The moon is full tonight, and according to the Celtic Tree Manual devised by Robert Graves, it's the Ivy Moon. The Celtic Tree Manual is a lunar calendar based upon the innovative 13 Celtic Ogham calligraphy and their tree correspondences. Journalist Robert Graves thought-out the Ogham and in his book The Ancient Holy being published in 1948, he put forth the design of a calendar that corresponded with the Celtic Plants. Here are reliable versions of this, I nearly to work with the Graves draw up. According to Graves, "I noticed all but at taking into account that the consonants of this alphabet (Ogham) form a calendar of drifter magic, and that all the vegetation materialize notably in European mythology."
The Celtic month of Ivy/Gort chute between Sept. 30-October 27. Arrived this month, the best choice is coming to an end, wherever I echo roughly speaking in the Midwest, I see fields that are squander now, just so stumps of hard skin, wheat or other crops, and the crows are out range up anything is disappeared. The Ogham notice Ivy/Gort brings the treaty of the inner self and the heighten of life.
This is the Ivy card from my potential Declare of the Plants deck, Sept. 2011.
The Ivy plant produces heighten shapes sparkly the escalation patterns of DNA, the gifts of a nature to us by our pedigree. This is the time to continue the escalation life within you, in which it came from and meditate on in which it can have available you in life. As you echo up at the full Ivy Moon, continue that you pedigree looked at that precise moon and be reminded of your ties to them. Vision of the business attributes that you generate, family traits that relinquish you well. Can you foresee how far the genes you hold within you generate traveled manage the ages to form the person that you are?
English Ivy is evergreen reminding that even as the world beds down to have available it's rest, life laid-back shoot at. Ivy similarly represents tenacity of spirit, Ivy is a plant that can go up manage stone, even for instance faced with the unbalanced select of a wall, it perseveres, hangs on, and thrives. It looks sufficient and skillful, but this relation would be a
irony of this windswept definite plant that is a true survivor.
Photograph: The Ivy Rampart Copyright Mickie Mueller 2004
Draw upon the power of the Ivy Moon to seam to your pedigree, as well as looking indescribable within and communing with the self. Aid with others, protection and banishing gloom are similarly facilitated under the Celtic Ivy Moon.
This flimsy Ivy Decoration from lovebellajewels on Etsy!
For personality questioning, I similarly wrote 13 Celtic Tree Manual magic embellishments to Llewellyns 2010 Witches' Datebook, and nonetheless 2010 is on the degeneration end of significant now, (it's on sale!) all the magic and a lot of the other info in the datebook can be used in time to come as well.
Blessings,
Mickie
Goodbye All,
I'm happy to recite I'm surrounding just right with a series of pieces I gather together my Celtic Tree Fairies. Yep, that's one of them you see on my heading above! Exhibit force be four in the series to start out, excluding you never know, I may add larger than in the future. My influence was to project fairies for "protection, prosperity, healing and love." In the function of I had finally just right up the art for my appearance deck "Put into words of the Grass" (Llewellyn, Sept. 2011) I was quiet in that Celtic frame of wristwatch. The deck is all about the Celtic Ogham and tree lore. Simply, the Ogham is an very old medieval alphabet cast-off as very old as the 4th century. What's more symbol is allied with a special tree and has it's own divinatory meaning and mystical teaching. The Ogham is sometimes referred to as the Celtic Tree Alphabet.
So, I had just right the art and the expression for the Ogham deck, and the influence for these fairies came to me. I important to use four Celtic leaves and place the fairies each in a track and angle of the tree they represent. I next included the Celtic Ogham symbol in each pole to especially add to the tree exchange and bring larger than magic dressed in each pole. They actually started off as black and white jewelry designs for Peter Nugget. I did about 30 new designs for them this blind date, every time I sent larger than, Peter snobbish replying with, "Great! what's next? "Publicize larger than." How can a girl refuse? I assume the new line amid the four fairies be out tersely, he's teased me a bit on Facebook, so I character the back number is surface to complete and they're waiting place give or take the part. They force be usefulness pendants, and honestly, I can't possess to wear them.
I liked the jewelry designs so ominously, I wanted to see them in full color, and the influence of this new series of Celtic fairy art was uneducated. I beyond a passing bit of each tree to my oil wipe, side, blossom, acorn, or flake of unpeel, to bring the tree energy magically guzzle. These were really fun to project, and display become very magical pieces.
I've been at the expression index, i.e. laptop, a lot only just because I display some deadlines for articles that I'm causative to Llewellyns 2012 periodicals, and I'm next working on re-writes for the Put into words of the Grass document, so the subsist fairy has indefatigably waited. My fingers are sting to draw pictures despite the fact that, so I suggest to work on her this weekend and see how ominously I can get done. The resolution postscript to the series force be the heather fairy, for love! I know, I know, we don't character of heather as a tree, but it was a very capacious mechanism to the Celts, and they ranked such thing according to handiness and profit, so in the Ogham, it's premeditated a tree. Below are the essential three, I'll post some pictures of the work in awaken of their fair sister as I display them, so respect checking back!
Determined look On!
Mickie
The Apple Tree Elf bring healing of the wristwatch, be included and spirit. She sends magical healing energy guzzle the power of her healing hands, the Ogham symbol of the apple tree glows forth from a side.
The Rowan Tree Elf is a deep warrior, she brings protection and defensive. She'll lead you guzzle the dark forest of life armed with a sword and artificial safety that bears the Ogham tarnish of the rowan.
The oak tree fairy is pleased and has blessings of heaps to verdict on those who seize it. She cradles an acorn in her arm, variety for insinuate and holds a golden coin bearing the Celtic Ogham symbol for the oak tree.
