Ur is the card of luck, potential, and newness. As Ohn is the ogham of material good fortune, Ur is the ogham of good luck in life events and of strength and health in the physical body and mental attitudes. Because it pertains to happenings, it is an oracular card but it is also a powerful spell-working ogham to help events come to a happy completion.

Just as Ohn and Ur are linked oghams, so are Feoh and Ur linked runes. Ohn and Feoh are discussed in the previous card page, and are both wealth symbols. Unlike Oak, Birch, and Yew where the ogham and rune are the same tree, Ur is not the same symbol in the runes and the ogham. The rune Ur is the Auroc, an extinct wild cow something like a musk ox or a water buffalo. This is a symbol of tremendous strength and power. Perhaps it says something about their cultural identities that the most powerful symbol to the Celt was luck while the correspondingly powerful symbol to the Norse was strength.

There is a valuable lesson in this rune pair. Feoh and Ur are domestic cattle and the wild auroc, and their secondary meanings (linked to these symbols) are slavery and freedom. We should remember this and realize that wealth will alleviate our money concerns but that luck, health, and strength will free us from worry. The reversed card tells us that there is low vitality or insufficient drive, something that needs to be healed before we can move forward.

The bee is connected to Ur. The Ur line in the Ogham teaching poem refers to this symbol as well as to the power of this ogham-"I am the Queen of every Hive." The Celts believed that the bee, like the raven, was able to fly from this world to the other world. Although the other world can be described as the Spirit World, for the Celt the Spirit World and Tir-na-Og are slightly different concepts. Tir-na-Og can be translated as the Land of Youth, or the Land of Never-Ending Spring but the most meaningful description for me is the place where what we wish to be true is true. It is a place of rest, where we wait to return to the world again or to travel up the spiral to something else.

The fully laden bee can always fly directly to its hive from the last flower. Using the ley lines, it can fly from Tir-na-Og to us carrying, not messages like the raven, but the intangibles of luck and health.