Seekers and Guides: A Balm for a Pagan Plague – High Priestess’ Disease (Part 1) Hearth Moon Rising's blog. So what does boar, fir and falcon say about Frejya?
Let’s look first at the falcon. Freya’s falcon is probably the Gyrfalcon (JER-falcon), the largest falcon, who likes the northern climates. If she migrates at all, she is driven by scarcity of food, and she will sometimes winter at sea over ice. The Gyrfalcon is the preferred falcon for hunting. She mostly hunts birds, including other raptors, although she will also take small mammals. Boar piglets. The boar is the wild predecessor of the domestic pig. The fir or conifer tree thrives in all but the driest and coldest environments. So this is some background on the boar, fir and falcon. Moonpeeker.tumblr.com. "To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
" - Walt Whitman, ‘Song of the Open Road’ (via heartsofclearestglass) (via ms-woodsworld) "Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. . - Neil Gaiman (via bookoisseur) (via beverleyshiller) "We praise people for being “naturally” smart, too, “naturally” athletic, and etc. . - Kate of Eat the Damn Cake, The Stupidity of “Natural” Beauty (via theimperfectascent)
Home - Dragonsbreath Blessings. Hearth Moon Rising's blog. White Birch tree. Photo Willow. The birch was discussed a few months ago in the series on the witch’s broom , but a whole book could be written about this magical tree. This week we turn to the relationship between the birch tree and the Germanic goddess Frigga. Runes « The Witch of Forest Grove. Rowan Ogham Fews and a Barn Owl Posted by Sarah on February 16, 2010 These are for a lovely local woman whose site you may have stumbled across from my blog: Red Moon Keeper.
She made me one of her amazingly gorgeous necklaces and in return I just had to make her something equally beautiful back! As she coveted my detailed ogham staves I agreed to make a set for her with a box to match. The box is pyrographed with a Barn Owl sitting in a Rowan tree with the Ogham alphabet in […] Register for the Bear Earth Conclave. A Samhain Spell/Prayer. My Good Folk, This is the spell/prayer that I am sending out into the multiverse to engender the further nurturance of the Emerging Cultures of Beauty, Balance and Delight this Samhain Season.
I have a printed copy on my Samhain alter and other copies hanging in my front and back doors’ windows. I have asked the Winds and Waters to carry this spell to wherever it needs to go. I have asked the moonlight, sunlight and starlight to infuse all places in which they shine with this working. Now, I ask you to use this working if it calls to you. May this Samhain find us all filled with the inspiration and courage, the wisdom and stamina, the love and endurance we need to continue to bring into manifestation a Midgard suffused with beauty, balance and delight. Bless the Bees! Bless the Bears! Cosmic Blueprints - Christine Sterne. Ancient Yantra-Mandalas catalogue the morphology of the unified-field.
Cross-referencing quantum theory, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Carl Jung and media-analyst Marshall McLuhan reveal this new Gestalt. Symbols are the keys to understanding reality. Systems Theory is an important new paradigm. [1] In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is when organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches. In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures. [2] Stigmergy is an organizing principle in which individual parts of the system communicate with one another indirectly by modifying their local environment.
"...the knowledge of pattern is the beginning of every practical wisdom. " Leafy Sea dragon Phycodurus eques (on the left) and Seaweed (on the right).