Midsummers Night is a time for magic spells. If you put seven flowers under your pillow, in your dreams you will see your future spouse. And if you select the following seven flowers, whose names all come from Greek, that spouse will resemble a Greek god.<\/p>\n
Peony<\/strong>\u00a0comes from the Greek word “paionia”, referring to Paion, the physician to the gods. The peony has been used as a medicine.<\/p>\n Iris<\/strong>\u00a0was a messenger of the gods; the rainbow marked the path of her descent to earth.<\/p>\n Aster<\/strong>\u00a0is from the word \u201daster\u201d meaning \u2019star\u2019.<\/p>\n Chrysanthemum<\/strong>\u00a0comes from the word \u201dkhrysanthemon\u201d: khrysos ‘gold’ and anthmos ‘flower’.<\/p>\n Rhododendron\u00a0<\/strong>is a combination of the words \u201drhodon\u201d meaning ‘rose’ and dendron ‘tree’.<\/p>\n Hyacinth\u00a0<\/strong>is rooted in Greek \u201dhyakinthos\u201d. The word refers to Apollo’s beloved hero, whose blood Apollo\u00a0used to create the flower.<\/p>\n Narcissus\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0based on \u201dnarcissus\u201d, which, like its \u201dnarc\u201d relatives, refers to sleep or numbness. Narcissus, according to the story, was a handsome lad who stared at his reflection until he died and turned into a yellow-white flower.<\/p>\n I wish you good midsummer spells and a nice summer vacation. The word of the week is going on a summer break and will be back in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Midsummers Night is a time for magic spells. If you put seven flowers under your pillow, in your dreams you will see your future spouse. And if you select the following seven flowers, whose names all come from Greek, that spouse will resemble a Greek god. Peony\u00a0comes from the Greek word “paionia”, referring to Paion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}