Properties of Trees and Shrubs

Alder: — water magick, strength, foundation
Apple: — love, spirit food, unicorns, beauty, regeneration, eternity
Ash: — study, health, enhance magick, peace, rebirth, awakening, Underworld
Aspen: — overcoming obstacles, intuition, Otherworld communication

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Birch: — purification, blessing, health, beginnings, vitality
Blackthorn: — control, stimulus, chaos energy, obstacles, friction, challenges, coercion

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Elder: — cleansing, offering, faeries, changes, evolution [never burn this wood]

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Fir/Pine: — prosperity, birth/rebirth, power, nobility, discretion, objectivity

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Gorse: — opportunity, wisdom, interaction

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Hawthorn: — purity, protection, faeries, pleasure, stimulation, misfortune
Hazel: — wisdom, creativity, enhance perceptiveness, Witchcraft skills
Heather: — success, prosperity, gateway
Holly: — enhances magick, balance, challenges, testing

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Ivy: — fertility, love, persistence, development, tenacity

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Linden: — immortality, protection, good fortune, sleep, love

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Mountain Ash [Rowan]: — protection, enhances magick, insight, cleansing

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Oak: — fertility, power, balance, protection, success, truth, strength, courage, endurance

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Poplar: — success, recognition, fame

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Red Oak: — inner transformation, harmony

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Vine [grape or berry]: — happiness, introspection, rebirth/renewal, transitions, ancestry

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Willow: — Moon Magick, psychic power, spirits, death passage, intuition, flexibility, Crone energy

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Yew: — transformation, psychic awareness, spirits, death passage, immortality [do not burn]