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PERSEPHONE

Persephone- Goddess of the underworld, daughter of Demeter and the God Zeus. Wife of Hades.  She is also maiden of the Spring season of the year.  Persephone, the only daughter of Demeter (Greek Goddess of harvest and fertility) was abducted as a young girl by Hades and spirited away to the underworld to become his unwilling bride.  Demeter left MT. Olympus and eventually forced Zeus to secure Persephone's release. But, because she had eaten pomegranate seeds before leaving the underworld, Persephone was allowed spend only 8 months of the year with her mother, Demeter.  She was required to spend the remainder of the year with Hades.  

Persephone had an ideal lifestyle, being raised by a mother who was known as the "nurturing spirit”, and a powerful father. She was able to play with her father's other daughter's, Athena and Aphrodite. Persephone was very well behaved and complacent, she was a parents dream.  

The life of the Goddess Persephone, Goddess of the underworld, took quite a turn when its King Hades took her to the underworld.  Kidnapped, hungry, and refusing to eat anything Hades offered her.  Only except the pomegranate, which is the only thing she accepts.  The act of ingesting the pomegranate seeds symbolizes the consumption of their relationship, which is a beautiful poetic touch.

She now inhabits the underworld with Hades for part of the year, and the rest with her mother Demeter, and her father, God Zeus. The Goddess Persephone was known as "proserpina" in roman mythology.

* I know this is such a short article on her, but in my meditations and thoughts of her, are as, seeing her so beautiful, Hades fell in love with her beauty, he had deep compassion for Persephone, the love was so profound, Hades had for her. Persephone was also so unhappy, at first, but she later "grew" to fall in love with Hades, in spite of what he had done to her, kidnapped from her only mother, Demeter and father, God Zeus. The great love he had for her, that Hades only knew, has kept Persephone prison at first, but later gave her ruling over the underworld, as Goddess of the underworld, as she grew to love him even more and more. I can so much feel the passion that Hades had for Persephone, a true love story, coming from Hades point of view. I feel she very much happy with the ruling that Hades had given her, Queen of the underworld.

Persephone was also very forgiving; she forgave Hades and realized she had fell in love with him.   You can use Persephone to invoke the characteristics of who you want to become, since she is forgiving, call to her:  Goddess of the underworld, Queen of underworld, let me be a loving and forgiving person. You can invoke her in many ways, my favourite is, Goddess Persephone, share with me your heightened awareness and the beauty, and the ability to focus on living in here and NOW.

Lisa Tarrance

 

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