...just for fun...
another get-to-know-you exercise ...

In the list below locate your birthday to find your tree.

To learn more about your tree in detail, click here.
When the page opens,
scroll down to read how well your tree knows you.

If you're so compelled,
do share what you discover,
that we might get to know each other better.

For starters, 
yours truly's is hazelnut 
which, if nothing else,
seems to explain my passion for hazelnut coffee ...

Jan 01 to Jan 11 - Fir Tree
Jan 12 to Jan 24 - Elm Tree
Jan 25 to Feb 03 - Cypress Tree
Feb 04 to Feb 08 - Poplar Tree
Feb 09 to Feb 18 - Cedar Tree
Feb 19 to Feb 28 Pine Tree
Mar 01 to Mar 10 - Weeping Willow Tree
Mar 11 to Mar 20 - Lime Tree
Mar 21 (only) -Oak Tree
Mar 22 to Mar 31 - Hazelnut Tree
Apr 01 to Apr 10 - Rowan Tree
Apr 11 to Apr 20 - Maple Tree
Apr 21 to Apr 30 - Walnut Tree
May 01 to May 14 - Poplar Tree
May 15 to May 24 - Chestnut Tree
May 25 to Jun 03 - Ash Tree
Jun 04 to Jun 13 - Hornbeam Tree
Jun 14 to Jun 23 - Fig Tree
Jun 24 (only) - Birch Tree
Jun 25 to Jul 04 - Apple Tree
Jul 05 to Jul 14 - Fir Tree
Jul 15 to Jul 25 -Elm Tree
Jul 26 to Aug 04 - Cypress Tree
Aug 05 to Aug 13 - Poplar Tree
Aug 14 to Aug 23 - Cedar Tree
Aug 24 to Sep 02 - Pine Tree
Sep 03 to Sep 12 - Weeping Willow Tree
Sep 13 to Sep 22 - Lime Tree
Sep 23 (only) - Olive Tree
Sep 24 to Oct 03 - Hazelnut Tree
Oct 04 to Oct 13 - Rowan Tree
Oct 14 to Oct 23 - Maple Tree
Oct 24 to Nov 11 - Walnut Tree
Nov 12 to Nov 21 - Chestnut Tree
Nov 22 to Dec 01 - Ash Tree
Dec 02 to Dec 11 - Hornbeam Tree
Dec 12 to Dec 21 - Fig Tree
Dec 22 (only) - Beech Tree
Dec 23 to Dec 31 - Apple Tree

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I admire the Bowdark, it makes fine weapons and is the Traditional wood for creating the NDN bow. Its also quite fun to pelt your fellows with horse apples. The Bowdark is very wiley and will hide from you.

I don’t know where the birthday/tree association comes from, but I do love hearing about what trees people love and connect with. 

Nay_ho_tze, you may already know this – in Celtic tradition the Hazelnut is associated with wisdom, and with doorways into Otherworld (NOR).  Thank you for posting those links!  I was intrigued by Tenlions mention of Bowdark, and read up on it – it’s a tree I’m not familiar with.  It’s wonderful to see an example of the wood.

Tenlions, your sharing introduced me to a tree I had not known about before – it sounds like a tree worthy of admiration.

Green, thank you for sharing about your work with poplar.  I feel like I’ve gotten to know it better through reading your words.

When I was a child the trees in our yard would feed me, shelter/hide me and comfort me – plum, cherry, mulberry and apple trees that I remember and love to this day.  The weeping willow was too young to climb, or to form a hiding place with its branches, but I loved its graceful shape and the way its slender branches moved in the wind, flowing like water. 

As I’ve studied and worked shamanically with my Celtic heritage I’ve deepened my connections with apple, oak and hawthorn, and begun to connect with hazelnut – all are trees of deep significance to Celtic peoples, especially those who live/lived in the British Isles.  My journeys with and to these trees have affected me deeply, and both Oak and Apple Tree have offered help when various ones of us in our Celtic circle have done work for healing and protection.

Mar 23, 2010 -- 4:39PM, Nay_ho_tze wrote:

I did not realize that
my connection to the Green Kingdom
also has origins in my Irish half 
as well as in my NDN half ...
any suggestions on discovering more
about the Irish connection?

=]

Moderated by Beliefnet_community on Apr 26, 2010 - 01:53PM

Mar 23, 2010 -- 4:39PM, Nay_ho_tze wrote:

Hey Kay –

You write: I don’t know where the birthday/tree association comes from but...
Me either –
I’ve tried to hunt the origins down to no avail –
most nevertheless marvel
at how well their tree description suits them ...

Thanks for sharing about hazelnut –
If I were to add that info to the meaning of my given name,
which is Gaelic for “ancient wise one”–
I might think that the Universe is a prankster!!
*lol*

I did not realize that
my connection to the Green Kingdom
also has origins in my Irish half 
as well as in my NDN half ...
any suggestions on discovering more
about the Irish connection?

My own love of trees began in childhood for me too...
I had run of an abandoned 14 acre apple orchard ...
I spent hours hidden among tree crowns,
reading books I’d lugged home 
from the mobile library’s latest visit.

...books and trees ...
IMO, ‘a grand and noble combination 
by any count...

=]

Yupper, Irish blood here to, makes me hanker for Guinness Stout now and then,<-->