Beech trees rise up and stand tall often to approx 140 feet high.
They spread their canopies out to nearly as wide to approx 130 feet, offering a cool and dry place on the forest floor.
Her bark is smooth and silky and invites your hands to touch her.
If you stand within a Beech grove; you will feel the magical grace that exudes from her and the ambience texture in the air.
Regarded as the Mother of the woods for her protective and nurturing persona; she invites us to open our senses allowing us to perceive the elemental work of nature and is said to inspire and let us creativity flow.
HEALING
Ancient folklore says that the water found in hollow beech tree “will cure both man and beast of any scurf or scab”.
Beech tree has been used for many skin complaints such as eczema and psoriasis and also as an ingredient of the expectorant used for bronchitis.
The leaves also have a uses as are cooling and binding and can be applied to hot swellings as an ointment.
Dr Bach recognised the beech tree flower remedy to treat arrogance, criticism, intolerance and an over strong will and judgment. He said that it helps us let go of fixed ideas and opinions.
WISDOMS
She is associated with the inception of writing and linked to all written wisdoms. It is also said that when meditating with a Beech we are helped to link with the past and find answers for the present.
She is said to be a “book of the past”.
Magically, she is specifically used for making wishes – there are three magnificent Beech at Avebury Stone Circle that are infamously known as the wishing trees. I have made my own flower remedy water from these trees, and have also collected their beechnuts and planted them this year – so I will keep you posted on this progress.
PERSONALLY
I am so drawn to Beech Trees – often I am drawn to sit somewhere and then I notice her right in front of me, lavishing her energies upon me.
Her elegance, her stature, her nurturing and protection – draws me in like no other.
Whilst out journalling some time ago now, I completed a character sketch with the invitation “something that you are drawn to in the nature world”
I wrote ….
Magestic in her presence, she reaches up to the sky
Silky, smooth and inviting; she opens herself to you
She nurtures all around her, helping the young to grow
plays home to may birds and insects far below
She is a mother and lady, filled with love from her core
Her arms form the greatest canopy that reaches far and farther more.
Wisdom is her signature and oh does she have some tales to tell
Spend some time with her and she will have you completely under her spell.
I would love to hear your experiences with a Beech Tree. I wonder what characteristics were prominent for you?
We own the Forests By Maria | April 12, 2021 | 0 Poem by Hans Børli Tanslated from Norwegian by: Louis muinzer 1952. I have never owned a tree. None of my people have ever owned a tree – though my family’s life-path winds over centuries’ blue heights of forest. Forest in storm, forest in calm – forest, forest, forest, through all the years. My people were always a poor people. Always. Children of life’s hard, iro-frost nights . Strangers own the trees, and the soil, the stone-heaped cleared by the light of the moon’s lamp. Strangers with smooth faces and pretty hands and their car always waiting outside the door. None of my people have ever owned a tree. And yet we own the forests by our bloods red right. Rich man, you with the car and the bank book and stock in Borregaard timber company; you can buy a thousand acres more, but you can’t buy the sunset, or the whisper of the wind, or the joy of walking homeward, when the heather blooms along the ...
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