Sharlyn Hidalgo - The Healing Power of Trees: Spiritual Journeys Through the Celtic Tree Calendar

Giacomo Tosti

About the Author

Sharlyn Hidalgo, MA, has been a practicing astrologer, dream interpreter, and tarot reader for more than twenty-five years. She teaches classes on the Egyptian Mysteries and the Celtic tree calendar, is a certified practitioner and teacher of Alchemical Healing, and has worked as a counselor in agencies and in private practice. Visit her blog at www.alchemicalhealingarts.blogspot.com.

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The Healing Power of Trees: Spiritual Journeys Through the Celtic Tree Calendar 2010 by Sharlyn Hidalgo.

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First e-book edition 2010

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This book is dedicated to my children,
my nieces and nephews, and their children,
who carry on the dreams and aspirations
of our ancestors from the British Isles.

: Giving Back to the Trees

The Celtic Tree Calendar

November 128

November 29December 26

December 27January 23

January 24Feburary 20

February 21March 20

March 21April 17

April 18May 15

May 16June 12

June 13July 10

June 13July 10 (Same as Coll/Hazel)

July 11August 7

August 8September 4

September 5October 2

September 5October 2 (Same as Ngetal/Reed)

October 330

October 31

Appendices

: The Vowels and the Consonant and
Vowel Combinations

: The Twenty-Five Ogham Letters, Trees, and
Runes Chart

: The Celtic Wheel of the Year and the
Thirteen Moons

: Celtic Holidays and Celebrations

: Calling the Directions

The oak and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what the story of the trees would be to us if they had tongues to tell, or we ears fine enough to understand.

Author Unknown,
quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions
by Maud Van Buren, 1938

I began this journey out of a deep desire for connection with spirit. I did not know how to do this, yet I followed an intuitive thread towards my own heritage from the British Isles. I chose books that might inform me. I held ceremonies that honored the full moon for a year, then the new moon for a year, and then the Celtic holidays for a year. Finally, I took on the ceremonies for each month of the Celtic tree calendar. I am so grateful to the men and women who came to my ceremonies and classes. I taught what I hoped to learn about, and I received more than I could have ever imagined. My greatest gift came as a knowing in my bones that other dimensions of love and light are available to us. I have experienced and seen miracles.

I am grateful to my many teachers, especially Starfeather, Starhawk, Diane Stein, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Vicki Noble, Danielle Rama Hoffman, Ffiona Morgan, Barbara Walker, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Nicki Scully. I want to thank my very first little circle with Beth Johns, Alice Quintance, and Margery Hite. Thank you to Gloria Taylor Brown and her channeling of Thoth, which prompted me to complete this book and get it to my publisher.

I want to thank my husband, Ricardo Hidalgo, and my children, Eli (Cairn) Werner-Limardi and Rianna Hidalgo, for their willingness to share our home so that I could teach classes and run ceremonies. This was no small sacrifice on their part. I want to thank all of my incredible nieces for their love and support as well.

I want to thank my first womens circle who met monthly for years: Nancy, Karen, Linda Sue, Deborah, Gina, Jennifer, Donna, and Willa. Thanks to my healing circle of Maxine, Colleen, Karen, Starfeather, Maggie, and Teresa. I am grateful to the men and women who came to my Celtic holiday ceremonies. Thanks too to the friends, acquaintances, and students who came to my tree circles, and thank you to all the women who attended my workshops in California, Oregon, and Seattle.

I want to thank Julia Adame, Connie Vierling, Jennifer McClure, Starfeather, Beth Johns, Karen Johansen, Willa Werner, and Sandy Nisley-Leader for their continual support and encouragement over the years. And I offer gratitude to my new friends and students and co-healers within the Alchemical Healing Community here in Seattle.

I am especially grateful to the tools of my trade: the tarot cards, astrology, the runes, and the healing arts of Alchemical Healing and Huna. I am grateful to the totems of Crone, Bear, Eagle, and Dolphin for all of their special teaching. And finally I thank my ancestors who once lived on the British Isles in the midst of woods and forests, long since gone thank you for this system of knowledge you have passed down through eons.

I especially want to thank the powerful healing of Hathors Sycamore tree that stands at the entrance to the temple of Ptah, Sekhmet, and Nefertum at the Karnak temple in Luxor, Eygpt. Thank you for the words I heard in Seti Is tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Oh, it is the tree lady. Welcome! This was a surprising encouragement! Here I experienced the light and love of who I am. This was not a place of death at all, but a blueprint for becoming.

Thank you for my personal symbol of the tree and the cup and the words Ancient Sovereignty given to me by my ancestors from the British Isles while in a guided visualization. Thank you to the Atlantians and Thoth for making sure wisdom and the principles of nature were given to the lands of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Britain.Lastly, thank you to the trees themselves for the wealth of teaching and magic support. I honor them and give my gratitude.