teresa Moorey
Hazel Fairy
Hazel is a mercurial sprite, deeply wise, a bringer of insight and flashes of inspiration. This fairy can help you to find knowledge in a very individual way, and to develop your intuition, so that you can see deeply into many things.
Hazel holds the secrets of the earth, and can teach about dowsing and the currents within the land, known as ley lines. She also encourages meditation and confers eloquence on those who respect and honor her.
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Wakening
from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig
The air surrounding hazel trees is said to be magically charged with the quicksilver energy of exhilaration and inspiration.
To dream of a Hazelnut tree predicts wealth as well as unexpected good fortune.
This is the best time of year to focus on gaining wisdom and absorbing knowledge. Cast spells to heighten your senses and concentration.
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The Faces of WomanSpirit
A Celtic Oracle of Avalon by Katherine Torres, Ph.D.
Hazel, Strong and Wise We salute your guiding light We salute your knowing hour. It does give us might.
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Hazel catkins can aid in your favorite Spell for Love:
Light a red or pink candle and gather some catkins of the Hazel tree (the timing would be perfect for around Valentines day) and wrap them in a piece of red or pink tissue paper. Hold it in your hand over your heart as you recite your incantation. Burn the bundle while visualizing your intent. adapted from Whispers from the Woods, by Sandra Kynes
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THE CELTIC TREE ORACLE by Liz and Colin Murray
As well as poetic skill, this Ogham card represents intuition, the power of divination leading straight to the source. Hazel twigs have traditionally always been used for divining because of their pliancy and affinity with water.
So the Hazel embodies many talents: Poetry, divination and the powers of mediation. Through the guidance of this card, these talents can also be a channel for creative energies, especially that which allows you to inspire or increase these capacities among others, through your work, interests and pursuits. The Hazel, in fact, allows you to be a catalyst of transformer, working though the promptings of intuition to bring ideas to the surface. |
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In England, branches of Hazel leaves gathered on Palm Sunday and kept alive indoors in water were said to protect the house from thunder and lightning. In Wales, fresh hazel leaves worn as a chaplet for the head brought general good luck and ensured the granting of wishes, as well as protection for those at sea from shipwreck.
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by Gillian Kemp
The answer to a dilemma is imminent.
The Hazelnut is a magical tree for relaying messages, which is why a Y-shaped Hazel branch is used for divination.
You will crack a situation: the Hazelnut tree bestows powers of wisdom, symbolized by the cracking of the nutshell to get to the nourishment inside. The nut and shell also represent the heart within the body and female fertility, because the nut is like a baby inside a mother's womb. With such life-giving qualities, this tree is an auspicious sign that love and new projects have the magical ingredients for success. Male and female flowers, being borne on separate trees, forecast a lover's meeting.
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The Great Goddess Diana
image from The Oracle of the Goddess
Diana is a Goddess of the Women. She was the Roman Goddess who was revered as one with the Greek Goddess Artemis. Her name is derived from "light" and she may have been honored as a sun and moon Goddess in ancient times. Often she is prayed to as "Diana Trivia, the triple Goddess." She reminds us to remember our own inborn wisdom and humanity. She tell us: "You are so much more than you think." Protect your own spirit growth, and trust that what is born of you will grow wings, even if, right now they seem invisible.
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In 19th century Germany, it was thought that there were witches beneath the bark of hazel trees - hence only peeled branches were allowed in churches.
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LESSON OF Hazel from The Wisdom of Trees by Jane Gifford
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.
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Celtic Moon sign - Hazel Moon
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.
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.
Hazelnut Tree, The Extraordinary: charming, undermining, very understanding, knows how to make an impression, active fighter for social cause, popular, moody and capricious lover, honest and tolerant partner, precise sense of judgment
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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.
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Pray Peace
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