Nature therapy
Description of the trees
Domestic apple tree (December 22 – January 1; June 25 – July 4)
The apple tree is the first tree in the Druid horoscope, was the first cultivated tree and appears as one of the inspirations of the World Tree, the tree of Mother Earth.
The fruit of the apple tree is an apple, perceived as a magical fruit, symbolizing knowledge, temptation and choice between good and evil, and is a symbol of love and beauty.
The apple tree is associated with a complex of positive images, is considered a tree of rebirth, symbolizes fertility, and is associated with eternal life.
An apple tree is a female tree, a symbol of the Mother, and its fruit, at the same time, symbolizes a child, a new life, and a new world, and therefore immortality.
An apple tree is a mandatory attribute of Slavic rituals related to procreation.
The energy of the apple tree fills the soul with happiness, beauty and love, joy, tenderness and inspiration, creates a feeling of inner peace and harmony.
Balsamic fir (January 2-11; July 5-14)
Fir is the best of pine trees, it helps everyone, regardless of gender and age.
Since ancient times, the fir tree has been valued for its aroma that clears thoughts, creates an optimistic and harmonious mood.
Fir prefers brave and aware people, ready to fight against troubles and not give up.
Fir strengthens the will, endurance, strengthens the spirit and the physical body.
Communicating with a tree will relieve depression, fatigue, apathy and neuroses, and also stop a person from the path of self-destruction.
It is especially recommended to communicate with a fir tree when you are haunted by failures in life.
A strong-spirited fir will share energy, help find the best way out of a problematic situation and achieve any goal.
People who regularly turn to the fir for help quickly advance up the career ladder, become more responsible and easily complete the task.
Fir tree has a soft and healing energy, it is enough to inhale its aroma to recharge with optimism and a good mood.
Elm (January 12-24. July 15-25)
Elm is a conductor of heavenly energy and negatively charged, a tree of strong personalities, mostly men, but also suitable for strong women.
Elm prefers strong-willed people, supports all their endeavors, helps them not to despair, to endure defeat with dignity.
Elm gives strength only to those who are ready to rise again every time, despite the difficulties and start all over again. One good contact with an elm can be enough for a person for many years.
If you are tired in the struggle, if you do not have enough straw to keep your balance – it is the elm that will gladly let you grab its strong branch and help you climb to the top.
But if you lost heart, resigned yourself to defeat before you did everything possible, could not fight to the last – the elm will give up on you.
Communicating with an elm gives a person determination, steadfastness, purposefulness, strength to overcome adverse life circumstances.
The tree will help to achieve success in education and career, attract strong and sincere people as friends.
In all situations where you need fortitude and endurance, as well as courage and directness, elm will help you.
Port Orford Cedar, Lavson cypress (Cypress) (January 25-February 3; July 26-August 4)
Cypress is a masculine tree, a symbol of infinity and immortality. Represents grace, nobility, health, longevity and eternal youth.
For a full-fledged interaction with a cypress, a person needs only “personal” communication with it, then the energy of the cypress gives a halo of charm that is hard to resist.
Cypress always favors those who turn to it for help.
A strong-spirited cypress will share energy, help find the best way out of a problematic situation and achieve any goal.
The cypress has become a symbol of honesty, justice and endurance.
Cypress wood is rich of resin, has a wonderful smell, is strong and does not rot. In ancient times, it was considered priceless, worthy of gods and kings.
Cypress oil has a warming property that balances all body systems.
Currently, the oldest cypress grows in Mexico, it is already more than 2000 years old. Back in the 20th century, a cypress tree, which was about three thousand years old, grew in Greece.
Black poplar (February 4-8; August 3-13)
The generic name of poplar comes from Latin: populus – the people, because poplars were planted around squares and other places of public gatherings.
Poplar is a symbol of strength and youth, helps restore emotional state, clean energy, breathe a second life.
This tree absorbs negative information from the surrounding world. The poplar consumes it. If you are in a bad mood or someone has offended you, the poplar will drive away sadness and bring relief, while you need to hug the poplar with your arms and stand for a few minutes.
In cities, the poplar performs a sanitary function. For its existence, it must absorb a huge amount of negative energy.
It is a sturdy and viable tree, but it is interesting that there are no poplar forests in nature.
European cedar pine (Cedar) (February 9-18; August 14-23)
Cedar is an energetically very strong tree and has unique characteristics: its wood has a pleasant aroma and is resistant to decay, which makes it valuable for construction.
Pine nuts are considered adaptogens, they help the body to facilitate adaptation to various adverse effects and increase its resistance.
The use of cedar oil will improve the condition of the skin.
Cedar resin contains substances with antiseptic and antimicrobial properties that help fight bacteria and fungi.
To cure diseases and get rid of mental suffering, it is enough to lean against the trunk for a while. Cedar has a particularly positive effect on people. Human biorhythms coincide with cedar biorhythms.
If you approach the cedar, you will enter a special influence zone and undergo a in-moment diagnosis.
If a person’s energy is weakened or sick, cedar will direct all its forces with a flow of pure energy to relieve a person of fatigue, depression, emotional tension, stress, create a sense of belonging to something big, contributing to psychological stability.
As a long-lived cedar, it shares its life force with us, and at the same time we feel an improvement in mood, energy is restored, there is an influx of strength, the desire to live and act.
Cedar can eliminate some of the effects of geopathogenic influence.
Scots pine, European red pine, Scotch pine, Baltic pine (February 19-29; August 24-September 2)
Pine is a tree of peace and spiritual elevation, one of the most powerful cleansing plants, a tree of spiritual illumination and creative ascension. Pine has a blue-violet aura.
Pine has long been a revered tree among the Scandinavians.
If a serious moment has come in your life, if your fate is decided, and you want to cope with life’s problems – you need a pine.
With direct contact, the power of pine will take away the irritation and annoyance that accumulates in your soul every day.
Pine is partly represented by the Sun, which makes its energy so warm and purifying.
Your energy will help to get rid of nervous disorders and stress. No neurosis can withstand its influence. It contributes to the treatment of all diseases that are accidentally related to stress.
Pine is a soft and merciful tree by nature. It is open to people and is always ready to help, support and heal. However, you need to turn to the tree only with pure intentions, being ready to let light energy into yourself. Pine is hostile to evil and cruel personalities. It can ignore such people, take away their life force.
Also, the energy of pine is too heavy for people with a sick heart. They feel bad in the pine forest.
Pine cleans the body, soul, space of negativity and attracts positive energy. Calms, removes excitement, anxiety, guilt and normalizes the psyche, stabilizes the mood, helps fight depression and apathy.
Gives peace of mind, a sense of pacification, confidence in the future, gives strength, joy, finally to a sublime mood.
Pine serves as its native preservative, i.e. it completes the flow of energy that causes aging.
This is a merciful tree, you need to approach it with an open soul. In the old days, it was believed that the smell of pine helps to relieve guilt.
The energy of pine strengthens the respiratory tract and fights against diseases, provides inner strength, promotes calmness and relaxation, and restores balance.
White willow (March 1-10; September 3-12)
Willow is a female tree, it does not harm anyone, its powers can only be used.
Willow has a positive and benevolent attitude towards people, it is willing to help, protect, heal and support.
Willow energy changes with the course of life. Magical powers are concentrated in young trees, which have an exceptionally positive effect on a person.
Willow becomes especially strong during the full moon and on Palm Sunday. It is on such days in spring or summer that you should turn to the plant for help, collect buds, leaves and rods.
If you feel a sharp decline in strength, which does not leave a feeling of brokenness, it is worth taking a walk to a young willow bush. You need to hold the twigs of the plant in your palms for a few minutes in order to saturate with its energy and give to the willow your bad feelings.
In this way, it was possible to cure both mental and physical diseases.
Despite its brooding look and melancholic graceful silhouette, willow is a tree of strong passions.
All impulses energetically related to the red color of the aura will find a response and support in willow.
It can help you attract the attention of your chosen one, but only you yourself will then be able to arrange your destiny without the willow’s participation.
Small-leaved linden (March 11-20; September 13-22)
Linden was considered the tree of the spring goddess Lada. In the world of the Slavs, it was a symbol of the love between a husband and wife. Its leaves are shaped like hearts and symbolize love between spouses. Linden alleys were located in city squares and near castles. All important matters were decided under them, residents’ meetings were held.
It was believed that the linden brings protection, good energy and peace to the house.
According to beliefs, a linden tree can grant wishes. If you want to succeed in any endeavor, then you need to ask for what you need early in the morning, at dawn. Those who need help getting things done as quickly as possible should turn to it at sunset.
Linden, in addition to its beauty, has several special properties. Linden flowers create healing honey with a soothing effect.
Linden leaves are also used to make a tea to relieve stress and improve sleep.
Interaction with linden has a positive effect on a person’s mental well-being, brings peace and is a source of mental harmony.
In Kyiv, on Starokyivska Hill, there is a linden tree, which, according to legend, is about 400 years old. Allegedly, it was planted by Metropolitan Peter Mohyla himself, when a new church was being built on the ruins of the old church, and that was in 1635.
Common hazel (March 22-31; September 24-October 3)
Hazel is a very influential tree with a strong character, a symbol of wisdom, symbolizes communication and reconciliation.
A hazel tree is not subject to thunderstorms and lightning.
One of its main qualities is justice. Hazelnut energy will help turn your mind to an objective consideration of the situation from different angles.
Hazel helps to stay on the chosen path during important changes in life, protects against all kinds of corruption and evil spirits, witchcraft and magic, as well as accidents.
Hazelnuts will help restore energy, heal your heart wounds, and maybe even prevent them.
Hazel represents wisdom, inspiration, and even poetic inspiration.
Communicating with a tree helps to rejuvenate the soul, reveal intuition and insight, treat things and situations more objectively, and help to easily deal with problems.
And hazel nuts have a magical power to make a person invulnerable.
Common mountain ash (April 1-10; October 4-13)
This incredibly beautiful tree really has many useful properties. It is not surprising that the mountain ash is treated with such respect, it is known, first of all, as a protector of babies and a patroness of women.
Rowan helps a person gain peace of mind, get rid of depression and negative energy, and also heal from various ailments.
It is a defender of creative personalities, helps to reveal inner potential and abilities.
This is a truly feminine tree, capable of opening the necessary chakras that are responsible for a woman’s health and her energy field.
Thanks to rowan, girls learned wisdom, flexibility and other feminine tricks.
Mountain ash helps lonely hearts find their second half, and restores passion, love and tenderness to existing relationships.
It was strictly forbidden to break mountain ash, this is a bad omen. It was believed that in this way a person deliberately shortens life.
The family whose house grew mountain ash was considered happy. No one uprooted it, because the tree protected the house from lightning, as well as other troubles, usually of a personal nature. For example, from family quarrels, betrayals, from difficult relationships with children.
Rowan leaves and berries can drive away evil spirits and attract positive energy. They also believe that rowan branches can ward off the evil eye and attract luck and well-being in hanging form.
Maple (April 11-20; October 14-23)
Maple is a tree that helps to gain mental balance, brings reassurance and self-confidence.
It is a tree of inner strength and balance. It is not vulnerable; it accepts all emotional explosions, frees from boiling passions.
Maple will strengthen relationships that are on the verge of breaking up, restore understanding and love between partners.
Interaction with maple helps to recharge energy and fill with positive thoughts.
In the legends of the Western and Eastern Slavs, when a person was magician transformed (“enchanted”) – he/she transformed into maple. That is why maple wood could not be used for firewood, maple leaves could not be placed under bread in the oven. A palm with five fingers was seen in the maple leaf, in addition, the five ends of the maple leaf symbolize the five senses.
It was believed that maple protects against lightning. Therefore, according to the old tradition, when building a house, a couple of maple trees were planted on its southern side. Since the house was usually built when a new family was created, these trees were named “Groom” and “Bride”. And in the old days, these two maples were called the trees of the god and the goddess.
The maple tree symbolized magical protection, love and material well-being. Maple leaves were often depicted on Easter eggs.
At the end of the sixties, the Canadian maple leaf also became a symbol of peace and love, appealing not only to our five physical senses, but also to higher, spiritual ones.
The beauty of maples conquered people a long time ago. The maple leaf acts as the emblem of Canada. In China and Japan, the maple leaf is considered a symbol of lovers, so very often in Eastern art we can see the image of a maple.
Maples are fantastically beautiful in autumn. Their fall attire is a favorite motif of ancient Chinese and Japanese engravings.
Walnut (April 21-30; October 24-November 2)
The walnut tree is associated with a symbol of wisdom and knowledge, fertility and abundance, symbolizes strength and protection.
Communicating with a tree clears the mind of negativity, allows you to achieve harmony with yourself and those around you, and adjust to a positive mood.
Grounding properties are attributed to the walnut.
The walnut has served as a sacred magical symbol since ancient times. Manipulations with it, according to belief, could cause rain, heal from infertility, give a person wisdom or, on the contrary, deprive him of his mind.
Carry the walnut in the shell to cure infertility, strengthen the heart and get rid of rheumatism.
In the magic of the ancient Celts, a walnut stick served as a magic wand. This wonderful weapon was used not only by fairies and wizards, but also by treasure hunters who discovered the location of hidden treasures with its help. A walnut rod is the best tool for drawing a magic circle.
Magi used the nut of the tree to send rain and bad weather, and also used it for rituals to acquire wisdom.
A bowl on the table filled with walnuts will ensure that there will always be abundance in the house.
Sweet mock orange, English dogwood (May 1-14; November 3-11)
English dogwood is a symbol of purity and spiritual harmony. Its aroma is considered a shield against negative energy, capable of attracting pure love, well-being, and clairvoyance.
Sweet mock orange is considered the flower of bright dreams, awakens intuition, promotes clarity of thought and attracts positive changes in life, normalizes emotional state, increases self-confidence and self-esteem.
English dogwood tea is used in rituals to cleanse energy and strengthen inner power. A gift in the form of English dogwood tea can strengthen the bond between people and bring harmony to relationships.
A English dogwood flower can be placed in bags with dry herbs, and also left in the house, where you need to preserve harmony and improve well-being, provide a comfortable, soothing atmosphere.
Sweet mock orange is a unique plant that has the ability to develop extrasensory perception, since the aroma of a white flower clears the mind, increases sensitivity, develops creative thinking and imagination.
Nowadays, English dogwood is still a symbol of love, associated with romantic feelings.
Bitter chestnut (May 15-24; November 12-21)
Chestnut with its powerful trunk and large leaves has interesting properties.
It is believed that chestnut wood can repel negative energies and serve as a protective talisman. Chestnut leaves are used to attract wealth and prosperity. Chestnut is associated with prosperity and luck, being a symbol of stability and longevity. If you carry a chestnut with you, it provides protection against negative influences and preserves inner harmony.
The energy of chestnut is very strong, but it does not frighten, does not drag, but gently envelops a person. Chestnut charges everyone with its power, helps to realize the plan.
Bravery, chastity, victory over temptation are symbolized by the chestnut.
The tree helps a person in his most difficult moment. Chestnut has unique energy properties that differ from the energy of other trees. It practically does not interfere in the inner world of a person, does not change its biofield by its power.
Chestnut perfectly harmonizes subtle bodies, restores the human connection with the cosmos.
Chestnut energy has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, strengthens blood vessels, restores a full-fledged connection between various organs of the body and has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system.
In many ways, chestnut understands human problems and is always ready to provide its energy assistance.
Common ash (May 25 – June 3; November 22 – December 1)
Ash is a powerful tree that, according to legends, holds the world axis.
There is an opinion that ash is the ancestor of mankind. From it, humanity was destined to acquire a strong willed spirit.
The ash represents the divine essence of man, and is also considered a symbol of constant improvement.
Ash tree likes people obsessed with an idea, who are ready for anything to get an answer, but does not tolerate lies and deception.
Ash is considered a protective tree, able to repel negative energies, provides spiritual protection, helps to calm down and gain mental balance.
Ash contributes to the revelation of intuition and understanding of mystical realities.
Ash is associated with the cycles of life, death and rebirth, which makes it a symbol of eternity and the transition between the material and spiritual worlds.
Ash helps to balance energy, is used in rites of renewal and attracting well-being.
Common hornbeam (June 4-13; December 2-11)
Hornbeam develops a person’s imagination, makes him more creative, capable of non-standard and original thinking.
If you often communicate with this tree, expect an influx of initiative and determination.
Hornbeam helps to set yourself up for success, to climb the career ladder, as well as to those who hold a leadership position.
Contact with hornbeam gives a person the opportunity to study and understand his biological rhythms, to feel more deeply the needs of his body, to distinguish between illusory desires and true ones.
It helps to understand a person’s feelings and their shades, it awakens intuition, teaches to hear its voice.
If you feel like a boring person, you feel a lack of ideas – try to communicate with hornbeam – and after a while you will notice the freshness and clarity of thinking, the influx of new useful thoughts and plans for their implementation. And at the same time all illusory and impossibility will fade into the background.
Contact with hornbeam awakens intuition, gives confidence and strength in everyday life.
Fig (June 14-23; December 12-20)
Figs are considered a symbol of fertility, abundance and well-being, and its fruits also help in love.
In many ancient treatises, the fig tree is described as a plant that gives prosperity and offspring. People believed that figs should always be in the house to attract financial well-being and success.
The fig tree gives determination and initiative. Gives realism, intelligence, observation and organizational skills.
The fig tree also helps in managing affairs. It is enough to treat your partner with a fig or a dish that includes it, and support in many important matters is guaranteed. Before a long journey, it is recommended to put a branch of a fig tree in front of the door, then the trip will go smoothly and without obstacles.
Fig essential oil, used as a perfume, gives success, inspires optimism and gives confidence in one’s abilities.
Figs contribute to the stability of the home hearth and social condition.
Figs are planted near the house so that its residents will be accompanied by success. Those who have this tree growing on the windowsill in the bedroom are guaranteed a good night’s sleep. If a pot of figs is in the kitchen, the family will never be poor.
Common oak (March 21)
According to folk beliefs, the energy of the oak tree creates a vortex that allows you to enter a parallel world.
Oak gives strength of spirit and physical stability, confidence in today and tomorrow, it increases immunity. If a person walks along an oak alley every day, he will live long and be healthy.
Oak stabilizes the energies of the human body, opens and cleans the subtle bodies and upper chakras, fills us with a powerful and even fiery force.
Common oak certainly calms the nervous system and fills the body with strength, but it does not promote fun.
If a double acorn falls on your hand from a tree, keep it. He is a talisman of good luck in business, in this case his power will be greater, since it is supported by the wishes of the oak itself.
Oak is a tree of wisdom, strength and victory.
The birch tree (June 24)
Birch symbolizes growth and the power of life. It is considered a tree that preserves the life-giving force and is dedicated to the female aspect of the Sun.
Its name comes from the word “protect”. Beautiful and stately girls were compared to this tree, poems and songs were dedicated to it, protection and patronage were requested.
The magic of birch is surprisingly clean and bright, positive and creative.
Its main purpose is to bring love into the world.
It was believed that steamed twigs expel diseases from the body, sadness from the heart, and bad thoughts from the head.
A living tree has the ability to “extract” illness and weak witchcraft from a person – for this you need to hug the tree and ask for help and deliverance from pain.
The patient is seated, leaning against the trunk, near the roots. The belongings of the sick person, who cannot be brought to the tree, are hung on a birch branch with a request for help.
If you come to the white-trunk grove around six a.m. in the morning and walk for at least an hour, both chronic fatigue and depression will go away.
Communicating with a tree helps to get rid of a bad mood, adds peace, harmony and strength to solve problems, helps to develop intuition, promotes better concentration of attention and fills a person with good energy.
It was believed that steamed twigs expel diseases from the body, sadness from the heart, and bad thoughts from the head.
Silver belly, oleaster or wild olive tree (September 23)
The wild olive tree has become a symbol of longevity and faithfulness, as well as stability, resilience, unpretentiousness and wisdom, because it survives and continues to grow in the worst conditions – from drought to frost.
The main qualities of the wild olive tree are healing, peace, fertility, protection.
Wild olive leaves are scattered in the room and they spread peaceful vibrations.
Wild olive has the ability to convey its own state of calmness and carelessness to others.
Material from the book “Strange Olive. A brief cultural study: In West Crete there is an olive tree that is 3000 years old. This is the oldest tree in Europe. It was the first Olympic Games in history. In addition, there are eight olive trees growing in Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ was found.
The Swiss poet Ralf Dutley quotes the following proverb: “He who eats olives every day is equal in age to the beams of the strongest house.”
Indeed, wild olive is a symbol of longevity, an active life, and family happiness.
European beech or common beech (December 21)
Beech is one of the most energetically favorable breeds for humans.
The energy of the beech seems to nourish a person, endows him with additional strength.
Beech – increases creative energy, helps to expand one’s horizons, shows great tolerance for others, increases resistance to stress and the ability to concentrate, and also improves blood circulation.
The beech tree is a symbol of victory and honor. Druids used beech branches for concentration, they also got rid of negative emotions, anger, insults and irritations.
If you happen to visit a beech forest, lean against a healthy young beech tree, try to merge with it – and you will receive an extraordinary charge of strength, youth and health.
Beech is considered a tree of fertility, it additionally relieves stress, blood pressure problems and headaches, promotes concentration and the ability to compromise and tolerance.
The beech tree was dedicated to Zeus and was a symbol of prosperity and renewal.
Among the Druids, the beech tree symbolizes ancient knowledge preserved for posterity in ancient temples, spells, manuscripts, and in a broad sense serves to combine knowledge of the past and the future. Perhaps, it is this ancient knowledge about health and longevity that he conveys to people.