Whats your Favorite Trees for shade?

[Jeannie1]

Today I went on a walk, and I started to think about all the trees that I have bonded with over the time on my walks. I got to thinking.how they provide the shade during the time of Litha!

Do you have a special happy place where you can find shade and relax and spend time with spirit?
Over the years I have a collection of twigs from trees. Me and my husband always play a game its a category game! What’s that tree?

Today I got to swing on a swing today under a tree!

Heres a list of Correspondences I believe I got from spells 8 it was in my book of Shawdows on Notion thanks to @MeganB
Tree Correspondences
• Almond: Divination, clairvoyance, wisdom, money, loans, business
• Apple Tree: Healing, prosperity, love, perpetuates youth
• Apricot: Love
• Ash: Protection, prophecies, good
luck
• Maple: Love, Longevity
• Birch: Protection, purification, fertility, new beginnings
• Cedar: Prosperity, longevity
• Coconut Tree: Purity, chastity, healing
• Cypress: Past lives, protection
• Elder: Healing, protection, prosperity
• Elm: Protection
• Eucalyptus: Healing
• Fig Tree: Fertility, force, energy,
health
• Hazel: Divination, marriage,
protection, reconciliation
• Juniper: Protection
• Lime Tree: Divination, healing, chastity, neutrality
• Linden: Protection
• Lemon Tree: Divination, healing, chastity, neutrality
• Maple: Prosperity, Abundance
• Mountain Ash: Protection, strength
• Mulberry: Knowledge, fortune telling, wisdom, willpower
• Oak: Healing, strength, money, longevity
• Olive: Peace, fertility, security, money, marriage, fidelity
• Orange Tree: Love, marriage
• Palm Tree: Strength
• Peach: Love, divination
• Pine: Purification, health, fortune, fertility, prosperity
• Poplar: Protection
• Red Maple: Divination, love
• Walnut: Healing, protection
• Willow: Healing, protection, enchantment, wishes

Jeannie

[marina]

Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing. In Texas, I love any tree that provides shade!

[georgia]

@marina

love any tree that provides shade!

I’m that way, too, out here in the high desert of New Mexico. When I was younger, I appreciated trees most when they hugged back. Ash and Sugar Maple were the quickest to return hugs. Elms seemed to draw energy from me when I hugged them, but that may have been due to the dutch elm disease and then the elm borers in the area at that time. They were afraid for their lives and just trying to survive.

[Jeannie1]

My uncle has a tree that he deeply cherishes. He once shared with me how much comfort it brings him—how he loves to lay beneath its branches, finding peace and solitude in its shade.
I think he’s the best uncle ever cause he loves to garden. He always shares his knowledge with me.
@marina
Wow my auntie lives in Texas too, I bet they have some beautiful places to find trees and shade when its hot !! I find it as a spiritual practice. What part of you live in?

@georgia

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I was looking in my photos and I have roughly about 400 trees in my photos. I was wondering, do you think this is a sugar maple?
I will have to look into the elm!!
maybe what I could do is add the the maple to the correspondences! I actually have a beautiful Athame I made out of maple!
Heres some info on the elm I found on pientrest Elm

Jeannie

[georgia]

@Jeannie1

do you think this is a sugar maple?

The top one looks like a gum tree to me. Sugar maples have wide leaves.

They have a very caring feel to them. I used to consider them “motherly” until I realized my only experiences of a mother were abusive.

[cherietta]

@georgia

They have a very caring feel to them. I used to consider them “motherly” until I realized my only experiences of a mother were abusive.

I sadly understand this sentiment. Even though our experience of mother were not that, we know what it’s supposed to be. And I agree with you about this leaf. It looks like it wants to wrap itself around you and give you a supportive, loving hug.

[georgia]

@Jeannie1

maybe what I could do is add the the maple to the correspondences!

Would this help?

Maple: Folklore, Healing & Magical Attributes

[Garnet]

Beautiful trees. When I was little we had a hugh elm tree in front of our house, I would lie under it for hours. Such a loss when the state declared eminent domain and cut it down to widen the road. Sometimes I wonder if progress is worth the scars it leaves on Mother Earth. Sigh.
Blessed be
Garnet.

[BryWisteria]

Your pictures are amazing, @Jeannie1 - so many beautiful trees, spaces, and smiles!

@Jeannie1

Do you have a special happy place where you can find shade and relax and spend time with spirit?

My favorite “tree” is actually a grass - I love to sit in a bamboo grove. It’s not complete shade, but I like when the wind blows and all of the bamboo and its leaves wave in the wind, sending spots of light across the ground. It’s a relaxing place to be - at least when it’s not over 100 degrees outside!

Thanks for sharing your favorite trees and their magickal correspondences!

[MeganB]

Right now, any tree that gives shade is a tree for me I have a very large oak tree in my front yard that shades the front of my house. I also have several maples in my backyard and around the perimeter of our driveway - those are currently my favorite

And I even wrote a blog post about them a while ago

The Maple Tree: Information, History, and Folklore

[tracyS]

Ooh such wonderful trees.

My favourite tree is this apple tree (it’s also every wasp in England’s favourite tree I’m sure, we fight every season for who’s going to get the apples )

Anyway this is a wonderful tree that shelters me in the rain, is oozing with magical spirits, and is just plain lovely

Skal

[Jeannie1]

@georgia

They have a very caring feel to them.

Yes they do have a very caring field to them and not too long ago. I did some artwork.

@georgia

I used to consider them “motherly” until I realized my only experiences of a mother were abusive.

Well we have some same experiences and I have not been able to talk about that but if you like I can send you some art to cheer your day up!! Thank you for the information
Here is my maple!!

Jeannie

@BryWisteria

My favorite “tree” is actually a grass - I love to sit in a bamboo grove

I never understood why people love bamboo, but it is very versatile wood

@BryWisteria

like when the wind blows and all of the bamboo and its leaves wave in the wind, sending spots of light across the ground. It’s a relaxing place to be - at least when it’s not over 100 degrees outside!

My gosh that’s hot, and I know a spot not far from my house that has bamboo!!

my bamboo is a shade and it’s made out of bamboo!! so many things are made from trees and it just made me realize how everything is alive around us!
@MeganB
thank you for the lovely folklore info about Maple. I am also fascinated with maple my husband used to live in Vermont and he said that he had a friend that actually knew how to extract the maple out of the tree and so it just fascinates me that we can get maple! Its so sweet and delicious! I love to make waffles and pour maple over my waffles because you don’t need that much and honestly it’s a good carb! It’s actually a simple carb, but not a complex carb! Who’s counting carbs anyway ha ha ha lol

My husband use to actually tap the tree to extract the maple and alls you need is buckets to extract the maple. You should try it!! My husband is getting in on our conversation!!

@tracyS

My favourite tree is this apple tree

I love apple pie me and my friends go to the place which isn’t too far from here. It’s about an hour drive. We go to Apple Hill and get a whole bunch of pies for the season of Mabon.! I love their apple pies and I probably wouldn’t mind making my own pie this year but they’re just so yummy! I could understand why you loved the apple tree! There are tons of apples that you can use I use apples for my waffles. I cut up small pieces and I put it in the waffle maker and it just turns out so yummy.!
thank you for sharing your wisdom, Tracy I just love everybody’s feedback! Your tree is absolutely beautiful and is thriving! I just need to share my trees too!
Beautiful picture thank you for sharing!! I noticed they look like the granny apples! I would love to bake a pie with granny apples! Apples are so Magickal!
Jeannie

[BryWisteria]

@Jeannie1

my bamboo is a shade and it’s made out of bamboo!!

That’s awesome! Now your bamboo can help keep you cool and shaded even from within your home And I agree - there is so much magick around us, nature really is generous with her gifts

[georgia]

@Jeannie1

if you like I can send you some art to cheer your day up!!

Your art always brings joy! Thank you for the offer!

@Jeannie1

Here is my maple!!

What a wonderful wand! You are fortunate to have found such a twisty stick!

I once lived near a corkscrew willow. All of its wood was wonderfully twisty like that. Made a fantastic walking stick when landscapers cut down a branch of the perfect dimensions and had a nice wand out of its wood, too. Couldn’t take them with me, but I’m sure glad I had them while I did!

@Jeannie1

everything is alive around us!

That is a blessed realization!

[MeganB]

@Jeannie1

thank you for the lovely folklore info about Maple.

Aww That must be so amazing to know how to do that – and to have the proper trees! I don’t think mine are sugar maples, so the syrup is a bit different, and the timeframe to get it is shorter. I might try one day if I ever learn how. Enjoy your waffles!

[Selena-Paloma]

Hi Jeannie!

Thank you for sharing!

This is a lovely post! I actually just started learning about trees from The Witch’s Way written by Shawn Robbins and Leanna Greenway. It is part of the Wiccapedia Series.

Btw, your dog is adorable ! What is his/her name?

Blessed Be,
Jacqueline

[dan3]

Oaks are my favorite since they are enduring and don’t leave a big mess. However, Walnut is great most of the year and a litter bum for a month or so.

For lesser trees I like cottonwood since they grow fast and big and provide tons of shade. Not great for residential areas since they also expire quicker and have to be cut down to avoid damage when they fall.

This is our street in the morning.

[georgia]

@MeganB

I don’t think mine are sugar maples

From you pics above,

The tree across the top is definitely a sugar maple. It might not be on your property? I can’t tell by the angle of the pic.

Edit: oif. Upon a closer look at each pic, these are all sugar maples. You’re fine.

[marina]

@georgia I love that! I tend to do the tree hugging. I have never asked for one back. I may have to try it. Thanks for the idea.

[georgia]

If you have any difficulty, start in a public park where others may have hugged a tree before. They seem to be the quickest to respond. Private trees seem a bit confused at first.

I never asked for a hug, either. It was a surprise when I felt my first hug.

While hugging a tree, reach up through the branches to see what you can see. Sometimes the tree will stretch with you. It catches their attention.

Reach down through the roots and see if you can follow communication lines, too. This will be a little different from grounding yourself by growing your own roots. It’s not energy which flows downward, but awareness, like you’re diving into a swimming pool, head first.