From: Joelles Sacred Grove The Moon is humanity’s oldest calendar. Evidence of ancient peoples keeping time by the phases of the moon have been found carved into rocks and cave walls the world over. The famous tree calendar of the Celts was such a time-keeping device, and, like other tribal cultures, the Celts found names and associations for their moon which were developed and codified over many years of ritual and experimentation. Each moon phase was assigned a corresponding tree, each tree being sacred to either feminine energy and to the Goddess, or to masculine energy and to the God. The lunar tree calendar of the Celts has long been a source of controversy amont Celtic scholars. Some even claim it was never a part of the old Celtic world, but was … Read entire article »

The four winds are important to the spirituality of many cultures – not surprising since other than life, death (and perhaps taxes depending on where you live) the wind is one of the few constants in our life. Winds have always had a special place in my life, kind of an early warning system, bringing energies to me from far off, seeds of ideas and fragments of emotions. Even from my earliest days when the winds were always tinged with the nose biting edge of salt to the redolent winds of north africa with their mixture of oranges, dust and camel dung, the lightest puff of air has made me stop for a moment and let the new eneregies waft over my face. Following is a brief thumbnail about winds, some … Read entire article »

The best place to start on Ogham is Wikipedia of course! The basics anyway… Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet.” The word is pronounced [ˈɔɣam] in Old Irish and [oːm] or [oːəm] in Modern Irish. Evolution: Use of “classical” Ogham in stone seems to have flowered in the 5th–6th centuries around the Irish Sea. In Ireland and in Wales, the language of the inscriptions of this period is termed Primitive Irish. The transition to Old Irish, the language of the earliest sources in the Latin alphabet, takes place in about the 6th century. Since Ogham inscriptions consist almost exclusively of personal names, linguistic information that may be glimpsed from the Primitive Irish period is mostly restricted … Read entire article »