Preliminary observations: This grove has generally taken omen in the
traditional sense, that is a reception of divine indications about
the grove's past, present and future.
The prepared text of the ritual named Puck, the ADF member who has
produced the most outstanding study to date on the ogham, as our
diviner for this ritual. As she was unable to attend, this second
string diviner, had to stand in. As the aforementioned study clearly
expresses the sentiment that reading from a prepared divination
handbook is an inferior method to sharing what the deities are
transmitting "live," this stand in did not merely read from the best
study available on the ogham.
It is my opinion that our deities are aware of which human is doing
a divination, that the "random" selection of ogham fews, runes, or
whatever is guided accordingly, and that the substitution of this
diviner for the one listed, may well have altered what was drawn in
the divination, in the sense of which ogham characters appeared, but
not necessarily in the sense of what they wished to communicate.
Past: the aspect of our past being highlighted in this divination is
Luis (Rowan) sight, vision, perception, discernment, observation.
Present: the aspect of our present situation being underlined most
for our attention is Nin (Ash) Bridge, the bridge between the
unconscious and the upper realms. At the ritual, some of the imagery
that attends this few was mentioned: a ladder for ascent from below
to above, a tree rising high, a key in various meanings of the word.
Future: the aspect of our future being most emphasized in this
communication from our deities is shelter, huath (whitethorn). What
came into my mind, as a visual image, when this turned up, was the
grove coming together in a circle around the protecting camp fire.
This fire is sheltering us from the darkness and the dangers
outside. Now is our time to relax, recuperate and share community,
following whatever exertions and threats lay immediately behind.
It was raised at the time of the ritual that another understanding
of this few is stagnation. The reply was given that this diviner at
this time was receiving the message of gathering around the camp
fire, but, especially since the issue was raised during divination,
of course, we ought to keep in mind that the immediate future seems
to be that we are camping together, sheltered from the outside, and
that we have not arrived at our destination, and will be continuing
our journey.