“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they've come.”

- The Barbie Movie

i haven’t felt any connections to the gods in quite a while now to the point of feeling hopeless in it and that it’s something in my past now but i did a tarot reading and it seems like Persephone is reaching out to me and i am beyond grateful right now.

it comforts me so much to know she’s looking out for me and will help me through what’s going on right now. im not entirely sure what will be focused on but the reading indicated that i will make progress and really see results and solutions come to light. the first thing to bring me any relief in a while.

“Dread Queen”: Hymn to Persephone

Iron in her blood, steel in her gaze  She is the dread queen,  Brandishing her strength in will, strength of heart.  She who punishes those who have committed injustices,  Defends those who have been wronged.  Heavy is her crown but she wears it with her head held high  For all of fiery autumn and savage winter.

She looks upon the lost souls with honeyed compassion.  For the ones that stretch their arms out to her,  She lends her warm hand,  She lends her warmth to their aching loneliness  With a smile that shines bright as the sun  from the solemn palace of the underworld.

She sits by her king,  Equals in every way,  Crystals and gems of all kinds decorating their attire  Fearsome they may be,  But with hearts of the brightest gold.

Happy Festival of Kore for those who celebrate!

Lady Persephone,

May you find your way to Lord Hades safely. May the time spent with your Lover be fulfilling and empowering. My Lady of the Underworld, the leaves are already changing, and your absence is felt by everyone on Earth. We look forward to seeing you once again in the Spring and will miss you while you’re gone.

I bit into the fruit,

Teeth sharp and bared.

Drops of juice stained my lips,

Red as blood,

Dripping down my chin,

And I wonder if that was how You felt,

When you first ate the fruit--

Like you had worlds at your fingertips.

The Skirophoria (or Skira), was celebrated on the 12th of Skirophorion. The festival was sacred to five different deities who all played a different part. Traditionally, the priestly personnel of Athena, Poseidon and Helios would walk together as a procession from the Acropolis to the temple of Demeter and Persephone at Skiron. The Skira was, like other festivals to Demeter, partly reserved to women and they held their own feast in her honour. It was also the moment where piglets would be sacrificed in a pit, but not consumed. The festival also had dissolutive aspect, where social order would be inverted. It is possible that fasting occurred during the day, and so the feast might have taken place at sundown.

me, looking at all my withered plants: i always kill everything

thanatos, out of nowhere: same bro :(

After this war another arose against the Romans on the part of the Sabine nation, the beginning and occasion of which was this. There is a sanctuary, honoured in common by the Sabines and the Latins, that is held in the greatest reverence and is dedicated to a goddess named Feronia; some of those who translate the name into Greek call her Anthophoros or Flower Bearer, others Philostephanos or Lover of Garlands, and still others Persephonê. To this sanctuary people used to resort from the neighbouring cities on the appointed days of festival, many of them performing vows and offering sacrifice to the goddess and many with the purpose of trafficking during the festive gathering as merchants, artisans and husbandmen; and here were held fairs more celebrated than in any other places in Italy.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities,  3.32.1  

Speak after me.

My deity loves me. They know of my struggles, and they neither judge, nor blame me for them. They know I'm doing all I can.

My deity loves me. They know of my struggles, and they neither judge, nor blame me for them. They know I'm doing all I can.

My deity loves me. They know of my struggles, and they neither judge, nor blame me for them. They know I'm doing all I can.

My deity loves me. They know of my struggles, and they neither judge, nor blame me. They know I'm doing all I can.

Is it okay to emphasize Persephone’s Kore/spring aspect instead of the afterlife aspect? I still engage with the Underworld as a shadow work concept but I’ve been asked by Her to not explore death/dying because of a history of suicidal ideation (which She helped me out of). I just feel like I’m doing something different/wrong than Her other followers. Also- my experience is very similar or the other anon. I was a preteen at Catholic school when I first met Her and She helped out of a dark plac

It’s 100% okay, love! That’s one the reasons the gods have epithets so we can emphasize specific aspects of them!

I totally understand how you feel tho because my worship of Artemis is very different than the majority of her followers (at least of what I’ve seen). So I get how it feels like you’re doing something wrong especially since humans are naturally designed to want to follow the group. But I assure you that what you’re doing is completely fine! Persephone herself instructed you to do this so ultimately that’s what matters.

Im happy you have Persephone by your side guiding you and helping you! 💕

[Part 5]

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lady of bones and flowers bridge between life and death

she who walks with us throughout life and through each season

she who walks with us through death the surrender of sorrow, of grief unto reincarnation 

praise Persephone, mighty one iron queen and tender Spring

let us be tender-hearted let us be lion-hearted share with us your fortitude share with us your grace

lady of bones and flowers I praise you, goddess divine.

so, as the transition into spring comes, so too does persephone leaving me and rejoining her mother, and in her place, apollon!

I work with Persephone in her kthonic aspect, in conjunction with hades, so it makes sense that her presence is diminished when she'd be with her mother

apollon is very much s god of light and the sun to me, so it also makes sense that he's much less present when it's cold and the sun is gone longer

I miss both of them when they're gone, but such is the cycle of things, and I'm thankful for them both. it's fun observing how different things feel with one or the other, as well