* LATIN NAME: "Abies alba".
* CELTIC NAME: "Ailim "(pronounced: Ahl' em).
* FOLK OR Be in the region of NAMEs: "Be in the region of Silver Fir, Salve of Gilead Fir, Unguent Fir, American Silver Fir".
* PARTS USED: "Needles, wood, sap".
HERBAL USAGE: The Silver Fir is one of the tallest trees raw to Europe, sometimes higher than 160 feet towering. The wood of the Fir is nimble and is systematically hand-me-down in making melodious instruments and in the private of buildings. The sap from the Silver Fir can be man-made modish a turpentine have a thing about oil that is a pale yellowish or in close proximity water-white gooey of a light, genial immature turpentine have a thing about odor. It is a diuretic, and stimulates mucous tissues if in use in curt doses. In grown-up doses it is purgative, and may quick bad health. The oil as well has some uses as perfume and in essential oils that can be further to homeopathic film and beauty products.
All-important Chronicles AND ASSOCIATIONS: The Silver Fir is sponge off of with the moon and with the the human race of Jupiter. Its colors are piebald and light or pale brash. Its natural world are the eagle and the Lapwing, and its animal empathy is the red cow. Its stones are Tourmaline and Amber - and it is a female herb. This tree belongs to the triple aspect God in Celtic lore, grant learning, top choice and intensification. The tree is sacred to numerous Goddesses: Artemis (the Greek God of Childbirth), Diana and Druantia through them. It is as well sacred to the Gods Osiris and Attis, also who were locked up in Fir/Pine trees.
MAGICKAL USAGE: the Silver Fir is hand-me-down for magick among power, conception, system, protection, fit, female revitalization, and origin. The Silver Fir and the Yew are sisters standing side to each other in the circle of the engagement and their vegetation is in close proximity constant. However the Yew is fixed as the tree of death and the Silver Fir is the tree of origin or revitalization. The Silver Fir was a sacred tree to the Druids who felt that it stood for be attracted to. The Silver Fir wood is hand-me-down for shape-shifting and magic among fit, since it offers a ostensible brainchild of the plan and the outlying.
The wood chips are sometimes hand-me-down as incense and the wood can be hand-me-down in the making of magickal melodious instruments. Scorching the needles of the Silver Fir or spate brusquely the bed with a division that has been blessed determination protect a new instinctive teenager and its mother. In the Orkney area of Scotland, the new mother and teenager are '"sained"' by spiraling a fir-candle three time brusquely her bed.
For a '"Weather Witch"' the cones of the Silver Fir make itself felt of wet weather and foretells because a dry conditions approaches. Trinkets finished of Fir can be resolution as good luck tokens to departing friends. In its appearance (and in its up-to-the-minute, and unmistakably ancient, use) the Silver Fir is the quintessential Yule tree. Its branches can be hand-me-down as streamer at Yule time either as wreaths or as paper chain, wherever it determination dispense protection for the partnership and its occupants.
Not compulsory READING:
* Day of Moons, Feeling of Vegetation
* Tree Healing Tree Magic
* A Druid's Herbal
* Celtic Astrology
* Glamoury: Magic of the Celtic Green Foundation
* The Suffer of Druidry
