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
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7: Mutual Goals
Fearn Blocked
- 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.’

3: Connection
Iodhadh Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Yew
- Kenning: ‘Tree of Death and Continuity’
- Spiritual Lesson: Death is not the end—it is the sacred beginning beneath all beginnings.
- Reflective Question: What am I clinging to that refuses to die cleanly?
- Affirmation: ‘I descend to rise.’

4: Common Base
Eadha Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Aspen
- Kenning: ‘Shield of Courage’
- Spiritual Lesson: Courage is trembling action.
- Reflective Question: What fear am I called to face and outgrow?
- Affirmation: ‘I tremble, but I move.’

2: Your Qualities
Quert
- Tree/Plant: Apple
- Kenning: ‘Fruit of the Otherworld’
- Spiritual Lesson: True abundance is joyful, generous, and reverent.
- Reflective Question: Where am I denying myself the blessings of life?
- Affirmation: ‘I taste joy without fear.’

1: Their Qualities
Émancholl Blocked
- 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.’

6: What You Bring
Ngetal Blocked

5: What They Bring
Saille Blocked
- Tree/Plant: Willow
- Kenning: ‘Sweeping Elegance’
- Spiritual Lesson: Mastery of emotion is achieved through movement, not denial.
- Reflective Question: Where am I refusing to let grief or inspiration flow?
- Affirmation: ‘I bend; I do not break.’