The Tree Spirit Oracle (book)

Every tree expresses in its form the energies of balance and harmony with its surroundings. Each species does this in differing ways, and it is this that can help us when we are lost and out of harmony with our lives. We simply need to remind our deep mind of what is required and then relax into a more natural state of relaxed being.

The Tree Spirit Oracle took as its starting place the Celtic Tree Oracle, but greatly expanded the trees used, and completely re-examined the practical symbolism, visual patterns and energy signatures of each tree.

Each tree is represented by a symbol, representative of the dynamic, core characteristics of that tree.

There are two ways in which the book can be used as an assessment and divination tool:

the book comes with two wooden dice that can be used to generate a random number that links to a specific tree. That page is then looked up and the information consulted.

There is a key page with all the tree symbols on can be looked at to see which symbol 'jumps out' in response to the question.

Each tree is explored on every level in the book so that the oracle can be of most use, whatever the situation.

The information for each of the 75 trees consists of:

the visual symbol, or 'Tree Sprit Key'

image: phrase or mnemonic to help visualise the qualities of the tree for divination.

issue: a summing up of the divinatory meaning.

keywords

situation: a brief description of how the energies may be manifesting

guidance: an examination of how the energies may be appearing in the questioner's life and what should be considered.

positive attributes: a list of possible positive meanings

negative attributes: a list describing how the energies may be appearing if not being dealt with appropriately

personality: a suggestion how the tree energy may represent a certain type of person

the tree: background information on the species of tree, its habits etc.

healing energy: how the tree can help with imbalances in life.

'The Tree Spirit Oracle' was original conceived as an oracle card set and contains details about card layouts at the back of the book, but there are other ways of using these layouts, as described in the text. For those who do not wish to use cards, or who cannot afford the card set (as it is completely hand-produced, one set at a time to order, and so cannot compete on price with commercially printed divination sets), this book and dice is a complete and flexible divination system in its own right. It is also a very good introduction to the healing potential of trees and to 'Tree Spirit Healing'.