Tag: Apple

All Hallow’s Eve Potion

All Hallow’s Eve Potion

 
 
2 cup apple cider
2 pieces of candied ginger (or a dash of ginger and a dash of brown sugar)
1 cinnamon stick
2 whole cloves
 
Tie the ginger, cinnamon stick, and cloves in a piece of cheesecloth. Warm the cider and spice pouch in a ceramic pot over low heat. Be careful not to boil the potion. Before drinking, remove the spice pouch, and pour the mixture into a mug.
 
Makes two servings.

A Ritual of Thanks

A Ritual of Thanks

Set altar facing East. Use the following items:
One Blue Candle
3 kernels umpped corn
One Apple cut on the cross, showing the pentagram inside.

Light your candle with the following words:

Great Goddess, Lady of the Summerlands, Mother to us all. I welcome you to this place of power and offer thanks to you for what you have given me. I am a priestess of your path and I see with your eyes. You guide me in the lessons I must learn.

Put the bottom half of the apple in front of you. Charging the three kernals of corn between your hands, say:

As the Maiden is ripe with potential, so is my life.
As the Mother gives birth, so do my thoughts.
As the Crone nourishes life, so do I nourish mine.

Place the kernels in the center of the core-pentagram and melt wax from your candle to cover them. Replace the top of the apple while the wax is till warm. Let the apple sit on your altar for 3 days and nights. Remove wax token and bury apple. The wax token can remain on your altar for as long as you wish.
– Lady FireRose

Spell – A- Day – Wisdom of our Ancestors

Spell – A- Day – Wisdom of our Ancestors

 
You can find guidance to deal with difficult situations by
accessing the wisdom of our ancestors. To do so, write out your perception of the situation on a piece of paper.
Light white, black, and red candles, and cut an apple crosswise to reveal the five-pointed star created by the seeds.
State these or similar words:
 
I send my voice across the veil
To my ancestors who know me well.
Guidance needed,
Wisdom bequest;
Answers given to aid my quest.
Quiet your mind, and receive guidance. It may arrive immediately or over several days. Thank your ancestors,
and offer the apple to them.
 
By: Karen Follett

A p p l e L o r e

A p p l e   L o r e

Apple

At the center, a dark star
wrapped in white.
When you bite, listen
for the crunch of boots on snow,
snow that has ripened. Over it
stretches the red, starry sky.

Apple Varieties of the World

Abas, akaro, Alexander, Antonovka, Ambri, Baldwin, Ballarat, Ben Davis, Black
Gilliflower, Bledisloe Cox,Blue Pearmain, Boiken, Boskoop, Bottle Greening,
Bramley’s Seedling, Buckingham, Calville Blanche, Cordlandt, Cox’s Orange,
Croften, Danziger Kantapfel, Decio, Delicious,  Democrat, Dillingham Beauty,
Dougherty, Drap d’Or, Duchess of Oldenburg, Early Shanbury, Edelboredorfen,
Fallawater, Snow, Fenouillet Gris, Fenouillet Rouse, Fuji, Genniton, Geeveston
Fanny, Giant Geniton, Golden Delicious, Golden Reinette, Goldparmain, Granny
Smith, Gravenstein, Grimes Golden, Grusnovska Moskowskaya, Haralston, Hawkeye,
Hook, Hubbardston, Idagold, Igrid Marie, James Grieve, Johnagold, Jonamac,
Jonathon, Jupp’s Russet, Kapai Red, King, King Cole, King of the Pippins,
Kittageskee, Kokko, Lady,Laxton’s Suprub, Legana, Lobo, Macfree, Macoun,
Margaret, McIntosh, Mutsu, Newtown Pippin, Nonpareil,Northern Spy, Northwest
Greening, Nova Easygro, Ohrei, Pippin, Pound Sweet, Prima, Priscilla,
Quinte,Ralls Jenet, Reinette de champagne, Reinette de Mans, Reinette de
Franche, Reinette de Gris, ReinetteSimirenko, Red Astrachan, Red Thorle, Rhode
Isalnd Greening, Rokewood, Rome Beauty, Russet,Savstaholm, Sheep’s Nose, Shinko,
Sir Prize, Smokehouse, Spartan, Spigold, Spitzenburg, Splendour,Strakcrimson,
Stark’s Delicious, Stark’s Earliest, Sturmer Pippin, Summer Pearmain, Swaar,
Sweet Bough,Talman Sweet, Tasman Pride, Telstar, Tetopsky, Tropical Beauty,
tydeman’s Early Worcester, Wagener,Wealthy, White Transparent, Widdup, Willy
Sharp, Winesap, Winter Banana, Winter Pearmain, WorcesterPearmain, Yellow
Bellflower, Yellow newtown, Yellow Transparent, York Imperial

A tough apple skin means a hard winter.

There was an old woman lived under a hill,
and if she isn’t gone she lives there still.

Baked apples she sold, and cranberry pies,
and she’s the old woman who never told lies.

UNITED STATES, TRADITIONAL

Stick an apple seed to each of your eyelids, naming one “home” and the other
“travel.”  If travel stays stuck longest, you’ll take a major trip before the
end of the year…if home stays on longest, you’ll remain a homebody.

KEYS TO THE PERFECT APPLE PIE

Recipe isn’t as important as following these simple directions for the perfect
apple pie!

Use chilled shortening in the crust, and always include just a bit of  butter,
for good flavor.
For a flaky and light crust, combine dough ingredients until just blended, and
chill the dough if still quite soft.  Awful crust (tough and salty) is caused by
over-mixing, adding too much salt and by using too much flour too often while
rolling out.
While cutting apples, sprinkle with fresh lemon juice so they don’t brown. Lemon
juice also imparts a tangy flavor.
Cut apples into very small pieces, so you don’t get large, tough pieces in the
pie later.  One can also pre-cook apples to make sure they are very soft, and so
the flavors (of apples, cinnamon and sugar) have melded well.
Always use some tangy flavored apples in the pie (such as Granny Smith) so the
pie doesn’t taste boringly sweet.

Here’s to thee, old apple tree!  Stand fast root, bear well top.  Pray Goddess
send a yearly crop!  Whence thou may’st bud and whence thou may’st blow and
whence thou may’st bear apples enough…hats full and caps full, bushels full
and sacks full, our pockets full too.  Apples and pears, with right good corn,
come in plenty to everyone!  Eat and drink food cake and hot ale, give Earth to
drink, and she’ll not fail.

The Goddess Companion

Pomona lived in ancient times,
a nymph whose merest touch would green
an orchard, would fill its boughs with fruit.
Oh how Pomona loved her orchards!
The rest of nature left her cold, but
fruit trees! apples! pears! These were
Pomona’s great delight, her fiercest joy.
She bore a knife, but not for hunting:
no, hers was used to trim a hedge
of rose or cherry-wood, or to prune
a fruitless tree, or graft an aged apple
so that it burst forth anew.
Orchards were her secret nurseries
and trees were her beloved ones
who never thirsted, never withered.
Oh! to live among Pomona’s trees!
Oh! to be loved as much as that!
~Ovid, Metamorphoses
 
The Roman Goddess Pomona was honored as the spirit of fruit trees, and also as the gardener who tends them. For many people, connection with nature occurs primarily through gardening. Even in urban areas, a pot of marigolds on a balcony will brighten the darkest day. The connection between people and plants is one that has always illuminated myth and ritual. Although few rituals exist today to celebrate the great productivity of plant and animal life each summer, we can build our own with friends and family. Eating the first corn, cutting the first ripe tomato, grilling fresh fish in the open air: if done consciously, these can become rituals of thanksgiving and love to the earth that sustains us.
 
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By Patricia Monaghan

Power of the Flowers Daily Reading: Apple Blossom

Apple Blossom             
    Beautiful apple blossoms sparkle,
    Like multitudes of tiny stars.                                   
    Teach me hope and faith, I pray,
    So that I may offer your cosmic riches,
    Each and every earthly day.

Latin: Malus communis

Color(s): White and Pink

Archetype: Astarte, Queen of the Stars. Astarte was the “true sovereign of the world,” perpetually destroying the old in order to give rise to the new. She ruled over all the stars in heavens, and as the mother of all star-children, gave birth to the mysterious prototype of the Virgin Mary.

Signature: In the spring, the apple tree produces blossoms in delicate pink and pure, five-petaled, white varieties. By their delightful fragrance and store of nectar, they attract swarms of bees, and as a result of this fertilization, the fruit develops, becoming in autumn the succulent, ripe apple.

Healing Properties: Apple blossom purifies the emotions, assists the body in ridding itself of poisons from the past, and restores hope to one’s inner life.

Healing: You are offered a “star-filled” gift from the Apple Blossom. Astarte’s association with Aphrodite and Venus, “the Morning Star,” highlights the power of immense love and hope available to you during times of creative transformation. In Native American mythology, the Evening Star, wata-jis, heralds the emergence of the Starry Medicine Bowl in its full glory. Its presence is thought to offer a glimpse into the profound mysteries of life, death and rebirth. In many cultures, stars have come to represent hope, birth, and change. Astarte, for example, holds the golden star, while gazing with wonder into its magical depths, for she knows that the star is never stagnant. Five is the number of creative change, holding all potential within its holographic form. The star resides within the apple, a symbol of the feminine. Just as you must bite into an apple in order to expose its buried treasure, the star you must also go to the intuitive core of your psyche in order to re-imagine and create life anew. The star of hope that Astarte offers is not the whole answer, but in some elusive way, hope ushers in faith, and deep in our hearts we begin to believe that our “Morning Star will rise again.”

The apple blossoms surrounding Astarte represent the flowering potential that is yours and yours alone. The medicine of the great Bowl of Stars surrounds you, as the cosmic canopy of lighted stars manifests visions of new hope. Deep in your own heart of hearts, lives the star Queen’s love, rich and plentiful, helping you to cleanse your soul aura and emerge vibrant and healthy.

‘May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.’
 
The Universal Heart Center