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Sunday 19 January 2014

The Celtic Year - Oak

Oak/Duir
10th June 7th July

We have reached the 7th and to me one of the most influential trees of the Celtic Year. It is a King tree in the ‘Holly and Oak King legend’ which sees them battle for leadership of the year at each solstice the Oak King winning at the Winter Solstice, and perishing to Holly in Summer. I say it is so influential to me because it is the Celtic month I was born under and so consider myself dedicated to the Oak more than any other.

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 Associations
Polarity:      Masculine
Element:      Water, Earth, Spirit
Sabbat:       Summer Solstice
       Deities:        Zeus, Thor, Artemis, The Dagda, The Green                 Man, Janus, Diana, Cybele, Hecate, Pan
Planet:        Jupiter, Mars, The Sun, Brighid, Erato
Animals:      Oriole, Wren
Colour:        Gold, Black
Gems:         Diamond, Aventurine, Carnelian, Moonstone
Metal:         Gold
Flower:        St John’s Wort
Day:           Wednesday
Beings:        Fairies; Dryads


Medicinal & Herbal Uses
Bark powerful astringent properties
Bark (as tea) fight and ease diarrhoea and dysentery
White Oak Bark (as tea) helps to clear sinuses and congestion.
Externally use for treating haemorrhoids, inflamed gums, blistering, wounds and eczema.
Leaves the ones that stay on an oak all winter can be boiled to make a solution for frostbitten extremities (soak for an hour each day).
Peeled Acorns in various potions, help to cure alcoholism, halitosis, and constipation.

Magickal Uses:
Together with Ash and Hawthorn, the Oak is one of the powerful triad of faery trees.
If there is flu or colds in the house, burn an oak-wood fire to shoo out the illness.
Carrying an acorn will ward off illness and pains; increase youthfulness and increase fertility and sexual potency.
Keeping a piece of Oak on your person will draw good luck (always ask permission and show gratitude)
Different Oaks lend speciality energies to magick workings:
·        Red Oak is much lighter and a little fierier than other branches of the species.
·        White Oak is powerful for magick requiring strength and solidity.
·        Brown Oak is earthy and lends its power strongly to grounding.
Acorns have a particular power for attracting the opposite sex; increasing income and prosperity, and for improved divination powers.
Plant acorns under a Dark Moon to attract prosperity.

Other Information:
Known as ‘The King of the Grove’, Oak was one of the sacred three: Oak, Ash and Thorn.
The word ‘Duir’ is from the Sanskrit ‘Dwr’ meaning door the door to the three Shamanic worlds.
If you dream of resting under an Oak, you shall live a long life and be wealthy.
There is a tradition that when the leaves of an Oak are rustline, the voice of Jupiter can be heard in their whispers.
The Summer Solstice occurs during Duir, therefore Oak is a power symbol of Midsummer.
The Oak is a lightning magnet which is a common reason for it’s association to Zeus.
If you catch an oak leaf when it’s falling, it is said that you will not have a cold during the winter months.

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