| When it comes to all the different facets of nature, if | | | | traditional belief that carrying acorns around in your |
| you've seen it or hear about it, it probably has a | | | | pocket will bring youthfulness and good luck. It is also |
| magical background. Plants, animals, the minerals lying | | | | believed that they can be used to divine doomed or |
| around us, as well as the celestial and all their phases, | | | | everlasting love between a couple. |
| all have their place in the world of magick and the | | | | To test the bonds of love, a girl might place two |
| divine. Amongst all these things, we have the little | | | | acorns in a bowl of water, under the light of a full |
| acorn. They come in all sort of varieties and are tiny | | | | moon, several inches apart. If they floated towards |
| little things, but regardless of their size, when it comes | | | | one another, it was a sign of everlasting love. If they |
| to the world of natural magick, the end results amount | | | | floated in place, that person would need to wait 'til the |
| to some pretty big stuff. | | | | next full moon and try again. If they were to, I don't |
| The acorn can be planted and over the decades, | | | | know, I guess float apart, one or both sink like rocks, or |
| mature into a mighty oak, producing hundreds more | | | | spontaneously combust, then it was time to find |
| little acorns. This is a slow and drawn out process ( | | | | another guy or for the stubborn, an acorn that tells you |
| Which is why the acorn is a symbol of patience, | | | | what you want to hear. |
| amongst other things ), but it is a form of natural | | | | A male seeking greater fertility might gain favor with |
| magick involving the acorn. The itchy trigger-fingered | | | | the lesser god, Priapus, by offering a harvest of |
| amongst us who are reading this article and saying, | | | | acorns. In Scandinavia, acorns were placed on window |
| "decades, I was kind of hoping for something within my | | | | sills to appease the thunder god Thor and protect |
| lifetime," need not worry. | | | | buildings from the catastrophe of lightning strikes. |
| For the less patient, the acorn is believed to have | | | | Some curtain makers give a nod to this age old belief |
| some immediate properties of gratification and aid. The | | | | by adding wooden acorns as tassels. Along with being |
| power to sway boons like good luck, youthfulness, and | | | | a charm for every day use, the acorn holds spots in |
| fertility in ones favor are some of the many powers | | | | ceremony and rituals. |
| the acorn is believed to possess. In Europe, there is a | | | | |