tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18970143140032997342024-03-13T16:14:39.595+00:00Tracey-anne's BlogMixed media and writing blogjasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.comBlogger769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-39627500875352984512022-06-24T03:12:00.004+01:002022-06-24T03:12:43.964+01:00Wow! Not posted in a while. I'm still about, promise :o) <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArvCHmVygoYKybcSxum7Qb-mKSpev9ylVI5Mmqx3MBY84nLiUFONY99qxpV1G8AbXG6bdNX2qmtBDF_iaJZwKMka3gJDC_q8-BcQM9IzKULR7b1Fobx6ETOug5pgMfC0rB1AvaX4bOnqNlaoFuGEVJljzhcd1xF2WvZr4FqPoJAAi7yWf9EjsyjJR/s320/tumblr_n3zi31hudb1r8zo91o1_500.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="320" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArvCHmVygoYKybcSxum7Qb-mKSpev9ylVI5Mmqx3MBY84nLiUFONY99qxpV1G8AbXG6bdNX2qmtBDF_iaJZwKMka3gJDC_q8-BcQM9IzKULR7b1Fobx6ETOug5pgMfC0rB1AvaX4bOnqNlaoFuGEVJljzhcd1xF2WvZr4FqPoJAAi7yWf9EjsyjJR/s1600/tumblr_n3zi31hudb1r8zo91o1_500.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Hi all,</p><p>It has been a year since posting here. HEY WHAT?!👀😋</p><p>Crazy how life has sped by. I've not been able to enjoy some pure creative time but I'd like to change that this year. The sequel to 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers' is nearly 400 pages in but I still have some serious edits to do. 👀 </p><p>I'm self-publishing now (the contract ended with my publisher). It's quite a mission navigating around that world without Amazon KPD, which I'm used to. Lulu is my new publishing source at present. I've found it isn't as easy to use but I intend to experiment with some other sites. </p><p>I temporarily changed the title of the first book to 'Heaven Stone' on the Lulu and Kobo platforms. I just wanted a different feel, but not sure that I like it. Lol. Once book two is ready to publish, I'm going to keep with the original title. It appears I do like to confuse folk. 👀😜 I've put the links on the website. <a href="https://www.traceyannemccartney.com/">Traceyanne McCartney</a></p><p>I have a blog on the book-related site that I always forget about and on a new site <a href="https://www.soulspeak.co.uk/writing-links">Journey of Writing | Soul Speak</a>. I created that as needed a creative change and wanted to have some fun in a different field, journals and art. It's still in progress, but feel free to pop over and check out. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibB9y2fG8aTjUz91edYm6eMe0q1_fUM6Duxdho0XofNUhIw8iWqlDwRNWrF6E3owoy3ZzPCsIXnxjoSsqjEuSL1FEIXCxi1wnwYgaMlGEck8hmjSOtwSAUOb7jzTrXFhQjIuuWhQZNI4nQr8ZZWpH3tnuuVcIlHFXltMKvjTIYofdgLJYcC9C-AVZH/s470/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="364" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibB9y2fG8aTjUz91edYm6eMe0q1_fUM6Duxdho0XofNUhIw8iWqlDwRNWrF6E3owoy3ZzPCsIXnxjoSsqjEuSL1FEIXCxi1wnwYgaMlGEck8hmjSOtwSAUOb7jzTrXFhQjIuuWhQZNI4nQr8ZZWpH3tnuuVcIlHFXltMKvjTIYofdgLJYcC9C-AVZH/w214-h276/Capture.JPG" width="214" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxFeyJnkJ0fb9p6A7Hz2Gb7czPkL-bmGoQ1cJzIe0coZVCTEH6drmKkyawNm8rB6akQw7M-Oha-XBRuJqJq0BAaxT1_yl2ZlfK35k1VKO-Mm3mDsynd-0cylj639Chz66d87CRItzsD0ct9IbI_PWeY2O4c3Ug4GDbJjGWPV_dVj0z9wnH-nOQyE-/s497/4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="380" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxFeyJnkJ0fb9p6A7Hz2Gb7czPkL-bmGoQ1cJzIe0coZVCTEH6drmKkyawNm8rB6akQw7M-Oha-XBRuJqJq0BAaxT1_yl2ZlfK35k1VKO-Mm3mDsynd-0cylj639Chz66d87CRItzsD0ct9IbI_PWeY2O4c3Ug4GDbJjGWPV_dVj0z9wnH-nOQyE-/w250-h327/4.JPG" width="250" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I hope everyone is well and happy. I've missed my tribe online during the absence and just wanted to check in and know that I'm still here. 💖</span></div></div><p>This blog is so old but I'm really attached to it. Many memories and shares. So, I'll keep this going for as long as possible to keep all the wonder it contains. </p><p>Here is are a couple of colouring pages I designed...feel free to print 💗</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhej6aqqA-D_cbD07-B5vNKgPWbG1ByWPiT82F-QPfRZrvnSiiNCfyNzdJOPPbbQ5aOS7jfw_hwIQcsMzmQW5W81eqdtr-1e_zGjvQQLvb_NimmTAVMZpSSxJyEXalzGunB1UE2g-3ShTa0PkvQkfNN2aYiL2e_LyJ780oUpclQdBgFm3y-V9fRsQVc/s3300/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhej6aqqA-D_cbD07-B5vNKgPWbG1ByWPiT82F-QPfRZrvnSiiNCfyNzdJOPPbbQ5aOS7jfw_hwIQcsMzmQW5W81eqdtr-1e_zGjvQQLvb_NimmTAVMZpSSxJyEXalzGunB1UE2g-3ShTa0PkvQkfNN2aYiL2e_LyJ780oUpclQdBgFm3y-V9fRsQVc/s320/3.png" width="247" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRAVRI3Y5CArduB1pQ2n-E-uO8SIpriyZu0HE-jff9fX5rdYPDAnP9pW0fGdvIKD3UmQHalWR4sQWhoVGnGSWW6_QFE-UqAlmy0W1TEqSBXqDkQx-zhkxNJJE4XjULbBq0Ffocamlb5RsK4H83K0X_VvDtbp_PZN5jtQWkZ1JkgtuWTeDtRLGllTc/s3300/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRAVRI3Y5CArduB1pQ2n-E-uO8SIpriyZu0HE-jff9fX5rdYPDAnP9pW0fGdvIKD3UmQHalWR4sQWhoVGnGSWW6_QFE-UqAlmy0W1TEqSBXqDkQx-zhkxNJJE4XjULbBq0Ffocamlb5RsK4H83K0X_VvDtbp_PZN5jtQWkZ1JkgtuWTeDtRLGllTc/s320/1.png" width="247" /></a><br /><br /></p><p>Big love to you all.</p><p>Take care beautiful souls.</p><p>Trace </p><p>xoxo</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-79691735657813626372021-01-17T23:50:00.000+00:002021-01-17T23:50:11.295+00:00<p style="text-align: center;"> Hi beautiful people 💖</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jblS-B8KB1Q/YATLU85NlXI/AAAAAAAAc7I/YYfQ44tJUMUOhYOB_rDOK5lmMHjMZDmXgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="330" height="148" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jblS-B8KB1Q/YATLU85NlXI/AAAAAAAAc7I/YYfQ44tJUMUOhYOB_rDOK5lmMHjMZDmXgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>I wish you a happy new year and hope it brings you joy. Let's keep creating and believing in a brighter future. You never know what wonderful surprises are around the corner. </p><p>It has been quite a while since I posted here, but I wanted to share my new year surprise, quite out the blue!</p><p>I was researching my family tree, mainly my grandfather's side, Wolstenholme, as couldn't find my grandmother's line at all. Earlier in January, I was helping someone else with researching their tree when the same names popped up which I had been searching for. The websites were Romany (gipsy/gypsy) lineage. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SPYj3R_CqZ0/YATL3JiJYJI/AAAAAAAAc7Q/4VQyiAo7DHw7iYmiEKbkxjXlPb6BHuK3ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="239" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SPYj3R_CqZ0/YATL3JiJYJI/AAAAAAAAc7Q/4VQyiAo7DHw7iYmiEKbkxjXlPb6BHuK3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w458-h239/image.png" width="458" /></a></div><p></p><p>I soon found out that my grandmother was Roma. It was quite the revelation. She had once said that we were related to Gypsy Lee, but due to her being ill, we didn't take much notice. Now, that statement made sense. I never thought to search for Barnes gypsies, the area my grandmother was from. At that point, I saw where the block lay, in her mother's name, Sinney Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith and Matilda Capel. Her name, Sinney, had been incorrectly logged as Simeon, a boy, on the baptism record. To make sure my assumptions were correct, I sent off for my grandmother's birth cert' and her mother was indeed Sinney Smith, and her husband, George Whitby. By joining various sites, I pieced the lost lineage together. </p><p>So, by helping someone else, I found my grandmother's lineage. Beautiful and amazing.<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-11dE7VYNoRc/YATMnNYYblI/AAAAAAAAc7Y/y35RXj4oMDoTjJV0TBJbt2_0M-s4rGjVwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="378" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-11dE7VYNoRc/YATMnNYYblI/AAAAAAAAc7Y/y35RXj4oMDoTjJV0TBJbt2_0M-s4rGjVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w246-h378/image.png" width="246" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pOFONumRWgs/YATMumAN-gI/AAAAAAAAc7c/I2YqYsGXCucdHXFEtsA-vcuF_CO6Jz2ewCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="320" height="437" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pOFONumRWgs/YATMumAN-gI/AAAAAAAAc7c/I2YqYsGXCucdHXFEtsA-vcuF_CO6Jz2ewCLcBGAsYHQ/w350-h437/image.png" width="350" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I found links to the King of Gypsies, and a prince, all related. It's been quite mind-blowing, but ever so interesting. I truly have a gypsy soul. 😍 <p></p><p>Link: <a href="https://georgianera.wordpress.com/tag/absalom-smith/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Clm2uppc8VU/YATLC1WjvpI/AAAAAAAAc7A/t-yVyol8iLwTad-U6uUWx9kbCrI7sy6zgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="215" height="210" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Clm2uppc8VU/YATLC1WjvpI/AAAAAAAAc7A/t-yVyol8iLwTad-U6uUWx9kbCrI7sy6zgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Love and light,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Trace</p><p style="text-align: center;">xoxo</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-70849070319757764102020-06-19T11:48:00.001+01:002020-06-19T11:48:58.942+01:00Midsummer - Summer Solstice<div style="text-align: center;">
Midsummer, the longest day and the shortest night of the year. </div>
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Celebrate the light. </div>
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The summer solstice is a great time to honour the sun. You can make solstice sun tea by adding edible flowers and herbs to a jar filled with water, then leave it out in the sun to steep. You can also make a sun mandala with petals from orange and yellow flowers. Arrange the petals in decorative, circular patterns while maintaining a vision of peace and serenity.</div>
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The summer solstice is a great time to find inner peace and balance. Try the sun salutation and the tree pose or simply sit quietly for a while. Meditation and yoga are intended to exercise both your body and your soul, balancing both in harmony through thought and physical movement. Begin this routine on the morning of the summer solstice and aim to make it a daily habit from this time on.</div>
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The summer solstice has been celebrated for centuries, with all sorts of traditions growing up around it. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice is usually celebrated on the 20/21st June, while in the southern hemisphere, it's usually celebrated on the 21st of December. To make the most of the summer solstice, celebrate the light and nature by engaging in outdoor activities like making a flower crown, working in the garden, or playing in the water. You can find balance on the solstice by meditating, doing yoga, or starting a gratitude journal. Enjoy time with your loved ones at a summer solstice festival, feast, or bonfire.</div>
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This is the peak of the Solar year and the Sun is at the height of its life-giving power. Yet within this climax is the whisper and promise of a return to the Dark. As the Light reaches its peak so this is also the moment when the power of the Sun begins to wane. From now on the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer and we are drawn back into the Dark to complete the Wheel of the Year.</div>
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Traditionally people stayed up all night on Midsummer's Eve to welcome and watch the sunrise. Bonfires were lit on tops of hills, by holy wells, at places held sacred, to honour the fullness of the Sun. At Litha the bonfire really represents a reflection of the Sun at the peak of its strength. The chosen wood would often be Oak and aromatic herbs were scattered into the fire. People danced around the fires and leap through them. Blazing herbs from the sacred bonfire were used to bless the animals. Blazing torches were carried sunwise around homes and fields. Coals from the Midsummer fire were scattered on fields to ensure a good harvest.</div>
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Tree worship has always played a large role in Midsummer festivities and trees near wells and fountains were decorated with coloured cloths. The Oak King who has ruled the waxing of the year represents strength, courage and endurance, and the Oak has always been particularly significant at Litha. The Celtic name for Oak is 'Duir' which means 'doorway' - we are crossing the threshold, entering the doorway into the second, waning part of the year.</div>
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Mistletoe was and is, highly revered by the Druids. It is regarded as particularly potent when it grows on Oak, the noblest of trees, growing between the worlds of Heaven and Earth. Although it is more commonly associated with Yule and the Winter Solstice, it was often gathered ceremonially at Midsummer when it is regarded as being at the height of its power.</div>
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All herbs are reaching their peak at this time of year and thus the fullness of their healing and nurturing potency. Giving a bunch of herbs as a gift on Midsummer Day is wonderful.</div>
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All of the flower kingdom is reaching its peak, wide open, full of colour, surrendering their perfume.</div>
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Our lovely bees are now making honey. Midsummer full moon is known as the 'Honey Moon' for the mead made from honey. This is often part of handfastings performed at the Summer Solstice. Mead is regarded as the divine solar drink, with magical and life-restoring properties. Drink to celebrate and toast the life-giving abundance of the Sun.</div>
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The natural world is full of colour at this time. Choose blue for the sky, green for the grass, yellow for the Sun. Or red, orange and purple to honour all the blooming flowers. Or choose the colours of the four elements - red, blue, green and yellow. </div>
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Ideas for Your Table/Altar</div>
Oak leaves, oak leaves and more oak leaves. All the abundance of all the herbs, flowers and grasses that are so very available at this time. Candles in Sun colours. This is a shrine to honour the Sun - Sunflowers!<br />
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Magickal Elements</div>
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Moon Bowl Charm</div>
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A full moon charm to enhance your natural radiance to celebrate the beauty of Midsummer.<br />
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You will need: A glass or china bowl, a glass or china jug and a small white candle. Remember the candle needs to burn away completely so choose a small one.<br />
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Draw your water into the jug - rainwater is best, but freshwater from the tap is fine. Take the jug of water, the bowl and the small white candle outside and place them on the ground. Light the candle in a suitable holder and place it at the top of the bowl - at the midnight/noon point of a clock face. Pour the water into the centre of the bowl and say:<br />
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"Renewing water shining bright<br />
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Weave your charm in my bowl of Light"<br />
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Place your Moon Bowl in the moonlight so the light of the full moon is reflected in the water and leave the candle to burn down.<br />
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When this is complete take your bowl and dip your hands into the water and as you gently splash the moon water onto your face say<br />
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"By Full Moon charm,<br />
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By Full Moonlight,<br />
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May inner beauty shine through tonight.<br />
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Brightest Blessings of the Goddess shine through me."<br />
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When you have finished, return the water to the Earth. I always pour it on my favourite Holly Tree.<br />
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Charm donated by our lovely Counter Enchantress.<br />
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Love and Light,</div>
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Trace</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-82825998890144496152020-04-28T05:56:00.002+01:002020-04-28T06:01:28.650+01:00Imagination <div style="text-align: center;">
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I thought I'd make a post concerning symbolic visual knowledge and imagination. I'm a pretty curious person with bundles of imagination, and so research a lot about many varied things. One of my favourite topics is origins and cosmology. When writing 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers', I wanted to create a cosmology for my beings called The Sindria and understand their environment. The mind is amazing when it's set free to wander the realm of possibility and along the way connections of patterns are made. This is where the creative mind/consciousness plays with what if's with no boundaries. If there's a problem that needs solving, imagination can take you there. Then, all you need do is research the science behind what you imagined or try and piece together scientific evidence/hypothesis that will back-up your theory to make it viable.<br />
It's why I love Einstein's quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."<br />
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”<br />
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”<br />
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“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”<br />
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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”<br />
― Patricia Highsmith<br />
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“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”<br />
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“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”<br />
― Vladimir Nabokov<br />
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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”<br />
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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”<br />
― Lewis Carroll<br />
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“Children see magic because they look for it.”<br />
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal<br />
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“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”<br />
― Mark Twain<br />
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Okay, enough with the quotes, but you see how imagination is everything.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Jonathan Wolstenholme. a book character, journals his experiences, and growing knowledge of the Sidhe, supernaturals. Through researching ancient symbolic visuals, he discovers that the ouroboros, a symbol in the form of a snake biting its own tail, used especially in ancient Egypt and in Hermetic philosophy, as an emblem of eternity meant the cycle of birth and death. That one end represented the beginning and the other, the end. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">He pondered on this a while, what would be interpreted as such in our known universe? He pictured a snake across the heavens as the Aborigines Rainbow Serpent and Dreamtime. The Dreamtime is the period in which life was created according to Aboriginal culture. Dreaming is the word used to explain how life came to be; it is the stories and beliefs behind creation. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake, a creator god. What would it look like? Jonathan envisaged a massive black hole as the point of rebirth, as exploded from the belly of the snake (center of a black hole) and the pinprick black holes or possibly white holes, being the ones that haven't exploded yet. All would contain within their belly the primordial soup which makes a world. This would also match the theory of the big bang and many spiritual teachings of returning to the source, and the cycles of karma, which the Sidhe called Vo-ror-bla. He speculated that consciousness/soul were the same things, alive but untangible. What if, pieces of matter and light were sucked in from the holes and expelled at the end, creating other universes, even replicas of us as all? Parallel universes perhaps, due to the invisible information/building blocks of life being the same stuff as ours, passed through. Would these building blocks replicate our own? Was that one form of quantum entanglement connecting us all? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Jonathan mentally noted the snake in mythology and symbols such as Yin/Yang, the infinity symbol and many more, all contained creation stories, balance of the universal power, and cycles of life and death. So, the ancients were indeed using imagery to depict the story of creation but along the way, text and literal interpretation got in the way. The spiritual interpretations of the visuals not understood by mainstream academia logic, and maybe, were classified wrongly as myth and folklore. The truth of many things concerning our histories became lost because of a logical perspective and disconnecting from ourselves spiritually, leaving that task to religion, external influence. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Everything needs balance he concluded, including the decoding of our origins, Mind (logic), Heart (feels/spirit/essence), and Soul (spiritual consciousness). The trio that religion oft depicts, that our law courts state a thing three times, even commands are given three times in order to verify that the message is being given intentionally. Writers and artists use the rule of three. The Latin phrase "omne trium perfectum" (everything that comes in threes is perfect, or, every set of three is complete) conveys the same idea as the rule of three. Three/Thrice/Trio/Triad...the lure of three...his mind drifted to numerology and jumped to Tesla's Key to the universe...vibration, energy frequency. 3...6...9 The Universe...</span><br />
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The above isn't in the books, it's research and philosophical ramblings. I create Jonathan's journals to better understand the character/the realms/origins through concepts/theories that come to me. Without imagination, all stories would be the same. It is the perspective of the writer which creates a new idea for a story told millions of times already but from different eyes. This, to me, is imagination connecting the dots/patterns to a very ancient puzzle where pieces were destroyed/lost /misinterpreted during the linear time. Imagination fills these lost spaces in the puzzle, and from different writers, we see the many aspects of the same/origin puzzle piece.<br />
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“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”<br />
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― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-66928410960107493602020-04-23T02:17:00.001+01:002020-04-28T06:04:00.764+01:00Happy Sant Jordi - Saint George's Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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Today is The Feast Day of Sant Jordi - World Book Day in Barcelona and St.George's in the UK. </div>
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Sant Jordi, or Saint George's Day is the Catalan equivalent to the UK's Valentine's Day. </div>
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Normally, each year, the streets are filled with people strolling around grasping books and roses wrapped in ribbons in the colours of the Catalan flag (The Senyera).</div>
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The basic idea for Sant Jordi is that men give women roses and women give men books. And it can be anybody, not necessarily your partner or somebody who you have taken a liking to. For this feast, boys buy roses for their mums; girls buy books for their friends. Also, in today's forward-thinking society the rules are no longer set regarding who gets what. A girl is just as likely to receive a book and vice versa.</div>
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St George's Day in England remembers St George, England's patron saint. The anniversary of his death, which is on April 23, is seen as England's national day. According to legend, he was a soldier in the Roman army who killed a dragon and saved a princess.</div>
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St George's Day used to be a national holiday in England. It is now an observance that is celebrated with parades, dancing and other activities. Flags with the image of St George's cross are flown on some buildings, especially pubs, and a few people wear a red rose on their lapel. Church services on the Sunday closest to April 23 often include the hymn 'Jerusalem', written by the poet William Blake. The words describe a supposed visit to Glastonbury, England, by Jesus Christ during his youth.</div>
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St George was born sometime around the year 280 in what is now Turkey. He was a soldier and rose up through the ranks of the Roman army, eventually becoming a personal guard to the Emperor Diocletian. He was executed for being a Christian on April 23, 303, and is buried in the town of Lod in Israel.<br />
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St George is most widely known for slaying a dragon. According to legend, the only well in the town of Silene was guarded by a dragon. In order to get water, the inhabitants of the town had to offer a human sacrifice every day to the dragon. The person to be sacrificed was chosen by lots. On the day that St George was visiting, a princess had been selected to be sacrificed. However, he killed the dragon, saved the princess and gave the people of Silene access to water. In gratitude, they converted to Christianity. It is thought that the dragon represents a certain type of pagan belief that included the sacrifice of human beings.<br />
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St George's Day was once celebrated as widely as Christmas. But the celebrations waned by the end of the 18th century after England had united with Scotland on May 1, 1707. In recent times, there has been a push, involving campaigns and petitions, to make the day a public holiday in England.<br />
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St George is the patron saint of a number of other places, such as Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Portugal and Russia. He is also remembered in some regional holidays, such as in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and among the Gorani people who live in a mountainous area in the Balkans and were converted to Islam many centuries ago, but still observe St George's Day. Around the world, a number of days are devoted to St George, including April 23 and dates in November and December of the Gregorian calendar.<br />
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The most widely recognized symbol of St George's Day is St George's cross. This is a red cross on a white background, which is often displayed as a flag. It is used as England's national flag, forming part of the Union Flag, the national flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Saint George's cross was originally the flag of the maritime Republic of Genoa. Around 1190, the King of England started paying the Doge of Genoa to protect ships originally from the city of London and the rest of England that sailed in the Mediterranean.<br />
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During the crusades in the 1100s and 1200s, English knights used St George's cross as part of their uniform. It has been the official flag of England for centuries, but the Union Flag, a combination of St George's cross, St Andrew's cross and St Patrick's cross, is the national flag of the United Kingdom. Now Saint George's cross is used as a national symbol by fans of the English national football, rugby and cricket teams. At international matches, flags and scarves bearing this cross are worn and people paint it on their faces. It is also has a prominent place on the arms of the City of London and the flags of the city of Barcelona, Spain, and the country of Georgia.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-74009058260328676982020-04-09T20:05:00.002+01:002020-04-09T20:05:36.125+01:00Stay Safe ((( Hugs )))<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi everyone,<br />
Just a short message to say 'hi' and hope you're all well during this unsettling time. How are you keeping yourselves occupied?<br />
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I'm going to use this period to edit/revise the sequel to 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers'. It's been a long time coming due to illness of myself and close family over the past few years. I've missed the characters and their story, and can't wait to dive back in. Thank you for being patient and understanding.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-40716098491596683862020-02-01T06:57:00.002+00:002020-02-01T06:57:32.848+00:00Blessings on Imbolc<div style="text-align: center;">
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Imbolc or Imbolg, also called Brigid's Day, is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring. It is held on 1 February, or about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.<br />
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It is time to let go of the past and to look to the future, clearing out the old, making both outer and inner space for new beginnings. This can be done in numerous ways, from spring cleaning your home to clearing the mind and heart to allow inspiration to enter for the new cycle. ('Spring cleaning was originally a nature ritual' - Doreen Valiente). It's a good time for wish-making or making dedication.</div>
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St Bridget. She is a Goddess of healing, poetry, and smithcraft. She is a Goddess of Fire, of the Sun and of the Hearth. She brings fertility to the land and its people and is closely connected to midwives and new-born babies. She is the Triple Goddess, but at Imbolc, she is in her Maiden aspect.</div>
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Make a Brigid Cross - <a href="https://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/imbolc-candlemas" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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While we regain our energy by spending time alone in our complex internal world, we also care about people and value deep, authentic connections with others. We’re highly perceptive, aware and intuitive about people and we want to help others understand themselves and live up to their full potential. INFJs are complex, deep thinkers with a keen insight into how people think and feel, so we’re not afraid of dealing with people’s complex personal problems.<br />
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This combination of understanding, sensitivity, and empathy creates a desire in INFJs to express our thoughts and feelings about the world around us and the people in it, with the ultimate goal of helping other people. We want to shed light on difficult situations and convoluted feelings and help people make sense of their lives and themselves.<br />
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INFJs are often natural writers. We not only have the empathy to understand others but as Introverts, we enjoy working alone. For many people, the solitude necessary for writing is the hardest part, but for INFJs, it often feels like a sanctuary. It gives us the time and space we need to stop and think, reflect on our ideas and express ourselves.<br />
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As sensitive individuals, we are always absorbing information around us, including sights, sounds, smells, temperature, light, and other people’s feelings. We are constantly processing this information and trying to make sense of it. Because we absorb so much, we need an outlet for all this energy. This is what gives us a creative drive. Without attending to our need for creative expression, however, we can quickly become ill or experience physical systems of being “blocked,” including skin problems, headaches, digestive ailments, and sleep disorders.<br />
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In her book, The INFJ Writer, Lauren Sapala suggests that many INFJs have the same traits as gifted people, according to the criteria developed by Kaimierz Dabrowski, a Polish psychiatrist, and psychologist. Dabrowski was best known for his theory of positive disintegration, which proposes that advancing into higher levels of personal development requires having certain developmental potential. He suggested that most people stay at a basic level of development and only a few will grow beyond this.<br />
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These select individuals, otherwise known today as highly sensitive people, have a highly sensitive nervous system, leading to a more intense experience of daily life. According to Dabrowski’s theory, there are five categories of sensitivity, which he referred to as “excitabilities,” including psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginative and emotional, all of which are used to describe “gifted” people. According to Sapala, many INFJ writers have some or all of these qualities as well. Our tendency to be both highly sensitive and possessing these gifted traits means we have the potential for great creative work.<br />
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Being an INFJ means we’re endowed with a lot of special gifts, such as empathy, insight, sensitivity and creativity. But it’s not always an easy path to follow, especially when most of the population do not possess these traits and don’t understand them. Dabrowski himself called excitability or sensitivity "a tragic gift" to reflect that while there is potential to experience great highs, there is also the potential to experience great lows.<br />
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Similarly, great creativity also tends to create the potential for a great deal of personal conflict and stress. People with a highly sensitive nervous system are also prone to depression and anxiety, which can make any creative work feel impossible. INFJs can also find it hard to write because we tend to be:<br />
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We have a vision in our minds of how things should be and trying to create that perfect vision on paper can stop us in our tracks. We tend to have very high standards for ourselves and our work, which can make it difficult to silence our inner critic.<br />
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Feeling different from everyone around us can make INFJs self-critical and feeling bad about ourselves. It’s all too easy to think, “who am I to be a writer?”<br />
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With intelligence and an active imagination, INFJs can see the potential and possibilities in almost everything, but that often means we don’t know which one is best and we can get stuck trying to find the right route or even the right word.<br />
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INFJs tend to be sensitive to criticism, so we’re often afraid to show our work to anyone who might offer us valuable feedback for fear of being negatively judged.<br />
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“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” </div>
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Second Edition.</div>
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I'm so excited! Exhausted, but nearly there, book two. Yay! </div>
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<b>Wow! A year has passed already. I honestly can't believe how time flies. </b></div>
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In 2016, I was settling into my new home. In 2017, I went through a dark night of the soul, waking up to things, situations that no longer served my highest good. In 2018, I began my healing, and now, I'm really looking forward to entering 2019 to further heal and complete my passions, creative adventures in both art and writing. It has taken so much strength and reflection to get this far and I'm really excited, what an incredible journey of learning, thus far. </div>
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Use a journal to stick notes in from the jar. Add photos, flowers, etc. Create a journal for every year made from pure happy moments. It really does help to remember all the little blessings given. </div>
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Not only will this practice help you learn to be grateful for the<a href="http://babyboomerbliss.net/benefits-of-a-happy-jar/" target="_blank"> small, every day, sweet moments in your life</a> and to be present in the moment, but it can provide comfort and inspiration on those awful days. All you have to do is sit down and pull out one of your notes. Wrap those small but shining jewels of happiness around your soul and let it provide you with the knowledge that you will have those special moments in the future as well. By recording the best parts of your life, you can change the way you remember each unique day.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-3387013526524001972018-07-25T06:17:00.002+01:002018-07-25T06:24:17.827+01:00I write because...<div style="text-align: center;">
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The mental imagery of 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers' inspired me in such a magical way, that I felt compelled to write my first novel. Once I placed pen to paper, the story began to grow into a much greater tale. Maybe, every creative whimsy that I have ever envisaged and not acted on has waited until now to be brought to life.<br />
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My mind raced as folklore came entwined with love, fate entwined with choice, science entwined with spiritual teachings - all guiding me to write a romance that revolves around a karmic cycle.<br />
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I want to share with you a secret place in which only a parted veil exposes. Take you to an ethereal plane in which otherworldly, angelic type beings tend to a well of souls. In the book, the reader experiences a brief visual journey to the home of elementals called, 'The Sindria', to their realm, 'Calageata'. It is here that the purple flower of Vororbla, of karma, grows, emitting a thick mist ready to greet the essence of a soul.<br />
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What keeps us going when the world can feel so harsh?<br />
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Where do we draw our strength from in times of need?<br />
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What urges us to carry on when things become extremely overwhelming and too much to bear?<br />
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Somewhere, deep inside, a light refuses to fade.<br />
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This light (our inner strength) may become less bright for a time, but in its fading, it is re-energising, and will again awaken from sleep. Once, our inner light screams out its very last ray of hope, the sleeping energy awakens, re-igniting the inner dimming ray. It is reminiscent of an illuminating birth of a faraway star, and from apparent nothingness, wondrous brightness can evolve.<br />
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The Sindria teach… 'To be able to shine more brightly, one's light must first fade.’<br />
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In the book, I mention to 'keep your light bright' as we've all experienced at some point in our lives, a time when nothing makes sense, a time when life can feel like it's too much to bear, and I really wanted to send out an important message – that you are so much more than what you initially see, feel, possibly believe, and to remember, a fading light secretly masks an eternity, for our light never truly diminishes, and we can always shine bright, again.<br />
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Princess <a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/t/theneva.html" target="_blank">Theneva</a>, later Saint Thenava (or, Denw, Tenew, Thanea or Enoch) lived from about 510 to about 570.<br />
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<a href="https://lornasmithers.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/glasgow-cathedral-and-the-stories-of-teneu-kentigern-and-lailoken/" target="_blank">Teneu </a>(or Thenew (Latin: Theneva), <a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/t/theneva.html" target="_blank">Thaney, Thanea, Denw,</a> etc.) is a legendary Christian saint who was venerated in medieval Glasgow, Scotland.<br />
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A medieval chapel to her once stood on the site of her grave at present-day St Enoch Square. At the ritual to Epona, I was told the well in the cathedral dedicated to Kentigern as Mungo may originally have been to Teneu. This is backed up the nearby street-name Lady Well Street.<br />
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Traditionally she was a sixth-century Brittonic princess of the ancient kingdom of Gododdin (in what became Lothian) and the mother of Saint Kentigern, apostle to the Britons of Strathclyde and founder of the city of Glas Ghu (Glasgow).<br />
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She and her son are regarded as the city's co-patrons, and Glasgow's St. Enoch Square allegedly marks the site of a medieval chapel dedicated to her, built on or near her grave ("St. Enoch" is in fact a corruption of "St. Teneu"). She is commemorated, annually, on 18 July.<br />
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In the first recorded hagiography of her son, her name is given as Thaney. The Vita Kentigerni ("Life of Saint Mungo").<br />
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In 1521, she appeared in John Mair's chronicle Historia Majoris Britanniae as Thametes, daughter of King Lot and sister of Gawain. Sometimes her name is given as Thameta or Thenelis.<br />
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Saint Teneu has been described as "Scotland's first recorded rape victim, battered woman and unmarried mother". Her son was conceived when the Welsh prince Owain mab Urien raped her. Owain was disguised as a woman, and after sexually assaulting the naïve princess, he confused her by saying: "Weep not, my sister, for I have not known thee as a man is used to know a virgin. Am I not a woman like thyself?" Upon discovering her pregnancy, her angry father King Lleuddun sentenced her to death and she was hurled from Traprain Law. Miraculously she survived the fall; when discovered alive at the foot of the cliff, Teneu was set adrift in a coracle and traveled across the Firth of Forth to Culross, where she was given shelter at the community of Saint Serf. There she gave birth to and raised her son Kentigern, whom Serf nicknamed Mungo, "very dear one".<br />
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There are also Welsh legends about Teneu:<br />
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The cult which grew around St Thenew in Glasgow also developed in Wales where it was held that she had other sons by her marriage to the northern Prince Dingad, son of Nudd. The earliest surviving reference to her is in fact in the Life of St Winifred (c. 1140), in which Winifred, went to St Eleri for instruction. St Eleri put Winifred in the care of his mother "Theonia" whom Winifred eventually succeeded as abbess of Gwytherin (Clwyd). Kentigern was also a cult figure in Clwyd.<br />
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Her son, Kentigern (Welsh: Cyndeyrn Garthwys; Latin: Kentigernus), known as Mungo, was an apostle of the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late 6th century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.<br />
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In Wales and England, this saint is known by his birth and baptismal name Kentigern (Welsh: Cyndeyrn). This name probably comes from the British *Cuno-tigernos, which is composed of the elements *cun, a hound, and *tigerno, a lord, prince, or king. The evidence is based on the Old Welsh record Conthigirn(i).<br />
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Particularly in Scotland, he is known by the pet name Mungo, possibly derived from the Cumbric equivalent of the Welsh: fy nghu 'my dear (one)'.<br />
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The Life of Saint Mungo was written by the monastic hagiographer Jocelyn of Furness in about 1185. Jocelin states that he rewrote the 'life' from an earlier Glasgow legend and an Old Irish document.<br />
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Mungo's mother Teneu was a princess, the daughter of King Lleuddun (Latin: Leudonus) who ruled a territory around what is now Lothian in Scotland, perhaps the kingdom of Gododdin in the Old North. She became pregnant after being raped by Owain mab Urien according to the British Library manuscript. Her furious father had her thrown from the heights of Traprain Law. Surviving, she was then abandoned in a coracle in which she drifted across the River Forth to Culross in Fife. There Mungo was born.<br />
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Mungo was brought up by Saint Serf who was ministering to the Picts in that area. It was Serf who gave him his popular pet-name.<br />
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In the Life of Saint Mungo, he performed four miracles in Glasgow. The following verse is used to remember Mungo's four miracles:<br />
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Here is the tree that never grew</div>
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Here is the fish that never swam</div>
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The verses refer to the following:<br />
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The Bird — Mungo restored life to a robin, that had been killed by some of his classmates.<br />
The Tree — Mungo had been left in charge of a fire in Saint Serf's monastery. He fell asleep and the fire went out. Taking a hazel branch, he restarted the fire.<br />
The Bell — the bell is thought to have been brought by Mungo from Rome. It was said to have been used in services and to mourn the deceased. The original bell no longer exists, and a replacement, created in the 1640s, is now on display in Glasgow.<br />
The Fish — refers to the story about Queen Languoreth of Strathclyde who was suspected of infidelity by her husband. King Riderch demanded to see her ring, which he claimed she had given to her lover. In reality, the King had thrown it into the River Clyde. Faced with execution she appealed for help to Mungo, who ordered a messenger to catch a fish in the river. On opening the fish, the ring was miraculously found inside, which allowed the Queen to clear her name. (This story may be confused with an almost identical one concerning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelgwn_Gwynedd" target="_blank">King Maelgwn of Gwynedd</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Asaph" target="_blank">Saint Asaph</a>.)<br />
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Mungo's ancestry is recorded in the Bonedd y Saint. His father, Owain was a King of Rheged. His maternal grandfather, Lleuddun, was probably a King of the Gododdin; Lothian was named after him. There seems little reason to doubt that Mungo was one of the first evangelists of Strathclyde, under the patronage of King Rhiderch Hael, and probably became the first Bishop of Glasgow.<br />
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The Life of Saint Mungo bears similarities with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes" target="_blank">Chrétien de Troyes's French romance</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvain,_the_Knight_of_the_Lion" target="_blank">Yvain, the Knight of the Lion</a>. In Chrétien's story, Yvain, a version of Owain mab Urien, courts and marries <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudine" target="_blank">Laudine</a>, only to leave her for a period to go adventuring. This suggests that the works share a common source. It is a story of knight-errantry, in which the protagonist Yvain is first rejected by his lady for breaking a promise, and subsequently performs a number of heroic deeds in order to regain her favour.<br />
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Chrétien's source for the poem is unknown, but the story bears a number of similarities to the hagiographical Life of Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern), which claims Owain mab Urien as the father of the saint by Denw, daughter of Lot of Lothian. The Life was written by Jocelyn of Furness in ca. 1185, and is thus slightly younger than Chrétien's text, but not influenced by it. Jocelyn states that he rewrote the 'life' from an earlier Glasgow legend and an old Gaelic document, so that some elements of the story may originate in a British tradition. The name of the main character Yvain, at least, ultimately harks back to the name of the historical Owain mab Urien (fl. 6th century).<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvain,_the_Knight_of_the_Lion" target="_blank">Yvain</a> had a huge impact on the literary world; German poet Hartmann von Aue used it as the basis for his masterpiece Ywein, and the author of Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain, one of the Welsh Romances included in the Mabinogion, recast the work back into its Welsh setting. The poem was also translated into a number of other languages, including the Middle English Ywain and Gawain; the Old Norwegian Chivaldric Ívens saga and the Old Swedish Herr Ivan.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%BEj%C3%B3fssta%C3%B0ur_door" target="_blank">The Valþjófsstaður door </a>in Iceland, ca. 1200, depicts a version of the Yvain story with a carving of a knight slaying a dragon that threatens a lion. The lion is later shown wearing a rich collar and following the knight, and later still the lion appears to be lying on the grave of the knight.<br />
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The first modern edition was published in 1887 by Wendelin Foerster.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-63777867885665370142018-07-25T01:39:00.001+01:002018-07-25T02:43:27.213+01:00A fun way to raise funds to restore a castle. <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VZDlQZKKP7M/W1e7V0sQ4JI/AAAAAAAAay0/jKq6V0Bxl4IWUDTZSc4NRwKOmcMJtTnzQCLcBGAs/s1600/med_7e5ed37dbf58527ac805a38af85c8b2d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="885" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VZDlQZKKP7M/W1e7V0sQ4JI/AAAAAAAAay0/jKq6V0Bxl4IWUDTZSc4NRwKOmcMJtTnzQCLcBGAs/s640/med_7e5ed37dbf58527ac805a38af85c8b2d.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
Purchase the decorative title of Laird or Lady and do some good at the same time. Supporting a restoration project to restore Dunans Castle on Scotland’s Cowal Peninsula, just an hour and a half away from Glasgow.<br />
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ScottishLaird Gifts is a Scottish social enterprise with the sole aim of restoring Dunans Castle. Read more <a href="https://scottishlaird.co.uk/pages/about-us" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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<li>Lord or Lady of Chaol Ghleann title with souvenir folder</li>
<li>Ownership of one square foot of pasture on the grounds of Dunans Castle</li>
<li>Deed of entitlement signed and sealed by present Laird</li>
<li>Includes downloadable pdf with deeds of entitlement</li>
<li>Free tours to all Lords and Ladies of the grounds and building</li>
<li>Access to woodland garden and rivers for fishing on the ancient estate</li>
<li>Titles help towards restoring the historic Highlands castle</li>
<li>Deeds of entitlement posted, signed, and presented in a presentation folder</li>
<li>Subscription to the Lords and Ladies Monthly Newsletter</li>
<li>Rights to use and wear the Dunans Rising Tartan</li>
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<i>Please Note: (<b>Just in case you wondered</b>). </i></div>
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The Court of Lord Lyon considers these particular titles to be meaningless because it is impossible to have numerous "Lairds" of a single Estate at the same time. Additionally, the Scottish Land Register does not recognise individual ownership of such small plots. Read more <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_the_Lord_Lyon" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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Hence, only Decorative Titles. You are funding restoration.<br />
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Ownership of land only accrues to a person who owns land in Scotland, your title will relate specifically to one square foot of land set in the grounds of Dunans Castle, which you will ‘own’ on an informal basis, and will be referred to specifically in your Deed of Entitlement. This land will be identified by an ID number at Dunans on a plan derived from the deeds of Dunans. You will receive a plan of the site with the approximate position of ‘your’ piece of land, marked, this will be for illustrative purposes only. The exact position of your square foot of land will be derived from the ID number and relative to two permanent markers set out on site by Charles Dixon-Spain, Laird of Dunans Castle.<br />
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If this restoration idea doesn't appeal, then you could donate to the National Trust for Scotland, for Scotlands Heritage. <a href="https://www.nts.org.uk/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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As a writer, I love a bit of fantasy and this fires my imagination, I don't mind contributing to Dunans Castle restoration in this way. The novel, The Paper Unicorn, is stirred with more ideas of how the protagonist acquires a castle, and upkeeps, this is a fun way to explore more possibilities of the tale.<br />
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Pinterest Board<a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jasmoon/the-paper-unicorn-~-novel" target="_blank"> HERE</a></div>
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Website Page <a href="http://www.traceyannemccartney.com/the-paper-unicorn.php" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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According to its website, Dunans Castle first appeared on maps in 1590 and was owned by Clan Lamont. Its ownership changed many times over the years. During the mid-1700s the Fletcher Clan took ownership and it remained in the family for over two centuries until 1997. The castle was converted into a hotel but was ruined by a fire in 2001.<br />
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To help fund the restoration project the trust is selling tiny plots of land, a square foot each to be exact. Along with these plots of land come the decorative titles of Laird or Lady. You will receive a “Deed of Entitlement”, a free tour of the grounds if you choose to visit the castle, and you will be allowed to wear the “Dunans Rising” tartan.<br />
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All sales contribute to the restoration of Dunans Castle, Bridge and Grounds. The Restoration Project is a longterm endeavour, and our progress thus far could not have been achieved without the help of ScottishLaird. The core aim is to create from the ruin of Dunans Castle an events and accommodation space, which will consolidate the site's use as a visitor attraction, and in time, a wedding and conference venue.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">love, peace and light x</div>jasmoonbutterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366828448717844852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897014314003299734.post-66556108541181764902018-05-29T18:58:00.001+01:002018-05-29T19:06:24.242+01:00Flower MoonThe May full moon rises tonight as the mystic Flower Moon, marking the sixth full moon of the year.<br />
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In ancient times, it was common to track the changing seasons by following the lunar month rather than the solar year, which the 12 months in our modern calendar are based on.<br />
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For millennia, people across Europe, as well as Native American tribes, named the months after features they associated with the Northern Hemisphere seasons, and many of these names are very similar or identical.<br />
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The moon affects us all, whether we notice or not, for up to 3 days before during and after the full moon you may feel its effects. Full moons are a great time to stop and rest, honor the cycles of life and the Moons energy.<br />
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Many consider this occasion to have an impact on the cosmic star signs – but what does the Flower Moon mean for you?<br />
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The Full Flower Moon, also known as the Dragon Moon or Milk Moon, peaks tonight on Tuesday, May 29.<br />
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The flower moon is said to be one of the brightest moons of the year, shining light down on the blossoms and crops, let this luminosity light up your life, inner and outer world too. The energy of Flower moon is:<br />
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In the US the full moon appeared just over the horizon in the early morning hours and will fly over Europe sometime after 3pm UK time.<br />
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Astrologers following the brightly lit moon’s path across the skies believe it could create a “very competitive” environment” in the next two weeks.<br />
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According to Jamie Partridge of Astrology King, people under the Flower Moon will be particularly committed to claim what is theirs.<br />
Meanwhile, spiritual adviser Cherokee Billie thinks the Flower Moon is an opportunity for people to head into the new month feeling fresh and ready for a new start.<br />
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He said: “The Flower Moon also symbolises us humans.<br />
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“Like the flowers, it is time for us to blossom, to grow day by day by soaking up the sun’s rays, and to gather our energy from it.<br />
The astrology expert added the full moon will “illuminate” your darkest days and corners offering a chance to “shed our outer skin as a form of renewal”.<br />
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Annabel Gat of Broadly also thinks Geminis need to brace themselves for more romance in their lives.<br />
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The astrologer said: “This will be a powerful time for your relationships. It’ll be an important time for letting go, too.<br />
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Today, we use many of these ancient month names as Full Moon names. A common explanation is that Colonial Americans adopted many of the Native American names and incorporated them into the modern calendar.<br />
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However, it seems that it is a combination of Native American, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic month names which gave birth to the names commonly used for the Full Moon today.<br />
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May is also associated with the divine feminine, connect with your inner divine feminine. Let all around you blossom, especially your relationships, spend time with your partner, family, loved ones and your loved community.</div>
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Some years have 13 Full Moons, which makes one of them a Blue Moon, as it doesn't quite fit in with the traditional Full Moon naming system. However, this is not the only definition of a Blue Moon.<br />
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The Full Moon of May is known as Flower Moon to signify the flowers that bloom during this month. There is a myriad of wildflowers which bloom in May in the Northern Hemisphere, where these traditional Full Moon names originated. For example, many types of anemone, wild garlic, indigo, bluebells, lupine, sundrops, and violets, to name just a few. It is no wonder that the colorful displays these flowers create in nature have inspired people to name this time after them.<br />
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Other names for May's brightest Moon phase are Corn Planting Moon, and Milk Moon, from the Old English Rimilcemona which means Month of Three Milkings, when cows were milked three times a day. Some sources refer to it as Hare Moon, but this name is more common for the March Full Moon.<br />
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Weaving words like a vivid tapestry, Erickson reaches into the soul and invites us to swim in an ocean of hope, choosing love and aliveness over fear and resistance. Equal parts old soul and starry-eyed child, she encourages us to find the depth and meaning within our everyday lives, reminding us to stay true to our own paths while embracing both the pain and the beauty at the heart of reality. Keep this book close as a timeless reminder that wonder is everywhere. Your daily cup of universe.<br />
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