🌿🍂 The Idaho Ogham: From Wild Apple to Aspen September 27 – October 24 Spirit Messages • Flow • Letting Go The Grove of the Ponderosa Beloved, Our Idaho Ogham has quietly turned another page. And although I’m a little late announcing our arrival, perhaps that is rather appropriate for the medicine of Aspen. After all, not every transition announces itself with a trumpet. Sometimes, it arrives as a whisper through the leaves. Here in Idaho, the landscape is changing. The mornings are crisp, the sunlight has taken on that beautiful golden autumn glow, and the trees are beginning their magnificent surrender. The aspens, especially, have a way of capturing our attention. Their leaves shimmer and dance in even the gentlest breeze, as though the trees are carrying on a conversation with something we cannot quite see. And perhaps, symbolically speaking, they are. Welcome to the season of Aspen. 🍂 THE TRANSITION: FROM WILD APPLE TO ASPEN During our passage through Wild Apple, we explored wisdom, nourishment, and choice. We examined the harvest of our lives and asked ourselves what was worth gathering, preserving, and carrying forward. Wild Apple taught us to choose what nourishes us. But Aspen asks something different. Now that you have chosen what matters, what are you willing to release? Because gathering the harvest is only part of autumn’s work. We must also make room for what comes next. And this is where Aspen becomes such a beautiful teacher. 🌿 SPIRIT MESSAGES — The Language of the Unseen Have you ever stood beneath an aspen and listened? There is something extraordinary about the sound of its leaves. Unlike the heavy rustling of many other trees, aspen leaves seem to tremble, flutter, and whisper. Their flattened leaf stalks allow them to move with the slightest breeze. It is almost as though they are listening. Within our Idaho Ogham, Aspen invites us to become listeners, too. Not necessarily for voices from beyond, but for the subtle messages we sometimes overlook.

We welcome this new moon on this beautiful portal day!! This is your reminder to write letters to the universe! With the Libra energy today, look again to balance. What can you allow to rest? What can you do more of that helps you emotionally find balance in your life?

A triple new beginning. A remarkable new moon in Libra. A portal to all you desire, if you choose to walk through it. The new moon is always a sort of new beginning. The moon disappears for a day only to be born again, to grow to being big and bright, full of promise, until it wanes into disappearance once again. I’ve learned that cycle this year. I have learned it VERY well. It’s definitely not always comfortable, but I can tell you it’s worth it. Add the 10/10/10 portal to the mix and it gets even better. 10 for October, 10 for the day, and 2+0+2+6=10. All reduce to 1, the number of new beginnings. A triple new beginning. What are you calling in? How do you want to feel? What baggage can you leave behind? What do you really believe about all of those things? How can you change what you believe to come into alignment? Here’s a sweet prayer for you today: I remember the girl who longed for freedom. I honor the woman who learned to choose it. I release the expectations that were never mine to carry. I reclaim the words that once confined me. I remember what is true. I allow what is becoming. And I give myself permission to be fully, wonderfully me. My portal morning has been incredible and I chose these golden trees in the backyard to use today because as I was burning herbs and expressing gratitude, the sun broke over the rooftops and illuminated the trees. It felt like a doorway. A moment that took my breath away. A breeze came up and I smiled as leaves began to fall like rain. A poem came to me and I opened my notepad on my phone and wrote it down as it floated through me. The leaves of autumn fall Like golden rain. The spirits of Air Flirt and play, Bearing all upon its fingertips, Teasing dreams into the day. I wrap myself in its glamour, My Soul is swept away, My crown grows light upon my head The prayer on my lips fades. My heart swells in love and peace And I find meaning in The Way. ~ Daisy Jane 10/10/2026 Even more lovely, my kin came to witness my beautiful moment. Squirrel in the trees at my back. Woodpecker circled my sacred space and rested in a tree in front of me. Crow punctuated the morning air with his resounding “caw”, as if adding his seal of approval.