Engraved botanical plate: ash

Ash

Fraxinus excelsior

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the ash is the tree of those born May 25 to June 3 and November 22 to December 1. The horoscope lends it elegance, ambition, talent, intuition, independence.

In the horoscope

  • May 25 to June 3
  • November 22 to December 1

Elegance, ambition, talent, intuition, independence.

The real tree

  • Fraxinus excelsior
  • Family Oleaceae

A common European forest tree with pale, hard, springy wood.

And in the ogham?

Yes: Nion, glossed "ash" by the scholarly tradition. The ogham is the alphabet of early Ireland from which Robert Graves drew his tree calendar; only ten of the horoscope's 21 trees appear in it (pine and fir share one letter).

Dates: majority version of four published tables. Traits: those the tree horoscope lends (Gerbeaud). Botany: Wikipedia and Wikidata. Ogham: Wikipedia (after McManus and the Auraicept na n-Éces).

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