Ogham — Runes: Week of Monday, October 26

Coll is the hazel, and its three kennings are all compliments: fairest of trees, sweetest of trees, friend of nutshells. The last is a joke about how much shell you get through to reach a kernel. Hazelnuts were gathered rather than grown. They needed no ploughing, only somebody willing to go out and pick them. This week the reading points at a resource that already exists and has not been collected, such as advice you were given and never used, or a contact you never followed up. Go and gather it. Expect the shells, because opening is slower than eating. The hazel's best-known story ends with a boy who burns his thumb and receives the wisdom meant for somebody else, so pay attention to what you learn by accident.