[Musings] My horoscope for this week

 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In early spring, some of our forebears made love in newly seeded fields, hoping to magically propitiate the growth of the crops. Right now would be an excellent time for you to perform a similar ritual on behalf of what you love. If you're game, find a secluded outdoor spot on a warm day. Bring a Spartner if one's available, or take the earth or sky as your lover. Then carry out a rite of pleasure in which you offer up the spiritual essence of your bliss to the health and success of a beloved person or creature or situation that you want to thrive in the coming months.

Hmmm...sounds nice...ties in with the 'soul polutice' of a few posts back.

This entry made me think of the song 'Suvetar' by Gjallahorn. 'Suvetar' or 'Goddess of Spring' is a song in Finnish Rune chant, a very old musical form. The video is spectacular in its paganey goodness. I first heard this song late, late one night on a music segment from 'News Night MN', which was a small, locally produced public TV news show, at the end of the program they would feature music, often live, from various artists.

I had once found the translation for the song. The basic story is that it is a praise, a prayer to the goddess of spring, wishing for the renewal of the earth and the blessing on things that grow.

I play it loud at least once every spring.

Lyrics (original / english, note I do not have translation for the last stanza):

Suvetar hyvä emäntä / Suvetar, fine matron
nouse harja katsomahan / arise to see the seeds
viitimä emännän vilja / raise the matron's corn
kun ei tuskihin tulisi / so that we may be spared pain

Manutar maan emänätä / Manutar, matron of the Earth
nostele oras okinen / lift up the shoots from the ground
kannon karvanen ylennä / new shoots from the stumps
kun ei tuskihin tulisi / so that we may be spared pain

Syöttele metisin syömin / feed us with honey-hearts
juottele metisin juomin / give us honey-drink
mesiheinin herkuttele / delicious honey-grass
vihanalla mättähällä / on a blossoming knoll

siull on helkiät hopiat / you have shining silver
siull on kullat kuulusammat / you have glistening gold

nouse jo neitonen / rise up, o maiden
mustana mullasta / black from the soil

Akka mantereen alanen / underground crone
vanhin luonnon tyttäristä / most ancient of Nature's daughters
pane turve tunkomahan / lift up a thousand seedlings
maa väkevä väantämähän / to reward my efforts

Akka mantereen alanen / underground crone
vanhin luonnon tyttäristä / most ancient of Nature's daughters
tuhansin neniä nosta
varsin vaivani näöstä