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We’re coming up to Full Moon on Thursday. A good time to converse with Hare’s Tree.
In the old tongue of the Ogham, the word for willow is Saille. There are many different sorts of willow tree, use this page from Trees for Life to learn a bit more about them.
Willow has her own bird too, the Willow Warbler.
They’re tiny, about the size of a bluetit, yellowish/olive green on the breast, paler underneath, with a brownish head, pale yellow-green stripe above the eye and flesh-coloured legs. They have long brown wings – really useful for flying from the Sahara to Britain and back each year!
Willow is a water-tree, and one of the fastest growing plants in the world, it can grow 10 feet in a year! It’s strong, deep and wide roots prevent soil erosion, and it’s brilliant at helping drainage in flooded areas, as well as being one of the best plants to do natural sewage disposal.
Wattle is an amazing lightweight material made by weaving thin willow branches between upright willow stakes to form a woven lattice.
Willow has been made into fishing net, baskets, fish traps, fences, house walls, Welsh coracles, boxes, brooms, cricket bats, cradles, furniture, dolls, flutes and whistles, wands, poles, sweat lodges and benders, toys, tool handles, veneer, tannin, fibre, paper, rope and string. It’s incredibly versatile stuff.
Exercise 3: Willow & Boundaries
Wattle is flexible; it has air-gaps in it; it filters the wind and so slows it down; it allows insects to fly through it to pollinate the plants; it keeps people and animals out that are not good for the plants within. It can have windows, as the wattle wall in the picture does, so you can see outside. It’s been shelter and home for people for maybe several million years.
Sit by a willow, try to be touching the tree, your back against it maybe.
Ask willow to show you about boundaries, how they hold things safe within but allow things to go out as well; how boundaries filter what you need; how they can adjust as your needs change.
When willow says it’s time to go home now, thank willow for all they’ve given you and say you will return to work with them again.
Tidy your space – take only memories and leave only fading footprints.
Go home, eat and drink, ground yourself
Doodle reminders of what they showed you
Over the coming week, spend time with your doodles, allow them – and so Hare – to give you insights. Make more doodles as your knowing expands.
Rewild Your Heart
Learning about how Nature works really opens your heart. It helps you get back