Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) Product descriptionStinging Nettle is the vibrant herb of grounding, protection, and resilience. Its fine, hair-like stinging hairs carry a powerful earth energy—scatter dried leaves around your space to fortify boundaries, steep them in a nourishing ritual bath to ground the aura and release stagnant energy, or weave them into sachets to carry steadfast protection and vitality with you. Folklore StoryIn Celtic lore, nettles were known as “Bastion’s Bane.” Warriors would don nettle brambles before battle to prove their courage—legend says that a fearless chieftain clad in nettles turned aside an entire horde, and his bold stand gifted nettle its reputation as a ward against harm. Attributes Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Earth Powers: Protection, Grounding, Healing, Resilience, Purification Pairings & Uses Candles: Embed dried nettle leaves with crushed black peppercorns and bay leaf fragments into dark green or brown wax to craf