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The Balkan Celts imitated Macedonian and Greek , Roman coinage. The Celts in the Balkans, particularly in the region of present-day Slovenia, minted coins that were heavily influenced by Greek and Macedonian designs. These coins often featured stylized depictions of horses, abstract shapes, and the portraits of Celtic chiefs. The Celts also adopted inscriptions from Roman coins, using abbreviated names of chiefs and regional capitals.

🌴- Copying Greek designs: Initially, Celtic coins imitated Greek designs, especially those of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great. They retained Greek subjects like the head of Apollo but developed their own style from that basis, creating a Graeco-Celtic synthesis.

🌴- Adding Celtic elements: Over time, Celtic engravers incorporated their own unique elements, such as stylized horses, abstract shapes, and portraits of Celtic chiefs. They also added small Celtic details to Greek designs, like tattoos on the cheek of Zeus.

🌴- Symbolic designs: As the period progressed, Celtic coins became more symbolic, featuring motifs like giants, horsemen, gods, skulls, and chariot wheels. These designs were often abstract and open to interpretation, reflecting the Celtic emphasis on symbolism and mysticism.

🌴- Roman influence: After the Gallic War, Roman influence became more prominent, and Celtic coins began to incorporate Roman designs and inscriptions. However, the Celts adapted these elements to fit their own style, often using them to boast about their economic prowess and tribal achievements.

By combining these elements, the #Celts created a distinctive style that blended Greek and Roman influences with their own cultural and artistic traditions.

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Neptune the planet of the ocean

Neptune in 1st house- this position produces a tendency towards selflessness and spirituality. Person here has the power to feel the finest states and changes in the world. The individual is emotional and sensitive. These people have strong intuition, they feel things before they happen. They can judge people and situations very well. It brings a strong talent and orientation to the subconscious mind. Strengthens feelings, dreams, hopes. Love is very idealistic. This position also strengthens the love of art: dance, music. They are inclined to travel to distant places.

Neptune in 2nd house- the individual gains a lot from institutions like hospitals, secret services, institutions, mysticism and spiritualism. The individual may be involved in deception or intrigue. The individual can be capricious but has strong creativity. Many books claim that it activates the memory part of the soul and makes you crave alcohol.

Neptune in the 3rd house-created mind with a desire to explore. Produces unusual sensations or experiences. Journeys can be religious or spiritual. This position tends to make a person change their name (due to circumstances). It can be an indication of a disturbed personality, hallucinating. It can mean a lack of clarity of character. It shows the ability to get others to agree. It shows a love for nature. Memory can be weak.

Neptune in 4th house- this position represents changes of residence and many travels. The individual is prone to strange and unusual circumstances at home. May feel very alienated from home. If Neptune is poorly aspected, you should be careful when filling up gas at home. It can mean disappointments and patience. Melancholy and hypochondria may develop. There is a sense of spiritual connection.

Neptune in 5th house -people have great enthusiasm for desires, great love for beauty. Good acting ability here. People can be prone to self-praise and overspending. It produces a strange experience in relation to romancoin sexuality. Success is usually good in areas such as (shipping, travel). If it is poorly aspected, it means problems, confusion, loss, deception in love.

Neptune in 6th house- can show problems at work, with employment, bosses. There can be problems due to employees. Neptune also brings a desire for withdrawal, solitude. In a favorable position, it gives the ability of psychometry. It also indicates that a person can get fatal love. Neptune can cause problems here due to narcotics. People with Neptune here should be careful of food that comes from people who are sick, unspiritual, or have bad vibes. They can only eat the purest food. The benefit comes from vegetarianism. People can take an interest in healing others. Psychologically, they know how to find faults.

Neptune in the 7th house - people with this position usually meet people who have various problems. Many people can come to them for help. They can be scandals due to marriages, relationships, jealousy or deception. It often means two engagements or marriages. The person has a strong perceptive nature. It brings more platonic than sexual love. A problem with the sense of reality can bring disappointments.

Neptune in the 8th house is an indicator of interest in medicine, healthcare. It represents strong psychic, astral or dream experiences. People often dream of very interesting and profound things. The desire for the unknown and mysterious is great. But it can also bring nightmares, strange and negative emotions. Neptune in this house also indicates death by water from chemicals, drugs, poisons or anesthetics. Death can often be mysterious. A good position shows a good sense of others. There can be scams with inheritance.

Neptune in 9th house-shows exploration of life. A person wants to achieve higher knowledge. Neptune here brings clairvoyance, a psychically inspired disposition, strange dreams and astral experiences. The individual has a desire to study and research spiritualism, psychic phenomena and higher psychological forces. It brings dreams and exaggerated imagination. It can also bring disputes between relatives.

Neptune in the 10th house - the individual can be very spiritual in nature, able to experience a high position in society. Sometimes it means that the life of one of the parents is threatened at a young age. It symbolizes professions that are secret, work undercover, secrecy.

Neptune in the 11th house position creates a person who has noble goals and desires. Friends are inclined to the mystical occult. It brings benefits from the mystical, psychic and musical realms. An individual may have losses due to others. These are usually drunkards, eccentrics. It can also bring unfavorable relationships and friendships. People who deceive him are false friends.

Neptune in 12th house- shows that the individual has a strong influence on his subconscious and things that are more mystical. The individual may succeed in the field of research and psychic matters. It can also be used in laboratories, in detective work. The individual is reserved and loves art. Inner psychic life. It is open to external influences and the personality can be pessimistic. This position also indicates drug addiction. it can bring deception, intrigue, sadness and failure if it is poorly aspected. The individual has strange, vague premonitions.

Aspects of Neptune: Neptune symbolizes the need for art and the immaterial, limitless, mystical and spiritual. Aspects with them are usually mystical, spiritual, dreamy.

Neptune & Sun aspects- it causes an inclination towards a mystical life and a desire to experience inner consciousness. This aspect activates the imagination, enthusiasm, and makes receptive to various impressions - internal and external. However, it can cause excessive imagination, lack of clarity and the need for stimulants and alcohol.

Neptune & Moon aspects-can display great emotional imagination and depth. Love of dancing, singing and theatre. But it can also show emotions that are critical and not clear. The individual is prone to negative thinking and low vibrations.

Neptune & Mercury aspects-tends towards a mystical way of thinking, poetic expression and emotional words. The mind is gentle and communicative. The individual likes the sea. On the other hand, it can make a personality that lives in self-deception, it is off-putting.

Neptune & Venus aspects - make a personality that is gentle, kind and compassionate. People can be devoted to love and dream a lot about their partner. On the other hand, people can aspire to high ideals. They don't feel safe and many times think about cheating. Many times they can be frustrated.

Neptune & Mars aspects- they are prone to deep emotions and strong feelings. Many times these people can overlook the lives of others. The individual has the power of clairvoyance. On the other hand, there is a danger of chemicals, gases. Problems can be caused by negative imaginations such as fears, obsessions, evil.

Neptune & Jupiter aspects-it produces a personality that is philanthropic and spiritual. People are compassionate and humanitarian and often follow their own path and journey. Accrues mystical and spiritual abilities. But it can cause confusion about religious matters. A personality that is prone to less extroversion and strong feelings

Neptune & Saturn aspects-People may be inclined to seek their own spiritual path. It often indicates a personality with strong organizational skills. Saturn is the planet of discipline, order, responsibility, seriousness, maturity and reality. While Neptune is prone to dreaminess, addiction, emotionality, floating to another world, escape. Saturn looks at the world realistically, while Neptune looks conceited and likes to live in a fairy tale. Life is an illusion. Life has no boundaries. A person with this position wants to see the world completely differently than it is. Dynamic aspects can involve a lot of addiction and overdoing everything you do. Harmonious aspects symbolize a person who practices yoga, meditation, spirituality and knows how to calm his body and mind. It's good for the soul. Aspects that are in conjunction create burdens and inconsistencies depending on which planet is more dominant. If Saturn is dominant then the person can be very serious, if Neptune then the person can be too mystical, dreamy.

Neptune & Uranus aspects-with this aspect, the individual has a tendency towards new religions, towards psychic phenomena. He may have his own belief in something and a more unique approach to things.

Neptune & Pluto aspects - produces a high degree of sensitivity, both mental and spiritual in nature. This is a symbol of clairvoyance. The soul is often connected with a deep love for art, mysticism, depth, the ocean, hidden things. But it can also produce confusion and chaos, life can be full of flashbacks

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Outlander Fanfic Relay #15

 Hello lovelies.  @romancoin with chapter 15.  Next in line:  @notevenjokingrightnow

 @whiskynottea and issue #14  

Disheartened, but also marginally hopeful with the solution proposed by Master Raymond, Claire and Jamie left his shop.

 “I operate, so to speak, in the concrete. The factual. What can be explainable through science and logic. This defies everything I’m accustomed to” Claire remarked to Jamie as they strode back to her apartment. “The idea that we need to ‘return’ to a former life in order to fix the present is just…mad!”

 “Aye.  It doesna fit into my own understanding either, Claire  But it’s at least an option.  We’ve no much else.”

 “This amounts to nothing more than magic!” Claire said, throwing up her hands.

 Back at her apartment, Claire tossed her keys onto the table.  They both stood there preoccupied and, if they were honest, afraid.  Jamie took her hand and lead her to the couch.  Leaning back on a pillow, he pulled her against him.  Rubbing his hand over Claire’s back, he kissed the top of her head.

 “Let’s rest now.  There will be enough time later to work this out.”  

 Tears came quickly to Claire’s eyes as she held Jamie tightly.  

 She soon felt his breathing slow and knew he was asleep. She smiled, but understood she wouldn’t find peace so easily – or quickly.  Too much was going through her mind to rest.

 She got up and pulled a blanket from the chest, intent on covering Jamie, when she recalled a different bed warmer filled with hearth-heated river stones, and a mattress of goose down.  

 Wrapping the blanket around him, she instinctively reached for a bible.  She paused, wondering where this desire came from.

“Maybe I will read something.”  

 She shuffled off to her bookcase in the hall to pull down her old lecture notes and textbooks with the hope of finding some clues or a solution more scientific than traveling through stones.

 The remnants of her time at University were strewn throughout the shelves: Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology, Nephrology, Hematology.

 About to pull out Biological Psychology, a large brown leather book, very old, stood out to her.  It was laid horizontally on the bottom shelf, atop others, with a faded gold-leaf cross on the spine she’d never noticed before. She sat down and laid it on her lap.

 “I completely forgot I had this.”

 A few years ago Claire had covered a shift for a colleague.  She called in the favor shortly afterward when the potential for spending a weekend in the warm spring air, rather than in the stale-smelling, disinfectant-laden hospital, overtook her.    

 That Saturday morning she took her time. Breakfast would be nutritious:  oatmeal and freshly made juice. This was a conscious change from her weekly habits: flying by the seat of her pants and eating take out, or worse, hospital food.

At the top of the to-do list would be rare book stores. These had always been a secret pleasure. In one shop she was drawn to a what looked to be a centuries-old book, laying by itself on a podium in a corner.  

 Catching the attention of the woman who had greeted her when she walked in, Claire asked if it was for sale.

 “You’re the first one to take an interest! But yes, it is.”

 Thinking for a moment, the woman recalled that it had belonged to a man who had been a physician.

 “He was quite old and said he couldn’t live on his own any longer so was moving in with his children.  Needed to downsize.”

 The woman then went back to taking a cursory inventory of the many boxes of books that were threatening to barricade the front desk.  

 “That’s probably something on herbal concoctions and tinctures, due to its age.  I’ve not gone through it though” she offered without turning around.  

 With a passion for early medicine, Claire bought it on the spot.  She added it to her already sizeable stock of books with the intention of learning its secrets on her days off. Unfortunately, it would lay there untouched; an impulse buy that would not be immediately appreciated.  

 Now, though, she ran her fingers over its cover gently, reverently.  

 “I didn’t notice this was a bible.  I just took the woman’s word it was holistic remedies.”

 Its large metal latch was sturdy, with a heavy patina. It looked to be made of iron. The center piece was a Scottish thistle.  Turning the book onto its spine she admired the fore-edge painting. It was a landscape of what she thought might be a small fort with a tower, in a beautiful valley, done by someone with a delicate but capable touch.  

 “IHS” had been embossed into the cover but was so worn as to be nearly invisible.

 “I’ve seen this before” she whispered to herself.

 A memory washed over her - being wrapped in tartan, sitting on the floor of a bedroom beside a fireplace. A man’s voice low and warm as he read from it of Israel’s exodus, Joshua’s campaigns, and Jesus’ ministry. Solemn prayers before sleep.

 She knew, even without the memory having perfect clarity, that it was Jamie.  No other voice touched her soul the way his did.

 As if a well had been uncapped, more memories flooded her heart.

 Walking on a narrow path through a field of bluebells and heath-spotted orchids towards a far-off building. A church?

 The gentle warmth of a spring day.

 Birdsong.

 A gown of white silk, the feel of its embroidery in her fingertips as she lifted it gently off of the ground.

 Freshwater pearls around her neck.

 In the distance, rather than screams, was laughter.

 A man she knew somehow, a kind protector with mischievous eyes, as her escort.

 At the chapel doors – her bridegroom?

 Sunlight through a stained-glass window.

 Pews filled with happy people.

A priest, behind a podium, smiling and nodding to her.

 “This bible was on a podium at the church…..where I was married!”

 Now, rather than fear and stomach-turning nausea at her visions, Claire was overwhelmed with joy.

 Undoing the latch, she lifted the heavy cover to see large cursive on the title page in a language she didn’t recognize:

 Bìoball Teaghlach Fhriseil*  

 Several pages of birth and marriage records followed. One entry caught her breath.  

 “Good gracious.  It can’t get any more concrete than this….”

 She carried the bible to the couch, kissed Jamie, and nudged him awake.  

 Rousing, he grazed his thumb along her cheek.

 “Didna mean to pass out so quickly.  Are ye alright?”

 She ran her own hand along his cheek.

 “ Jamie…I think you’ll want to see this.”

  *Fraser Family Bible

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The presence of animals and religious beliefs on Roman coins reflects the intertwining of cultural symbolism and political propaganda in ancient Rome.

Animals on Coins as Symbolism of Power, Animals depicted on coins often represented strength and sovereignty.

Cultural Significance : The portrayal of animals like horses or mythical creatures such as Pegasus served to connect emperors with divine or heroic narratives, enhancing their legitimacy and authority.

Religious Beliefs/ Animal Sacrifice, Animal sacrifice was central to Roman religious practices, believed to appease the gods and ensure societal harmony. The rituals involved specific procedures and were deeply embedded in their religious life, reflecting the Romans' obligation to maintain proper rites (religio) to avoid divine displeasure.

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[anoutlandishfanfic]

Message in a Bottle - Part One

I received another wonderful prompt from romancoin the other day! She seriously has the best ideas. If y’all need prompts, ask her. But, anyway, she sent me this completely developed story and hinted she might try her hand at writing fanfic someday… so I strayed a bit from her premise in hopes that I’d annoy her enough to make her want to write it her own way. Ha! I love you romancoin, don’t hate me.

Here’s the premise that she pitched to me: Lonely Modern-Day-Claire (an engineer, to stir things up a bit) goes to Craig na Dunn not knowing it’s hidden powers. Something vanishes thru the cleft in the stone, prompting her to send other things thru. Jamie finds them and sends them back. Love letters ensue and one travels thru the stones to the other.

Day One - July 10th, 2016; Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

Uncle Lamb and I had relocated to Oxford from Cairo about five years ago. He had taken a teaching position there, while I attempted to graduate early from upper school and begin taking university courses of my own in London. This set me at a complete disadvantage in the friends department, yet managed to earn me a certain measure of unwanted attention in the biochemical engineering department.

I took this summer off from internships, classes, and labs and instead followed my uncle to the Scottish Highlands. It was a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively, to be back in the field with him.

This location wasn’t really within Uncle Lamb’s usual scope of historical exploration, he was an expert on the intermediate Egyptian dynasties with several books published on the more specific topic of New Kingdom hieroglyphics, but he had lost a bet with a favorite professor friend of his and, so, here we were.

Tipping my head back, I peered up the steep slope of the hill. Hiking was never far out of the realm of possibility with my uncle and I thanked my lucky stars I had worn my boots today. “It’s at the top?” I asked, rather unnecessarily.

Of course, it was at the top. It was always at the top. Except when it was at the very bottom, but, even then, you had to climb back to the top.

“Yep!” Dr Joe Abernathy, an American who specialized Scottish folklore, replied eagerly.

I trailed behind Uncle Lamb and Dr Joe as we hiked the path up to the top of Craigh na Dunn, listening absently to the two of them discuss the myths surrounding the site. They were two peas in a pod, although Dr Joe was significantly younger than my uncle, and were both in a titter about recently found artifacts or some such.

“And you say they just appear at the base?” My uncle asked skeptically.

Dr Joe nodded, “Dead as door nails.”

The thought of poor, dead birds randomly materializing on the ground in the middle of a henge made me shudder.

What on earth had I agreed to?

…

Day Three - July 13th, 2016.

I sat on the ground between two of the outer stones and chewed on the end of my pencil as I tried to get the cleft in the center stone right. It was quickly frustrating me, being almost geometrically proportional but off just enough to make it irritatingly irregular.

Tearing the page out of my sketchbook, I crumpled it up into a tight ball and threw it at the offending rock. It arched perfectly, looking like it was going to pass right thru the divide. I silently congratulated myself as I waited to see if it would land my uncle, who was working on the other side.

A startled shriek escaped my lips as the paper vanished into thin air.

“Are you alright, Claire?” Uncle Lamb stuck his head around the side of the stone.

Pointing above his head, I gaped, “Where the hell did it go?”

“Where did what go?” Dr Joe asked, coming towards me.

“My paper,” I stood as I answered. “I threw it at the stone and it disappeared.”

Dr Joe laughed and patted me on the head patronizingly, “Sure you did, kid.”

“I’m eighteen and I know what I saw!” I informed him.

…

Day Four - July 14th, 2016.

One of my favorite things to do when I was in the field with Uncle Lamb was to go for morning hikes. We were both early risers, but, as he need an entire pot of coffee before he was ready to do anything productive, I used it as my own private, quiet time.

I got to the top of the hill just as the sun was beginning to hit the standing stones. The sunrise painted the already eerie monoliths in an almost otherworldly light and I took out my phone to quickly capture the moment. Something white caught my eye in the corner of the image, prompting me to move closer to the center stone to investigate.

It was my paper.

Mouth open in astonishment, I scooped it up. It was slightly damp from the dew, but very obviously the paper I had thrown the afternoon before. It certainly hadn’t been there before we left, I had scoured the site looking for it to no avail.

I uncrumpled it and dropped the sheet of paper like it was a hot coal.

Someone had finished my sketch, signing their work with five neat letters in the bottom left hand corner.

JAMMF