Huathe

Huathe is a wildly changing tree. She comes into leaf in March with soft leaves followed by soft white flowers, but this gentleness hides a merciless raw strength. As autumn comes she is no beauty, her berries edible to few, her thorns tough, and soon she is grey and wrinkled with the year's age. Hawthorn guiding us to perceive and accept truth, honesty, to know where there is guise and glamour and what lies beneath. She offers us strength where we feel vulnerability, teaching us to understand boundaries. (ERO)

Oghams of Morann Mac Main: pack of wolves
Oghams of Mac ind Oic: blanching of face

With brilliant white flowers in spring and small green berries that ripen into a deep dark red this is another tree associated with the fey. New growth appears in spring before the flowers and has a soft pinkish tinge which is simply beautiful. However in winter when the wood is bare the bark looks like solidified rivers of lava moulded and shaped as it flows, giving a sense of a tree held timeless and ancient. With its fierce sharp thorns this is a tree that reminds us of beauty and boundaries, of perhaps not facing issues head on, but more to accept that patience can bring its own rewards and that in time what is seen as difficult or insurmountable may bring us to a better understanding of our situation.

I have a deep relationship with Hawthorn, held through ancestral threads and its ever changing message, reminding me that change is always around us as the spiral turns, preparing me for that change expected or otherwise. It is a relationship I hold dear. (CC)

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