Decision Layout
Difficulty: Easy
This simple but highly useful layout calls for a question to be asked in this format:
"What happens if I do (X), and what happens if I do not do (X)?"
Please note that it should not be viewed as a decision between two different options, but about whether a single option should be exercised or not. A second option would call for a separate reading.
Ogham #7 is the significator, the overall theme of the query.
Oghams #3, #1, & #5 represent the chronological sequence of events that occurs if the reader chooses to do (X).
Oghams #4, #2, & #6 represent the chronological sequence of events that unfolds if the reader chooses not to do (X).
Your Decision Reading
The Significator![]() Émancholl |
Outcome if you do it: | ||
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![]() Ngetal Blocked |
![]() Iphin Blocked |
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Outcome if you don't do it: | |||
![]() Coll Blocked |
![]() Fearn |
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Émancholl
- Tree/Plant: Double Hazel / ‘Lover’s Vine’
- Kenning: ‘The Sacred Pair’
- Spiritual Lesson: True connection is mutual transformation.
- Reflective Question: What relationship calls me to become more than myself?
- Affirmation: ‘I grow through sacred union.’
Outcome if you do it:

Ur Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Heather
- Kenning: ‘Flower of Dreams’
- Spiritual Lesson: Dreams demand roots as much as wings.
- Reflective Question: What fragile dream do I need to protect and nourish?
- Affirmation: ‘I dream with rooted hope.’

Ngetal Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Reed
- Kenning: ‘Voice of the Waters’
- Spiritual Lesson: The purest messages are the simplest.
- Reflective Question: What truth needs my voice right now?
- Affirmation: ‘I am the voice of clear waters.’

Iphin Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Gooseberry
- Kenning: ‘The Tang of Life’
- Spiritual Lesson: Life stings—but it stings to wake you.
- Reflective Question: What bitterness must I bless so it can become my medicine?
- Affirmation: ‘I rise refreshed from the bite of truth.’
Outcome if you do not do it:

Coll Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Hazel
- Kenning: ‘Wellspring of Wisdom’
- Spiritual Lesson: Wisdom must be lived, not stored.
- Reflective Question: What hidden knowledge am I being invited to embrace?
- Affirmation: ‘I drink from the sacred well.’

Fearn
- Tree/Plant: Alder
- Kenning: ‘Shield of the Warriors’
- Spiritual Lesson: Strength is found not in stubbornness, but in sacred resilience.
- Reflective Question: What cause truly deserves my courage right now?
- Affirmation: ‘I am the bridge and the battleground.’

Ailm
- Tree/Plant: Silver Fir
- Kenning: ‘Pillar of Resilience’
- Spiritual Lesson: True resilience bends without breaking.
- Reflective Question: What inner root keeps me alive through winter?
- Affirmation: ‘I endure, evergreen and steadfast.’