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plates from the alchemical album, 'The Vessels of Hermes', from the collection of Manly Palmer Hall : https://t.co/o4spdSpyef
pics: the sublimation by the eagles after putrefaction & the Androgynous

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La Virgen de Guadalupe, Lady of the stars, the moon and the sun, flowers and foliage. Patron saint of Mexico. According to story she appeared to Juan Diego (his original name was ‘Cuauhtlatoatzin’, “the Talking Eagle’) in December 1531 as a native Princess. 1/5

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When St Kevin stretched his arms through the window while at prayer a blackbird landed on his palm & laid her eggs. Without wearying, he let her nest there until the eggs hatched & the birds flew away. Art: Clive Hicks-Jenkins https://t.co/CxcjblCEzp

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St Kyriakos of Ancona. Helped Helena, mother of Constantine, recover the true cross from under a temple dedicated to Venus. That led to his martyrdom by angry pagans but he had the last laugh. His church in Ancona sits over the site of another temple to Venus.

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Wishing it was a morning like this today and not the stormy weather we've been having!

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Narcissus Poeticus is the last daffodil to flower, well into March. It features in Greek legend, as Narcissus was turned into the white daffodil by Nemesis, & is also the flower that Persephone was gathering when she was abducted by Pluto.
Img: Cicely Barker

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Thanks for another great session! Today's theme was the the folklore of women and all things feminine for This is signing off. Wishing you all an amazing week! (Fog Women by Hermann Hendrich 1854-1931)

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2019-03-08

Myths swirl around Queen Elfrida. King Edgar murdered her husband to wed her. On Edgar's death his son Edward succeeded but she used witchcraft to lure him to Corfe Castle & poison him, making her baby son King. She died at Wherwell nunnery, famed for its dragon

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Lamia was a mortal woman& Zeus' lover who became a sleepless child-eating serpentine monster after her own children were killed by the jealous Hera. Always in sleepless anguish&grief over the fate of her children, Zeus gave her the ability to remove her own eyes

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Sewing, thread, a web around women; the Fates to Ariadne to Sleeping Beauty. Sewing forbidden on All Soul’s Day, each stitch a stab to the dead. Unlucky to mend a garment while wearing it. Magical hemp shirts, shirts sewn from nettles to restore lost brothers.

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Welcome back and thank you for the previous session. This is and we are celebrating with the folklore of women. Some amazing tweets this morning, so keep them coming! [Image The Triple Hecate by William Blake]

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2019-03-07

A couple of my favorite fierce ladies were Anne Bonny & Mary Read. These dangerously bold & adventurous left behind the stereotypes of the 18th century & successfully joined the Golden Age of Piracy!

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Valkeries are the figures from Norse mythology who collect the souls of the worth warriors who had died in battle. The cream of the crop went to Odin. Freya also got her share

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7 March. Sow garden herbs now:

“In March & in April from morning to night,
In sowing & setting good housewives delight,
To have in a garden or other like plot,
To physic their house, or to furnish their pot.”
(Good husbandry 1753)
Ill: Waterhouse

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Hekate is a goddess in ancient Greek mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches or a key and in later periods depicted in triple form. She was associated with crossroads, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.

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Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz - the white-hare witch and source of much feminine magic, wisdom and power... (also painted and created by a woman, too!) Final few days of our project you can be a part of here, good folk! https://t.co/DRR2MOzGtw

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“Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie...” Walter Crane’s for his children’s book, Song of Sixpence, published in 1909.
begins on 4th March.

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