Relationship Layout #2

 

 

Difficulty: Easy

This relationship layout focuses more on the common ground of the relationship, with three oghams in the middle column showing the common ground. The middle column essentially displays the past, present, and future of the relationship.

Ogham #4 stands for the common base of the relationship, which may be thought of as the past events which have shaped their characters, bringing them together. The current connection that binds them together is Ogham #3, indicating the values shared. Ogham #7 implies the common goals that would keep the pair together moving into the future.

The columns on either side show what each partner brings to the table. Remember, relationships need not be romantic, and the partners could even be groups rather than individuals. In this layout, the other person is on the left-hand side and the reader on the right.

Oghams #1 & #2 indicate the separate personalities of each member of the relationship. These oghams form a sort of bridge with the oghams beneath them, #5 & #6, which show the qualities that each partner offers the other person, and thus to the relationship as a whole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Relationship #2 Reading

	Mutual Goals
Your Qualities	Connection (Present)	Others' Qualities
What You Bring	Common Base (Past)	What They Bring

 

 

 

 

7: Mutual Goals

Onn Blocked

• Tree/Plant: Gorse
• Kenning: ‘Flame of Fertility’

Blocked Gorse burns out of control or gutters to ash. Lust without love, ambition without honour—these are false flames. Don't waste your fire chasing mirages. Let your passions be sacred, not consuming.

• Spiritual Lesson: Sacred fire creates; false fire consumes.
• Reflective Question: Where does my fire want to bloom?
• Affirmation: ‘I blaze the barren into bloom.’

 

 

 

 

3: Connection

Beith Blocked

• Tree/Plant: Birch
• Kenning: ‘Brightest of Trees’

The gateway of renewal stands before you—but you refuse to walk through it. Beith reversed warns of clinging to sorrow, old failures, or toxic familiarity. No blessing can be placed into a hand already full of ashes. You may resist endings because they demand grief; you may resist beginnings because they demand courage. There is no shortcut. Shed the skin. Burn the past. Walk nude into the new.

• Spiritual Lesson: Purification requires surrender; beginnings require mourning.
• Reflective Question: What old story must I finally lay to rest to allow my rebirth?
• Affirmation: ‘I welcome the purity of the unknown.’

 

 

 

 

4: Common Base

Ruis

• Tree/Plant: Elder
• Kenning: ‘Death’s Gateway’

Elder stands at the threshold of endings and beginnings. Ruis calls you to sacred surrender: mourn, release, and prepare to be reborn. Transformation is not gentle; it strips you down. Accept the death of what must fall away. Only then can the new roots find soil.

• Spiritual Lesson: True rebirth demands true mourning.
• Reflective Question: What am I still carrying that must be laid to rest?
• Affirmation: ‘I bless the ending and welcome the new.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2: Your Qualities

Duir Blocked

• Tree/Plant: Oak
• Kenning: ‘Door to Strength’

Blocked Oak crumbles into tyranny or weakness. You may either dominate when you should lead, or abdicate when you should stand firm. Know the difference between stubborn pride and rightful authority. Strength unused is strength lost. Step up—or step aside.

• Spiritual Lesson: Power without purpose is decay.
• Reflective Question: Where must I claim authority—or surrender pride?
• Affirmation: ‘I am the door that withstands all storms.’

 

 

 

 

1: Their Qualities

Luis Blocked

• Tree/Plant: Rowan
• Kenning: ‘Delight of the Eye’

When Luis is blocked, the eyes deceive, and the spirit grows porous. Trust given lightly is trust betrayed. Omens grow cloudy; intuition is warped by fear or yearning. The shield has cracks; unseen influences may leech through if vigilance is not restored. Test every vision against the flame of reason. Listen more to what is unsaid than what is proclaimed. Protection demands discernment as much as faith.

• Spiritual Lesson: True insight demands patience, not desperation.
• Reflective Question: Where am I mistaking wishful thinking for true intuition?
• Affirmation: ‘My spirit sharpens to the truth.’

 

 

 

 

6: What You Bring

Gort Blocked

 

 

 

 

5: What They Bring

Nion

• Tree/Plant: Ash
• Kenning: ‘World-Tree of the Ancestors’

Ash roots into the underworld and crowns into the heavens. Nion is the ladder between realms—initiation, connection, growth beyond the self. You are called to think larger: your actions ripple beyond your little life. A decision made today weaves into the bones of your descendants. Rise into responsibility. Carry the vision of the ancestors with you, but blaze new trails they could only dream of.

• Spiritual Lesson: True growth demands humility before the unseen web of life.
• Reflective Question: What legacy am I weaving with my daily choices?
• Affirmation: ‘I walk the worlds rooted and crowned.’