19/01/2026
✨🍏 Apple Tree✨🍏
✨🍏In Somerset, January is the time of wassailing — a traditional ritual where the community comes together to bless and protect the apple orchards, ensuring a plentiful harvest in the year ahead. With that in mind I thought I would write something about the mythology and healing properties of Apple Tree as a homeopathic remedy.
✨🍏The word wassail comes from the Old English toast “Waes Hael,” meaning “be well” or “good health.” Traditionally held around Twelfth Night (5 January) or Old Twelvey Night (17 January), wassailing marked an important turning point in the winter season.
✨🍏During these ceremonies, villagers would gather in the orchard after dark. The oldest or most fruitful tree was chosen as the focal point, and offerings of cider-soaked toast were hung in its branches as gifts to the tree spirits. Wassailers would sing traditional rhymes and make a mighty noise — banging pots and pans, shouting loudly, and even firing shotguns — to drive away malevolent spirits believed to threaten the orchard’s bounty.
✨🍏The wassail drink, an essential part of the celebration, was usually a bowl of warmed, spiced cider passed from person to person, reinforcing the sense of community and togetherness at the heart of the custom.
✨🍏Across cultures, the apple tree has long been associated with love and the Goddess of love — Aphrodite or Venus — becoming a symbol of beauty, love, and wisdom. If you cut an apple horizontally, you’ll find a five-pointed star at its core, a symbol sacred to Aphrodite. Interestingly, the planet Venus traces a similar five-pointed star pattern in space as it follows its orbit around the Earth.
✨🍏Medieval alchemists associated the golden apples of the Hesperides with the Philosopher’s Stone and immortality. The apple tree was also sacred to the Druids, as it often carried mistletoe, revered as a powerful healer.
✨🍏In the lands around Glastonbury, rich with apple orchards, the area became known as Avalon — meaning “the Isle of Apples.” Legend tells that the dying King Arthur was taken to Avalon by three fairy queens. In Celtic mythology, the apple orchards of paradise were known as the Isle of the Blessed, home to the Tree of Knowledge and three sacred apples guarded by Cerridwen in the form of a serpent.
✨🍏In flower essence therapy, Crab Apple (Bach Flower Remedy) can be used for feelings of self-loathing or shame and is known for its purifying, cleansing, and detoxifying qualities. Findhorn Flower Essences also produce an Apple essence, which supports alignment with our higher or divine purpose and helps our will serve the good of all.
Uses of Malus (Apple Tree) as a Homeopathic Remedy
🍎✨New beginnings and removes any fear that may accompany initiations into a new level of consciousness. It symbolises the Tree of Life and the evolution of the soul.
🍎✨Grounding - helps to align the spiritual with the physical where there is disorder or chaos in life through a lack of awareness of one’s spiritual path.
🍎✨Brings a sense of being sheltered and protected. Protects from negative influences.
🍎✨Helps those who are too sensitive and have yet to develop a protective skin.
🍎✨Children - helps children feel safe, children who are blocked off from joy, children who are sensitive.
🍎✨Trauma - helps those who have been shocked out of their body by shock, PTSD.
🍎✨Helpful for travellers, jet lag etc. Helps the body adjust to time changes.
🍎✨Mumps - affinity for the parotid glands.
🍎✨Aids digestion. Soothes and aids the mucous surfaces of the alimentary canal and facilitates assimilation of food.
🍎✨Stasis - has a purifying and revitalising effect on the blood, liver and many other organs.
🍎✨Increases sexual energy. Helps when sexuality is suppressed due to abuse, fear or guilt.
🍎✨Helps to heal the earth - brings in the elemental spirts. Helps us to connect with nature spirits.
Tree Remedy
