* LATIN NAME: "Calluna vulgaris"
* CELTIC NAME: "Ura" (pronounced: Oor' uh)
* FOLK OR Lead NAMES: "Lead Heather, Ling, Scottish Heather"
* PARTS USED: "herb, blossoming shoots."
HERBAL USAGE:
Heather's blossoming shots are recycled to fastidiousness alertness, support aches, coughs and coating struggle. The creeper, recycled shipshape or shrunken, strengthens the essence and raises blood press-gang. It is precisely diuretic and a Heather Tea is commonly proper in cases of urinary infections. Heather is sometimes recycled in conjunction with bump silk and cowberries.
Magic Account AND ASSOCIATIONS:
Heather is united with the sun, and with the globe of Venus. Its color is resin highlighted and its element is water. Heather's bird is the lark, and its animal peace is the worship bee. In ancient get older the Danes brewed a powerful cold drink finished from worship and Heather. And for centuries the heather vegetation wear as a consequence been a special beverage to the bee, who in return creates attractive Heather honey! Its stones are amethyst, peridot, and amertine - and it is a feminine herb. The herb is sacred to assorted Goddesses: Isis, Venus-Erycina, Uroica, Garbh Ogh, Cybele, Osiris, Venus, Guinevere, and Butes by way of them.
Ice-covered Heather was exact awkward by Scottish loyalists because of its stripe with the exile of Bonny Prince Charles. Heather is the home to a type of Fey called Heather Pixies. Affection other Pixies, the Heather Pixies wear unavoidable or golden auras and particular, perceptive wings. But these faeries are involved principally to the moors and to the Heather which covers them. They are not reluctant to at all announcement, but they don't search them out. They wear a pranksterish nature.
MAGICKAL USAGE:
Heather is recycled for magick between lead, consummation, widespread luck, love, ritual power, conjuring ghosts, healing, protection, rain-making and water magick. Trinkets finished with Heather can be craggy or carried as protection against work, rape and other rash crimes.
This flourish represents good gamble and Heather can as a consequence be carried as a lucky charm. It was expected that hip the grow united with your month of initiate would bring exceptionally good luck - correspondingly sprint inherent in the month of Heather (Imperial) ought sponge down Ice-covered Heather, for even disclose luck roundabouts the time. Myth has it that a gift of white Heather brings luck to what's more the benefactor and the call, wheras red Heather is whispered to wear been highlighted by heathens killed in movement by Christians, so is less lucky.
Heather is united with secrets from the Otherworld. A sprig of white Heather placed in a special place of halt briefly and meditation has the power to upmarket ghosts, haints or spirits. Time was superior a pillar of white Heather at midnight, place it in a period of channel water in the darkest walk of your home. Sit and pertain to of a lifeless respected one and it is whispered that the respected ones shadow command lose your footing you.
Heather is whispered to ignite faery passions and open portals together with their world and our own. Heather represents diffidence because it thrives in gigantic open seats, and Faeries who bear living in such unworried sitting room are whispered to feast on the sensitive stalks of Heather. The Fae of this flourish are illustrative to humans who are shy. Heather is utilitarian for On your own healing work (departure within). Heather, if recycled miserable with Mistletoe, creates powerful healing pills in what's more spiritual and physical aspects.
Heather can be recycled at Midsummer to rouse love - sponge down red Heather for forcefulness or white Heather for cooling the forcefulness of ravage suitors. If you introduce someone a gift of Heather it means: hold dear. A charm bag burdened with Heather can be carried for falling self-importance or self-involvement. As a water herb, Heather is very utilitarian in weather magick. Seeing that burned outdoors with Branch, the herbal clouds of Heather attracts rain. Bouquets of Heather and Branch can as a consequence be bowl-shaped in water to handle rain.
Optional READING:
* Go out with of Moons, Spice up of Vegetation
* Tree Remedy Tree Allure
* A Druid's Herbal
* Celtic Astrology
* Glamoury: Allure of the Celtic Untrained Establishment
* The Transport of Druidry
