This means I see the message and symbol every day on the day that it is intended for. Then I pull an Ogham few for each day of the work week, Monday through Friday, and record it in my planner. Instead, I just slowly built up a flow of conversation and respect.Įach week, usually on Sunday, I read and work on the practices in one Gwersi from OBOD. I never slept with it under my pillow or consecrated it. Occasionally, I’ll leave a few out on my altar or use one in a spell if I need a good dose of tree magic. My Ogham set is kept in the bag that it came in near my altar or in my crane bag when it’s not in use. I thought that it might be helpful to others working with Ogham to hear a bit about what my practice looks like when it comes to this incredible tool. Although, if I’ve been neglectful in putting the wisdom shared with me into practice then my set of Ogham holds nothing back and tells me over and over again what it wants me to know. It’s usually pretty kind to me and speaks gently when I need it to. I have an easy relationship with my Ogham set. I have a set from an etsy shop where the symbols are burned into the branches of the actual trees themselves. Ogham is my divination tool of choice these days. I found this approach much more inspiring and dove into reading and studying Ogham through a new lens. One used as a divination tool and included a harsh look at the historical or not so historical use of trees in the Celtic culture of the ancients. Many years later I finally came across a different version of Ogham. This was lots of fun but not very useful and encouraged no real relationship with the trees of the Ogham other than a few facts about your own. The version I saw gave it zodiac-esq meanings making you feel that you had a special tree self inside of you based on when you were born. It usually splits the year into 13 months and associates a single Ogham tree to each of these sections. I’m sure you’ve all seen a version somewhere. One theory is, these diagrams are fragments of a lost system of using the Ogham for magic and divination, but this is speculation.One of the first things I came across as a fledgling Pagan was the Celtic Tree Calendar. Included in the book were several diagrams using the Ogham fews, but the purpose of these diagrams is a mystery. Ballymote gave an overview of each letter, its meaning, and its particular plant, mostly trees, so the Ogham has also been called ‘The Tree Alphabet’. Two of the earliest-printed mentions of the Ogham alphabet appears in Irish monastic works: The Book of Leinster, written circa 1160 and The Book of Ballymote, an Irish medieval manuscript written in 1390 or 1391. While it cannot be definitively-proved the ancient Druids used the Ogham for divination, the ninth-century Irish epic, The Wooing of Etain does include a scene where a druid named Dallan uses the Ogham fews to discern where Midir had hidden Etain. An additional five were added later on (I can find no mention of how much later on, or why), but many Ogham-users employ only the original twenty. Originally there were only twenty Ogham fews. Each Ogham letter, called a few, is associated with a particular tree or plant which the Celts regarded as sacred. Originally, the Ogham alphabet appears to have been used for very mundane purposes, such as marking gravestones and identifying property lines. The oldest stones with Ogham carvings date from around 300 to 700 C.E. Though an old alphabet, there is no physical evidence it pre-dates Christianity. The Celtic God Ogma, the god of wisdom, learning and eloquence is credited in Irish legend with creating the Ogham alphabet and gifting humanity with it. The Ogham alphabet was created and used by the Celts.
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