Romancing, Pursuing, Indulging Onn/Gorse is the 17th letter of the Ogham alphabet. The bright yellow flowers of the Gorse plant speak to the focus on passion of the Gorse/Onn ogham. Onn is the 17 th  letter of the Ogham alphabet and represents a vowel sound that lies somewhere in and around the long [o] sound and the [aw] sound, as they are pronounced in U.S. English. I will absolutely not be making a joke about passion and the lip-shape of this vowel sound. Passion brings to

Regretting, Reckoning, Maturing Elder/Ruis is the 15th letter of the Ogham alphabet. Aw, man. I HATE this ogham. It’s all about being...

Anchoring, Binding, Persisting Ivy/Gort is the 12th letter of the Ogham alphabet. Gort/Ivy, the 12 th letter in the ogham alphabet,...

Harvesting, Feasting, Celebrating Vine is the 11 th letter of the ogham alphabet and represents the /m/ sound as we say it in English...

Healing, Recreating, Delighting Apple/Quert is the tenth letter in the Ogham alphabet. Everything about apple is sweetness—the scent of...

Restricting, Confining, Waiting Hawthorn is the sixth letter of the Ogham alphabet. Starting this week, and continuing for five weeks, we...

Beltane marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, at least in terms of the weather and temperatures and what it feels...