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I Am The Willow

Steph at The Witch Within always manages to find pagany online quizzes. When I need a little bit of a brain break, I like to take these just for fun and sometimes they even yield surprisingly interesting answers.

What Celtic Tree am I? Well, according to Quizfarm, it seems I'm tied between Willow and Reed:

The Willow

75%

The Reed

75%

The Hawthorn

70%

The Ivy

70%

The Birch

70%

The Elder

65%

The Oak

65%

The Holly

65%

The Ash

60%

The Hazel

60%

The Vine

60%

The Alder

55%

The Rowan

55%

What Tree Are You? (Celtic astrology)
created with QuizFarm.com

My Celtic sign actually is The Willow.

willow.jpg The Willow, by Margaret Walty, from The Celtic Lunar Zodiac by Helena Patterson

In Celtic astrology, essentially a Druid Zodiac, the symbols to represent each "sign" are all "trees," some actually being tree-related plants or plants that grow where trees do not and take the place of trees in the sacred Celtic landscape. Like the more recognized form of Western astrology, and Chinese astrology, what Celtic tree you are is determined by your birthday.

I have a wonderful oracle deck called Ogham: The Celtic Oracle that depicts the Celtic trees in association with Ogham, the ancient Celtic alphabet used for magick, divination, secret communication and on memorial and other stones found throughout the Celtic world. I don't have an image of the Willow card from this deck, but here is Rowan, a tree particularly important in Scotland, the land of my ancestors:

Rowan.jpg
 

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 10:44 AM

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Oh, I am so mad! This Google blog comment thing eats every other comment I leave. I interpreted your dream for you in my comments section, and I don't think it ever appeared. Send me an email and remind me of the details, and I'll try again.

I did the quiz, and I'm an oak.

 

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