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Акмэ Альм.
16. Альм
Alim is the ogham of the high pine and the skylark, seeing clearly a long way. The meaning is not so much based in the tree as it is in the vision of the place where the tree is growing. Picture a high place overlooking the sea, a lake, or an ever more distant range of hills or mountains. A grassy, rocky place; almost empty except for one huge, gnarled, old pine towering over everything. The pine commands a view of everything around it while still being a part of everything and, throughout its long life, has triumphed over storms, drought, ice and still flourishes.
The bird linked with this ogham is the skylark. The skylark lives in the grass and, from it, flies up into the clear sky. When it is just a speck in the blue, it bursts into a song that can be heard everywhere for miles. The skylark has always been the symbol of the continuing bravery of the commonplace and beautiful.
There are two lessons we can learn from Alim, the high pine. The first is the joy of being at one with Nature. Biologically, the way that trees drink and breathe is by drawing in water and minerals with their roots, passing them up through their trunks and branches, and sending them to their leaves. The pores in their leaves are open, breathing out water vapor and oxygen. In the summer, both deciduous and evergreen trees are breathing and singing this exhalation of the great Ohm. Evergreens are awake all year round, however, and if you walk in the woods on a sunny winter day you can hear, if you listen with your inner ear, the quiet hum of the pines. Trees are connected deep into the ground and high up in the air with all around them, and we should look for this sense of connectedness.
читать дальшеThe second lesson is to look more than two steps ahead along our path. We should always know what we plan to do next, but we should also have a sense of where we are headed and what we can do if things don't turn out as planned. Keeping in mind the eventual outcome of our actions helps to keep us from finding ourselves at a dead end.
This is the dual message of Alim: look all around you with a clear sight, and rise above adversity. The clamor in the valley may be confusing and daunting but the view from the peak will put things into perspective. The card reversed tells us that our vision is clouded and our perceptions need to be examined.
This concept is not expressed in the Norse Rune-set, and so there is no rune paired with Alim. It stands alone, sending its message "Rise up!"
17. Онэн
This is the North American substitute for the European Furze or Gorse. Both Gorse and Goldenrod grow everywhere as yellow-flowered weeds in poor or otherwise barren soil. Gorse is a prickly plant, and Goldenrod is irritating to many people's immune systems. The Ogham teaching poem identifies Ohn as "I vam the blaze on every hill." which well describes a field of goldenrod in bloom.
Ohn is the ogham of gold and gathering together. It speaks of honey and hives, coins, wealth and sweetness on the material plane. It is linked to the rune Feoh, the rune of cattle and possessions. It is important to remember, though, that the secondary meaning of Feoh is slavery, and the Norse adage that explained the rune is "Wealth causes friction between relatives, while the wolf lurks in the woods." This is the wealth ogham, not the happiness or comfort ogham. Possessions are necessary and useful, but they do not give meaning or spiritual richness to our lives.
The bird paired with Ohn is the magpie, the bird that steals trinkets and coins and gathers together a hoard. The Magpie is also known as a squabbling bird that quarrels with its neighbors. The archtypical Magpie in fable is a bird who tricks and is tricked, trying to get something of value for nothing. Gold sets the traps of cheating and dishonesty to trick the gullible into thinking that worth is set by monetary value alone, and not by some higher standard.
Ohn can be used for spell working, but it is always wise to pair it with an ogham or rune that has a more spiritual meaning for balance, or to use it only with a clear and limited desire. Many teaching stories exist in every culture of the foolish person who wishes for wealth only to find that the price to be paid is something far more important.
The message of the reversed card is first of financial difficulties but also of incompleteness or of something lacking. This is a useful rather than an oracular card and, when in balance, sends a message of sweetness. When we are given this ogham we should keep in mind that "Enough is as good as a feast."
18. Ур
Ur is the card of luck, potential, and newness. As Ohn is the ogham of material good fortune, Ur is the ogham of good luck in life events and of strength and health in the physical body and mental attitudes. Because it pertains to happenings, it is an oracular card but it is also a powerful spell-working ogham to help events come to a happy completion.
Just as Ohn and Ur are linked oghams, so are Feoh and Ur linked runes. Ohn and Feoh are discussed in the previous card page, and are both wealth symbols. Unlike Oak, Birch, and Yew where the ogham and rune are the same tree, Ur is not the same symbol in the runes and the ogham. The rune Ur is the Auroc, an extinct wild cow something like a musk ox or a water buffalo. This is a symbol of tremendous strength and power. Perhaps it says something about their cultural identities that the most powerful symbol to the Celt was luck while the correspondingly powerful symbol to the Norse was strength.
There is a valuable lesson in this rune pair. Feoh and Ur are domestic cattle and the wild auroc, and their secondary meanings (linked to these symbols) are slavery and freedom. We should remember this and realize that wealth will alleviate our money concerns but that luck, health, and strength will free us from worry. The reversed card tells us that there is low vitality or insufficient drive, something that needs to be healed before we can move forward.
The bee is connected to Ur. The Ur line in the Ogham teaching poem refers to this symbol as well as to the power of this ogham-"I am the Queen of every Hive." The Celts believed that the bee, like the raven, was able to fly from this world to the other world. Although the other world can be described as the Spirit World, for the Celt the Spirit World and Tir-na-Og are slightly different concepts. Tir-na-Og can be translated as the Land of Youth, or the Land of Never-Ending Spring but the most meaningful description for me is the place where what we wish to be true is true. It is a place of rest, where we wait to return to the world again or to travel up the spiral to something else.
The fully laden bee can always fly directly to its hive from the last flower. Using the ley lines, it can fly from Tir-na-Og to us carrying, not messages like the raven, but the intangibles of luck and health.
19. Эйе
Eadha is the tree of whispering leaves. All of the huge family of poplar trees, which include Aspens, have a stem to twig attachment that makes the leaves shiver or tremble in the least breeze and causes an unceasing whispering noise throughout the stands of these trees. This aspect of Eadha represents both the voice of our doubts nagging at our unconscious and also the soft voice of the Great Mother calming our fears. The message of Eadha is that there are threats that we should fear, but also that we can encompass them.
Eadha is the shield tree which is one of the magical weapons with NgEtal, Tinne, and Ioho. The Ogham identification poem says, "I am the Shield for every head." Poplar wood, which is light, was used for shields in the time when shields were used in war, but Eadha could be used both then and now on the mythic plane as a spell-working barrier. The card reversed has much the same message but warns that fearfulness can overcome us unless we guard against it.
The whispering of the aspen leaves is also oracular, and tells us to be alert for quiet messages from the other world, or for intuitive messages or feelings from our unconscious mind. Eadha councils us to trust those messages, and to rely on all of our senses and intuitions even when not strongly voiced. This is the meaning of the rune paired with Eadha, the Rune Eh. Eh's primary meaning is unconnected to the ogham, but its secondary meaning is to trust and cooperate with the natural world and to form a complete partnership with it.
The bird connected with Eadha is the whistling swan. These birds do not sing, but make a whistling noise while flying as the wind of their passage flows through their strong wing primaries in much the same way that the aspen makes a noise when the wind passes through its leaves. Swans, as one of the larger migratory birds, have long had a place in mythic symbology as struggling against misfortune and triumphing.
Eadha, like many of the oghams, sends a mixed message about the future. It does not foretell particularly good things, but this is what life sends us. Although we do not have to fear frost, starvation, homelessness, disease, or injury at the same level as the ancient peoples; these threats are still present to us as well as the general miseries that all people of all times face. The message of Eadha is "Don't be afraid."
20. Ивэр
This is the oracular tree of the longest night. Thule, the old name for the winter solstice, is the pinnacle of power for the Old King. This is the power of cold nature, the age and strength of stones, the compression of deep water, the solidity of frozen earth. Thule is translated as the turning point, the place one must turn back from and cannot go beyond. Rather than seeing this as giving up or as a barrier that must not be crossed we should remember the folk saying, "Down so low, no place to go from here but up." The night after the longest night is shorter, and we are on the way back up the circle. All cultures and religions from the oldest to the youngest celebrate the return of the sun at this point on the calendar, and the belief that troubles will always lessen with time.
Yews are slow growing, multi-trunked trees that live to be ancient, complex, and unique. Parts will die off, but the whole will survive. In recognition of their longevity they have been planted on barrows, tombs, and in churchyards for centuries, and symbolize the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Life and Death nest one inside the other, two halves of the whole. In the life cycle, death is the last Thule that we go beyond to rebirth or up the spiral to the next cycle. The ancient Ogham poem says, "I am the tomb to every hope."
The meaning of the ogham is that life has its inevitable turnings and dangerous times, and there is no reversal to this message. Both the ogham Ioho and the rune Eoh are the yew tree. Yew is a warning but also a defense. It is the long bow, one of the magical weapons. Like the other magical weapons, yew bows were used as mundane weapons at one time. The long bow was a revolutionary innovation in the warfare of its time, and was a decisive factor in political power. Magically, it is a weapon of potent defense meant to be employed when times are blackest and most threatening.
The bird connected to this ogham is the eaglet. Like the unstrung bow, the eaglet is a symbol of power held in reserve. The bow, when employed, will send an arrow through a knight's armor. The eaglet, when grown, will be the strongest of raptors.
All of the archtypical personas are different faces of God. These, the Old King and the Sorceress, are the oldest and farthest removed from human nature and loving-kindness. They are never fooled, or charmed, or bamboozled by our make-believe. On the other hand, they are not disappointed or downhearted when events turn against them. The Holly King and the Old King are close-the Holly King's reign ends just before Thule-and the Holly King is the warrior persona of the Old King who rules. The Sorceress is the dark face of the Crone Goddess, turned away from humanity.
The message of Ioho is a grim one but it also says, "Be brave."
Обратите внимание, порядок и начертание некоторых форфэд изменены так, как это сейчас принято в некоторых неодруидических организациях.
Форфэда.
21. Эвэ / Коад
This is the sacred grove of the Druids, and the spiritual center around which all things circle. The Druids, in the same way that they had a gease against writing, had a similar gease against building religious structures of any kind and worshipped in naturally occurring groves of trees. Ceremonies at natural places such as mountains, lakes, or woods and communion with individual special trees are an important part of a whole nature religious life.
Staying in touch with and listening to the entire web of life is regenerating and rewarding. The pattern of understanding is written in the spiral of the nebulae and in the spiral of an unfolding fern leaf for us to read and appreciate. Looking at these messages, we can understand why the Druids did not write things down. Why bother, when the meaning is expressed so clearly and elegantly without our interference?
I try to maintain an awareness of the mundane world-- earning a living, doing chores, and running errands-- while at the same time remaining aware of the greater world-- the phase of the moon, the wind and weather, and the singing of the trees. For me the expression of this duality of the interaction of man and nature is the placing of stone on stone. Stonehenge and all standing or placed stones are my symbol of the unity of nature and the inclusion of humankind in the all.
To feel a part of the spiral of the universe, I believe that it is necessary to acknowledge that we are on the circle of life. Of course, we make our life choices by our own will but if we do not make choices they will happen anyway. We must express ourselves, interact with others, live by some standard of ethics, and bring our lives to some completion. We can direct ourselves to an end consciously or choose to walk backwards on our life path and never anticipate the outcome of our steps.
We can never choose not to grow old and die, and there are events in all of our individual lives that happen to us whether we will or no. We must accept these things to stay in communion with the all. To try to choose agelessness, going backwards on the wheel, or to attempt immortality, stepping off the wheel, are destructive evils because they close us off from forces greater than ourselves and leave us alone.
The symbolic meaning of Koad is the cycle completed, perceived, and understood. This corresponds to the harvest festival of Mabon, when the Great Mother gives us sustenance from her abundance and permits us to enter into the mystery. The harvest rune, Jera, is the partner to Koad. The card's message is one of peace and plenty, and its reversal tells us to watch for narrowness of concentration.
22. Орь
The flash of lightning in the dark allows us to suddenly see clearly. Oir stands for this burst of illumination when things become clear. Researchers call this the "A-ha!" moment when a leap in understanding reaches a conclusion that was not foreseen. A more mundane example of this experience is when we are completely lost and then see some familiar landmark. The incorrect orientation we were on disappears and the world (in our perception) spins around into the correct direction and we are back on our route.
The Northern European tree that stands for this ogham is the spindle tree, which does not grow in North America. However, the spindle as a symbol has a meaning that corresponds to the flash of understanding. In the Sleeping Beauty story, the prick of the spindle is the catalyst that catapults her from the unknowing, childhood state. Her next stage would be into adulthood but, unfortunately for her, she is the victim of the evil fairy's curse which complicates her progress.
We are mostly free from curses, but still find ourselves from time to time on the cusp of life stages or decisions, looking ahead into the darkness. Oir is an oracular message that we will be able to see clearly and is also useful in spell working. It is not represented by a spiritual warrior, but stands in a general ideological sense for the triumph of light over darkness, understanding over misinformation.
Paired with Oir is a Norse lightning rune, Sigel, which also stands for victory. This is simply triumph in battle with another lightning rune, Ziu, symbolizing the working out of divine justice. There is no reversal for Sigel, since there is a victor in every contest. There is a warning in the reversal of Oir, however. Since we always see things from our point of view, it is tempting to assume that what we wish for and see as the triumph of right is best for all. Oir reversed warns us against the sense of entitlement that tempts us into making decisions for others based on our desired outcome, or demanding justice when what we are really motivated by is selfishness.
The flash of lightning is the spark of inspiration and the rainbow is the fullness of understanding. You can believe that the universe is slipping into chaos, or that it is gradually circling into balance. When lightning strikes it is not a bolt forcefully shoved into the passive world, but instead the charge of the earth and the charge of the cloud coming into equilibrium.
23. Илэн
Uilleand has flowers with the sweet nectar hidden at the base of the narrow flower. The animal partner with Uilleand, the Killdeer, has a nest that is on the open ground but is hidden by the bird's misdirection--the broken wing pretense-- when danger threatens. These natural occurrences are symbols in the Spirit World of hidden sweetness and the attainment of the heart's desire. The Killdeer's nest and chicks are so important to the parents that they will confront any predator without hesitation. Honeysuckle flowers are both beautiful and fragrant but the plant is a common wildflower, just as Killdeer are attractive and appealing birds but not difficult to find.
Countless myths, parables, and folk-tales illustrate this principle. An entire industry, the romance novel genre, is based on this idea. Your heart's desire is not rare or occult, but hidden in plain sight right in front of you. Acceptance of the gifts you have been given is the path to true happiness. Wyn, the rune of uncomplicated joy or bliss, is the corresponding rune. The message is unreservedly good and directed to the individual on a personal level, "The desired end will come; the thing you are hoping for will happen."
Joy is not a destination to be traveled towards or a formula to be invoked. It is a way of being. In all the world, we are the easiest people for ourselves to trick. We trick ourselves into thinking that we will only be happy when some external result occurs. When we finish what we are working on, when we find true love, when we complete the perfect family, when we live in our dream home, then we will be content. Our heart's desire, however, is inside our heart and not external at all. It is how we feel that makes happiness not what we gain.
The dangers inherent in this message are obvious. There is the message of the reversed card, that we must know what we truly wish for in order to make a wish. We must also always be careful what we wish for because we may find our wishes granted in unexpected ways. The more subtle danger in human society is the always-present desire of others to make decisions for us. It is not our lover's desire, our spouse's desire, our mother's desire, our children's desire, our boss's desire, or society's desire but our own deepest desire that we can attain. Any person who professes to know better than you do what you want is lying.
These cautions aside, we can always be glad receive this ogham message. It says, "Look confidently into your heart and find happiness there."
24. Ифин
Phagos is the tree of old learning, of ancient ideas. For the ancient Celts, the ancestral knowledge was, of course, the Ogham and so the animal counterpart of Phagos is the crane. The crane makes ogham symbols with its long, dangling legs as it flies. It also ritually dances a circle dance with its mate. Like the bee, which dances a circle dance to communicate, this is seen as giving it access to the Spirit World. The corresponding symbol to the Norse was the rune Odal which represents the homeland and the ancestral roots that give our lives deeper meaning.
Beech trees have a smooth gray bark like fine-textured skin and large leaves that turn the light brown of paper, lingering on the tree into the winter. Beech trees are never alone in a wood. One mother tree will always have a host of children around her, just as one idea will sprout others if studied and understood.
Ideas are the most universal and useful tools. Being able to see an idea from many different aspects, understanding how it ties into different belief systems, give us a more complete vision of that idea. Knowledge and ideas are not dangerous, but the misguided perception that any belief or idea that we hold is the one true statement of dogma; not to be examined, questioned, or challenged is hideously dangerous and almost inevitably leads to prejudice and intolerance.
Whenever I have moved to a new location finding the library and bookstores (new and used) are as vital to me as finding the nearest patch of woods and flowing water that are open to the public. Whenever someone expresses a judgement, perception, or belief system that I am not familiar with I try to draw out more information about it rather than quickly disagreeing or propounding my opposing or competing ideas. "Go and find out" is always a good code to follow as long as we are careful to avoid the crocodile's jaws.
Phagos is a message ogham. Phagos is the ogham of mythic understanding on a personal scale as Nuin is the ogham of mythic understanding on a large scale. The message is that we have something to discover, learn, or understand for our personal growth. We are ready to deepen our comprehension of the old mysteries, and an aid will be sent to us. Reversed, we are warned that we have been sent a message that we have ignored. We cannot stand alone, but must use our roots to anchor us.
25. Эмэнхол / Мор
This is the card of Fate or, in the Northern tradition, Wyrd. When runestones are made, the Wyrd rune is represented by a stone with a blank, uncarved face. Thus, when it is turned over nothing is revealed. In the Celtic mythos, this image is the sea. We see the surface of the water, but nothing is revealed of its depths. Both the Celts and the Norse had a great respect for the sea and an appreciation of its power. Both cultures used open boats to travel long distances on the stormy North Atlantic. Much of their livelihood came from the sea or by means of trading along sea routes. The sea brought them food and goods, wealth and adventure, but could also threaten their boats and their lives with no warning. Storms showed them the power of the natural world at its most inimical.
This is the role of fate. It brings things into our lives, good and bad, and we must work with them. When the spirit world sends us a message, we must carefully examine it and struggle to extract its deepest meaning rather than quickly assume the most obvious, complimentary, or desired point. When an event changes our lives, we must carefully determine whether we have engineered it into happening or if it is a truly fortuitous event. We must also decide what, if any, response is appropriate. We must know ourselves to know what to do. Are we passive, and too likely to give up a struggle against adversity by assuming that it's Fate and nothing can be done? Or are we more likely to stubbornly push on when our desired goal is a castle in the clouds with no pathway to it by any means?
Wyrd and Fate are somewhat different concepts. Like many of the Northern mythic ideas, Wyrd cuts both ways. It is not just Fate intervening into our lives from outside, although it includes this aspect. It is also our inborn abilities and personality working outward on the world around us. Finding a balance between what we wish to do, what we are able to do and what we should do is our life's Wyrd.
For sea-faring people, the mystery of the sea and the power of the storm are major symbols. For Northern people, the crystalline beauty of the snowflake and the power of the avalanche are the same symbols. For people in a warmer climate the life-giving rain and the power of the hurricane stand in the same light. The Chaos theory concept that everything has a universal effect and that we affect things in ways we cannot foresee is a part of this same magic.
There is no reversal to this card and no specific message. It is rather a reminder that we are small parts of the all, and that the universe is more likely to act on us than be acted on by us. Turning up this card may be a warning against self-interest and insularity or forewarning that a great event may move into our lives.
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