The Tree Wizards

The Druidic alphabet, Ogham, is a system of classification and organization that befits the work of the Hermit. In the last few centuries, due in part to the fanciful work of Robert Graves in the White Goddess, this has come to be known primarily as an alphabet of trees. The Tree Oghams are very much a real aspect of the system, but they are far from all of it - still, there is something very organic about this style of magick, and something very grounded. It is often used in connection to calendars, and as a memory system - as a mode of clandestine communication (hand signals, etc...) and as a framework for bardic magic - the magick of storytelling and mythmaking.

The idea that the Druids may have achieved literacy but chosen to use it in a subordinate function to orality, in order that they might be able to "vanish into the woods" so to speak, only to return later, is an intriguing one. This alphabet is entangled with the Irish and Welsh and Cornish and English and Scottish faery mythologies, and is a portal to these worlds.

The mandala known as "Fionn's Window" represents a synthesis of the system, with the four regular "Aicmes" of five letters each plus the five letters of the Forefedha - borrowed from other languages.

It may be that the original users of this system practiced a vigidecimal mathmatics - base 20 - counting on their fingers and toes, like the Maya.

I have explore the system using scrying as well as through the lens of some meta-magick discoveries. What I call "the Ogham Star" is a toroidal arrangement of the numbers 1-25 which acts as a magick square generator. In combination with the 25 letters of the expanded Ogham, this forms a very intriguing magical portal.

25 is also the number of squares in the famous SATOR square, so we can see the pentagrammatic version here, as being a placeholder which will generate the loci that Ogham can more thoroughly fill out.

Those with the sense of it, will make sense of it.

Homage to the tree-wizards, in their quiet and vital Work.