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Valentine
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February
14th - St.Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day History |
St.
Valentine was
a priest in Rome, and was condemned to death on February 14th 269
A.D. after it was discovered that he had been helping Christian martyrs
and secretly
marrying couples. The emperor Claudius II had prohibited men in his army
to marry, as he felt their strength would be sapped!
Before his execution St.Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, signed 'From Your Valentine', and so began the tradition of sending a card from a secret admirer.
Lupercalia
Feb 14th was the eve of the Roman Feast of Lupercalia, when the names of girls were written on paper and placed into jars. Young men would draw a name for their partner for the festival. It was hoped that this 'love lottery' would find them romance. Lupercalia was a feast to celebrate Pan, a god who among other tasks kept the wolves away from the flocks. During the celebration a sacrifice of goats would be made, and the forehead of two young boys would be marked with blood. The boys would then run through the streets lashing everyone with strips of the goats' skins. Women believed that being struck with the sacred skins would help them conceive.
Before his execution St.Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, signed 'From Your Valentine', and so began the tradition of sending a card from a secret admirer.
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'My
true love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other giv'n'. Philip Sidney |
Feb 14th was the eve of the Roman Feast of Lupercalia, when the names of girls were written on paper and placed into jars. Young men would draw a name for their partner for the festival. It was hoped that this 'love lottery' would find them romance. Lupercalia was a feast to celebrate Pan, a god who among other tasks kept the wolves away from the flocks. During the celebration a sacrifice of goats would be made, and the forehead of two young boys would be marked with blood. The boys would then run through the streets lashing everyone with strips of the goats' skins. Women believed that being struck with the sacred skins would help them conceive.
Valentine Customs |
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Valentine's Day Is a wonderful way To make "I love you" Easy to say'. Nicholas Gordon |
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'How
do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love Spells |
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discover your true love Before you go to sleep put bay leaves on the corners of your pillow, and one in the centre. Close your eyes and repeat these words 7 times, counting up to seven between each repetition: 'Dear Guardian Angel, let me have what I so earnestly do crave A Valentine imbued with love, who will both true and constant prove.' Your true love should appear to you in a dream. To attract love into your life Using a thorn from a white rose bush, scratch the words: 'All my love come to me' 3 times on a white candle and light it. Watch as the candle burns down, and picture your love coming to embrace you. When the candle burns down, collect the wax and wrap it up. You should soon receive all the love that this person has for you. To bring your love to you Light a red candle, hold a crystal near your heart, close your eyes and say 3 times: 'Let the love that I am seeking come into my life.' Visualise your love bathed in white light and feel the energy flow into your heart. Imagine this light pouring from you into the crystal, then holding the crystal in both hands blow out the candle. Keep the crystal with you until your wish is fulfilled. To attract desire Rub a few drops of the aromotherapy oil Rosehip on the inside of your wrists, before meeting your desired one. |
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Flower Language |
| Anemone - a dying love A yellow Crocus worn in the buttonhole on St. Valentine's day will entice your future intended love Daisy - innocence Forget-me-not - true love and constancy Fuchsia - elegance Lily - purity Pansy - loving thoughts Periwinkle - early friendship Poppy - consolation Snowdrop - hope Sunflower - warmth of feeling Tulip - a declaration of powerful love(red), hopeless love (yellow) Add rose bud petals to your bath water to conjure up a lover. Put red rose petals in a red velvet bag and pin this under your clothes to attract love. A rose given with its thorns removed, but still with its leaves means: 'I am no longer afraid to reveal my feelings; I live in hope.' A rose without its leaves and thorns sends the message: 'There is nothing to hope or fear.' more flower language |
Roses
Messages
 Red -
true love  |
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do I love thee? How many roses you send your love has a meaning - Ten roses says 'You are perfect' , a dozen means 'Be Mine' and if you push the boat out to 24 you are saying 'Forever yours', in the language of flowers. |
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 Serving love food can be fun on Valentine’s Day – especially using aphrodisiac ingredients. Over the centuries people have often looked to food for its libido enhancing properties ... as the saying goes 'the way to a man's heart is thro' his stomach! 
New-age.co.uk can not be held responsible for the activities resulting from the consumption of these foods! |
Almond
- the aroma is thought to arouse women Could be the ideal Valentine gift! |
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Valentine Cards with a loving touch |
Ann Noble
Lover Post Office
Brown Bonnet
Besomer Drove
LOVER, Salisbury SP5 2PN
Or send it to Loveland, Colorado. The post office will postmark it LOVEland, Colorado and it will also be hand-stamped with a love poem. Send your pre-addressed, pre-stamped Valentine’s card inside a larger envelope to: Postmaster, Attn: Valentines, Loveland CO 80537
Cupid |
| The
winged Roman version of the Greek god of love, Eros - child
of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty - Venus to the
Romans. The Latin translation of 'Cupido', means Desire/lust. This pretty, young boy, a symbol of Love, flys blindfolded on golden wings armed with his bow and arrows - setting hearts on fire. Love is often depicted by two hearts pierced by an arrow - Cupid's arrow. 'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind'. William Shakespeare |
Love Divination |
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night put yarrow under your pillow, and the first person you
see when you leave home will be your future spouse. If you visit a cemetery on St Valentine's Eve at midnight and walk around the church 12 times, you should dream of your future husband. To gain the love of someone, on a night of the full moon, walk to a spot underneath your love's bedroom window and whisper their name three times into the wind. To meet your future spouse count seven stars on seven successive nights, and on the eighth day the first person with whom you shake hands will be your wife or husband. |
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Lovebirds |
| It
was a popular belief that the birds choose their mates on the
feast
of Valentine - their patron saint. It is also traditionally believed that a girl is able to tell what sort of man she will marry by the first bird she sees on St. Valentine's day. Blackbird - Priest Robin - Sailor Goldfinch (any yellow bird) - a rich man Sparrow - Farmer Any blue bird - a happy man Dove - a loving man Woodpecker - will not marry If a hen and cockerel are seen together on this day, it indicates that she will marry the next year. |
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Top Romantic Films |
| 1. Casablanca 2. Brief Encounter 3. Wuthering Heights 4. Ghost 5. Bridget Jones's Diary 6. The English Patient 7. Titanic 8. Shakespeare in Love 9. When Harry met Sally 10. Four Weddings and a Funeral 11. Pretty Woman
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 3. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier 4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres 6. The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
2. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton 3. Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith 4. Eternal Flame - The Bangles 5. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers |
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I ne'er was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete. I never saw so sweet a face As that I stood before. My heart has left its dwelling place And can return no more. John Clare 
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Try these sites for more Valentine fun -
Victorian cards - a lovely on-line gallery of Victorian cards, including a range of free e-cards.
e-cards - modern designs and animated free valentine e-cards.
love poems - free romantic poetry from Nicholas Gordon
Robert Sabuda - impress your love and make your own pop-up Valentine
If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?
If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
Or grieve at my Fate, when I know 'tis in vain?
Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart,
That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart.
from Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen (Act 3) 1692
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