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Beith ~ The Maiden

First of all I would like to wish a Very Happy New Year to all my followers and subscribers to Divine Ogham ~ I hope that you have all enjoyed a lovely festive season and are looking forward to the year ahead! 🙂 According to the ‘Tree Calendar’ as devised by Robert Graves, we are now well into the month of Beith or Birch which started on the 24th of December and takes us through to the 20th of…

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Respect your Elder!

Hello and welcome to the 13th (lunar month) of the year on our Celtic Tree Calendar – in fact we are now almost one week into the month of Elder or ‘Ruis’ which began on November 25th and takes us through to December 22nd – my apologies, the weeks seem to have been flying by! Ruis represents Karma, regrets and ‘facing the inevitable’ – a little scary you may be thinking?  Well this is the time…

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A New Broom

Well here we are in the month of ‘Broom’…or would that be ‘Reed’?   Although Robert Graves’ ‘Tree Calendar’ gives us ‘Reed’ for ‘Ngetal’, Word Oghams in the Book of Ballymote seem to favour ‘Broom’. According to Morann Mac Main… Hence for that letter in Ogham owing to the complete identity of the name between them Luth legha, a physician’s strength; that is broom, ng, because it is strength…

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Strength of Ivy

Hello and welcome to the 11th (lunar) month of the year on our ‘Celtic Tree Calendar’ , ‘the month of Ivy‘ which begins tomorrow (September 30th) and takes us through to October 27th .. 🙂 Now although, technically speaking, not a tree, Ivy uses trees to support its growth by way of a ruthless tenacity and power so strong, it can sometimes even kill its host! So tough is this plant that a very…

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Bird Ogham for this Month ~ the Bluetit

Hello and welcome to the 10th (lunar) month of the year on our ‘Celtic Tree Calendar’ .. which begins tomorrow (September 2nd) and takes us through to September 29th .. 🙂 Several years back I made a page on my old website for the ‘Bird Ogham’ – just those related to the ‘Tree Signs’. I am now in the process of adding them all to your ‘Tree Sign’ pages but as this is the month for Muinn/Vine I…