Snake Embraced Torso CandleSnakes serpents are a symbol or renewal, rebirth, transformation, and wisdom. Often used to represent shedding of the old, or shedding of things no longer desired. Couple this with the torso, and you have the symbolism for personal change, growth, elevation, and to shed away the things you do not desire any longer. A very good symbol for personal rebirth and for transformation. Use with connection to color correspondences and archetypes that

Fir is a tree of beginnings

and you have within itself a very potent item

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Comfort oil was created as a kind of hug from the witch

to make aware to the perception of that which resides behind the illusion

nests only in the willow

create confusion and internal chaos

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Magical properties: this is a powerful wood of choice for the witch when working with the faerie magic

Good for scrying

nearly unchanged since the primeval forests

traditionally said to avert storms and lightning