Arnemetia Holy Water – Nemetona – Diana Nemorensis

This holy water has been gathered from the Buxton Sacred Spring. Buxton Well –  Aquae Arnemetiae (“waters of Arnemetia”) -is an ancient well- dedicated to the Goddess Arnemetia.

It’s a truly ancient well, used to this day for blessings, fertility and healing.

“She who dwells over the sacred grove”- one of the long line of linked epithets and mantles, stretching from Diana Nemorensis, to Nemetona, to Apona, to Arnomecta, to Arnemetia. They all preside over sacred groves, healing through their sacred waters.  They often appear near caves too- as does Arnemetia. The nearby caves of Poole’s Cavern has evidence of ancient altar area with offerings dedicated to Arnemetia. The caves themselves, and the interaction with the sacred grove, have been in use since the Neolithic era. The altar in the cave is pictured.

Arnemetia was the Goddess of the wilds, the woodlands, healing springs and the underworld.

More information about this specific well …

This well is an ancient well- dating back to a Romano-Celtic settlement who honoured the spring as much as we do today! It is maintained and worked with throughout the year because of it’s easy accessibility- and is used locally as a drinking source. It was so well known in the ancient world that it was mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography’s list of all known places in the world in about 700 AD as “Aquis Arnemeza”.

It had a fully fledged Classical temple design with shrine rooms- a rare type of site in roman Britain. Finds in the area produce coins, jewellery and cauldrons. The cult of the sacred spring survives to this day under the guise of St.Anne- healing saint, she who is like the cave, and face of the ancestors.

You can use this water to bless your candles, add to cleansing water, drop some on spirit pouches, wash down doorframes and much more!

‘The Sun burnt clouds but glimmer to the fight,
when at fam’d Buxton’s hot bath we alight,
unto St. Ann the Fountain sacred is:
With waters hot and cold its sources rise,
And in its Sulphur-veins there’s medicine lies.

This cures the Palfied members of the Old,

And Cherishes the Nerves grown Stiff and cold.
Crutches the Lame unto its brink convey,
Returning the ungrades filing them away.
The Barren hither to be fruitful come,
And without help of spouse, go pregnant home,
into a ciltern Square, the water Flows
And seldom higher than five foot it goes.’

Thomas Hobbes- 17thC

PROPERTIES OF THIS HOLY WATER

This water specifically is known to be particularly gifted for working blessing, healing and fertility.

WAYS TO USE THIS HOLY WATER

There are many different ways to use Holy Spring Water.

• As a surface cleanser- diluted. Not only for your traditional items, such as doorframes and floors- but also wiping down the outside of novendialia candles.
• Dropping water on to a spirit pouch. If you have a spirit pouch or a another contained working working towards something like justice- this water would be great to sprinkle a couple of drops on.
• Adding it to asperging water mixtures- including perfume sprays.
• Mixing it into a little bit of salt to have on the altar.
• Can be used as a consecration water, to consecrate an item to Arnemetia.
• Can be used to bless a space, or an object.
• Can be used as an offering to Arnemetia or her spirits.

(And many more ways of working)

HOW THIS WATER WAS COLLECTED

This water was collected as part of a pilgrimage Tarn went on around the Peak District.

An appropriate offering and blessings were left to pay the spirits the use of their well for workings. Blessings were placed upon the well, and surrounding area- such as the beautiful hill that rises behind it. Bottles were placed under the the pump head with a prayer, and consecrated salt and spar stanes were added later to the individual bottles. All rituals were made in accordance with the Indigenous Fairy Faith, and animistic beliefs of the land.

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This water was gathered from the St.Anne Well- the Aquae Arnemetiae, Buxton, Derbyshire, and has added salt for preservation and cleansings, as well as holy spar stanes. This water is undiluted, but can be diluted again by 2 parts, according to tradition. 

This product comes in a 30ml Glass bottle with a Stopper Cap.

 Under UK law I have to state that this should not be used internally or externally. This Product is intended for magical use only, Curio only. Use at Own risk.