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Tuesday 9 September 2014

The Celtic Meaning Of The Gorse Tree

The Druids recognized that the gorse is voracious light seeker. They also understood it was an opportunistic plant, observing the seeds flinging off theparent (mostly on the warmest, brightest days) distancing themselves as far as possible in order to begin a new colony free to have more sun to themselves without the crowding branches of the parent nearby.

We may translate this behavior in our own lives when we feel we are being overshadowed or staunched into a certain peg hole. It may be time to leap out on our own and find our own sunny trails. When conformity becomes the norm, the gorse reminds us to always seek the higher road, the path of light.... read more>>>...