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
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