Birthday cheers

 

Happy Birthday to our dearest friend who owns She Wolf Night blog! 

May this be a relaxing and blessed day for you, queen of the wolves, a lovely lady with a gentle soul and caring nature. All of us are behind you, and healing sent, as you're still suffering from the illness you had many years ago. 

I want to tell you and everyone else reading, that there was an ancient ceramic wolf unearthed in Spain. They found a piece of broken carving showing a painted wolf's head. Located in Corral del Castell in Cunit, north eastern Spain was where archaeologists made this discovery. The fragment is believed to have been part of many important relics. Wolves held significant value among people, both as a symbol of strength and in religion and spirituality, as wolves were revered by ancient Iberian people more than 2,000 years ago. 

On your birthday, I'm not going to bring any doom and gloom. So please ladies and gents, no unhappy breaking news reports in the comments section. 

Another nice piece of news about the three dire wolves brought back from extinction. Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, who are all hunting as a pack of three. They've been hunting in a contained wooded area, catching small prey and seeming to play with them instead of killing them. They're showing signs of doing well, growing still and at a youthful phase. These animals didn't have parents to help show them. The company Colossal Biosciences helped restore the extinct dire wolves, and they have mentioned plans to restore other extinct wildlife such as the dodo, moa bird, thylacine and mammoth. 

Everyone have a wonderful day and all positive blessings! 🌹🌹🌹

Storm Valkyrie       

Red raindrops

If anyone is noticing blood coloured rain falling from the clouds, then don't worry. Blood rain isn't actually blood. It's just sand blown over from the Sahara desert, all the way up towards Europe. Weather forecasts predict orange clouds and blood rain this month.

Blood rain is unpleasant to see and frightens people enough to think of it as a terrible warning sign or an omen of death. It's a rare but very natural event. For more on this strange phenomena, read about blood coloured rain on Wikipedia: Blood rain 

Just make sure to use umbrellas. 

Storm Valkyrie 

Storm and Shadow chat

Storm Valkyrie: The full moon last week was called the Worm Moon because it's a March full moon. It's named thus because of the earth worms freely moving in wetter soil during more rainy weather and temperatures warmer and lighter, attracting more worms.

Shadow Girl: I often thought the March full moon was a "wyrm moon" instead of a worm moon. Wyrm and worm are the same sounding. Both means crawling and in the ground. A wyrm is Old English and describes a serpent looking dragon. 

Storm Valkyrie: So you mean March is a dragon moon. I do like the sound of that but it's fantasy.

Shadow Girl: Spiritually, yes. Especially when the March full moon is also a blood moon.

Storm Valkyrie: There's Venus and Saturn in the sky closely viewed together, with House of Pisces nearby. The grandfather, the princess and sea. We've also got the Greek myth of Aphrodite and her son Eros transforming into fish to escape from the monster Typhon. Nearby is Pegasus, the winged horse who represents freedom. All of that can be viewed through a telescope.

Shadow Girl: It doesn't reflect what's going on here on the ground. Earthworms, snakes and dragons don't care about the cosmos. They're not always looking upwards and wondering about all the stars.

Storm Valkyrie: All of it affects us in some way or other. Worms are a sign of spring and snakes are symbolic of transformation. The seasons change. Winter makes way for spring and so on. 

Shadow Girl: There is also dark and light. 

Storm Valkyrie: Night and day. The inner and outer. Subconsciousness and awake. The moon is like that. There is a hidden side we never ever see. The dark side of the moon is like the deep unknown.

Shadow Girl: You mentioned spring, the time when Persephone returns to the ground from the Underworld. 

Storm Valkyrie: The goddess Persephone is both light and dark, she has the side which is springtime, flowers and warmth on the earth when she arrives to be with her mother. The other side of Persephone is a queen of the dead, living in the Underworld. A bit like goddess Hel, ruler of the Norse underworld and the dead. Hel is portrayed as half and half. Modern interpretations have her appearing more hideous than the way ancients perceived her. She used to look half light and half shadow. Now she's half beautiful and half corpse. 

Shadow Girl: Hel doesn't have a husband that is ruler of the Underworld. She wasn't kidnapped and taken there. 

Storm Valkyrie: No but her father was trickster god Loki and Hel was given the dominion of ruling the dead. Much of northern myths and legends was written down during the Middle Ages by monks. We've lost so much of Norse mythological stories because it was shared orally. Besides that we have the season of Ostara coming up, another aspect of the spring goddess. 

Storm Valkyrie and Shadow Girl          

Protection

 The Algiz is a rune for protection against negativity. It can block anything nasty and bad, including harmful energy, evil spirits, danger and curses. To use this rune, it's believed drawing the symbol on the inside of your right wrist. This rune symbolises the elk, and represents the letter Z. It's element is Air and so this means the rune can look like antlers or a branch of a tree. Standing upright, it's a guardian and powerful protector. Reversed though, upside down, it's about war, unprotection and feeling helpless. 

During the end of the month, with the early flowers growing for spring, snowdrops, daffodils, bringing awakened animals out from hibernation, with the feeling of relief and hope. All this was dashed once the  Hagalaz rune appeared. This rune means hail, chaos and destruction, like a violent storm that appears all of a sudden. It's moment is considered necessary to make way for something else. It also is seen as the Jungian shadow, the cold, ice and water, number 9 and goddess Hel. It could be looked upon as transformation. A cleansing and a cycle of turmoil leading to rebirth and transformation of changes. 

While events are uncontrollable, we can reflect on our inner selves, learn how to be calm and use patience to wait for the shift. Use the Algiz rune during this time, the highest rune of protection and a sanctuary, becoming an umbrella for you. Algiz has strong links with the earth and spend time focusing on your surroundings, become one with the ground and open yourself to wildlife. Use ny positive inspiration and creativity to express yourself. Learn to love yourself and feel empathy towards others including animals and even the tiniest creatures. 

(Above is the bind rune of Algiz and Dagaz).

Storm Valkyrie