Celtic Symbols | Ogham Alphabet - Ogam The Ogham Alphabet aka. Also known as the Beth, Luis, Nion Alphabet. Ogam Alphabet with symbol meanings. You can purchase anything you would like written in Ogham for $5.00 and $1.00 for each word extra.
Ogham Name: Beth
Letter: B
Tree: Birch
Element: Air
Color: White
Animal: Cow
Virtue: Luck
Association: New purification beginnings, making plans and a major step forward, Samhain (Nov.)
Challenge: Challenges
Uses: Burns fast and hot. Branches used for clearing sacred space. Wood used to make charms.
Description: White silvery bark. It is easily blown because it does not root deeply.
Month: Nov.
Ogham Name: Luis
Letter: L
Tree: Rowan
Element:
Color: Red and Grey
Animal: Unicorn and Bear
Virtue: Insight
Association: Insight
Challenge: Controls Own Life. Protection against control by others.
Uses: Fire burns long and hot
Description:
Month: December
Ogham Name: Nion
Letter: N
Tree: Ash
Element: Air
Color: Clear Green
Animal: Snake
Virtue: Stability
Association: Balance and inner peace. The Nordic World (Symbolizes Universe) Tree Yggdrasil is an ash tree.
Challenge:
Uses: Axe handles, good firewood, shafts for spears. Making staffs (Traditionally) and used for Broomstick - the twigs came from birch, hazel, and rowan, which were bound with willow called the Dasgubel Rod
Description: Tall, slender tree with silvery gray bark that has hard pale wood.
Month:
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Letter: F, V
Tree: Alder
Element: Water
Color: Crimson
Animal: Red Fox, Ram and Stallion
Virtue: Moral and physical strength
Association: Strength, Spiritual guidance and protection. Help in making choices.
Challenge:
Uses: Used to make foundations in waterlogged ground. Canal, Gates, Water Wheels and other items whose purpose brings it in frequent contact with water. Also, resistant to water and red dye can be extracted from its barley.
Description: Related to Birch. Loves to grow with its roots in water, and cluster in groups.
Gives red hue to winter. Burns poorly and decays fast when dry.
Month: January
Ogham Name: Coll
Letter: C
Tree: Hazel
Element: Fire
Color: Cron (Brown)
Animal: Salmon
Virtue: Intuition
Association: Creativity, poetry, divination, mediation, wisdom.
Challenge: Use your creative side.
Uses: Diviners’ sticks. Peeled hazel sticks were carried by Celtic heralds, as long as hazel was visible. No fighting was allowed. Building Fences and temporary structures. It is easy to carve Ogham on it.
Description: Shrub or small tree bearing round, brown, edible nuts.
Month: July
Ogham Name: Quert
Letter: Q
Tree: Apple
Element: Air
Color: Green
Animal: Unicorn
Virtue: Intuition
Association: Youthfulness and Beauty
Challenge: Make the right choice from a group of options.
Uses: Fruit
Description: Tree bearing round, firm edible fruit with crisp flesh. (If an apple is cut crosswise, the pips can be seen housed inside a pentagram.
Month: None
Ogham Name: Muin
Letter: M
Tree: BRAMBLE (non-tree) or, Vine group
Element: Earth
Color: Moracht (Variegated)
Animal: Lizard
Virtue: Freedom. Variegated.
Association: Release from restraints, the ability to speak openly and honestly. Inner development occurring, but take me for relaxation.
Challenge: Relax, unwind and enjoy the simple things in life.
Uses: Making wine, editable fruit.
Description: Vine bearing round editable fruit.
Month: August
Ogham Name: Gort
Letter: G
Tree: Ivy (non-tree)
Element: Earth
Color: Sky Blue
Animal: Bear
Virtue: Accomplishing Goals,
Association: Change and Progress
Challenge: Keep your eye firmly on your main goals, avoid ruts. Take time to soul search or you will make the wrong decision.
Uses: Ivy can grow anywhere, it is extremely hardy and hard to kill. It can live for a long time. Nourishes Deer, its berries fed birds.
Description: Clings to res, thriving in shadows, feeding on its host, but not killing it unless old and dying.
Month: September
Ogham Name: Ngetal
Letter: Ng - P
Tree: Reed (non-tree) Pethboc - Dwarf Elder
Element: Water
Color: Grass Green
Animal: Dog, Stag and Rat
Virtue: Progress. Spiritual growth. Signifies unity of purpose and will, and adapting to changing conditions.
Association: Spiritual wisdom, harmony between self and world. Upsets and surprises.
Challenge: Use your talents to progress
Uses: The Welsh made a type of paper known as plagawd from the reed. Reeds were traditionally used as measuring devices. Also, used for thatch roofs and floor coverings. Rich habitat for wildlife.
Description:
Month: October
Ogham Name: Straif
Letter: Z, Ss, St, Z
Tree: Blackthorn (non-tree)
Element:
Color: Bright Purple
Animal: Wolf, Toad and Black Cat
Virtue: Unity
Association: Bad luck, strife, unexpected changes. Resentment, confusion, refusing to see truth.
Challenge: Turn a negative situation into a positive one.
Uses: Makes excellent hedge grows and provides ample shelter for wildlife. The branches are used to make fighting sticks known as shillelaghs.
Description: Thorny, rosaceous shrub bearing white flowers and small blue-black fruits.
Month: No month.
Ogham Name: Ruis
Letter: R
Tree: Elder
Element:
Color: Blood Red
Animal: Badger
Virtue: Change
Association: Primary Faerie tree. Cycles of change and the transition from one state to another.
Challenge: Come to terms with the necessity for change. End of a cycle or problem.
Uses: Making fishing rods. Making wine with its berries
Description: Tree with white flowers and dark berries. Damaged branches re-grow quickly, and it will root readily from any part.
Month: Makeup days of the thirteenth month.
Ogham Name: Ailm (Ailim)
Letter: A
Tree: Scotch Pine (Silver Fir)
Element: Air
Color: Pale Blue
Animal: Red Cow
Virtue: Self-esteem
Association: Insight and potential wisdom, self esteem, strength and personal power, Progression.
Challenge: Carefully contemplate where you want to go in life before moving ahead. Don’t rush it. Learning from past mistakes; look to past experiences for solutions. Take care of choices.
Uses: Burns with a quick bright flame.
Description: Evergreen tree with needlelike leaves native to Scotland.
Month: No Month
Ogham Name: Saille
Name: Saille
Letter: S
Tree: Willow
Element: Water
Color: Sorcha (Fiery)
Animal: Hare and Cat
Virtue: Spiritual intuition. Moon and fertility, creativity, imagination, sometimes self deception.
Association: Subconscious, fe4manine and mystical side of our natures. Balance in life, balance through painful experiences.
Challenge: Not to ignore the spiritual and intuitive side of your nature. Bright.
Uses: Basketry and biding broomsticks. Also, for furniture.
Description:
Month: February
Ogham Name: Huathe (Huath)
Letter: H
Tree: Hawthorn
Element: Fire
Color: Purple
Animal: Goat and Dragon
Virtue: Restraint
Association: Abstinence and excess (opposite rules of sexuality). Being held back for a period of time.
Challenge: Be patient and make plans before acting. Festina lente (make haste slowly).
Uses: Rich red berries that birds love. Departing knights would give their loves sprigs of hawthorn, so they could live in hope.
Description: Does not grow tall but, can become old up to 400 years.
Month: April
Ogham Name: Duir
Letter: D
Tree: Oak
Element: Fire
Color: Dark Brown and Black
Animal: White Horse, Lion and Salamander.
Virtue: Stability
Association: Solidity, steadfastness, and Protection, Strength and Endurance. Security.
Challenge: Be strong and stand up for yourself. Stand firm in what you believe is right.
Uses: Long burning wood, acorns, building furniture.
Description: Tree having lobed leaves.
Month: May
Ogham Name: Tinne
Letter: T
Tree: Holly
Element: Fire
Color: Dark Grey
Animal: War Horse
Virtue: Justice
Association: Fair play, balance, right overcoming wrong. Strength and power. Energy and guidance for future problems.
Challenge: Make goals for yourself to help give your life direction.
Uses: Traditionally holly club or axe is used to test courage and strength. Makes good charcoal.
Description: Evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and red berries.
Month: No month
Ogham Name: Furze
Letter: O
Tree: Gorse
Element: Fire
Color: Yellow and Gold
Animal: Rabbit
Virtue: Wisdom, discovery of information that could change your life.
Association: Collecting of valuable knowledge. Testing, purification, ultimate goal.
Challenge: Avoid scattering your energies. Keep it in sight. Don’t become lost in the information gathering stage.
Uses: Pollen and nectar for bees.
Description: Thrives in poor soil, as yellow blossoms.
Month: No month
Ogham Name: Ura (Ur)
Name: Ura (Ur)
Letter U, W
Tree: Heather and Mistletoe
Element: Earth
Color: Purple
Animal: Bee and Lion
Virtue: Luck
Association: Read Heather; passion, white heather; protection against acts of passion. Luck, Magnificent Obsession (Spectacular worthy goal). Healing and development on the spiritual level.
Challenge: Act upon your lifelong dream, Magnificent Obsession.
Uses: Making mattresses (old Celtic). Mix with mud and straw to make walls of houses, and to thatch roofs.
Description: A shrub that covers poor, high ground. When in bloom it transforms the ground into a purple carper. Soft and yielding with sweet-smelling flowers, that have a variety of colors.
Month: No month
Ogham Name: Eado (Eadha)
Name: Eado (Eadha)
Letter: E
Tree: White Poplar or Aspen
Element: Water
Color: Silver and white, Red
Animal: White Mare
Virtue: Endurance
Association: Overcoming (Immortality) negative situations.
Challenge: Don’t give in when times are hard. Even though you may have doubt or fear, you must persevere.
Uses: Ancient craftsmen made shields from aspen. Bards often listen to the sounds (of the whispering tree) for inspiration. It can be cut down and it will grow.
Description: Tree with rapidly growing trunk and tremendous leaves.
Month: No month
Ogham Name: Idaho (Ioho)
Letter: I, V, Y
Tree: Yew
Element: Water
Color: Dark Green
Animal: Spider
Virtue: Renewal
Association: Gives new strength and enthusiasm and the ability to understand the hidden truths. Immortality. Complete change in life, direction or attitude.
Challenge: Handle the feelings of loss whenever transformation takes place.
Uses: Make Longbows, Ogham Staves, Coffin making and Dagger Handles.
Description: Dark-green evergreen coniferous tree with berrylike cones. When wounded it continually bleeds red sap. It’s leaf needles and red berries are toxic to humans. Nothing can grow in its dense shade.
Month: No month Symbolic Meaning Of Trees (Glossary of Trees)
Hawthorn or May Tree: Thorny shrub or tree with white, red, or pink blossoms and small dark red fruit.
Hazel: Shrub or small tree bearing round brown edible nuts.
Elder: Tree with white flowers and dark berries.
Willow: Tree, usually near water, yielding wood and pliant branches for furniture, baskets, etc..
Alder: Tree related to the Birch.
Holly: Evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and red berries.
Birch: Hardwood tree with thin peeling bark (birch red: bundle of Birch twigs used for flogging.
Oak: Tree having loved leaves and bearing acorns; this tree has durable wood especially for building furniture.
Broom: Any various shrubs bearing bright yellow flowers.
Scotts Pine: Evergreen tree with needlelike leaves native to Scotland.
Sycamore: 1) Plain tree of North America of its wood. 2) Large Eurasian maple or its wood (in full Sycamore Maple).
Juniper: Evergreen shrub or tree with prickly leaves and dark purple berrylike cones.
Bay: Laurel having deep green leaves and purple berries. Bay Leaf: aromatic leaf of the bay tree, used for cooking.
Blackthorn:
Thorny rosaceous shrub bearing white flowers and small blue-black fruits.
Linden: Tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant flowers.
Apple: Rounded firm edible fruit with crisp flesh. Tree bearing this.
Poplar: Tree with a usual rapidly growing trunk and tremendous leaves.
Ash: Tree with silvery-grey bark with hard pale wood.
Rowan:
Yew: Dark-leaved evergreen coniferous tree with red berrylike cones. Ogham Alphabet
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