I bought a birch-handled rattle from Ros and love the soft 'shush-ing' sound it makes from the tiny snow quartz crystals, as opposed to the more usual rattling which always sounds too harsh to me. The reindeer hide is decorated with red chamois trim and reindeer fur and I have added a little red heart charm tied on with red ribbon :-)
So we have moved on to Rowan, a tree that amongst other things provides the quickening after the new beginnings from Birch. It is also the wood for divination, protection and contacting spirit guides.
I found it more difficult to communicate with the Rowan trees than I did with the Birch trees, they were more reserved, less forthcoming. However, I found a couple that were willing to converse with me to a limited extent - a very old tree with a hole through her trunk, which is also partially hollowed out on the far side kept tapping me on the head with twigs and gave me a piece of somewhat soggy deadfall to bring home and dry out. It will make a series of small ogham sticks that I plan to give as gifts as part of an art exchange I have just committed to :-)
I also talked to a much younger 'flying' Rowan that was hanging out of the river bank over the water. It was difficult to reach her trunk from the bank itself, so I waded into the river (in my wellies, that water is cold in January!!) to hold onto a couple of her branches. Her bark was very cold and damp, the sun doesn't reach down into the valley in the winter and I only got fleeting images from her. I sent her lots of images of warmth from the sun and heat from my body and her aloof demeanour softened a little. She gave me a branch that was mostly detached and I left my rowan berry amulet in exchange. It will make an awesome and very magical wand as well as more ogham sticks! I will keep those as a special set :-)
I have already made a plain wand and 2 ogham sticks from the wood that Ros and Jon gave us during the day. One of the ogham sticks is for my dad for protection and also for communication with his guides; the other is for a friend who is planning a Vision Quest later in the year. I'm hoping my pyrography kit will arrive before Thursday so I can engrave the symbols in time - they're currently marked in permanent marker.
I'm fascinated and a little nervous to see what Rowan will bring this month. Ros used selenite wands on the altar to help with our journeying and I had very strong images from the Middle World and found it much easier to stay with the journey than I did last time. My guides obviously have a lot of work in mind for me - not sure I'm going to get the restful month that I was planning, lol. I am somewhat intrigued by the fact that I had an image of scrying in the river (I'd actually forgotten that part when we went to visit the trees, I've only just made the connection!) and was shown an image of my new partner who will be making an appearance in April!! Umm, not if I have anything to do with it, he won't, ha ha. Like I ever have any choice in these things.... so much for staying single for a while! We shall see.....
I shall be scrying at the Full Moon so watch this space :-)
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