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HAZEL (Corylus avellana)
Key: Skills
Hazel is the earliest of British trees to come into flower. The long male catkins can be seen as early as January though it is usually February when they become heavy with yellow pollen. Hazel can grow to become a small tree of 30 ft, but it is more usually coppiced to harvest long, pliant rods or laid to make fast-growing hedging. It is usually short-lived but as a well-cared for coppice hazel has been recorded over a thousand years old.
The small, inconspicuous female flowers appear like small green barnacles with bright red stamens. Once ripened with wind-borne pollen they become a cluster of nuts, usually up to four together, each one enclosed in green leafy bracts.
Hazel is to do with the flowering of skills. It gives the ability to receive and communicate wisdom and so is excellent for both student and teacher. All forms of philosophy, teaching, information can be better assimilated and understood.
Because the mental body becomes better integrated with the physical body there is an ability to recognise those beliefs and ideas that hold the most usefulness and truth for the individual. The body’s own intelligence and wisdom is involved here, which automatically brings more stability and focus into the present moment.
The throat chakra and a related centre where collar bones meet are energised. This helps to clarify emotions and clear away unwanted debris, particularly those outdated beliefs about the self and problems with egotistical behaviour patterns.
Hazel provides a communication doorways to many different levels of energy, particularly those relating to the spirits of earth and plants.
Signature: The nuts shaped like heads – brainfood.
Comment: It is worth working with hazel when there is any uncertainty about direction of work or when ideas fail to give the necessary answers. All forms of mind-work from study to bardic inspiration to memorising, can be helped with this spirit energy.