Choosing Descent

Persephone made a choice,

She chose the dark time of the year.

She chose a separation from all she had known before. She chose to follow her destiny and become Queen of the Underworld.

Persephone visited me in a dream years ago, and she planted a seed within me of a Pomegranate tree. A magical tree took root and grew tall and strong, with fruit bearing branches. She told me, “If you never plant the seed, the tree will never grow.”

In planting that seed within me, she initiated me into her dark mysteries. Persephone has appeared to me in dreams and journeys a few times over the years. In another dream I recall, she took me down into her cave. She showed me a ceremony she allowed me to perform, where I would take groups of women into her cave, and there they can leave their sorrows, confusion, burdens, anguish, terror, trauma, grief, blame and shame behind. She as Queen of shades, would take from us what has passed, so that we may live. Together we came to her cave as a group of troubled women, and we laid our burdens down, and let the dead rest. We returned to our lives without them.

As we move towards the blood moon, the darkness opens and the veil thins, the season of the Ancestors is upon us. A migration of dreams awaken. It is a time to become another shade of ourselves, letting our shadows dance in the wind.

What choices will you make, what changes will break?

Persephone chose to become Queen of the dead and broke her Mother’s heart.

What can you carry, and who will you marry?

Kore picked a narcissus flower that sealed her fate with the dark King.

What charms will arise from the depths of your eyes?

Seeing beyond time and space, yet in rhythm with the seasons, she descends and rises again and yet again returns.

Can you see in the dark or must you shapeshift the part?

SHE becomes Queen of the Dark and needs no one to save her. The dark is where seeds get planted. If you never plant the seeds, the tree can never grow.

What paths may open, when your truth is spoken?

Hecate is the way opener of the crossroads and holds torches to guide the way. The Goddess requires truth spoken to enter her realms of healing and wisdom. We cannot hide from ourselves under her owl wings. She has her ear to the ground, and her eyes in all directions and carries the wisdom of the seer. These truths must also be understood and spoken. Hecate holds the keys to mystery at the crossroads of life and death.

Crossroads