Apple + Apple Blossom

Element: water

Planet: Venus

Deities: Venus, Dionysus, Olwen, Apollo, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Diana, Zeus, Iduna.

Powers: 

love, healing, garden magic, immortality, abundance, and prosperity

Use With: 

comfrey for healing, cinnamon and patchouli for love. Crystals to use it with include bloodstone, carnelian, and Shiva Lingam.

Warnings: seeds in large amounts are poisonous. 

Rituals, Holidays, and Celebrations: 

August 13th was Diana’s festival in Greece (Venus’ in Rome) and on this day a ritual meal was prepared, part of which consisted of apples still hanging on their boughs.

Wiccan altars are often piled high with apples on Samhain, for the apple is considered to be one of the foods of the dead. For this reason, Samhain is sometimes known as “Feast of Apples.”

The apple is a symbol of immortality. A branch of the apple which bore buds, flowers, and fully-ripened fruit, was a king of magical charm which enabled its possessor to enter into the land of the Gods, the Underworld, in Celtic mythology.

Apple blossoms are frequently used in spring celebrations.

Magical Uses: 

The apples have long been used in spells of love. The blossoms are added to love sachets, brews and incenses, and they are infused in melted pink wax, then strained out, to make candles suited for attracting love.

The simplest love spell involving an apple is cutting it in half and sharing it with your loved one.

Apple’s were also used in love divination with unmarried women in Europe for many centuries. Cut the apple in half and then count the seeds, if the number of seeds is even then marriage would soon occur. If one of the seeds was cut, it may be a stormy relationship. If two were cut, widowhood is foretold. However, if an uneven number of seeds were found, the woman will remain unmarried in the near future.

Steep apple blossoms in warm water to create a skin wash for youthful beauty.

Hang garlands made with apple blossoms above your bed for fertility.

Dress a green candle with oil and crushed apple blossoms for a simple money spell, or place the flowers in your wallet for prosperity.

For healing, cut an apple into three pieces, rub each on the affected area of the body, and then bury them. Do this during the waning moon to banish illness.

If you are a gardener, pour cider onto freshly-turned earth to give it life just before planting. And if you grow apples, bury thirteen leaves of an apple tree after harvest to ensure a good crop of apples next year.

The Norse, as well as many other peoples, ate apples to gain immortality through wisdom, and the wood of the apple tree can be made into charms for longevity.

Apple wood also makes excellent wands, especially suited to emotional magic and love rites.

Use apple cider in place of blood where it is called for in old recipes.

Unicorns live beneath apple trees, and so if you know of an apple orchard, quietly go there on a misty day. You may see a single horn raised and horse-like animal quietly munching on sweet, magical apples.