Heather (the next ogham)
Jun. 16th, 2005 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99Borrowed from another journal:
"Úr
(OOR), heather - Heather (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull) is a shrub growing to 2 m (6 feet). It is a major component of the vegetation type called "heath", the source of the term "heathen". It is evergreen, and produces bell-shaped pinkish flowers in the late summer. There are a number of other plants called "heath" or "heather" in the genera Erica, Phyllodoce, and Cassiope. These are relatives of Calluna, and are similar in appearance. Calluna is cultivated in North America, along with some of the other heaths and several Erica species from other parts of the world. Heather is a member of the Heath family (Ericaceae)."
(Which was in turn, borrowed from http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham/ogh-tree.html)
See also
http://www.echoedvoices.org/Aug2002/Garden_Herb.html
For more details on the magical properties, god associations, etc.
To me heather feels summery and gentle, kind of like a warm summer breeze on my face.
"Úr
(OOR), heather - Heather (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull) is a shrub growing to 2 m (6 feet). It is a major component of the vegetation type called "heath", the source of the term "heathen". It is evergreen, and produces bell-shaped pinkish flowers in the late summer. There are a number of other plants called "heath" or "heather" in the genera Erica, Phyllodoce, and Cassiope. These are relatives of Calluna, and are similar in appearance. Calluna is cultivated in North America, along with some of the other heaths and several Erica species from other parts of the world. Heather is a member of the Heath family (Ericaceae)."
(Which was in turn, borrowed from http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham/ogh-tree.html)
See also
http://www.echoedvoices.org/Aug2002/Garden_Herb.html
For more details on the magical properties, god associations, etc.
To me heather feels summery and gentle, kind of like a warm summer breeze on my face.
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Date: 2005-06-16 12:46 pm (UTC)Me, too. It has a strong regrowth-after-death feel for me, also, not a death association in itself, but of life coming back in its wake, warmth seeping into the cold, little shoots of green and pink sprouting up through the ashes and blanketing the hills in color.
The word oghams in the vein of "completion of lifelessness" echo that in my mind. An end to that coldness and a gradual healing of it rather than the death itself, as is often implied by most writeups on the subject. Passing of grief.
Of course, the memory of emptiness is going to persist during the regrowth/comforting of heather, hence the two are strangely intermingled. No healing without preexisting pain.
The ogham has felt largely either dead or painful for me since Coll, and the slow, gradual, summer-breeze response I'm getting now from Ur -- and just about everything else in my spirituality -- is a poignant illustration.
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Date: 2005-06-17 10:27 am (UTC)