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In ancient times, our Celtic Druid Ancestors devised a system, part alphabet, part calendar/zodiac, to be carved using simple notches onto wood or stone. Each character was a number and a letter. The consonants were time periods – mostly lunar months and the vowels were the solstices or equinoxes. Each symbol represented a tree or shrub, around which grew an extensive mythology, recording historical and religious stories, the uses of each tree both for craftwork and medicinally, and a divinatory system similar to the tarot. To the Celts, the whole landscape was alive with meaning, and wisdom – the wisdom of the trees.

Apple, Ogham name Quert, rules the light half of the year, and its element is that of water. It is sacred to Venus, Aphrodite and Eve. In Divination it represents love, healing, poetic inspiration and immortality. In the west where the sun sets is the magical Isle of Avalon, the island of the apples, great heroes of myth and legend are taken there at death, and thereby become immortal.