Cyclamen with its silver heart leaves is found in autumn scattered like pink stars in shady, often gloomy, places. Dear to the muses and Hecate, the mother goddess of dark, chthonic glades….. and witchcraft: it is the flower of opposites.In folklore it symbolised both life and death; an ingredient of wedding cakes to increase fertility, yet a woman who walked barefoot on cyclamen would abort; both a love potion and a gracious farewell to love: Cyclamen as its name implies means cycle (from Greek kyklos). Read more on my blog