ᚊ Quert — apple / heart

Center and affection

Quert, usually rendered as the apple letter in modern tree alphabets, is associated with the heart and the centre of affection. The midline chest anchor presents the familiar modern body symbol while keeping its non-canonical status explicit.

ᚁ Beith — birch / lungsᚂ Luis — rowan / nervesᚅ Nion — ash / spineᚃ Fearn — alder / shouldersᚄ Saille — willow / eyesᚆ Huath — hawthorn / teethᚇ Duir — oak / bonesᚈ Tinne — holly / jointsᚉ Coll — hazel / brainᚊ Quert — apple / heartᚊ Quert — apple / heartᚋ Muin — vine / neckᚌ Gort — ivy / skinᚍ nGéadal — reed / throatᚎ Straif — blackthorn / glandsᚏ Ruis — elder / blood

Point 10 of 15 in Celtic Ogham — tree-letter body correspondences

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Book of Ballymote (primary_canonical)

Supports Quert/apple in the Ogham tradition, not a canonical cardiac map.

Modern neo-pagan Ogham body-correspondence tables (secondary)

Supports the apple/heart association used here; variants are common.

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