Desperately seeking....Birch Trees?
I was really having a hard time finding ANY trees of the birch variety in my area. I looked around for two days and couldn't find a single one.
I finally gave up and went to the bookstore to pick up the other Blamires book that I had been looking at for the last week. The bookstore wasn't open so I went for a little walk to waste some time.
Suddenly I see it.
A birch tree!!
Right there in front of me, when I am not actively looking for it, is the exact tree that I need.
I go closer before noticing exactly where it is will cause a problem.
I don't know about anyone else but I would really have a problem with someone coming into my front yard to meditate with my tree.
Well, maybe I wouldn't but someone else might.
The lady that owns the house was a little bit unnerving anyway.
So as I sit there contemplating how I'm going to work around this I decide that I will pick up a fallen branch, just in case I don't find another tree.
I'm a little nervous about stating my intentions aloud, to a tree in the first place but doing it right in front of a perfect stranger unnerves me.
Alot of things unnerve me, as you'll figure out.
I walk back to my car with my coffee, book and branch, worried that I won't be able to solve this connundrum.
Then as I'm driving past my local park, I see another birch tree!!
A bigger one!
And it isn't in someones front yard where a crazy lady lives!!
So to make a long story short I did find a tree that I was comfortable using.
I'm getting ready to carve my first Ogham stick now and begin the study of trees.
according to Blamires book, which is one of three i am using, there is a ritual that I will perform, but I need to get some tools together before I can complete them.
While I am collecting the tools I need I'll be following his advice and visiting the birch tree on a regular basis, everyday if I can, to get going a relationship.
Blamire describes it as like building a friendship with a new person, except this 'person' is a tree.
I am to ask if it wants or needs anything I can give and just let it get to know me and my intentions.
I'm supposed to do this while my stick dries enough for me to carve the Ogham letter into it but my stick was dead and dry to begin with so I'll just postpone the ritual until my tools are collected. This will probably take me at least two weeks, finding the tools will be easy but getting the money to buy them will take time.
A number of other expenses are keeping me from doing this immediately but in the long run this may turn out to be a good thing.
One way of stalling is as good as another.
I am supposed to at least spend a month on each tree, so this will probably be a 2 year process. A large commitment but one I think will turn out for the best.
Wish me luck!
I finally gave up and went to the bookstore to pick up the other Blamires book that I had been looking at for the last week. The bookstore wasn't open so I went for a little walk to waste some time.
Suddenly I see it.
A birch tree!!
Right there in front of me, when I am not actively looking for it, is the exact tree that I need.
I go closer before noticing exactly where it is will cause a problem.
I don't know about anyone else but I would really have a problem with someone coming into my front yard to meditate with my tree.
Well, maybe I wouldn't but someone else might.
The lady that owns the house was a little bit unnerving anyway.
So as I sit there contemplating how I'm going to work around this I decide that I will pick up a fallen branch, just in case I don't find another tree.
I'm a little nervous about stating my intentions aloud, to a tree in the first place but doing it right in front of a perfect stranger unnerves me.
Alot of things unnerve me, as you'll figure out.
I walk back to my car with my coffee, book and branch, worried that I won't be able to solve this connundrum.
Then as I'm driving past my local park, I see another birch tree!!
A bigger one!
And it isn't in someones front yard where a crazy lady lives!!
So to make a long story short I did find a tree that I was comfortable using.
I'm getting ready to carve my first Ogham stick now and begin the study of trees.
according to Blamires book, which is one of three i am using, there is a ritual that I will perform, but I need to get some tools together before I can complete them.
While I am collecting the tools I need I'll be following his advice and visiting the birch tree on a regular basis, everyday if I can, to get going a relationship.
Blamire describes it as like building a friendship with a new person, except this 'person' is a tree.
I am to ask if it wants or needs anything I can give and just let it get to know me and my intentions.
I'm supposed to do this while my stick dries enough for me to carve the Ogham letter into it but my stick was dead and dry to begin with so I'll just postpone the ritual until my tools are collected. This will probably take me at least two weeks, finding the tools will be easy but getting the money to buy them will take time.
A number of other expenses are keeping me from doing this immediately but in the long run this may turn out to be a good thing.
One way of stalling is as good as another.
I am supposed to at least spend a month on each tree, so this will probably be a 2 year process. A large commitment but one I think will turn out for the best.
Wish me luck!
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