Wild Cherry Bark cut

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: add cherry bark to love sachets, baths and incense under its Venus rulership.
• Divination: burn a little with mugwort before reading cards or scrying.
• Comfort: keep a piece in a sachet during recovery or grief as a gentle, Venusian ally.

A Simple Working

• Cut a square of red or pink cloth.
• Place a teaspoon of wild cherry bark and a pinch of rose petals at its centre.
• Add a slip of paper with your name and the kind of love you want to draw.
• Tie it closed with red thread.
• Light a pink chime candle and hold the sachet near it as it burns.
• Carry the sachet with you.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, the classic love herb.
• Mugwort, for divination incense.
• Vanilla, to sweeten love work.
• A pink chime candle, for gentle love.

What You Receive

Cut dried wild cherry bark, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Wild cherry bark comes from Prunus serotina, the black cherry of eastern North America. The inner bark was traditionally used in cough syrups and teas, the dark fruit flavoured rum and cordials, and the wood became a favourite of furniture makers.

When fresh, wild cherry bark smells of bitter almonds, a sign of the same compounds found in cherry stones.

In English folklore the cherry tree is a love oracle: children shook the tree or counted cherry stones to the rhyme “This year, next year, sometime, never” to learn when they would marry.