The Celts – The Celtic people were a strong and diverse race who occupied the British Isles and much of Western Europe centuries before the rise of the Roman Empire.  Their beliefs, kept by their spiritual and scholarly caste, the Druids, were based largely on the energies and balances of the natural and supernatural worlds.  It was a belief system strongly tied to equality between the masculine and feminine aspects of nature.  Druids could be either men or women and the Druidesses represented the spirits that lived in the trees.  To the Celts, plants, especially trees, were sacred and possessed their own spirits.  Each species was believed to represent a set of attributes, knowledge and wisdom. 

     The Celtic calendar is based on the cycles of the moon and so has 13 months.  Each of these lunar cycles is linked to a particular tree.  Depending on the moon an individual is born under, a specific tree and its attributes is believed to govern that persons life.  

In addition to trees the Celts also associated animals
with the 13 lunar months.

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