It's a treat!I agree, seeing Tilly as a pup was a morning treat!What a lovely post, packed with interesting information. This family of plants contains many poisonous species and correct identification is essential before even thinking about eating them. I even saved it for future reference.Oh, how serendipitous that Natural Remedy has been on your mind too! )"Her blog, Everyday Nature Trails, which she writes from North Wales, is lovely. Nature,life and herbs are looking like your kind of thing. Under the name Valfreya, she leads the Freya was no obscure goddess but beloved and worshipped over a vast European territory including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, the Germanic lands, Holland, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. See more ideas about Freya, Goddess, Norse goddess. ), given her by the dwarfs. from the one who reads it. It is really interesting.

"Re-storying" the land is, I believe, an important part of re-wilding the land, re-wilding our culture, and re-wilding ourselves.Stitchwort (below), appears in Devon in two distinctive colors: white and pink. Also known as Valerian (below) is another that has moved itself from the hillside to our garden, rooting firmly in a sunny front slope. Adopting some cats may get you into good graces, too, provided that you treat them well.Freyja (Frea, Frija, Freya, Foige) (the lady) In Norse mythology, the only named Vanir goddess; goddess of youth, beauty, and sexual love; sister of the god Frey; married to Odur. . She remains among the most beloved and widely venerated Pagan goddesses today. . At the top right hand corner of this scene is the rune Fehu which is shown in red, the correct colour for this symbol. Grey cats are always associated with Freya. Lesser stitchwort, with its small pink flowers, is known as piskie, or piskie flower, here in Devon -- though in fact both kinds of stitchwort are under the special protection of the piskies (our local faery folk). (Her twin brother is Freyr, or “Lord.”) She is simultaneously a spirit of fertility and death, beauty and war.Freya, daughter of Njord and Herta (Nerthus), Sea and Earth, is among the Vanir hostages who joined the Freya is invoked for love, romance, and fertility, but she is a death goddess, too.
One day while Freyja was in the underground kingdom of the dwarfs, she saw them fashion a necklace. Freya literally means “Lady” and may be a title, not a name. I don;t suppose hogweed is good for anything is it?What a beautiful and interesting read - thank you so much :)I could spend hours in the "greenwood" exploring the flowers, mosses, trees and fabled spirits that haunt its various nooks and corners. Animals: Cats, rabbits, boars, oxen; lady-bugs. They can be used to communicate with her.Soldiers, veterans, jewelers, seers, shamans,practitioners of the magical artsUsually as a golden, beautiful, charismatic woman, but she is a shape-shifter and can take any form.Magical falcon feather cloak enabling her to fly; Brisingamen, the glowing necklace forged by dwarvesPrimroses; mugwort; bird berry; holly; bedstraw; flax; hempThe runes with which Freya is associated include Berkano and EhwazTwo grey cats pull Freya’s chariot, possibly lynxes.Honey; mead; flowers; sing love songs for her or compose poetry; Freya will accept humble offerings, but she has fine taste and will gladly accept lavish offerings of jewelry and perfume. Ironically, the result was that Freya survives more vividly than virtually any other female European spirit. Freya Farm is taking the right steps to become a cannabis landmark. At first, I confess, I pulled it out as a troublesome weed, until its gentle persistence caused me . Culpeper recommended a decoction of the seeds to be applied to running ears. It grows in damp, grassy meadows and bogs, its petals tinted pink or lavendar, and is also known by the names lady's-smock, milkmaid, May flower, and fairy flower. In folklore, according to Margaret Barker, herb Robert is known as "the plant of equality, all its parts being equal and harmonious." We need more of her insight, her connection to nature and its diverse creatures, her ability to divine (not so much the water underneath the ground} but the energy that cleanses our imagination and carries off the digital debris. This barn based operation is making a strong case for Skagit Valley to be famous for another type of flower-cannabis.

Thanks to these we also have an abundance of bees.How joyful I feel when seeing Tilly as a pup, after she appears in in almost every photo you share. by Ember Cooke.