Engraved botanical plate: beech

Beech

Fagus sylvatica

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the beech is the tree of those born December 22, one of the four trees that rule a single day, at the equinoxes and solstices. The horoscope lends it creativity, boldness, organisation, intuition, charisma.

In the horoscope

  • December 22

Creativity, boldness, organisation, intuition, charisma.

The real tree

  • Fagus sylvatica
  • Family Fagaceae

A tall European forest tree whose fruits are beechnuts.

And in the ogham?

No. The beech is not among the letters of the ogham, the alphabet of early Ireland from which Robert Graves drew his tree calendar: like ten other trees of the horoscope, it was added later.

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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