Signs of Goddess Freyja

 

The goddess Freyja is associated with love and beauty. She is also a symbol of the magical Brisingamen necklace, a coat made of falcon feathers, the Hildisvini boar, her chariot, the triple crescent, sacred flower daisy, Bygul and Trjegul the cats. Freyja is also the goddess of fertility, motherhood, childbirth, death and war. Her epithets include Lady of the Slain, Goddess of Love, Lady of the Vanir, Sea Brightener, Giver and Goddess beautiful in tears. Offerings to Freyja are food (honey, mead, wine), precious objects (jewellery and cat figures) and sweet scents (perfumes, candles and incense).   

Her twin brother is the god Frey. So Freyja and Frey (brother and sister) represent the sign of Gemini. They're both "divine twins". Freyja is a sorceress and teaches magical arts. Her character is very important to the land, crops and trees too. She gave magical wisdom to the Aesir and provided the knowledge of the Seidr to Odin. The name of Her dwelling is a hall in the meadows of Folkvangr, where souls of slain warriors are led. If they don't get to Valhalla, they will go to Folkvangr. 

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Happy flowers

 

There are some very interesting flowers with a look of laughter and happiness about them. These are mainly colourful spring and summer blooms. 

They include the purple ascocenda flowers, Viola tricolor hotensis "laughing pansies", orphrys bombylflora, Calceolaria uniflora, Catasetum epiphytic, vanda tessellata, Aliceara Tahoma Glacier, blue passionflower, Kohleria, Lindenbergia and Conophytum pagaea.

Check them all out on Balcony Garden Web: Link  

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Moons of Uranus

Planet Uranus has a number of moons and some of them could have life and water. These moons, named Ariel, Umbriel, Oberon and Titania are the moons that are believed to contain water, and even hold oceans and fresh cool streams, and maybe feel warm enough to create life forms. So what does this mean? 

Various findings and discoveries have explored these ideas after different space missions sent satellites and probes. Out of the Uranus planet's 27 orbiting moons, these particular four moons that I have already mentioned have water. It's said that these oceans might be dozens of miles deep under icy crusts. These lunar seas are likely underground. It's believed that aliens could be living there, and if so they might be animals thriving in and around the waters of these moons. Besides water there are superb cliffs and mountains, even crystals in the shape of palaces. If that isn't enough, the skies over the moons would be colourful as rainbows. Among the stars would be the large pale blue planet of Uranus, a giant ice world, visible all of the time from the surface of the moons.    

Let me explain more about the four surprising moons first. Titania is the biggest moon of Uranus, and named after queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." As the same for Oberon, also a character from the same play and is second biggest moon. Ariel is one of the smallest moons and round shaped, who is named after a spirit in "The Rape of the Lock" poem by Alexander Pope and "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Umbriel is also named after a character in the same poem by Pope. The planet Uranus is named from Greek mythology, a primordial deity who was husband of Gaia and their offspring were the earliest Titans. He was later castrated by his own son Cronus. His severed genitalia was thrown into the sea and that foam created beautiful goddess Aphrodite. 

Is it possible that humans could visit one of these moons for a cosmic spa trip? Well my answer has to be, only in your dreams.

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The May Queen

 Let us celebrate the season of May and delve into the magical time of flowers and dancing. Traditionally the May Queen is a girl dressed in white with flowers in her hair, and appears during a festival with a maypole. The May Queen comes from ancient pagan celebrations of Spring to Summer, fertility and beauty. Much is tied with roots in both the respect and worship of nature and towards the blessed gift of agriculture. The cycles of seasons and regrowth of new budding plants that offer food, medicine and signs of a healthy soil. Some associate the May Queen with Spring goddesses Flora, Persephone, Ostara, Idunn and Brigid. The celebration of the May Queen is held in most countries in Europe, when a maiden is chosen to represent the May Queen or the Flower Girl. 

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