27/03/2026
🪐Planet: Jupiter
🔥Element: Fire
⚖️Symbolism: Balance
♾️Deity: Norse God Thor who is the spirit of thunder, storm and lightning, and the Stag-god Orion who in Greek tradition is the archetypal Hunter. Also, Heaven and Earth.
🙌Rune: Alferic Ogham (looks like a twin spearhead.)
🏹Constellation: Sagittarius, the Archer, and the Centaurs.
🌿Medicinal properties:
Inner bark infusions treated jaundice and purified the blood, and warmed foliage was used for earaches. The gummy sap was taken with water as a stimulant and a tonic.
🌿Magical properties:
drawing down power from Heaven to Earth, spells of religious seeking and discipline, spells of mystical union with nature and wild animals, hunting magick, the martial arts as spiritual discipline, and spells for innovation and sudden revelation.
Milled redwood is excellent for wands, which has a very broad and beautiful grain, is quite lightweight and soft, and which has a dark red color without the need of any stain.
The wood tears easily as so is not well-suited to detailed carving.
Redwoods are resistant to fire because they produce very little resin and pitch.
They produce tannic acid which protects them from rot and insects.
When an old Redwood dies or is cut down, a new one sprouts from it’s roots. The roots never die.
The Giant Redwood is the most magnificent of all evergreens.
🌿 Sequoia
Sequoia is a genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing the single living species Sequoia sempervirens.
Common names include Coast Redwood and California Redwood (it is one of three species of trees known as redwoods).
She is a long-lived evergreen, she could be older then 2000 years, but she will tell you ‘age is irrelevant’.
She grows quickly reaching sometimes over 300 ft in her first few hundred years.
As she ages and accumulates wisdom she thickens, up to 26ft in diameter.
But she will tell you ‘don’t call me fat, my thickness gives me strength’.
by Faerywillow
