Apples have always been popular tools for foretelling the future. There are a number of traditional methods in folklore for seeing who one's lover might be.
Peel the apple, keeping the peel in one long piece. When the peel comes off, drop it on the floor. The letter it forms is the first initial of your true love's name.
Wait until midnight and cut an apple into nine pieces. Take the pieces into a dark room with a mirror (either hanging on the wall or a hand-held one will do). At midnight, begin eating the pieces of apple while looking into the mirror. When you get to the ninth piece, throw it over your shoulder. The face of your lover should appear in the mirror.
If a girl has more than one potential lover, peel an apple and pull out the seeds. Place a wet seed on your cheek for each boyfriend. The last one left stuck to the skin represents the suitor who is the true love.
Apple Magic
Because of its associations with the harvest, the apple is perfect for Mabon magic. Try the Apple Harvest rite, or honor the goddess Pomona at the harvest.
Mabon Apple Harvest Rite: This harvest ritual is designed with solitary Wiccans and Pagans in mind, and uses the apple and its five-pointed star as the focus. Honor the ancient gods at Mabon with this harvest ritual.
Pomona, Goddess of Apples: Pomona was an obscure Roman goddess, but she still has significance when it comes to the blooming of orchards and fruit trees in the fall.
Magic of the Apple Blossoms: The apple is associated with immortality, but is also considered a food for the dead, which is why it often makes its appearance at Mabon celebrations.
Apple Crafts
In addition to being tasty and sweet, apples are perfect for craft projects. Try one of these to decorate your home with magical apple energy.
Apple Candleholders: Make a set of decorative candleholders by coring out the top of a pair of apples.
Apple Garlands: This easy-to-make craft not only looks pretty, but will leave your home smelling delicious and welcoming!
FOLLOW THE FUN & AWESOME LINKS found in this post
More on apple magick
Apple Magick
by Eliza Yetter
Since ancient times it has been deemed unlucky to harm an apple tree. Fortunately, this does not include the yearly pruning of the apple tree which, in fact, keeps apple trees healthy by preventing their limbs from becoming overburdened with fruits and breaking.
The branches and twigs that are pruned from the apple tree are often used for making magickal items such as wands, beads, wreaths, pentagrams for the walls, and even stick birdhouses. With a wood burner and a carving knife, runes and rune sticks can also be made from the branches that have been pruned off of the apple tree.
Among the Celts, the fruit of the apple tree symbolized knowledge, magic, and prophesy. The tree was of the Celtic Underworld and acted as a sort of bridge between the living and the dead.
To the Gauls, the apple tree was as sacred as the oak tree.
When you cut the apple fruit breadthwise you see the five-pointed star made from the placement of the seed casings. This symbol, the pentagram, is the traditional symbol of knowledge. That the five-pointed star, pentagram, is surrounded by the circular shape of the halved apple, the symbol becomes a pentacle. This is a symbol of protection, the protection of sacred knowledge.
Biblically, the apple is sometimes believed to be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is believed by many to be the fruit Eve gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden, although the exact fruit given is often hotly debated by biblical scholars.
Numerous superstitions surround the fruit of the apple tree which has most commonly been used in love magick and divinations. People once believed that apples would keep them young forever. Also, to eat an apple without first rubbing it clean was a symbolic jesture of challenging the "Devil."
In Germany there was a belief that if a woman, one that had given birth to many children, ate the first apple from a young apple tree, the tree would have many fruitful years to come.
One custom regarding the apple fruit is to bury a few apples, after their harvest, to appease the spirits of the dead. My children and I continue this custom every year on Samhain: burying apples in the garden in the hopes of appeasing the spirits of our dead ancestors. We also use this as a time of remembrance..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 wi th 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.
|
Free Forum Hosting
Important Announcement
First 
