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| BEITH - B -The Birch - November (First month of the Celtic year) | |
| Symbolic system of a new beginning, to raise. | |
| LUIS - L - The Sorb - December | |
| Protect off enchantement, tree of the life. According to the legend, to eat the fruits of a sorb cured and lengthened the one year life per bay, but a frightening dragon protected it. | |
| FEARN - F - The Alder - January | |
| Spiritual protection. Merlin made push yews of the trunk of the alders, which meant that terrestrial royalty could emanate spiritual sovereignty | |
| SAILLE - S - The Willow - February | |
| Symbol of the night and the lunar rates/rhythms. | |
| NION - N - The Ash - Mars | |
| Symbol of the rebirth and the fruitfulness of the sea. The Christian monks marked their victory over the duidism by burning the crowned ashes of the Irish and Brittany's villages. However the strong roots choked those of the other trees, prophecy of the revival of the druidism. | |
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| UATH - H - Hawthorn - April | |
| Symbolic system of purity impenetrable, bringing to the festival of the fire of Beltaine | |
| DUIR - D - The Oak - May | |
| Symbol of the fertility of spring, protection and force. Câd Goddeu ("Combat of the Trees "Text written according to the legend by Taliesin). affirm that the oak will be spread out over a new druidism. | |
| TINNE - T - Houx - June | |
| Balance, the wood of houx was employed to create axes of lances, extremely in the combat and the arguments. In the Welsh myths two knights, that of the Oak and that of Houx fought each 1ér May. | |
| COLL - C - The Hazel tree - July | |
| Intuition and poetry, meditation, wisdom and divination. The hazel tree was associated the well and for hidden teaching, it was also used to make the divining rods. | |
| QUERT - QU/K - Apple tree | |
| Symbol of the choice and the beauty, it nourished the poêtes. | |
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| MUIN - M - The Vine - August | |
| Prophecy and honesty, symbol of spirituality and eternity in works of the matter and the spirit | |
| GORT - G - Ivy - September | |
| Symbol of the labyrinth, the search of the individual and the errance of the heart. Ivy caused mystical revelations when his sheets were chewed. | |
| NGETAL - NG/P - The Reed - October | |
| Capacity of the spiritual weapons, symbol of the victory in chaos. | |
| STRAIF - Z - The Sloe | |
| Power of the destiny and the external influences. Symbol of the force in the adversity. | |
| RUIS - R -The Elder tree - November | |
| Symbol of the cycle of the life, death, end, and rebirth. Tree of bad reputation because the witches made use of it like mounting. | |
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| AILM - A -The Spruce - December | |
| Clear vision of the future | |
| ONN - O - The Gorse | |
| Driving paths all with a goal, related to the god Lug. His flowers yellow release a honey odor and rich in nectar the bees attract and drove out the witches. | |
| UR - U - The Heather | |
| Plant passion, associated with the mountain, the bees and the summer. | |
| EADHA - E - The Poplar | |
| Symbol of the protective word and old age. | |
| IOHO - I - The Yew | |
| Funerary Abre illustrating the eternity and the continuity of the cycles of the life, connecting died and rebirth. | |
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| KOAD - EA - Plantation | |
| Crowned place containing all knowledge. | |
| OIR - OI - The thunder and the lightning | |
| Symbol of the difficult tasks and of what is honestly gained. | |
| UILLEANN - UI - Chèvrefeuille | |
| Allows to find the truth of the forgery. The chevrefeuille was the tree of oracles. | |
| PHAGOS - IO - The Beech | |
| Symbolize the book, history and the writing. | |
| MOR - ae - Sea | |
| Symbol of Manannan, Celtic God of the sea and hidden knowledge. | |
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FEHU - F - Property, cattle, richness Associated the hazel tree, garnet and the stag, this first letters evokes the idea of movement and paramount impulse. It is the will instinctive to create, advance, it is the fundamental force which will allow starting. |
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URUZ - U/V - The buffalo, the auroch Associated the birch, the moon stone and the cow, if Fehu is paramount energy, Uruz is the receptacle allowing to achieve the creative process. In it are the latent state, generosity, the force and the love. |
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THURISAZ - TH - Giant, spine Associated the trees having of the spines, hematite and the scorpion, the spine in question is that which stimulates by the experiment. The fruit of the union of Fehu and Uruz is the life, first of all instinctive and unconscious like the giant. |
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ANSUZ - A - ancestral God Associated the ash, lapis lazuli lazuli and to the messengers of the sky (corbels, crows, geese), Ansuz is the breath, the conscience which is added to Thurisaz to make be it instinctive a human being, it is the inspiration, the word, the verb, the music and the incantation. |
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RAIDHO - R - Tank Associated the oak, topaz and the falcon, the consequence of the opening of the conscience is the progression. The truth revealed by Ansuz is codified in this Rune, it is the rune of the command, the law and the ritual. |
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KENAZ - K - The torch Associated the pine and the hazel tree, the cornaline, and the dragon, this rune is the development of the creativity. It is the fire of the hearth and the forging mill, the artist and the craftsman or of the magician. |
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GEBO - G - The gift, hospitality Associated the lime, jade and the bee, the dolphin and the whale, Gebo is the capacity of harmony and union, the gift and the sharing. It teaches that the creativity implies the gift. |
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WUNJO - W - Joy, pleasure Associated the oak, aventurine, and all the animals which live in community. After the aptitude for the gift of Gebo, cohesion rises from the sharing. The harmony calls the joy and happiness. |
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HAGALAZ - H - Hail Associated it also the oak, the rock crystal and the beaver. The grêlon is the symbol of the deep core to be it, of the internal unit. After the social exteriorisation, the man returns on itself. |
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NAUDHIZ - N - Need and distress Associated the beech and the fir tree, onyx and the dog. Symbol of need and sacrifice, the man must from now on assume his structure, and the tests of the life. The distress is born from nonthe acceptance of the test. |
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ISA - I - Ice Associated the fir tree, tourmaline, the seal and the polar polar bear, Isa the personality represents. The ice evokes crystallization and matérialisation. After the disorders of Naudhiz it is the return on Earth. |
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JERA - J - The Year Associated the fruitiés trees, citrine and the swallow, Jera the time represents which passes through its cycles of the seasons and the experiments of the man. It is making safe for that which needs stability but can be imprisoning for that which is thirsty for freedom. |
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EIHWAZ - Between the E and the L - the yew Associated the yew, the rock crystal and the snake, this rune mark a rupture in the rate/rhythm of Jera: that of the initiatory death which allows the passage towards another level of experiment. |
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PERTHRO - P - Fate Associated the apple tree, onyx and the crows, it represents the Destiny as a power and a its mechanism. All acts sement the consequences which the man must assume. This rune is also that of the divination. |
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ELHAZ - Z - protection Associated the protective oak, aquamarine and the swan. It has the shape of a man who tightens the arms towards the sky in a gesture of invocation, it is the world of the heart, the state of opening towards another dimension the experiment of initiation lived on the level of Eihwaz, revealed at the stage of Perthro is tested in Elhaz. |
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SOWILO - S - Sun Associated the oak and the bay-tree, topaz and amber, the eagle and hare. Sowilo is the source of any life and any light. The hearts emanate from him and converge towards him, it is the source of the illumination. This rune is also that of the teachers. |
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TIWAZ - T - God Tir Associated the châteigner, sapphire and the royal bear. De Sowilo came the illumination, and the consequence is the rise with the sky by Tiwaz. One should not confuse this concept with the connotation of Christian paradise. The sky is here the world of the Gods and the conscience. The sky is the principle father, the Earth the principle mother. |
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BERKANO - B - the birch Associated the birch, the moon stone, and the wild boar Berkano is the goddess mother. She indicates the return on Earth, it is Rune of all the births. |
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EHWAZ - E - The horse Associated the ash, agate and the horse. Like Gebo, Ehwaz is the rune duality, but it does not express the union but alternation and the movement. It is the harmony between the worlds terrestrial and celeste. The symbol of the horse implies also the adventure and the discovery. |
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MANNAZ - M - The human one It is the harmony of the movement of Ehwaz which gives rise to Human on the cosmic level. Mannaz is thus the bridge between the current world and the future world, it is the hope of a broader realization of the human one. |
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LAGUZ - L - Sea, water Associated the apple tree, the roller and the coral, the dolphin and salmon. The sea constitutes the basic elements of the life and the development. The realization of the man in Mannaz is only one stage, it still remains to him to build a new world. |
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INGWAZ - NG - The God Lug Associated the charm, the coral and the goat. Ingwaz is the creative potential, c\' is the god of fruitfulness. Folded up on itself, this creative potential, is ready to appear. This runes is l\' athanor which will give rise to the philosopher stone. . |
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DAGAZ - D/TH - The day Associated the fir tree, the eye of tiger and the cock, the particular moment of the paddle contains all the magic of this Rune. It is Rune of alchemy and and of transmutation by the balance of opposite energies. But it is more still, because it is the manifestation of the light, of the alarm clock after a long sleep, at this human stage it carried out its evolutionary process. |
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OTHALA - O - Property Associated the hawthorn, the fossils and the wolves, it is the runic purpose of the course. The ancestral property evokes the idea of a spiritual inheritance to receive, the initiated reinstates its inherited. |
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