Perennial aspect of the human psyche

The dark side of the Moon and realm of Faery

 

Gift from the Lunar Goddess for determination

Mysterious and mystical in its representation.

 

Assists in the art of the seer to see and in prophecy

With a denseness difficult to penetrate in closed tendencies

 

A force to be reckoned with in strength and in growth

Spreading to flourish in rock and fertile earth both.

 

A host must support the vine with inner resources to glean.

The Ivy is a member of the ginseng family and an evergreen.

 

Many species choose to nest in Gort, prefer it to other shrubs

It is the only plant that will not make walls damp and mold to rub.

 

Ivy people have a quiet type faith,

Believe natural order is the way

 

Respect balance and loyalty

As they accept responsibility.

 

They are very sensitive and with others need to link,

To learn that all is intertwined as they pen their ink.

 

Masculine and the color of Sky Blue

Chieftain is their class and shadowed hue.

 

In magick they possess healing and protection

As they exorcise baneful energies in cooperation.

 

Semi-precious Opal is Queen of Gems and Hope

And the Ivy’s own stone as a seer's mirror and rope,

 

To the possibilities in clarity of emotions

A token of purity and of divine unions.

 

The Ivy’s flower is the Woody Nightshade

Known as Bittersweet and as Blue Hate.

 

Veiling Persephone is the moon it gathers

Silver Wheel of the Stars as it is the keeper.

 

Symbol of retribution in life of karmic debt

Insures the time sown is what is reaped and met.

 

The Goose, the Bore, the Butterfly

Are its animal aspects to reason why.

 

Prophetic knowledge and the power of the Faery

Are its cousins with the animal totems to query.

 

The ivy has many powers of the masculine energy

The solar light of our earth it reaches with tenacity.