Jean Stepnoski (16 Oct 2010)
"The Name Hartley, The Stag Season, The Song of Songs"


 
Dear Doves,
      The Comet Hartley will be appearing this month.. The web site www.hartleyfamily.org.uk/ has an interesting article about this name. It is of Germanic, Viking, Old English, and Anglo Saxon origins. It has links related to worship of an earth goddess like those of the Teutonic, and those of the Greek and Roman. This reminds me of the Mystery, Babylon the Great. Word meanings include the deer-stag people, wood or clearing, stag meadow, or hart clearing.
      What is most interesting is the theme of hart or stag, a male deer, in The Song of Songs. In 2:8 is the following. " My love is like a swift gazelle or a young stag." In 2:17 is the following "return to me, my love, like a gazelle or young stag on the rugged mountains." It is currently the Season of the Stag for those deer-stag people or His deer-stag people. May we be WATCHING each day for The Beloved.
 
With Love and Shalom,
Jean