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Ogham Tuesday: Ivy/Gort
Ivy is a plant with RANGE. And I’m not just talking about the way it climbs all over everything. Clematis? Love it. Wish I were better at...
Nicole Beaton
Sep 16, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Vine/Muin
The world has a lot of vining plants, not all of them delightful. Lucky for us, Vine/Muin is an ogham of delight – ecstasy, even. Think...
Nicole Beaton
Sep 9, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Elder/Ruis
Regretting, Reckoning, Maturing Elder/Ruis is the 15th letter of the Ogham alphabet. Aw, man. I HATE this ogham. It’s all about being...
Beth Buchanan
Sep 2, 20253 min read


August New Moon Divination: We are a circle, within a circle.
August 23, 2025 Hello, all – The omens this month really echo a lot of what I’ve been seeing in my personal readings over the last few...
Nicole Beaton
Aug 29, 20253 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Blackthorn/Straif
Struggling, Blocking, Wounding Doom Doom Doomy-doom. That’s it. That’s the omen. Blackthorn/Straif is the 14th letter of the Ogham...
Beth Buchanan
Aug 26, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Broom/nGetal
Cleansing, Sweeping, Healing Broom/nGetal is the 13th letter of the Ogham alphabet. Representing the 13 th letter of the ogham alphabet,...
Beth Buchanan
Aug 19, 20251 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Ivy/Gort
Anchoring, Binding, Persisting Ivy/Gort is the 12th letter of the Ogham alphabet. Gort/Ivy, the 12 th letter in the ogham alphabet,...
Beth Buchanan
Aug 12, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Vine/Muin
Harvesting, Feasting, Celebrating Vine is the 11 th letter of the ogham alphabet and represents the /m/ sound as we say it in English...
Beth Buchanan
Aug 5, 20252 min read


July New Moon Divination: This one feels personal.
Note: New Moon Divination goes up on the blog for everyone about a week after the actual New Moon. Subscribers receive theirs via email...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 31, 20253 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Apple/Quert
I’m delighted that there are so many ogham trees here at my home, including a lovely old crabapple. She grows on a slope and her shape is...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 22, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Hazel/Coll
We’re talking about one of my favorite ogham today: Hazel. I’ve even got a little hazelnut sapling that hasn’t died yet, even though I...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 15, 20253 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Holly/Tinne
I’ve seen holly my whole life, but it wasn’t until recently that I learned it could grow to full tree size instead of the little...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 8, 20252 min read


June's New Moon Divination: Happy Birthday!
Note: New Moon Divination is migrating to the blog this year. Subscribers will still get first view via email for each new moon; everyone...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 2, 20254 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Oak
Oak is one of those trees of legend, you know? With more than 500 varieties across the Northern Hemisphere, both deciduous and evergreen,...
Nicole Beaton
Jul 1, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Hawthorn
There are hundreds of species of Hawthorn that thrive in a wide variety of conditions. Some are native to my area! They are shrub trees,...
Nicole Beaton
Jun 24, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Star
Crowning the set of three modifiers is Star. If Mountain represents connection to the Earth Mother and all that has happened before, then...
Nicole Beaton
Jun 17, 20253 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Wave
Ogham Tuesday: Wave This glyph looks a little like a sine wave, doesn’t it? I love that. Waves travel; they’re not fixed. Mutability is...
Nicole Beaton
Jun 10, 20252 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Mountain
Ogham Tuesday: Mountain Why these modifiers? Last week, I talked a little about modifiers in general and why I use them in my own...
Nicole Beaton
Jun 3, 20252 min read


May's New Moon Divination, or: "I have friends everywhere."
Hello, friends – One of the reasons I like doing divination around the new moon is that this feels like that moment at the bottom of our...
ncbeaton
May 31, 20253 min read


Ogham Tuesday: Modifiers
For today’s Ogham Tuesday, I’m taking you on a bit of a side quest. Remember how I talked about Nine Fires’ philosophy being encompassed...
Nicole Beaton
May 27, 20252 min read
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