Douglas Fir Wand Traditional Length

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DOUGLAS FIR

The Douglas fir tree encourages you to stand with your own power, solidly rooted in your legs like tree trunks. This helps you to ground your ideas and step forward with practical action.

Douglas fir was used to make a medicine tree, the umbilical cord was fixed into the top of the tree and as it grew it was connected to the person. When the person passed their pipe and regalia was placed in the top of the tree and the person buried at the base.

Fir cones respond to rain by closing and the sun by opening, because of this, it is said the Celts and druids also recognized the fir to be a portent of weather conditions. This lent meanings of prophecy and perception to the long list of symbolic meanings of the fir. An immortal evergreen, fir is protective of those who use it wisely.

Fir is a tree of beginnings, energy, growth, and healing. The scent of fir heightens the awareness for divination and spiritual work, and is especially effective for connecting with forest spirits.

Fir is one of the nine sacred woods burned in the Beltane fire which includes apple, birch, oak, rowan, hawthorn, hazel, willow, and vine. Each has its representation and fir is that of immortality.  For this reason, it makes sense to use fir in any spell work dealing with healing, ancestral work, and past life regression.

Fir is known as the Birth Tree, the needles are burned at childbirth to bless and protect the mother and baby. Fir resin can be used to seal a spell

Deity associations:  Audhumla, Artemis, Diana, Frigg, Idun, Inanna, Isis, Persephone, Sif, Adonis, Attis, Bacchus, Pan, Dionysis, Osiris.

Magical properties: protection, cleansing, blocking unwanted forces, creativity, rebirth, longevity, abundance, protection, prosperity, regeneration, transformation, shadow work, abundance, birth, purification, immortality, Yule

NOTE:
*Douglas fir is not a true fir tree, it belongs in its own genus. It does have similar uses and effects to true fir, so they will be kept separate but under the same heading (Douglas fir has little direct information that I could find on it directly)