Post by MOON CHILD on Feb 6, 2023 17:23:27 GMT
TREE MAGICK ORACLE DECK
By Gillian Kemp
TREE WORSHIP
In days gone by, people recognized that their survival depended upon trees. They worshipped them to show respect, believing them to have a special connection with God. They attributed certain trees with particular virtues. The Oak Tree, for instance, was a sign of strength because of its stature and age. Carrying an acorn as an amulet symbolized carrying the strength of the Oak. People prayed beneath the Oak, with their back to their trunk or their arms around it, so that the tree could impart to them its strength.
The rituals and virtue attributed to the trees often derive from their personalities and physical characteristics. The Oak is associated with strength because of its vigour even in old age, and the Rowan with attraction and romance, its red berries symbolizing the colour of life. A tree, however has a multitude of virtues. A Rowan for instance also represents healing and protection – because the tree’s clusters of red berries look like droplets of blood, a healing prayer would be said to the Rowan to ask for it to absorb sickness from the patient. Trees have been revered by numerous cultures worldwide because the can live for more than a thousand years.
In different cultures certain trees were worshipped for their special wisdom, for expressing all life and knowledge. Five trees – The Date, Fig, Cedar, Ash, and Baobab – were acknowledged as trees of life. The Tree of Life is a symbol of evolution or of the growth of an idea, vocation, generosity, permanence, and immortality. It was believed that the knowledge contained in the Tree of Life, once discovered, would confer immortality, yet to discover it would not be easy. The wisdom is hidden.
If I asked you if you have ever worshipped a tree you would probably answer “No.” Yet without knowing it, you probably have at Christmas-time. Pine trees lit up and decorated as Christmas trees go back to tree worship. Candles were it were lit on the Pine trees at the Winter Solstice, on December 21 to welcome the return of the sun and increasing daylight hours Being evergreen, the Pine bore the same continually as the sun. Like the sun, it did not die in winter. When the Pine is burnt, its flame is pure-white, a symbol of purity and light. The Yule log is traditionally Pine, and even chocolate Yule log cakes relate to tree worship, because both the tree and Yule log are tokens of coming Spring.
Happy Reading
Love and Light
PAGAN WOLF
By Gillian Kemp
TREE WORSHIP
In days gone by, people recognized that their survival depended upon trees. They worshipped them to show respect, believing them to have a special connection with God. They attributed certain trees with particular virtues. The Oak Tree, for instance, was a sign of strength because of its stature and age. Carrying an acorn as an amulet symbolized carrying the strength of the Oak. People prayed beneath the Oak, with their back to their trunk or their arms around it, so that the tree could impart to them its strength.
The rituals and virtue attributed to the trees often derive from their personalities and physical characteristics. The Oak is associated with strength because of its vigour even in old age, and the Rowan with attraction and romance, its red berries symbolizing the colour of life. A tree, however has a multitude of virtues. A Rowan for instance also represents healing and protection – because the tree’s clusters of red berries look like droplets of blood, a healing prayer would be said to the Rowan to ask for it to absorb sickness from the patient. Trees have been revered by numerous cultures worldwide because the can live for more than a thousand years.
In different cultures certain trees were worshipped for their special wisdom, for expressing all life and knowledge. Five trees – The Date, Fig, Cedar, Ash, and Baobab – were acknowledged as trees of life. The Tree of Life is a symbol of evolution or of the growth of an idea, vocation, generosity, permanence, and immortality. It was believed that the knowledge contained in the Tree of Life, once discovered, would confer immortality, yet to discover it would not be easy. The wisdom is hidden.
If I asked you if you have ever worshipped a tree you would probably answer “No.” Yet without knowing it, you probably have at Christmas-time. Pine trees lit up and decorated as Christmas trees go back to tree worship. Candles were it were lit on the Pine trees at the Winter Solstice, on December 21 to welcome the return of the sun and increasing daylight hours Being evergreen, the Pine bore the same continually as the sun. Like the sun, it did not die in winter. When the Pine is burnt, its flame is pure-white, a symbol of purity and light. The Yule log is traditionally Pine, and even chocolate Yule log cakes relate to tree worship, because both the tree and Yule log are tokens of coming Spring.
Happy Reading
Love and Light
PAGAN WOLF