Maple Meaning and magickal uses

A generous tree of sweetness, love and abundance, glowing at the harvest.

• Intentions: Love, Prosperity, Peace
• Element: Air
• Planet: Jupiter
• Day: Thursday
• Parts used: Leaves, sap, seeds (samaras), wood

Safety: Wilted or dried red maple leaves are highly toxic to horses; keep fallen leaves away from pastures.

How to use it

• Mabon leaf spell. Gather a red maple leaf at Mabon, write a word of thanks on it with a marker, and leave it on your altar or let the wind carry it away.
• Sweeten a spell. Add a few drops of real maple syrup to a jar spell for love or friendship, letting its sweetness stand for kindness between people. Seal it with a pink candle.
• Wish on a samara. Toss a winged maple seed into the wind with a wish for abundance, the way you might with a dandelion clock. Watch it spin away and trust your effort to carry the rest.

Works well with: Mabon, Orange Candle, Thursday, Jupiter, Carnelian

Folklore

Maples grow across the Northern Hemisphere and are loved for their brilliant autumn color. Indigenous peoples of northeastern North America first tapped maple sap and boiled it into sugar, a tradition later learned by settlers. In Japan maple viewing in autumn, momijigari, is an old custom. In European folk magick maple was linked to love and long life, and some cradles were carved from it. Witches use maple for love, sweetness and harvest abundance.