Druidic calendar

[morgane_snowy_owl]

Hello everyone!

I'm making a new calendar and agenda for the Celtic New Year (which starts Monday!), and I would like to make it very druidry-oriented. I know that the "by the book" druidic calendar follows the moon cycles of 28 days, so that would be confusing when it's time to book patients. However, I know that certain trees are associated to months (plus a 13th for the three days before Samhuinn) and I know that, obviously, oghams are associated to those trees. So I'd like to give each month and its corresponding pages a druidic theme following those tree-ogham principles (photos, correspondences, meditation themes)...

... but I find ALL kinds of info on the web. According to some, hazel is my birth tree, according to others, it's vine. And so on. Can someone give me a RELIABLE source of info to build my weekly planner and my calendar? Thanks very much!

Morgane

[DaRC]

I think one way would be to work with nature and create your own - what tree's are relevant to you. This would then create something valuable and functional within your time and space.

You might want to learn the Coligny Calendar - the Wikipedia articles scratch the surface...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coligny_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_calendar

The problem with modern Druidic information (particularly via t'internet or as my kids now call it - the cloud) is that it is so unreliable and based upon some misinformation, mistranslation, people's personal wants /desires etc....
This then raises the question about what is reliable - is a Calendar that has been lost for a millenia and then re-found relevant to a modern day Druid?
Should we remain purely historical or archaeological, what about knowledge gained from other sources (such as Robert Graves who is widely believed to have started the link of Ogham Trees to months). The discussions could continue endlessly