I am sure you are all be aware, the Celts had a great respect for nature; in all probability were the foremost of all people in their awe and respect for nature, Most of the deities were closely aligned with the earth and its peoples.  Would it were so today.

The horoscopes to follow are not intended to foretell 'anything'. They are the product of research in many druidic books and particularly information obtained from the books of Molly Gowen and Lavina Hamer...and, perhaps for education as well as amusement. Thank you Molly Gowen and your grandfathers Jack McHenry and Gully Gowen who gave you the love to look deeper and farther.

The trees of great significance the above two months noted are Beth (Birch) and Luis (Rowan), and associated birds are Pheasant and Duck.

The colors are white and grey and the gods and goddess associated are Oghma (primarily in Europe, Ireland and Wales), with Brid being associated with the month of February (primarily in Europe, Ireland and Scotland).

BIRCH

 I mind it well as a small child using the inner bark of the birch as writing paper.  The use of the bark of the birch is well known throughout the ancient world and some say it is from a Sanskrit word - bhurga - that the tree took its name.  The meaning of the Sanskrit is a tree whose bark is capable of being written on.

Beth is used to name this tree and the first letter of the Ogham alphabet.  Ogham was a Goidelic (read Gaelic) and widely used in pre-Roman times in Britain and, of course, Ireland. Ogham, son of Daghdha Mo'r, king of the Tuatha de Dannan was said to have written the first inscription in Ireland on its bark.  Even today we find this wondrous God endures in the holy word "Om" used by both Easterners and Westerners alike as a sound to fix the mind in meditation.

Attributes of those born in this period are ambition, patience and prudence.  Negatively aspected can be mean spirited, capricious and pessimistic.

 ROWAN

Know in Gaelic this tree is called LUIS....it is the month of quickening of the earth as the roses and tulips break free of their silence below the ground.  Brid, the ever loving mother of all earth thing, is there to cradle the earth to new birth.  Again here we have a Sanskrit word being used in connection with a month; this time it is Brizien and it is said that Brid's name came from such word.  It means to enchant and her link with the Rowan tree sometimes has been expressed in the beautiful title sometimes given  to her as 'Flame of Two Eternities".  Mother Goddess, protector of women and children and all the natural world, so powerful was she that the Christian monks changed her name to Bridget and named a special day in her honor.  The abbess of Kildare who lived in the 6th century AD  is held in great reverence by the Scots, and is part of the worship of Brid the pre-Christian goddess.  Still today branches of this tree are hung over the thresholds of houses on St. Brigid's Day on the Festival of IMBOLC.

Wisely aspected the native of this tree would be independent, honest and intellectual...however on the other hand failing to use these great gifts one can be aloof, irritable and rebellious.