The Healers Stone ~ Peridot

Peridot has been used as a Power Stone for centuries. Peridot fosters emotional balance and helps us heal from past emotional wounds. It clears the pathway to the heart and heals damaged egos. Anger, jealousy, bitterness, and irritation are usually a result of wounded hearts (and sometimes, a wounded EGO). Peridot helps us move past … Continue reading The Healers Stone ~ Peridot

Fluorite: Pisces Medicine

Fluorite is one of those crystals that everyone needs in their stash. Known as the ‘Genius Stone’ it promotes mental acuity like no other rock, gem, or mineral out there in the jewelry shop of Mother Nature. It strengthens the mind, fine tunes analytical and critical thinking skills, helps the user attain and remember information, […] … Continue reading Fluorite: Pisces Medicine

Hummingbirds and Butterflies Will Love You for Planting This

Bee Balm Bee Balm has a high thymol content and, therefore, antibacterial properties. It also has anti-fungal and anesthetic properties. It can be used in mouthwashes, foot baths to relieve odor and/or itching. It is also useful as a wash for minor cuts and scrapes. Bee Balm has been used for spells for developing psychic … Continue reading Hummingbirds and Butterflies Will Love You for Planting This

A Celtic Galdr Ritual For Land Healing

The following is a land healing ritual that we did at the OBOD’s Mid-Atlantic (MAGUS) gathering last weekend (May 2017). (For a wonderful review of this gathering, please see Dean Easton’s A Druid’s Way Blog!) This ritual was done by about 45 participants surrounding a small cluster of Eastern Hemlocks (Tsugae Canadensis) at Four Quarters […] … Continue reading A Celtic Galdr Ritual For Land Healing

The Metaphysics of Faerie Trees

‘Faerie Folks Are in old oaks.’ Traditional proverb In 1452, thirty-four French villagers were questioned by an ecclesiastical commission about a ‘faerie tree’ (arbor fatalism, gallide des fees) in Domrémy, as part of the process of overturning Joan of Arc’s conviction at the hands of the English/Burgundian Gestapo twenty years earlier. In the face of … Continue reading The Metaphysics of Faerie Trees