Now we have entered the season of the Yew tree - sentinel of death and the graveyard, rebirth and eternity.   English Yew Tree   This is likewise the Cailleach’s time. She brings us her wisdom as the old crone who presides over death. She is the storm, and the ancient creator of the land. She is the cold and the ice, the Queen of winter.     The yew and the Cailleach are part ...