The Ivy Celtic Month starts on 30 September and ends the 27 October. This lunar month offers the possibility to be grateful for life’s blessing and prepare to inner growth during the dark season. The Ivy month coincides with the end of the harvest season, where success and failure are put onto the balance so that we can learn from all.

Taking into account that opposition, negativity or pain are also teachers, gives us a wiser perspective on life in which all becomes a blessing. This balance in learning to see ” the good” and “the bad” as ONE, enables us to take full responsibility of our life, take off our victim coat and embrace fully what’s coming up without giving a judgement, knowing that it makes you stronger.

Ivy is strong, it grows in spiral resining us stay center and move along while focusing on the core.

Signature

The latin name of ivy is Hedera helix, which means “hold on” and “spiral”. When ivy can no more grow, it is going to bloom. Flowering occurs in November.
It is quite impressive to see how Ivy holds on to a tree: by sucking the tree bark with its aerial roots. In the signature theorie, this means that ivy is for people who seeks support and contact. Finding ivy climbing on an oak is a sign of wisdom. But ivy is also able to squeeze the oak to death, showing its possible oppressive relationship. The evergreen, woody and autumn flowering Ivy stands for resistance. When leaves get older, they also get rounder showing softer temper. the black berries makes from the plant a female symbol.

The Ivy is a plant for people who know who they are but haven't found a way to express it. That is why they rely on a partner and stay in the shadow. It is a plant for high sensitive person who get overstrung in an oppressive relationship until they learn to find a way to be authentic to themselves. Ivy supports in transforming normal in wonderful!

In ancient Greece, was ivy used to color grey hair dark again and also as anti-poison. Dionysus wore ivy as a wreath to protecting him against alcoholic intoxication, to help to think clearly and creatively. Brides and grooms in Greece wore crowns of ivy as a representation of fidelity.

Magic

House protection: Hang at your door an ivy wreath with rose and myrtle

Love: Place Ivy and Holly together around a white candle to harmonise love with your partner.

Femininity: place holly fruits around a white candle to honour your femininity