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This listing is for one bundle of three Mullein, Mugwort, Yarrow and Rose Ritual Torches from The heART of Ritual.

There is alot of fire tradition and lore connected with Mullein and both the Summer and Winter Solstice. In the middle ages the fibers inside Mullein stalks were gathered and dipped in lard for use as candle wicks, the spires themselves used as lanterns, and the fibers inside Mullein are much beloved material for friction based fire making. In Celtic tradition Mullein is regarded as a light sentinel (showing the way in the dark), and I find it interesting that the flowers - which happen to be the colours traditionally associated with the fire element - happen to begin blossoming over the Summer Solstice, the high point of the fire element in the Celtic Wheel of the Year. These ritual torches are my take on the historical use, integrating wild native magical and medicinal herbs that were traditionally used as fumigration offerings in Celtic festival fires.

My personal practice is to gather these Summer Solstice fire spires to create ritual torches for (Summer and) Winter Solstice ceremony - this brings light during the darkest part of the year and ritually incorporating a fire element offering to the Celtic festival that celebrates the return of the light (the waxing sun and waning moon). They can of course be incorporated into any form of ritual and ceremony that calls for light, a fire offering, or fire element representation, so the invitation as always is work with them according to your own unique prayer expression.

Each bundle contains a trio ritual torches, to represent the trinity or BEing and also reference the upward facing triangle, the alchemy symbol for the element of Fire. Each is adorned with a mini posey of wild lunar botanicals, and a hand written plant fiber paper label embossed with our Celtic Wheel of the Year mandala art. These are lovingly held in place with a beautiful plant fiber cordage made from mugwort and rose. Each ritual torch is finished with a dusting of golden muscovite.

As a seed saver, I gather these wild Mullein spires as I find them and dry them upside down in paper bags so that the seeds are easily collected. Mullein is not a plant that is plentiful in our area, so I am particularly passionate about giving it a helping hand to thrive. The seeds are redistributed back out into different areas of the mountain so that the wild Mullein population is supported and can spread. Once the seed is retained, I cut the spires into several handy sizes and ceremoniously craft these ritual torches by dipping them in herb infused soy wax. Note that I used to use local beeswax for these but now prefer to work with soy rather than purchase beeswax from bees and beekeepers I do not know. The spires for these ritual torches came from a newly established colony near a place that I call 'Angel Falls' (a waterfall that has wild angelica growing there), which is at the top of a place I call 'Belladonna Street' (due to the amount of Belladonna growing there. Its a truly magical place. The largest of the Mulleins there was easily almost nine feet tall, so clearly they are happy there. I have also included spires from Mullein that grew in our own garden this year as happy visitors! The largest sentinels grew over one storey high and over the summer solstice it looked to me that there was a competition on between them and their Mugwort neighbours (on the other side of the path) to see who would grow tallest.  Mullein won, but only just.

I adore these ritual torches, and love that nothing goes to waste. The seeds from these spires have already been spread and I'm looking forward to seeing how they get on next year and how this new Mullein patch up at Angel Falls gets on next year too!

As always, please burn candles responsibly and never leave unattended.

Mullein, Mugwort, Yarrow and Rose Ritual Torches

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SEASONAL OVERVIEW

Season • Winter

Element • Earth

Direction • North

Archetype • Elder Archetype

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS COLLECTION

Our Winter/Earth Element Collection arrives into the season of Samhain – that threshold between the last new moon of the dying Celtic year in October, astronomical Samhain, and the first new moon of the year to come in November. It is here that endings and beginnings lie folded together – a dreamtime of moons that leads us into the deepest dark – asking us to walk slowly, to walk in Earth time. 

 

This is not the hurried clock-time of the everyday. It is slow time – deep time – recorded in bedrock and fault-line, in layers pressed through clay and shale. As the earth keeps her history in stone and strata, so we carry memory in bone. The land is our larger body – marrow and mountain, clay and skin, each carrying memory. To enter this season is to enter those depths, to map again the contour lines of the inner ground, to feel where the body holds fractures, pressure, weight-bearing, release. The work is slow. The work is old. Stone remembers, and so do we. Our bodies are cairns of remembrance.

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Between Samhain and Solstice we are pilgrims moving through inner hollows and chambers of the soul. It is sanctuary time, a time of reverence and devotion, where prayer is not passive but visceral and embodied – where we kneel not before idols but within the tabernacle of our own being. The ember of light is entrusted to us here, and it must be guarded with care – fanned in trust, sheltered in hope, nourished with care, until it kindles to flame and warmth.

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Samhain is also the season of surrender. To grieve what has passed in the twelve months gone. To honour ancestors, yes, but also to lay down the burdens of the year, the losses and thresholds crossed, the shocks and griefs that linger. As leaves return to soil, so sorrow returns to earth, darkening into humus that feeds what will come. In the body, this work is felt in the earth element – in the musculoskeletal frame, in the gut’s deep work of breaking down and letting go. To release is to create space, and to hold is to become heavy. The earth teaches us this balance, for she both receives and yields in the same breath.

 

This is the annual pilgrimage to the soul’s inner shrine – beyond one life, beyond one line of ancestry. It is the thread that connects us with stone and to soil, with grandmother and grandfather, with all who came before and all who will come after. In this time-out-of-time we reweave ourselves into that thread, into the north, into the slow, enduring rhythm of earth itself. And from that ground – from a living tapestry of blood and bone and surrender – the Solstice light is born again. A flame at the heart of winter.

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REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION​

Focus for the Winter collection is the element of Earth, Embodied Ritual & Green Prayer, Illuminating the Dark & the Inner Hearth, Chakras of the Root, Knees/Elbows, Feet/Hands and Earth Star, Physical WellBEing, the Musculoskeletal System, the Digestive System & Intestinal Health, Death, Grief Processing & Trauma Composting, Vulnerability & Surrender, The Pilgrim & the Inner Journey, Protection, Connection & Roots, Hibernation & Radical Rest, Cultivating Sanctuary & Stillness, Conscious Nourishment & Nurturance, and of course, Earth Rituals for the Head, Heart and Hands.

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