Ogham Meditation: November 8, 2023: Heather

UR ~ GRUG ~ HEATHER
Graves: Summer Solstice
Yuri Leitch's Ogham Grove: November 8 - 25, 2023
From Ogham Sketchbook by Karen Cater
* Solitude and communion with Divine
* Change, cleansing, new patterns of behaviour
* Transformation
From The Book of Ogham by Michael Kelly
* Earth, Soil, Grave, Gateway
* Passion and drive to adventure
* Word ogham: In cold dwellings (MM); Propogation of plants (MO); Shroud of a dead man (CC)
* Earth as both fertile ground for new growth of plants and the burial place of the dead
* Passion acts as a unifying force upon consciousness and in this way becomes a gateway, firstly to inner realms of the self but also to new opportunities in life.
From Celtic Tree Mysteries by Steve Blamires
* Word ogham: In cold dwellings (MM); Growing of plants (MO); Completion of Lifelessness (CC)
* Word ogham implies heather is a tree connected with death but in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic , Ur means "new"
From Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom by Erynn Rowan Laurie
* Finality
* All endings merely doors to new beginnings
* Deals with issues of death and grieving
* Cycles of life and death
* Chthonic: Caves, graves, burial, and the earth
* Oceanic: Process of dying, grief, disintegration, and release
* Celestial: Inevitabililty of situation, bringing spiritual principles to process