A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing Part, II: Energetic Healing vs. Palliative Care

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Echinacea Pallida: Purple Cone Flower

Great Design Plant: Echinacea Pallida   Healing: Echinacea is a Native American medicinal plant named for the prickly scales in its large conical seed head, which resembles the spines of an angry hedgehog (echinos is Greek for hedgehog).  Native Americans may have used echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds, and … Continue reading Echinacea Pallida: Purple Cone Flower

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Good Information. Thank you.

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besom1Practical Magic- Here and There

Replace all dried herbs, sachets, stubby candles, amulets, poppets, bundles, and sleep pillows once a year. I like to replace and freshen everything the day before the Summer Solstice. For power wanes each time the objects are handled or used in spells and rituals.

Make new sachets for protection and prosperity. Create new amulets for love, protection, blessings, and infuse them with fresh, magical energy. If you have bought candles, holders, cauldrons, or any magic potions, bless these and charge them under the full moon.

Wash crystals and glassware in warm water and a pinch of sea salt. Smudge your work area with white sage for cleansing and clearing out negative energy. We do spring cleaning of our homes, and it’s wise to do a little magical cleaning as well.

Everything should be handled only by you. Touch it, speak to it, infuse it with…

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Seeking Sacred Springs for Inspiration and Healing

Beautiful Post. I grew up drinking on spring water. I am now lucky enough to live on a lake that is spring fed,the water in the lake has been tested and is considered to be purer than our well water which is quite pure. Springs are a blessing if you live near one that is pure it is the best water ever.

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Heffley Spring in June 2015 Heffley Spring in June 2015

The druid tradition–along with many others–is full of stories about sacred waters. From the Chalice Well in Glastonbury to the invocation of the “Salmon who Dwells Within The Sacred Pool,” we’ve got our water going on. Imbolc (which happened earlier this week) is often a holiday associated with flows, and many of us do workings with water and healing with water in various ways. More than this though, water has a number of key places within our conceptual frameworks in the druid tradition.  In the four element system so commonly used in earth-based traditions (that has been part of western thinking for a very, very long time), water represents our emotions, our intuition, and our connection to our spirituality. In the druid revival’s three element system, water is connected with Gywar, the principle of flow. It is Gywar that helps us move forward and…

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