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The Graves tree calendar: a living modern reconstruction, kept distinct from ancient ogham evidence.

The modern tree calendar · month 12

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Reed

nGetal · Ng · ᚍ

The fixed modern assignment

date range28 Oct–24 Nov
calendar position12 of 13
ogham namenGetal
letter valueNg

Two dates, two histories

The ogham character belongs to an early Irish writing tradition. Its use as one of thirteen birth-month signs belongs to the Graves-derived calendar published and adopted in the twentieth century.

Printing those layers together is useful only when the page refuses to make them the same age.

What is not claimed

No ancient source says people born in this range share a reed personality. Modern authors have supplied many such lists, often with incompatible dates and traits; they remain outside this structural corpus.

Sources

The White Goddess establishes the modern system; museum and university sources establish what ogham evidence actually supports. See the Celtic source panel →

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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Place data from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0.