Game Plan Layout

Game Plan Layout

 

 

Difficulty: Easy

When a person has a certain plan in mind, this simple five-ogham layout presents a choice, hinting at what action or attitude should be taken for their plan to succeed, and what should be avoided to help the plan work out for the best.

The initial ogham is laid in the centre of the layout, the significator. The following four oghams are laid out clockwise around the significator.

In this layout, the second ogham is about what drives the reader, but also says they are not fully conscious of this, perhaps even completely unaware of it. It provides a hint as to the reason they strive for their goal.

The third ogham uncovers what others think of the reader and their goals. The reader may or may not be aware of this. Sometimes other people factor into the plans (and sometimes they don't).

The fourth ogham suggests what not to do. If things are permitted to go down this path, the plan will collapse.

The fifth ogham is a hint as to how to make this plan work out favourably. The idea this ogham presents should be followed to make the plan successful. It is the differences between Oghams #4 & #5 that should be noted, as the differences provide important clues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Game Plan Reading

Unconscious Drive

Eadha
  External Influences

Muin Blocked
  Significator

Uilleann
 
How it Will Succeed

Tinne
  How it Will Not Succeed

Émancholl

 

 

 

 

Uilleann

  • Tree/Plant: Honeysuckle
  • Kenning: ‘Hidden Sweetness’
Uilleann wraps and winds—sweetness found not in plain sight, but in spirals. This is the glyph of unseen blessings and secret pathways. Trust the detour. Trust the fragrance that pulls at your soul. Follow what draws you, not what shouts at you. Life’s richest nectar is rarely on the main road.

  • Spiritual Lesson: Not all that tempts is treasure—but real treasure rarely announces itself.
  • Reflective Question: What unseen blessing have I ignored?
  • Affirmation: ‘I follow sweetness hidden in shadow.’

 

 

 

 

Eadha

  • Tree/Plant: Aspen
  • Kenning: ‘Shield of Courage’
Aspen trembles, but does not break. Its quivering leaves are a badge of bravery, not fear. Eadha reminds you that courage doesn’t mean fearlessness—it means motion through fear. Shake if you must. Just move anyway.

  • Spiritual Lesson: Courage is trembling action.
  • Reflective Question: What fear am I called to face and outgrow?
  • Affirmation: ‘I tremble, but I move.’

 

 

 

 

Muin Blocked

  • Tree/Plant: Vine
  • Kenning: ‘Binding of Intoxication’
Blocked Vine is clinging, addiction, or entanglement in illusions. Are you chasing connection so hard you’ve lost yourself? Beware false intoxications: relationships, substances, ideas that promise bliss but deliver bondage. Choose sacred connection over entrapment.

  • Spiritual Lesson: True connection uplifts; false ties consume.
  • Reflective Question: Where am I entangled in illusion?
  • Affirmation: ‘I choose sacred union, not bondage.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Émancholl

  • Tree/Plant: Double Hazel / ‘Lover’s Vine’
  • Kenning: ‘The Sacred Pair’
Émancholl is duality in harmony: the sacred twin, the mirror, the double thread. This glyph speaks to powerful relationships—those that complete you, challenge you, transform you. Be it a person, a dream, or a path, what you are entwined with now is sacred. Tend it. Honour the tension. Let it make you whole.

  • Spiritual Lesson: True connection is mutual transformation.
  • Reflective Question: What relationship calls me to become more than myself?
  • Affirmation: ‘I grow through sacred union.’

 

 

 

 

Tinne

  • Tree/Plant: Holly
  • Kenning: ‘Warrior’s Crown’
Tinne, the battle tree, grants you the armour of spirit. Now is the time for honourable combat—whether internal or external. Holly speaks to inner resilience, self-defence, and strategic action. You are not called to start wars, but to win them if they come. Focus your energy. Fight for what feeds your soul, not your vanity.

  • Spiritual Lesson: Victory is hollow without a worthy cause.
  • Reflective Question: What is truly worth fighting for now?
  • Affirmation: ‘I wear the crown of sacred battle.’

 

 

 

 

 

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