Keep cool with plants

 

There are many plants that can help during a heatwave or a time of Summer with drought and hot weather. If it feels like there's no air, or even when you're so thirsty and dehydrated, you need to take plenty of fluids. Water is a need, as instinctive traits urge to drink water and cold fluids such as fruit juices, cocktails, fizzy drinks, ice creams and so on. There's plants who can help.

Snake plants, often indoors can give a pleasant atmosphere and moisten the air. It can also help to purify the humid indoors and clean out floating toxins in the atmosphere, therefore reducing mould. It offers a cool oxygen during night time and helps during sleep.

Rubber plant or Ficus elastica can sooth heat indoors and create a more subtle relaxing home, calm and airy. 

Weeping fig is an indoor tree that manages the conditions of the air and reduces toxins. It creates a pleasant airy environment with a little coolness. 

Aloe vera is from a hot dry region and so can control indoor temperatures.

Lavender is an outdoor growing flowering plant that tolerates severe heat. 

More plants to have during Summer includes Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Oregano, Chives, Basil, Dill, Sedums, succulents, cacti, palms, Dianthus and Chinese evergreen. Most of all keeping in the shade of trees can keep you cool.

Storm Valkyrie    

Happy Summer!

 

Wishing everyone everywhere a really blessed beautiful happy positive Summer solstice!

Love,

Storm Valkyrie 💛🌺🌴🍒🌟

From the soil

 

The envious and the jealous are defined by the colour green. The angry are associated with red. Sadness and loss are often blue or grey. But there is a shade that means many things instead. This is yellow, a blazing bright hue, dancing and sparkling like the sun and stars and moon, with gold written all over it. The same that is linked to happiness, wisdom, wealth and also disease, fever, decay and age. 

It's not the colour we want to find in snow or on our pearly teeth. Yet yellow brings out positivity and also knowledge. This is the colour you don't want to see when there is tension and even war. Positive yellow things include yellow coloured gemstones, flowers, animals, fruit and even gold nuggets. Negative yellow things are illnesses, rot, danger, warnings and dreaded radiation signs. While yellow can mean happiness, it is also the colour of sands of a dried barren landscape.

Humans can't see the more vibrant visible colours that exist, so to us, yellow is just one colour although it has many different shades. In the actual real world, there isn't just one colour yellow but many different colours. All we see and recognise that a flower looks yellow but another species, such as birds or reptiles, might see different colours of the same individual flower instead. Humans base knowledge on the five main senses and also with the colours. 

Humans cannot see infra red or ultra violet, there are so many things invisible to the human eyes. Also humans can't sense the Earth's magnetic field. We are unable to hear infrasound but animals can. Many more examples such as humans can't detect the electric field given off by other living beings. This is why we should never be cut off from the earthly wisdom of nature.  

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Fire flower chain

 The response of Mount Etna has caused a reaction, as the other side of the world in Hawaii, Mount Kilauea is erupting. Both of Italy and Hawaii have similar volcanoes, lava flows, magma chemistry. Italy and Hawaii have volcanic islands and also moderate eruptions now and then. 

The volcano Mount Kilauea is spiritually important to the native Hawaiians. They believe a family of fire deities including the Goddess Pele live inside the chambers of volcanoes. People leave offerings to the fire gods. 

Among the volcanoes in Hawaii is Mauna Kea, the most tallest. There are different layers to Mauna Kea as sometimes it's icy with an Alpine Climate, and fertile soil used to produce trees, food and a place for wildlife. People regard Mauna Kea as a deeply spiritual and sacred site. Many are concerned with environmental damage done to the mountain because of industry and science. Many astronomers want to use the sacred mountain to build more domed observatories to look at space through telescopes. This would disrupt wild animals living there and interfere with their natural habitat. I am with the native Hawaiians on this debate. 

Storm Valkyrie 

A song of Etna

The hill is furious and unpredictable, giving rise to inner power that spews out rage. 

The outburst and flames are lethal. 

Her glorious song is forever remembered.

Typhon unleashed his monstrous energy. 

The caverns belonging to Vulcan fills with heat. 

The entrance to Tartarus opens and beckons but please don't go in! 

By Storm Valkyrie 🔥