Urban Tree Oracle: Willow
Tree: Willow
Aspect: dreaming
Season: winter
Sense: imagination, sleep
Score for Willow
Whisper your dreams to willow
Please join me with Willow for an Urban Tree Oracle gathering at a distance in early March 2025 in the weeks before the spring equinox as winter slowly recedes. Graceful, flexible, resilient, watery Willow will join with us in our dreams. I will send packages to each participant with an audio recording to guide you through a process of deepening into relationship with Willow and asking them to accompany you in your dreams one evening. Also in the package will be a template Oracle card made from willow ink and a small bit of willow ink for you to craft your own oracle card inspired by your dreaming with Willow. Our oracle cards will serve as a reminder, inspiration, and tool for self-reflection of our communing with willow in our dreams.
This invitation is open from February 10-21 or until all the spots have been filled. On February 24, I’ll send the packages and invite you to join the gathering on an evening of your choosing between March 1-15. During that time we will all commune with willow, connected together in a constellation of dreamers. Let me know if you want to join by sending your address and phone number by February 21. See you with Willow in our dreams.
Read more about willow at this edition of my substack newsletter
Willow
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Her graceful, slender, pliable branches have been used for ages in all kinds of housewares and crafts, including boats, baskets, rope, wicker, and more. Because of her magical ability to regrow vigorously when cut and can root when just stuck in the soil, they have been used to make living hedges and homes. Her sap contains salicylic acid and has long been chewed to reduce pain and inflammation, a natural inspiration for the chemical form of salicylic acid, aspirin. Native Americans have often included willow in their tobacco blends because it is thought to be able to carry messages to the Great Spirit. Thanks to her love of water, folklore has long associated her with the moon, the feminine, and cycles. Divining rods are usually made from willow, allowing her to be a portal or amplifier of intuition and magic. In Europe, people have long whispered their dreams to the willows.
