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Continue reading →: Cattail
Reed gives strength to the physician and is an attribute of Brigid, patroness of all healers. —E.E. Hopman It’s quite fortuitous that the letter “C” happens to fall near Imbolc, as it gives me a chance to talk about the cattail, Typha capensis, my regional equivalent of the reed so…
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Continue reading →: Beech
What can I say? Life’s a beech! Beech is one of my favorite childhood trees. I still love wrapping my arms around their trunks, leaning into the warm, smooth bark. Beeches are just so approachable, they practically beg to be hugged, climbed, slept under, and crouched in. My alma mater had…
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Continue reading →: Birch
Now Beithe has been named from the Birch owing to its resemblance to the trunk of that tree. Of withered trunk, fair-haired the Birch. —Book of Ballymote Faded trunk and fair hair. —Word Ogham of Morainne Browed beauty, worthy of pursuit. —Word Ogham of Cuchulain Most silver of skin. —Word…
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Continue reading →: Artemesia vulgaris (Mugwort)
Remember, Mugwort, what you revealed, what you established at the mighty proclamation “Una” you are called, oldest of herbs. you may avail against 3 and against 30, you may avail against poison and against contagion, you may avail against the loathsome one who travels through the land. (Woden’s Nine Herbs…
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Continue reading →: Agrimony
The plant is found abundantly throughout England, on hedge-banks and the sides of fields, in dry thickets and on all waste places. In Scotland it is much more local and does not penetrate very far northward. Agrimony has an old reputation as a popular, domestic medicinal herb, being a simple…
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