I have just received this Oracle. I have loved trees for a long time - as a little girl I was always climbing them and sitting up there, dreaming...
I used to climb our tall pine tree; and also the apple and large cherry tree. There was also a giant birch tree I used to sit under, to read or write or just daydream. She was like a vegetable mother to me. And a hazel that was at the bottom of the garden, I used to go and see how it was faring, talk to it, look at its growing hazelnuts - and eat them when they ripened! Later, in another garden, the willow by the stream, which used to shimmer in the wind, was my favourite.
Looking at the Oracle, I see all those trees and plants there, and some more I loved, like honeysuckle and hawthorn and beech.
The book tells me pines give an overview - and certainly I had a very good view from my tall pine!; apple lends clear and deep vision; the birch gets you off to a good start; the hawthorn presents you with a challenge; honeysuckle is magic and the noble beech helps you across a threshold. The lovely willow brings harmony and inspiration. It was the card I drew for "what I need now."
The book - mine has no faults btw - also tells you various legends and myths associated with trees, as well as popular lore - hazel, for instance, is known as the faery tree, has magical properties, and its wood is used to make dowsers wands (as is willow); it is also a tree of fertility. It is not a thick compendium but enough to start me off on my own explorations.
More than anything, the oracle is giving me the urge - the urgency! - to cycle over to Jussy Forest, about 4 kilometres away, and pay a visit to the trees there....
So, whether I can read with it or no - too soon to tell - I think I will find much pleasure, inspiration and folklore in this oracle. I have already used it once in a reading on this forum, in conjuction with the DruidCraft. They go very well together.