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1 Citation Venus, best known as the Roman Goddess of Love, once presided over gardens and springtime. As my blog for the past few days has been mostly about gardening, I have picked Venus as The Bad Witch's Goddess of the Week. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology says: "Venus... in the early days occupied a very modest position in the Roman pantheon. With Feronia and Flora she symbolised spring and fruitfulness." This grew to include fruitfulness of humans as well as the green spaces around our ho, technorati.com
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Spring Equinox rituals and meaning 1 Citation The Spring Equinox is when the day and the night are of equal length as we move through spring towards summer. It is celebrated by pagans as an important festival in the Wheel of the Year, when things are in balance. Some calenders put the event on March 20 and some on March 21 - but doesn't really matter which day you choose to celebrate it. You could even take the confusion as a good excuse to have fun two days running. Spring Equinox is one of those events that has been celebrated by pret, technorati.com
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Magna Mater - Goddess of the Week 1 Citation Because this Sunday is Mother's Day in the UK, I decided to pick Magna Mater - or the Great Mother - as The Bad Witch's Goddess of the Week. The Great Mother has been worshipped in many different forms since neolithic times, under many different names. She is Mother Earth, she is seen in the mountains and she is the mistress of the animals. One name for her is Cybele , the Phrygian "Mountain Mother". Others identify her with Greek Gaia , "The Earth". She is generally seen as a fertil, technorati.com
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