Birch (Beith)

Birch is the first tree of the Ogham and the first to colonize cleared or burned ground — nothing else will grow there yet, so birch goes first, alone, and makes the soil livable for what comes after it.

As a tree sign, this marks someone who starts things — the person first into a new job, a new city, a new chapter, before the path is proven. Your real gift isn't the fresh start itself but what you leave behind for it: cleared ground, room made, an old pattern actually ended rather than just paused.