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 Apples Perhaps one of the most celebrated plants in all of history and legend, the apple is symbolic of immortality and reincarnation. Along with the pomegrante, it represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth. In many tales the Apple is the World Tree, the axis of the worlds, and it is often a doorway to the realms of Faery, being associated with the Isle of Avalon. Known as the Oghamic tree "Quert" to the Druids, it was the "silver bough," which could be used to open the doors between the realms so that shamans might journey to meet with the departed and gain healing and oracular powers. Apples were often given as gifts to humans by the gods, and apples are sometimes believed to confer psychic power.. As a symbol of beauty, the Apple of Discord was to determine the most beautiful of the goddesses, and thus started the Trojan war. The fruit of the apple trees are associated with health, for their abundance of medicinal uses, from cleansing the teeth to relieving indigestion, to releiving fevers and much more. Apple trees grow abundant fruit, and thus it is also associated with the principles of generosity and abundance. It is symbolic of love and fertility, and is considered an approdesiac. It was often shared by lovers and in Gypsy weddings was shared by the bride and groom. Sacred to the Feasts of Lughnasa and Samhain, if bisected, the apple shows a pentagram at its core, thus it symbolized protection, the Goddess and especially Cailleach the Crone. Apples are also sacred to the Celtic horse and Underworld goddess Rhiannon. Abbelio was the Gallic apple deity of the Garrone valley. The Celtic triple goddess of healingm inspiration and smithcraft, Brigid possessed an Otherworldly apple orchard to which bees traveled to obtain it's magickal nectar. Use apples to open the doorways into Faerie, spells for love, harmony, and beauty, inspiration, illumination, healing, horses or travel, enhancing any skill, abundance, generosity, harvest, and magick of divine, shamanic madness or visionary experience.
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