Hey! Yew!

[grahadh]

No: HPFGUIDX 90027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Hunt" <tcyhunt at e...>
wrote:
> <frost_indri at y...> wrote:
> > Frost:
> >  
> > Ok, sorry for the bad pun, but they are my specialty.
> >  
> >   So all the talk about EIHWAZ made me curiouse. I looked it up. 
> SOme places it looked more like a bit of lightning than others,
so... 
> meh...  But then you read that it is the symbol for the "Yew tree."
 
> 
> <snip lots of yew stuff>
> 
> now Tcy:
> I knew this all sounded a little familiar...so I did a search and I 
> was right...there was a thread (back in December, 2003) and some 
> follow-up posts that you might want to check out:
> Berit started it with:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85551 
> and the thread continues with contributions by tigerpatronus, 
> udderpendragon and justcarol67
> Then, Bohcoo picks it up again with:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/87238
> and the thread continues with contributions by granaiogirl, 
> ghinghapuss, jdr0928, drednort and madamessnape.
> ...happy hunting,
> Tcy
> (who loves it when her memory actually works)

Now Dhyana:

I did a google search for more information about runes and wood and
found 
some interesting infomation that I haven't found mentioned in all the
great 
information given about about Holly and Yew (though it may have been
and I 
wasn't able to find the post).  That is that they are considered
complimentary 
in meaning to one another to makers of runes.

Yew: masculine
-aggressive
-victory
-conquest
-strength of will
-invincibility
-the hunter

Holly: feminine
-mercy
-love
-compassion
-lifegiver
-creation
-new life
-regeneration

Another point of interest I found very illuminating is that each rune
is 
associated with a stone , a flower, and a tree.  The only rune that I
found 
associated with Holly was mannaz, which means cooperation, collective 
skills, humanity, and the commongood.

-Dhyana