Tinne---Holly _| The Holly King _| Balance-Justice-Challenge

Tree: The Green Knight is said to have a club made of Holly wood.  Holly was often used for the construction of chariot shafts.  The chariot was the chief vehicle of the ancient Celtic Warrior.  In lore, the Holly and Oak form sort of a twin pair.  Throughout the year, the Holly and Oak Kings would slay each other in turn as the season passed from summer to winter to summer again.  Twinning the Holly and Oak may indeed have its roots in Oghamic Lore in that it may be linguistically based.  The T and D sounds are really variants of one another.  This is the kind of lore important to poets, bards, and other practitioners of verbal magic.

Expression: Holly is a sign of the winter months when the cold and bitter tests Mother Nature herself.  It is also a sign of revenge or vengeance taken for wrongs done to someone or to one's self, or to one's family or loved ones.  As a sign of perfect balance, it is that force which will act in retribution for actions done.  Thus the Holly is a sign of justice and retribution.  Just as the Oak King slays his brother in the summer, the Holly King returns the gesture in the autumn each year.

Divination: Tinne indicates that challenges and testing ordeals are on the way.  You are to be as the Holly is: steadfast in adversity, remaining green and vital during the hardships and bitter cold of winter.  You need to face life's challenges with the energy of a warrior.  Even in adversity, your strength will increase.  There is a directed balance and a capacity to unify two sides of a question or problem.  There is the need to regain balance of some sort.  Often retribution plays a key role in this Ogham, as the old law states "an eye for an eye."  To maintain this balance, an act must be returned for another act.  Good begets good and evil begets evil.  With a sense of justice, you can overcome all harmful influences.  There may be some legal or money matters in the offing.

The Challenge of the Holly Ogham is that there is a lack of direction or balance, and that you might be at present unequipped to deal with present hardships or challenges.  There may be a lack of balance in your life or justice may not be served.  A harmful act may go without vengeance or a benevolent act may go without the proper thanks.  There is a need for more knowledge, perhaps, but certainly the need to communicate your ideas as well effectively.  Someone is being overwhelmed by the lust of revenge.  Fear and cowardice are holding you back.  Self-doubt leads to unwillingness to weed out your own weaknesses.  Avoidance with the just truth.  There may also be problems with aggressiveness.

Tinne in The Fifths
Mide, Center: Tinne in Focus
(P) Steadfastness.  You sense of balance and justice is in focus right now.  You know what must be done to right a wrong and you must remain steadfast in that resolution.  It is time for rewards to be handed to the just, and punishment to be dealt to the unjust.
(N) Though the effort mat have been a positive and constructive one, the effects will be negative.  One can not always understand the workings of fate and destiny.
Seis, South: Tinne in Fire is Judgment.
What you need to learn, or be aware of, is that for every action there is an equal but opposing reaction.  This is often called judgment.  It may become time for you to remain more determined in a decision that you have made.
Fis, West: Tinne in Water
(P) Balance regained in a relationship.  Emotional balance.  hard work in a relationship trying to regain balance will produce great results
(N) What you may need to do to regain harmony is to apply the concept of balance to your life and remain fair and just in all that you do.  Balance can not be stopped, for when we tip the scales one way, sooner or later another force will return them to rest in the center.
Cath, North: Tinne in Earth is Preparation.
A swing of the scales is about to manifest.  It is time for you to prepare for the effects of your past actions.  What goes around is about to come around.  So, rather than fighting the inevitable, prepare to count your wins or your losses.
Blath, East: Tinne in Air
(P) Good Judgment.  There will be intellectual balance.
(N) Vengeance.  Apply imbalanced intellect to Tinne and vengeance is usually the result.  Someone has injured another and it is time to atone for that act.  Understand that "what goes around comes around."