* BLUE: Healing, spiritual development, protection, calm, teaching. Contrary aspects: complacency, spiritual dilettantism.
* BLUEBELLS: Gods and spirits of the woodland, fairy magic.
* BOAR: winter solstice, courage, fruitfulness, strength.
* BONFIRE: Light, warmth, eternal flame of spirit within, purity, cleansing, sacred centre.
* BOOK: Knowledge.
* BORAGE: courage, bravery.
* BROWN: Earthiness, sexuality, practicality, environmental awareness. Contrary aspects: dullness, greed, selfishness, laziness.
* BULL: Power, strength, might, vitality, virility, fertility.
* BUTTERFLY: Cycles of life, change, spirit, the soul, renewal, rebirth.
* CAULDRON: Transformation, womb of the Goddess, occult knowledge, initiation, renewal, rebirth.
* CAVE: Powers of the underworld, womb of the Goddess, place of death and rebirth, mystery.
* CENTAURY: healing, altered consciousness.
* CHERVIL: healing, initiation, immortality.
* CHILDREN: Promise, hope, new beginning.
* CINQUEFOIL: magic, altered consciousness.
* CIRCLE: Wholeness, completion, eternity, absence of time and space, Deity, everlasting love. Divided circle: the balance and harmony of such divisions uniting.
* CLOUDS: Difficulties, worries, clouded judgment.
* CLOVER: triple goddesses, the sun wheel
* CORN DOLLY: Spirit of the grain, harvest, offering.
* CORNFLOWER: gifts of the harvest goddess.
* CRANE: Su, writing, knowledge, inspiration, poetry.
* CROWN: Power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honour, glory.
* CUP: Nurture, womb of the Goddess, emotions, feelings, love, replenishment, regeneration, inspiration, element of water, spiritual fulfilment, compassion.
* CYPRESS: mourning, death, endings, evergreen tree reminder of the incorruptible nature of the spirit.
* DAFFODIL: Spring, growth, joy, youth, beauty.
* DAISY: Their old name 'bruisewort' indicates their efficiency in treating bruises. For the Celts the daisy was a symbol of light and Belenos, the god of the sun.
* DANDELION: Solar energy, strength, life, vitality, cleansing.
* DOG: Companion, guardian of thresholds, the hidden self.
* DOVE: Hope, purity, peace, aspiration.
* DRAGON: earth energy
* DRAGONFLIES: luck
* EAGLE: authority, royalty, power, upperworld
* EARTH: Material realm, practicality, manifestation.
* FERN: threshold, midsummer, protection
* FIELDS: As you sow, so shall you reap.
* FIRE: Divine spark, creative and destructive power, energy, transformation, passion, ambition, inspiration, illumination.
* FISH: Creativity, fecundity.
* FLOWERS: Joy, beauty, blossoming.
* FOX: Cunning, knowledge.
* FUNGI: Intoxication, inner vision, shamanic travel.
* GORSE: Spring, hope, positivity, personal strength, well being.
* GRAIN: Nourishment, harvest, plenty, abundance, reward of labour, the power in the earth, the corn god and his mystery of death and rebirth.
* GREEN: Fertility, prosperity, growth, creativity, the natural world, regeneration, beauty, harmony. Contrary aspects: envy, dissipation.
* GREY: Uniformity, dullness, mourning, sadness, depression.
* HARE: Renewal, lust, sexuality, fecundity, reproduction, freedom, energy, creativity.
* HARVEST: completion and resolution.
* HAWTHORN: Conception, fertility, coming of summer, lust, sexuality, flowering.
* HAZEL: wisdom, knowledge, poetry. In ogham the hazel is coll, one of the seven chieftain trees.
* HEATHER: Otherworld travel, outward spiral of initiation, midsummer.
* HOLED STONES: Goddess womb, healing, fertility
* HOLLY: Fire, light, warmth, masculine strength, potency.
* HORSE: Fertility, sovereignty, power, swiftness, faithfulness, strength, journeys, travel, partnerships.
* IVY: Immortality, death and resurrection, expanding consciousness, Divine intoxication.
* JUNIPER: purification, justice and truth.
* KINGFISHER: a moment of magic, a brief but significant connection with the Otherworld.
* LIGHTNING: Divine intervention, message from a higher power.
* LIZARD: light, wisdom and divination, Otherworld secrets.
* MAGPIE: balance, augury, trickster, superficial glamour, omens and signs.
* MALLOW: love and fertility, death and funerals.
* MAYPOLE: Phallus, cosmic axis, fertility, summer, celebration, joy.
* MINT: ‘thought’, mental activity.
* MISTLETOE: Immortality, love, peace, healing, fertility.
* MONKSHOOD: poison, the underworld and death, malevolent magic.
* MOON: Cycles, time, psychic power, reflection, femininity, intuition. Waxing Moon – youth, potential, beginnings. Full Moon – motherhood, creativity, nurture, blessing. Waning Moon - winding down, age, death.
* MOTH: a symbol of the soul and attraction to the light.
* MOUND: Connection with the ancestors.
* MOUNTAINS: Attainment, aspiration, spiritual goals.
* MOUSE: travel between the world of men and the underworld along secret paths, soul animals. Mouse shows you the way through the labyrinth and teaches you to access what you need.
* NETTLES: (9 of swords) The nettle has a fierce sting, and may not be picked without paying the price of pain. Though it appears antagonistic, once assimilated it is totally beneficial, full of vitamins and minerals. As such, it teaches the lesson of transmutation. It is those spiritual and life experiences that are most difficult and testing which are the ones that make you grow most.
* NIGHT: Rest, calm, peace, the unconscious mind.
* OAK: Cosmic axis, as above so below, royalty, chief gods, druid magic.
* ORANGE: Optimism, success, courage, bravery, ambition. Contrary aspects: conceit, self-importance.
* OTTER: Lord of deep magic, otter guards many profound magical secrets. Otter catches the Salmon of Wisdom by being fluid and swift, not serious and ponderous.
* OWL: Wisdom, sight that pieces the darkness, uncovering hidden secrets.
* PIG: Underworld, winter solstice, death, moon, hag goddess, devourer, initiation trials.
* PINE TREE: rebirth, fertility, spring equinox
* POPPIES: Fertility, plenty, abundance, sacrifice.
* PRIMROSES: Spring Goddess, poetic inspiration.
* PURPLE: Strength, mastery. Contrary aspects: arrogance, domineering, mourning.
* RAINBOW: Harmony, hope, happiness, bridge to the Otherworld.
* RATTLE: Summoning spirit, awakening, communication.
* RAVEN: Death, conflict, oracle, omen, foresight, shamanic vision.
* RED: Blood, life, vitality, passion, energy, sex drive, protection from magic, the setting or rising Sun. Contrary aspects: aggression, anger, frustration, warning, danger, murder, cruelty, war, destruction, death.
* ROBIN: Bringer of fire, protection, the sacred.
* ROCKS: Difficulties, obstacles.
* ROOKS: omen, sacred to Death Goddesses.
* ROSE: Human and Divine love, the feminine, secrecy, healing, rebirth.
* ROSEHIP: Fruition, motherhood
* ROWAN: witchcraft, protection, divination and the dead.
* SALMON: ancient knowledge and wisdom
* SHIELD: Defence, protection.
* SICKLE: Harvest, death, endings.
* SNAKE: Fertility, healing, renewal, wisdom, life, death and rebirth into a new consciousness, fear, temptation, knowledge.
* SNOWDROP: Purity, innocence, potential, promise.
* SPIRAL: Life path, Sun path, death and rebirth, immortality.
* SPRING: New beginning, growth, increase, opportunity, youth.
* STAG: Fertility, potency, strength, solar animal, ancient knowledge, earth power, quest, change.
* STAR: Illumination, direction, guidance, hope.
* STORM: Troubles, emotional turbulence.
* STRAWBERRIES: Mother Goddess, Midsummer, fairies.
* SUMMER: Ripeness, increase, plenty, opportunity.
* SUN: Expansion, growth, energy, creativity, the conscious mind. Rising Sun - new beginnings. Setting Sun – endings, transition. Noon Sun - full power, full expression.
* SWALLOW: the transformation of the land in spring, heralding the coming of the gentle rains which fertilise the earth, protection, joy.
* SWAN: prophecy, music and poetry.
* SWORD: The element of air, mental activity, idea, knowledge, intent.
* TANSY: Immortality, spring equinox
* TORCH: Enlightenment, hope, illumination.
* TOWER: Strong structure, restriction, material possessions, guarding, imprisonment, crystallized thought, closed mind.
* VERVAIN: magic, ancestor contact
* WAND: The fertilising phallus, element of fire, creativity, life energy, the spirit, will.
* WATER: Emotion, subconscious mind.
* WATERFALL: Free flowing of emotions.
* WEB: The pattern of life, thread of destiny, wyrd.
* WELL: Underworld, womb, healing.
* WHEELS: Forward movement, progress.
* WHITE: Purity, harmony, spirit, psychic development, the dispelling of negativity, purification, cleansing, tranquillity, protection
* WILLOW: Feminine energy, water, emotions, inspiration, poetry, Moon magic, water magic, witchcraft, love, fertility, tears.
* WIND: Challenge, change, adaptability, movement, spontaneity
* WINTER: Maturity, rest, stillness, old age.
* WOLF: Fierceness, nurturing, unconscious mind, dreaming, guide, new knowledge.
* WOODPECKER: rebirth, opener of the ways,
* WREN: Bringer of Divine fire, ancient knowledge, kingship, cleverness, sacredness.
* YELLOW: Intellectual development, strength of mind. Contrary aspects: cowardice.
* YEW: Death and rebirth.
