February Meditation and Energy Healing with the goddess Persephone
- beverleyhawkins
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For February’s Meditation and Energy Healing Session with the Goddess, the card I drew from Kris Waldherr's Goddess Inspiration Oracle Deck was the goddess Persephone. Join me in the Meditation and Energy Healing Session with the goddess Persephone above.
Kris Waldherr calls Persephone, the Maiden, with the Keywords: The Seasons, Sexuality, Innocence and the Message: Find ways to use your innocence as a strength. In the introduction to her Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide she says: Affirmations offer a direct way to put the Divine Feminine into action. They allow us to change negative thought patters, thus freeing us to create a new road map for our lives. Affirmations also empower us to be self-sufficient - since we are giving ourselves positive feedback, we are not so reliant on others for praise. All of her Goddess Messages can easily be changed to an Affirmation. Persephone’s Affirmation: I find ways in which to use my innocence as a strength.
She continues:
Persephone's transformational journey from maiden to queen of the underworld was instigated when Pluto, god of death, kidnapped her. As she explains, although Persephone's heart was unmoved by Pluto's declarations of devotion, and she wept for her mother and refused to eat, finally after some time had passed, she ate six pomegranate seeds. The eating of which defined her life as it symbolized her reluctant acceptance of her sexuality and of Pluto as her husband. It also ensured her separation from her mother, Demeter, for a month for each seed. This myth was used by ancient Greeks to explain the creation of spring and winter. In her Book of Goddesses, she says: The main rituals associated with Persephone are the great Eleusinian mysteries. Little is known of them. However, one thing is certain: Those who underwent the rites of Eleusis were changed irrevocably. She also reminds us that we still remember Persephone as the first aspect of the triple goddess - the kore, or maiden, who will become a mother and a crone one day. As our first blood transforms us from girl to woman, we acknowledge her presence within ourselves.
Patricia Monaghan, in her book The Goddess Path, Myths, Invocations & Rituals has the Keyword: Initiation for both Demeter & Persephone. Since their story is intertwined she writes about both in one chapter. In her Suggestions for Invoking Demeter & Persephone she says:
Of all the great rituals of the ancient world, none was so fervently celebrated as the Eleusinian Mysteries. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries was a process, one that began when the worshiper became aware of the goddess's power, proceeded through months or years of instruction, and continued long after the Holy Night. She continues: There has been a great deal of speculation about what the initiates might have experienced on the Holy Night, but what seems most convincing, is that the worshipers experienced some deep connection between themselves and the goddess.
Are you able to see anywhere in your life where you might have, or perhaps need to draw on the energy of Persephone? She certainly reminds us that every life cycle carries in it rebirth, wisdom and balance.
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