Roses for Valentine a myth from past ages

 Roses why for love?

Roses have been around for quite a while.  Many cultures have valued roses representing their goddesses and traditions.   Roses are traditionally known as the ‘Queen of flowers’.  Why  do we feel that the rose is something like that of gold for certain events or times of the year. 

Many years ago in 10 th century in Persia an Arabian physician Avicenna was credited with distilling the first batch of Rose oil.  Avicenna was an alchemist as well as a physician, poet, astronomer and a mathematician.  He created the essential oil almost by accident when he was attempting to transmute base metals into gold.  It takes a lot of rose petals to extract a tiny amount of oil.  Here is where the trend started of our beautiful rose essential oils.

Between February 14th through the 21st  ancient times Rome celebrated Aphrodite festival of love.   As with most pagan traditions it was changed to St. Valentine’s Day.   It started around the year 496 AD.

Since many roses are red, they were used because the color connected to the aspects of the triple goddess and the lifeblood itself. 

Goddesses represented with the rose:

Mesopotamian - Inanna, Istar/Astarte - love, beauty & sex

Hindu - Rati - love carnal desire, lust, passion & sexual pleasure

Greek - Venus - love, passion, romance & sexuality

Greek - Aphrodite - goddess of  sexual love, love fertility & beauty 

So think of rose, love and the beauty within yourself!  Show your inner goddess, you deserve to take care of yourself during this crazy winter time of the year!

February 7th Day of Selene & other Moon Goddesses

 Feb 7th

Day of Selene & other moon goddesses

Have you heard her story?  She guides the moon across the sky throughout the night.  The phases of the moon began with her with this certain story.  She had the duty of being a liaison between humans or gods but never allowed herself to become attached.  One day she became infatuated with a young shepherd Endymion.  She stopped her regular duties of guiding the moon to watch the handsome young man sleeping.  The other gods became suspicious and alerted Zeus.  Selene’s chariot was missing from its heavenly path.  She was also looking very pale from her extra activities.

Zeus decided to take action.  He went to the shepherd and gave him a choice, death by any way or a deep eternal slumber as well as not to age as well.  He took the latter of consequences. 

Endymion is said to still be sleeping in a cave on Mount Latmos in Caria and Selene still visits him.  While she sits the moon begins to fade until it’s totally gone.  When she returns to her duties the moon begins to grow again until it reaches the full moon. 

Endymion symbolizes sleeping as well as the thoughts that come to us as creative ideas, dreams and the help we need to be productive in our day.  

So which story to you like about the moon?  Tell me yours!

Moon Magick: Myth & Magick, Crafts & Recipes, Rituals &; Spells, by D. J. Conway, Llewellyn Publications, 1995, pp. 41–48. 

                                                                                            https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Selene.html

Soak up the magnesium

 Magnesium flakes or Epsom salt soak

The flakes are made of magnesium chloride while Epsom salts are made of magnesium sulfate.  There are some people who are allergic to sulfur products and the toxicity issues with the magnesium sulfate could cause them problems with the use of epsom salt.  While the magnesium flakes are made of magnesium chloride. When you soak your body in either transdermal application (or applied onto the skin from a spray or a bath) can last within 4 to 6 weeks, whereas an oral supplementation is effective only after 4 to 12 months. 

Magnesium is important for many processes in the body, including regulating muscle and nerve function, blood sugar levels, and blood pressure and making protein, bone, and DNA.

Enjoy your day and soak away!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579607/

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-Consumer/