First Aicme

Idho

(Ee-oh / Ee-oo)

"I honor the ending and begin again."

Aicme Group:
Ailm
Element:
Earth/Spirit
Keywords:
death & rebirth; eternity; ancestry
Season:
Deep winter
Symbols:
bow; graveyard; spiral
Colors:
deep green; red arils; black
Tree:
Yew

Meaning

Death-rebirth, ancestry, and initiatory stillness. Honor endings; sit with the elder silence; let the cycle turn without rushing.

Yew is death’s bow and the evergreen crypt of ancestors. Kennings intone oldest age, silence, and rebirth in shadow. It is deep time, initiation, and the spiral from ending to beginning.