#rowan cross

[elvthron]

Harvest full moon 🌙🌾✨

Offered some pumpkin/chickpea/black cabbage soup to the gods (the same we had for dinner, honestly I loved it, hopefully will be appreciated)

Also made my hands sore to make a rowan cross 💔

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Lil Pumpkin is visiting the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic!

In Boscastle, in Cornwall, England.

This is photo number 166 of 365.

[samsdei]

Graham Verchere

[snackypie]

Rowan Cross!?

It's honestly crazy how quick an art style can change :')

Only like, an hour a part.. YAYYAYAYAYA- SOBS. Oh well, hes just my lil grump that was inspired from one of my gacha oc's.. on roblox.. Good day/Night! :'D <3

[jcollinsfiction]

Rowan Crosses

Rowan berries A rowan tree I’ve been looking for a rowan tree for a little while. They’re not uncommon in landscaping and parks. There’s a species or two that are native to my part of the US, and also some that were brought here from Europe. They have flashy orange berries and distinctive leaves, so they’re fairly easy to spot. But of course, as soon as I actually wanted to find one, I…

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[magicianmew]

An oldie, but a goodie: the Rowan cross

Today on my romps around London, I found a twig from a Rowan tree. A tree of so much magical potential that one of its many nicknames is, in fact, the Witch Tree.

How could I NOT do a spell with it?

So today, I did a little home warding charm called a Rowan cross, for warding the home from negative energy and ne’er-do-wells. This particular charm goes back a long way here in Britain – a few hundred years, at the best guess. I reckon you could also carry this with you while traveling, both to protect your things and to keep from getting lost – another use of the good ole’ Rowan tree.

Here she is, with instructions to follow:

For this, you need only two things

A twig at least 6 inches long, or 2 twigs of 3 inches or more, either from a Rowan tree or any other tree you associate with protection and the home.

Red thread, string, or yarn

(optional) Glue

You can do any sort of mood-setting ritual you like. Personally, I simply lit a while candle.

If you have one 6+ inch twig, cut it in half. Once you’ve got two little twigs to work with, decide whether you’d like to glue them in the middle to make a cross to help you get started. Personally, I didn’t bother. They stayed fine after my first couple rounds with the yarn.

Tie them together in the middle loosely with your yarn. Now, we wind the yarn!

So as not to make this stupidly linguistically awkward, I found a nice little diagram on how to do this if you’re unfamiliar with this pattern. Basically, you go over to the right side of the twig, under to the left side.

You can cover as much or as little of the twigs as you like. Personally, I just went until I felt it was done.

I tied the yarn around one of the rungs and passed it over the flame, asking it to protect my home.

Then you can hang it in front of a window, a door, whatever entrance you’d like to protect.

Ta-da! Thanks, Rowan tree.

[dianasson]

Rowan Cross $30 + shipping message me if you’re interested Rowan or Mountain Ash is held sacred throughout most of Europe, particularly in the north. The red berries as well as green wood of this tree are very powerful additions to charms and amulets, and have a variety of uses in protection magic. According to the Carmina Gadelica “The rowan was sacred, and used in many forms about the homestead. 'Failean caorruinn,' a rowan sucker, or 'fleasg caorruinn,' a rowan wand, was placed over the lintels of the barn, byre, stable, sheep-fold, and lamb-cot, as a safeguard against witchcraft and malicious spirits. A twig of rowan was coiled into a circlet and placed beneath the milk boynes to keep the milk from being spirited away. A fire of rowan was sacred, and therefore the festival cakes were cooked with rowan faggots or other sacred wood. A coffin, or a bier, or the spokes on which it was carried, was treated with especial reverence if made of the mountain ash.” These trees can be found growing by many ancient monuments and holy wells, and have many stories of faeries reveling beneath them. This might seem paradoxical as the wood and berries of the rowan are often used to protect against faeries and malign witchcraft in northern countries. According to this tradition of fashioning protective amulets, this rowan wood was harvested without the use of a knife, during the waxing moon, and bound in red thread. At the top of the thread three red rowan berries are strung for added protection, and into the wood is carved multiple crosses and staves of protection from harmful spirits, witches, and magic. It was purified with salt-water from the shores of Ireland and fumigated with frankincense resin, and will be blessed again on the full moon, the second of this month, which falls on Lughnasadh.

[unfetteredwood]

In my Imbolc post from a couple of days ago I had mentioned that I made a wee rowan cross for travel. I had then put it in a pretty locket that I purchased from Etsy as a simple option of wearing it.

I thought that I would take a better photo of my new talisman in case folks wanted to take this idea and make one for themselves. A great ritual for making a rowan cross for travel can be found over at the Tairis website.

Sláinte!

Laurel