{"id":5922,"date":"2011-10-01T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:09:31","slug":"gems-of-the-goddess-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/10\/01\/gems-of-the-goddess-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Gems of the Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIF<\/span><\/strong> GODDESS OF GRAIN AND GOLD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWith hair like the golden wheat fields of earth, Norse Goddess Sif is known for her vibrant locks and motherly attitude towards everything.\u00a0 She tends to the beings and goods of the earth, making her a harvest Goddess.\u00a0 Some believe that her hair symbolized golden, growing fields.\u00a0 Others believe that she was also was seen as a swan, and could be seen flying in between worlds. With all this beauty and enticement, naturally this women would have many love relationships.\u00a0 Her main and most talked about marriage was with the thunder God, known as Thor.\u00a0 Together they had a daughter and two sons, who possessed magnificent qualities.\u00a0 One night whiled Sif was sleeping, Thors trusted companion Loki (God of fire and mischief) decided to go into Sif\u2019s room, and cut off all her hair just for fun.\u00a0 When Sif woke up the next morning, she immediately wen to Thor to tell him the horrible news.\u00a0 Thor was outraged, and demanded Loki bring Sif replacement hair better than her original.\u00a0 So Loki went strait to the Dwarfs and asked for them to spin him a heap of hair made from the purest gold.\u00a0 Once the task was completed, Loki took the golden hair to Sif, and it immediately attached to her head, flowing beautifully past her shoulders.\u00a0 Not much is said about Sif, but one thing she can teach us all is that good things can come from startling situations.<\/p>\n

CONNECTING WITH SIF<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are going through a difficult time in your life right now, remember Sif and her story.\u00a0 Sif wouldn\u2019t let any situation in her life disable her, or cause her to become un-peaceful.\u00a0 She would simply wait it out, knowing that everything will be taken care of in the end.\u00a0 There is always darkness before the sun.\u00a0 Believing in this will all your heart, bake a home made bread with many grains, in honor of Sif and her representation of harvest.\u00a0 Make sure to throw some bread back into the earth as an offering! \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

SYMOBLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gold, rowan trees, wheat, vegetables and other crops, Iolite, Dandelions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIF GODDESS OF GRAIN AND GOLD With hair like the golden wheat fields of earth, Norse Goddess Sif is known for her vibrant locks and motherly attitude towards everything.\u00a0 She tends to the beings and goods of the earth, making her a harvest Goddess.\u00a0 Some believe that her hair symbolized golden, growing fields.\u00a0 Others believe that she was also was seen as a swan, and could be seen flying in between worlds. With all this beauty and enticement, naturally this women would have many love relationships.\u00a0 Her main and most talked about marriage was with the thunder God, known as Thor.\u00a0 Together they had a daughter and two sons, who possessed magnificent qualities.\u00a0 One night whiled Sif was sleeping, Thors trusted companion Loki (God of fire and mischief) decided to go into Sif\u2019s room, and cut off all her hair just for fun.\u00a0 When Sif woke up the next morning, she immediately wen to Thor to tell him the horrible news.\u00a0 Thor was outraged, and demanded Loki bring Sif replacement hair better than her original.\u00a0 So Loki went strait to the Dwarfs and asked for them to spin him a heap of hair made from the purest gold.\u00a0 Once the task was completed, Loki took the golden hair to Sif, and it immediately attached to her head, flowing beautifully past her shoulders.\u00a0 Not much is said about Sif, but one thing she can teach us all is that good things can come from startling situations. CONNECTING WITH SIF If you are going through a difficult time in your life right now, remember Sif and her story.\u00a0 Sif wouldn\u2019t let any situation in her life disable her, or cause her to become un-peaceful.\u00a0 She would simply wait it out, knowing that everything will be taken care of in the end.\u00a0 There is always darkness before the sun.\u00a0 Believing in this will all your heart, bake a home made bread with many grains, in honor of Sif and her representation of harvest.\u00a0 Make sure to throw some bread back into the earth as an offering! \u00a0 SYMOBLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER Gold, rowan trees, wheat, vegetables and other crops, Iolite, Dandelions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}