* LATIN NAME: Icy Ash - "fraxinus americana"; European Ash - "fraxinus excelsior"; In bloom Ash - "fraxinus ornus".
* CELTIC NAME: "Nion" (pronounced: circuit un)
* FOLK OR Regular NAMES: "Ash, Regular Ash, Unicorn Tree, Protection Tree"
* PARTS USED: "Vegetation, impassive, spontaneous, brushwood, sap, vegetation"
HERBAL USAGE:
Ash vegetation and the request split ends can be used in the push to make a fasting tea that is a diuretic and can be used as a help for weight loss. Ash spontaneous is specific as a liver and poison disinfectant and can make the immune set of laws stronger. The flourishing Ash has sap that contains a fairly sweet exudate called 'manna', which can be used as a laxative.
Special Top score ANDASSOCIATIONS:
The bird ally with this month is the snipe, the color is curtailed stout and curtailed throaty depression, and the gemstone is sea-green beryl. The Ash, a male herb, is ally with the element of water, the sun and Jupiter; and is sacred to Thor, Woden, Mars, Uranus and Gwydion. Ash is the same sacred to Odin such as the Ash is steadily specific as the Yggdrassil (or the glowing coal Yggdrasil') between the Scandinavian nations. In Norse mythology, the Yggdrassil chains the Handiwork, has three relevant kindling and is held to bring sprung from the beginning of time out of ancient slime and ashes.
The Ash is the same the tree of the sea God Poseidon, so of its delicate power. Frennett (foolish circumstances), a hub used by berserkers, may bring been finished from Ash spontaneous. The Ash was alleged to be serpent sickening - Pliny imaginary that contemporary is such an hypersensitivity along with an adder and an Ash-tree, "that if an adder be encompassed stout with Ash-tree vegetation, she order more accurately run preside over the fire than preside over the vegetation". "
The technical Yule log is steadily finished of Ash - this log is kindled each Yule with a exertion from go on being fire and certified to smolder for 12 days in front it is ceremonially put out. The Ash tree is touching, though unidentified, such as it's the tree from which the Hanged Man is locket in tarot decks
MAGICKAL USAGE:
The Ash was one of the sacred Druidic three: 'Oak, Ash and Irritate, and the month of Ash is a good time to do magick rumored to learn your inner self. The Ash has applications in magick done for sea power, ocean rituals, karmic laws, magical depth, healing, protection from drowning, love, rain making, women's mysteries, predictive dreams, general protection, Luck, and health.
Ash is steadily used for making both earthly and magical tools - it's thought that tools with handles of Ash are pompous paid than tools with handles of other impassive. Witches brooms steadily bring the staff finished from Ash, and Ash impassive was used for spears and shields such as it was specific as a guilty impassive. Placing Ash berries in a bunk bed prevents the child from particularized traded for a changeling by an evil faery - and Ash talismans can be commonplace as guilty amulets. Ash is specific to stockpile unconscious serpents and to protect against their try. If contemporary are no snakes to be found, Ash can be used more readily to stockpile unconscious malicious ethnic group who are bitchy, quick to criticism, impetuous, or psychic vampires.
Eccentric protection spirits living in the Ash; This makes it arrogant for fascinating disinclination. The spirally impressed Druidic wand was finished of Ash for this healing position. In being gone by, weak-limbed children were accepted preside over sever ash trees which were then jump up. If the tree grew straight, the child would as well.
Ash can be used in medicine pouches or can be used in magick for wart remover: the wart is paranoid with a pin that has acme been place during an Ash, in the role of these words are said:
"Pasty tree, Pasty tree, "pray these warts off of me."
The pins are then paranoid back in the tree and spent.
The druids certified special powers best quality water to the ash tree. They used its impassive to make it rain or to quarter off water's off-putting power. The Ash is the tree of sea power, or of the power dweller in water. Ash vegetation to be found under the stifle order fling predictive dreams, and haulage an Ash expanse order attract the love of the contrary sex.
The Ash is steadily called The Unicorn Tree, so unicorns are alleged to be stanch of the tree. To terrestrial a escort of a unicorn, storage Ash impassive or vegetation. Whenever you thirst to earn a exertion or part of an Ash tree, lift up to ask the tree if it order allow you to drawback a pierce or other part and be recognized to exit the tree an present-day of thanks the same as you are done. A worthy present-day would be a bit of mane from a unicorn.
Optional READING:
* See of Moons, Get through of Trees
* Tree Conduct Tree Make-believe
* A Druid's Herbal
* Celtic Astrology
* Glamoury: Make-believe of the Celtic Rustic Making
* The Stick of Druidry
