Ogham - Celtic Oracle

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About this app

Ogham is the earliest written form of Irish -letters cut as strokes across a line on standing stones, from roughly the 4th to 6th centuries. Twenty letters in four families of five, called aicmí, with five later additions, the forfeda. Each letter is a fid; together they are the feda, and each carries the name of a tree.

This app puts all twenty-five of them in your hand: the glyph, the tree, the sound, the meaning, and a way to read them.

CAST THE FEDA
Three spreads, drawn without repeats:
• Single - one fid for the question at hand
• Three - past, present, future
• Five - issue, obstacle, advice, influences, outcome
Reversed readings are available but off by default, because classical Ogham has no reversed form. Every cast is kept, so you can read it again later.

A FID FOR EACH DAY
One fid stands for the day, the same for everyone, the same every time you open it. Reveal it, keep a streak, and see where the day falls in the thirteen-month tree calendar.

HOME-SCREEN WIDGET
Today's fid, its glyph carved in Ogham strokes, and its reading - refreshed at midnight. Tap it to open the day.

THE FULL FEDA
Browse all twenty-five: Beith the birch, Luis the rowan, Fearn the alder, on through the four aicmí to the forfeda. For each one: keywords, what the tree means, how it reads in a spread, and how it reads reversed.

LORE THAT TELLS YOU THE TRUTH
Six articles on what Ogham actually is: the alphabet and its inscriptions, the structure of the four aicmí, where the tree associations come from, how a reading works, and an honest note on authenticity. Ogham was writing, not fortune-telling. The oracular use of the feda and Robert Graves' Beth-Luis-Nion tree calendar are modern reconstructions, and the app says so plainly rather than pretending to an unbroken tradition. Sources and licences are credited in full.

WORKS ANYWHERE
Everything is on the device. No account, no sign-in, no internet needed to cast or read. Your readings are never uploaded.

Free, supported by ads. A single one-time purchase removes every ad, permanently, on any device signed in with the same Google account.

The Ogham glyphs are rendered in Noto Sans Ogham (SIL Open Font License), credited in the app.

What’s new

Production v1