Cherry
(Prunus avium/cerasus)
A deciduous tree with absolutely beautiful blossom in spring followed by delicious cherries – P. avium is the sweet or wild cherry and P. cerasus is the sour cherry sometimes used in cooking.
The cherry has always seemed very feminine to me with the stone held inside the ‘womb’ of the actual fruit so it makes sense to me that it is a good fruit to use not only for love magic but also fertility.
Use the wood of the cherry tree, stones or the dried blossoms in love incense blends.
The stones have long been used for divination purposes, I can remember as a child doing the ‘tinker, tailor, soldier, spy rhyme with my cherry stones to see who I was going to marry…I don’t recall any of the stones ever saying ‘drummer’…
You can also use cherry juice as a substitute for blood in rituals or workings.
I also like to use cherry blossom or stones in magical workings for new beginnings drawing on the spring energy.
Cherry Magical Properties:
Love, fertility, divination, beginnings
Ruling planet – Venus
Element – Water, Air
Gender – Feminine
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