Post by wren on Aug 25, 2006 18:43:56 GMT -5
Húath (Hawthorn)[/i], also uath, huathe (pronounced HOO-ah).
Botanical name: Crataegus spp. (also known as whitethorn).
Status: Peasant tree. Sound: h.
Elaborations on the Ogham Name Húath: Whitethorn, a meet of hounds is whitethorn, formidable owing to its thorns.
Word Ogham of Morainn mac Moín: Hawthorn is a pack of wolves, terror to anyone.
Word Ogham of Cu Chulainn: Hawthorn is difficult night, hawthorn.
Word Ogham of Óengus: Hawthorn is whitening of face.
Obstacles
See in your mind a hawthorn bristling with spikes and adorned with dark red berries stands blocking the middle of a wayfarer’s path
Húath is a tree-letter of obstacles and obstructions. While this does not necessarily mean that what you wish for is impossible, it does suggest that you may have to go the long way round. There are conditions which will have to be met and hostile forces to counter. This situation will call for patience and restraint, though the end result could well be more pleasing than first appearance suggests.
The hawthorn is a Faery tree in Irish folklore that stands as a magical barrier, testing those who would pass it on their way. Whatever obstacle this may represent in your life, it cannot simply be ignored – or uprooted, however much you may like to apply force to the situation. Indeed, such action would only result in misfortune; keep your sword at bay.
A hawthorne’s most striking features, beyond its thorns, are its snow-white flowers and red berries. Red and white are the primary colors of the Celtic Otherworld and mark this as a Faery tree. It is an effective barrier when planted as a hedge. Hawthorn was employed by the filid (poets) of Ireland in the Glám diachenn (a satire and ritual curse) that could be levelled against one’s enemies. In the Book of Ballymote, we read: “The poet had to go with six companions… They turned their backs to the hawthorn bush… With the wind blowing from the north, each of them held a sling shot and a hawthorn wand in his hand and chanted a verse against the king over these two objects… Each of them then put down his stone and his branch on the root of the hawthorn bush.”
Look carefully at the situation and type of response it requires. Preconditions may well be set that you must fulfil if the outcome is to be as you wish. There is no short cut or easy way around. You must bow to necessity and accept the nature of the territory in which you find yourself. However, keep your goal in mind and do not be dissuaded or disheartened.
Like the prickly thorn bush, Húath promises only pain and entanglement if you push aggressively forward into its domain. Even with right action, you may be hounded with doubts and fears, the ‘pack of wolves’ of the Word Ogam of Morainn Mac Moín.
The desire to press ahead could lead to emotional upset and sleepless nights. Try not to get too entangled with whatever the issue is, romantic, financial, practical or psychological. Detachment is necessary at times to preserve your sanity and allows you time to rest, recuperate and prepare for what is ahead. Perhaps this delay or setback is here for your growth. Draw on your well of patience and skill; it will not fail you.
There are strong traditions which link hawthorn to sexual love and erotic matters – including marriage. Flowering in May, it signals that the time has come to celebrate the rising sap of sexuality that blossoms in the Greenworld. Hawthorn has a long standing association with fertility ceremonies. This Ogham could mean there will be complications in your love life, though things are not necessarily hopeless.
Reversed, Húath represents an absolute barrier to your ambitions or desires. If you persist with your current actions, you will gore yourself on life’s thorns and wind up in hopeless bondage or deeply shamed. You are bound as if by threads of the Faery realm. Whatever you think you need or want, you must bow gracefully to necessity. Retreat is the only sane course; any other path will only lead to anguish and humiliation.
Botanical name: Crataegus spp. (also known as whitethorn).
Status: Peasant tree. Sound: h.
Elaborations on the Ogham Name Húath: Whitethorn, a meet of hounds is whitethorn, formidable owing to its thorns.
Word Ogham of Morainn mac Moín: Hawthorn is a pack of wolves, terror to anyone.
Word Ogham of Cu Chulainn: Hawthorn is difficult night, hawthorn.
Word Ogham of Óengus: Hawthorn is whitening of face.
Obstacles
See in your mind a hawthorn bristling with spikes and adorned with dark red berries stands blocking the middle of a wayfarer’s path
Húath is a tree-letter of obstacles and obstructions. While this does not necessarily mean that what you wish for is impossible, it does suggest that you may have to go the long way round. There are conditions which will have to be met and hostile forces to counter. This situation will call for patience and restraint, though the end result could well be more pleasing than first appearance suggests.
The hawthorn is a Faery tree in Irish folklore that stands as a magical barrier, testing those who would pass it on their way. Whatever obstacle this may represent in your life, it cannot simply be ignored – or uprooted, however much you may like to apply force to the situation. Indeed, such action would only result in misfortune; keep your sword at bay.
A hawthorne’s most striking features, beyond its thorns, are its snow-white flowers and red berries. Red and white are the primary colors of the Celtic Otherworld and mark this as a Faery tree. It is an effective barrier when planted as a hedge. Hawthorn was employed by the filid (poets) of Ireland in the Glám diachenn (a satire and ritual curse) that could be levelled against one’s enemies. In the Book of Ballymote, we read: “The poet had to go with six companions… They turned their backs to the hawthorn bush… With the wind blowing from the north, each of them held a sling shot and a hawthorn wand in his hand and chanted a verse against the king over these two objects… Each of them then put down his stone and his branch on the root of the hawthorn bush.”
Look carefully at the situation and type of response it requires. Preconditions may well be set that you must fulfil if the outcome is to be as you wish. There is no short cut or easy way around. You must bow to necessity and accept the nature of the territory in which you find yourself. However, keep your goal in mind and do not be dissuaded or disheartened.
Like the prickly thorn bush, Húath promises only pain and entanglement if you push aggressively forward into its domain. Even with right action, you may be hounded with doubts and fears, the ‘pack of wolves’ of the Word Ogam of Morainn Mac Moín.
The desire to press ahead could lead to emotional upset and sleepless nights. Try not to get too entangled with whatever the issue is, romantic, financial, practical or psychological. Detachment is necessary at times to preserve your sanity and allows you time to rest, recuperate and prepare for what is ahead. Perhaps this delay or setback is here for your growth. Draw on your well of patience and skill; it will not fail you.
There are strong traditions which link hawthorn to sexual love and erotic matters – including marriage. Flowering in May, it signals that the time has come to celebrate the rising sap of sexuality that blossoms in the Greenworld. Hawthorn has a long standing association with fertility ceremonies. This Ogham could mean there will be complications in your love life, though things are not necessarily hopeless.
Reversed, Húath represents an absolute barrier to your ambitions or desires. If you persist with your current actions, you will gore yourself on life’s thorns and wind up in hopeless bondage or deeply shamed. You are bound as if by threads of the Faery realm. Whatever you think you need or want, you must bow gracefully to necessity. Retreat is the only sane course; any other path will only lead to anguish and humiliation.