Name: Acer campestre      

Toxicity: not known

Common Name: Maple

Continent: Eurasia

Habitat: VI

Applicable Plant Components: herb, wood, bark, root, sap, cambium

Sanctificational: bark

Convocational: bark, wood

Desistant: root, bark

Harmonical: sap, herb

Pacificatory: bark

Reconciliatory: bark

Theurgical: wood, bark

Amoristic: herb, twig

Preserval: bark

Vulnerary: bark

Plenitudinal: bark

Ensurant: herb, bark

Divinatory: cambium

Affixal: bark

Affirmational: bark, charcoal, sap

Resurgent: herb, bark

Anecdotal: Acer is rendered into rattles, drums and masks, while its branches can be tied up into lodges or bound to wands. The wood can be reduced to tattooing charcoal applied in rituals and the roots woven into baskets, mats & bags. It is highly esteemed in women’s medicine, so much so it is often chosen as a needlework pattern for ceremonial items. Acer is also made into pipe stems and bowls. It is an excellent choice for ritual fires. The wood is burned while practitioners prepare ceremonial remedies employed to appease the spirits of grief, loss of spiritual health or energy, and to enhance the visual perception of visions. It is exceedingly sanctifying and appropriate in healing the effects of the deepest type of tragedy. Acer is exorcismal medicine that opens the way to ritual rebirth. It teaches that adversity creates opportunity for change. This figures into love medicine as well, running the gamut from romantic love to love of family and community. Acer is Moose and Lynx Medicine, called in to bless pursuits pertaining to hunting enlightenment and reaching such goals swiftly and with clarity of purpose. Acer is good medicine for singers.