CORNFLOWER BLUE

Following on from the previous post, another painting with the color of cornflower. [1]

BLUE CORNFLOWER 

29th July, 2013. 

This is a great link on the history and symbology of the blue cornflower from the Journal of Experimental Botany and its links to Egypt.  [2] Wreaths and garlands of blue cornflowers and blue lotus flowers were found in the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amun. No surprise then that I wore blue cornflower dress coat to my mother's funeral in 2005 with a white dress that she gave me underneath.

If you read the link from the Journal, it explains why wearing those colors were so very important to the defender of truth at that time.  Much more important than I realized, truly compelled by the heart of love, intuitively, and instinctively in pure intention.

In Christian symbolism, the blue cornflower became a symbol of the Queen of Heaven, Mary and Christ. A symbol of tenderness, fidelity, reliability, power and magnificence. It was found in many frescos and tapestries as well.

In Greek mythology it was linked to Chiron. Some astrologers speak of Chiron and some do not. So it is good time to look at what Chiron is doing in your charts because comprehending its energies will help you to comprehend this year and the importance of the blue cornflower to you.

The journal wrote that the flower remedy was used for the eyes. Surely good for blue eyes.

However, this link speaks of it in terms of 'Rediscovering Love' and there is a superb picture of the blue cornflower. [3] The Son of Joseph, the RAB and his wife Lily were keen gardeners, and I do remember their being blue cornflowers in the garden in Kent.

The intent of the energies of blue cornflower, would be good for Egypt at this time so that it can move tenderly through the transition of recreation. Its also a flower for Italy, because there has been another coach that has gone over a fly over and the reports state that 36 people have died including children.

They were on their way back from a pilgrimage. I know how the Italians feel about their children, so I know that the event will make them weep buckets of tears.

I do wonder how long it will be before the spiritual Italians knock on my door of selfless love again. They do know that I hold them in my heart, and they're family to me. For as the bible states salvation is at the gates of daughter Zion.

In 2005, The Independent also featured an article on the scientific aspects of Cornflower Blue. The scientists in Japan revealed in the Journal of Nature that the 'pigment forms an unusual "supermolecule" in the cells of the cornflower plant.

'Cathie Martin, professor of biology at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, said that the Japanese study broke the rule that to get a blue flower you needed to add the delphinidin pigment. "People have been trying to turn certain flowers blue, such as carnations, roses and chrysanthemums. The idea was that blue could only be conferred by the delphinidin pigment. It has been the dogma for years," Professor Martin said.

"This study is not saying that the idea is wrong, it's just that there now seems to be another way to make blue flowers and the point about cornflower blue is that it is a true blue and exceptionally beautiful," she said.

Discovering how a pigment found in red roses can be a brilliant sky blue in the cornflower could alter the breeding strategies aimed at creating blue roses. "The basic chemistry of the pigment molecule is the same in both cornflowers and roses. It's the way it's organised in its chemical superstructure that is different," Professor Martin said.' 




"Cornflower Blue"-Eric Bogle

Cornflower blue, bloomin' in the mornin' sunTiny flowers that grew, from when our love had just begunLong ago we planted, each dry and dusty rowhow long has it taken, for the seeds of love to grow?Cornflower blue...
Cornflower blue, like the faded shirt you woreStanding in the shadows, when I opened up the doorThe smile in your eyes, when you said helloHeld me so tenderly, and you would not let me goCornflower blue...
Cornflower blue, deeper than the evenin' skypeaceful as a river, bluer than goodbyeBlue like a diamond, when the light shines trueIf love came in colors, then I'd choose this one for youCornflower blue...Cornflower blue...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8m2H4V5vA

HaMakom

1. http://lotusfeet22.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/buddha-eclectric-painting.html

2. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/12/3297.full

3. http://www.spiritoftransformation.com/Essencedescriptions/bluecornflower.pdf

4. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-cornflower-blue-is-like-a-red-red-rose-502365.html

5. http://www.metrolyrics.com/cornflower-blue-lyrics-eric-bogle.html