For Discovering Tree-Spirits

When the moon is round in spring or summer Go to a place where more than

two but not over twenty trees are growing, measure their bounds

By silent walking, mark their center and in it stand But make no sound;

listen and watch and you may Find green and silver shadows flying from leaf to leaf,

And a noise like water or quiet talking; strike three times with a stick of oak upon

the ground then you May see in every tree the falling streams of their silver

hair, and their hands like silver-flickering air; their Frightened emerald eyes will

stare until you look away then though you stay for a year and a day,

you will not see them again.

By Valerie Worth in The Crone's Book of Words

Oak Leaf Spell

Lovers two go to a lonely place in nature and

Place inside the shoe of each a single oak leaf.

Sit together and talk of your relationship and of your

Plans and dreams, the closeness you feel.

Do this until the stars come out.

If you are both patient enough you will see the

Faeries as they come out to dance and play.

By Claire Nahmad

 

A Charm to Form a Relationship with The Trees

When summer falters before its flight, go on an evening of full moonlight, and

cut from an oak tree one True branch, thick with leaves and with acorns bunched.

Then where a wood grows dense and dark, stand at its edge and the oak

bough shake saying these words To the ranks of trees, that their strength may

Be yours for whatever you please.

With oak I lead, that ash may follow

Also Alder ,Elm and Willow

Cedar and Locuss, Hickory, larch,

Walnut, chestnut, Poplar, Birch, Beech and Maple

Fir and Pine: All these powers so be mine.

Then hang the oak bough over your door, taking one

acorn from its tore to be sewn up fast in a chamois skin, safe

to be kept for what you would win.

 Z To dream of a leaf or leaves is a

symbol of renewed hope Z

 Gaia Healing Spell

When the moon is in eclipse or during the waxing phase Arrange seashells on a secluded beach to form the magick circle, five feet in Diameter. (A forest, garden or secret glen with stones or Flowers creating the circle is also appropriate.) Kneel in the circle facing the ocean. Light a blue candle and A stick incense and place them before you. Raise your arms high With palms up in a traditional Witch's prayer position and recite The following chant:

WITH SMOKE AND FLAME THIS SPELLS BEGUN O GODDESS OF THE STARS, MOON AND THE SUN, LET THE HEALING POWER BEGIN LET THE EARTH BE WHOLE AGAIN THE EARTH IS MY MOTHERE AND I AM HER CHILD THE EARTH IS MY LOVER FREE AND WILD HEAL ON THE OUTSIDE; HEAL WITHIN WITH LOVE SINCERE I CHANT THIS PRAYER TO MAKE MANKIND BEGIN TO CARE. LET EVERY SISTER AND EVERY BROTHER HEAL THE WOUNDS O THE GREAT EARTH MOTHER LET THE HALING POWER BEGIN, LET THE EARTH BE WHOLE AGAIN, HEAL ON THE OUTSIDE; HEAL WITHIN, LAND AND SEA, FIRE AND WIND. SO MOTE IT BE!

By Valerie Worth in The Crone's Book of Words

 

To Enlist the Elements Aid in a High Cause

Mark this figure on the ground, in its quartered center stand,

Face the compassed circle round, saying this, the world to bind:

Sun of the east, And western sky

Northern Iode that guards the pole,

Sea of the south, my ancient blood,

Points and elements work my goal:

All that I ask is thy desire, all that I seek

Is for thy care; my earth is thine,

And thine my fire, our waters one,

my breath thy air.

Then name your favor if it seem and object worthy of

This scheme.

 To Honor a Tree at the Vernal Equinox

 

When nights and days Are balanced and halved,

Cut from the branches March has saved

Twelve supple wands, All budded and green,

Twist them together To weave a crown,

And say these lines:

Summer will come, and the autumn wind,

Turning and turning the leaves on their stems:

Then they must fall, but now in the spring

The twig is bound, and the bud remains.

Hang the wreath From a sturdy limb

Of oak of maple, Ash or elm;

Thus will the tree Live well and long.

 

For Reviving the Earth Spirit

When deadly frost has touched the ground,

And turned its fertile flesh to bone,

You may bring it to life again:

Break the soil and spade it fine,

Gather it, pot it, take it in

To soften by the fire's flame;

Anoint it with fresh water then,

Breathe its breath, and name its name:

Spirit of Earth

Arise and live:

I break the frost

And open they grave.

 

 To Dismiss Winter Greens

All trees or boughs That have been cut

And kept for luck Within the house

Must not be cast Away and scorned,

But gravely burned To dust at last;

Chop them fine, Give them flame,

Offer this rhyme:

Forgive our fire,

Faithful tree:

Warm us now

Who have warmed thee.

 

Of Poisons to Beware

Take care that none of these,

Proud an precious

Thought they be, for magic and for ornament,

Shall touch your mouth:

The Christmas rose and mistletoe, The leaves or twigs of cherry, The rhubarb leaf, the sprig of yew, The oak and elderberry, Potato vine, potato sprout, The privet and the Laurel, Narcissus, raw marsh-marigold, Poppy and may-apple, The monkshood, the foxglove. The buttercup and daphne, Corn cockle, cow cockle, Snakeroot, pokeweed, Moonseed, the hemlocks,

The nightshades, red or black, Baneberry, larkspur, Horsetail and bracken, Henbane and dogbane And false hellebore, And certain other names Not named here--

For Earth has her mysteries,

And if you mock their wealth

She will offer you

A deep grave,

Garlanded with death.

Z When a tree enters your dreams a good omen is this,

For good health In all aspects, if trees enter your dreams

A wish you will receive. Z

 To Atone for Cutting Down a Tree

Whether fear of foolish thought

Or mere necessity has brought

The haughty elm or poplar down,

For its expense you must atone:

Face the mourning field or wood

Or barren space where once it stood,

And offer penance to the tree,

Lest blight and sorrow fall on thee:

Poor spirit hurled

From proud estate,

I rue the deed

I did of late:

Forgive my axe

That thee did vex;

And spare my life

Thy grievous fate.

 

For Preserving the Sunflower
 

The Sun must lose his rays

When autumn bows him down,

Yet a hundred summer days

Fill the circle of his crown;

Hang his image up to dry

From a rafter dark and high,

Hold this promise to his eye.

From winter's greed

I'll save thy seed,

But when the snow

Is gone, I'll go

And sow it round

Within the ground

To raise thy gold

A hundredfold.

 

For Keeping Dried Grasses
 

When all the woods are dying, And the mournful geese are flying

With a call like distant houndsPast the gray horizon's bounds,

And forgotten apples freezeOn the ground beneath the trees,

And the butterflies, undone, Turn despairing from the sun,

And the flowers fall and rust, Curling to a sorry dust,

Still the seedy grasses stand--Pale, where they were green and grand,

Yet like spears against the air, Shaped as perfect as they were

Gather them if you would know How to last the winter through;

Set they dry within a jar, Honored as spring flowers are;

Keep them all the winter long; Sing for them this human song:

Immortal grass,

Let winter pass

So neither leaf,

Nor seed, nor life,

Within this house

May come to grief.

 

Against Poison Ivy
 

Those ivy leaves With demon tongues That lick the hand To blister it, May yet be tamed And set at naught By those who will By this be taught: Learn the spot Where jewelweed Or touch-me-not Or orange balsam-- One, by three names known is grown; Pluck the plants Close to the roots, Crush them, spread The juices where Corruption lies Upon the skin, Or might lie soon, And say this rhyme:

Jewelweed

Starve ivy's greed,

Touch-me-not

Stay ivy's rot,

Orange balsam

Stop ivy's poison.

Cover the place With further leaves And bind them on; The evil touch Will soon be gone.

 

 

 

 

 
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