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Carol S. Pearson | 256 pages | 13 Oct 2015 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062318923 | English | New York, United States Persephone Rising

Four archetypal plotlines—two feminine, two masculine—chart this path toward greater life satisfaction. Each year, the Nautilus Book Awards are given to books that carry a powerful message aimed at making the world a better place. Buy the Book: In this empowering work, Carol S. In the myth, the earth mother wins a power struggle with a patriarchal god, thereby ending a famine think climate change that threatens human survival. As Persephone Rising is occurring, a youthful goddess gains her freedom, asserting gender partnership and equality, and as a result gives birth to joy and celebration. The archetypal figures and narratives that galvanize attention in the public world also activate them within us as individuals. The Persephone Rising, then, is to live Persephone Rising stories wisely, shifting their expression within us and thus influencing our collective future for the better. The example of the four Persephone Rising mythic characters illustrates how readers can move from feeling powerless to purposeful, disrespected to esteemed, trapped to free, Persephone Rising anxious to joyful. Illuminating ancient wisdom for a modern audience, Persephone Rising Persephone Rising profound and powerful strategies to answer the call to heroism in our own lives: to locate and harness the unique potential within each of us, and ultimately to develop our own innate heroic gifts. Just as Demeter and Persephone Rising discovered, in the midst of great difficulty, their own powers, gifts, and abilities for blazing a better path not only for themselves, but also for the world, Persephone Rising teaches that each one of us has more options than choosing whether to lean in or out —we have the power to change ourselves, and thus our Persephone Rising. For many of us women, the Persephone Rising of Demeter and Persephone is the most challenging and illuminating of all myths. Each of us retells it in her Persephone Rising way, a way that reflects what it means to her. Wisely, she recognizes that the deepest message Persephone Rising myth conveys comes from attending to all the archetypal energies represented in it, not just Persephone but also Demeter, Zeus, and Dionysus. Pearson writes with an eye toward empowering women, not by disparaging men, but by pointing us in the direction of our lost history…. Her work has always been an exploration of the flowers that bloom through the cracks in the sidewalk. It would appear that those flowers, and Pearson herself, are now positioned for a spectacular moment in the sun. Persephone Rising Persephone Rising to my bone marrow—its truths resonating with clarity and Persephone Rising. A beautiful retelling and updating of these ancient archetypes—so relevant today. Carol S. Pearson does a remarkable job of weaving together stories Persephone Rising Greek myths with profound metaphors, practical leadership applications, existing literature, and strategies for inner growth and development. In this carefully crafted book, leadership lessons emerge for women in any life circumstance on topics such as resilience, courage, connectedness, caring, joy, finding passions, and taking action. The most useful interpretation is Persephone Rising that sparks the imagination and teaches us something important. Carol Persephone Rising is one: she uses those four archetypes as a map of human qualities that everyone, man or woman, should develop to live the good life. This discussion is a deeper dive into the archetypes that […]. Buy the Book:. In this empowering work, Carol S. Praise for Persephone Rising: For many of Persephone Rising women, the story of Demeter and Persephone is the most challenging and illuminating of all myths. Primal archetypes Demeter, Zeus, Persephone, and Dionysus also provide Pearson with material for integrative lessons meant to encourage life transformation via the power of Persephone Rising. Click here to read a free excerpt. This discussion is a deeper dive into the archetypes that […] More Info. Home - Persephone Rising

She became the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hadesthe god Persephone Rising the underworld. Similar myths appear in the cults of male gods like Persephone RisingAdonisand Osiris[2] and in Minoan Crete. Persephone as a vegetation goddess and her Persephone Rising Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysterieswhich promised the initiated a more enjoyable prospect after death. The origins of her cult are uncertain, but it was based on ancient agrarian cults of agricultural communities. Persephone was commonly worshipped along with Demeter and with the same mysteries. To her alone were dedicated the mysteries celebrated at Athens in the month of Anthesterion. In Classical Greek artPersephone is invariably portrayed robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented Persephone Rising the process of being carried off by Hades. Her name has numerous historical variants. In Latin her name Persephone Rising rendered Proserpina. She was identified by the Romans as the Italic goddess Libera. The existence of so many different forms shows how difficult it was for the Greeks to pronounce the word in their own language and suggests that the name may have a Pre-Greek origin. The epithets of Persephone reveal her double function as chthonic underworld and vegetation goddess. The surnames given to her by the poets refer to her character as Queen of the lower world and the dead, or her symbolic meaning of the power that Persephone Rising forth Persephone Rising withdraws into the earth. Her common name as a vegetation goddess is Kore, and in Arcadia she was worshipped under the title Despoina"the mistress", a very old chthonic divinity. Plutarch writes that Persephone was identified with the spring season [11] and Cicero calls her the seed of the fruits of the Persephone Rising. In the Eleusinian Mysteriesher return from the underworld each spring is a symbol of immortality, and hence she was frequently represented on sarcophagi. In the religions of the Orphics and the PlatonistsKore is described as the Persephone Rising goddess of nature [12] who both produces and destroys everything, and she is therefore mentioned along with or identified as other such divinities including IsisRheaGeHestiaPandoraArtemisPersephone Rising Hecate. In mythology and literature she is often called dread Persephone Rising Persephone, and queen of the Underworld, within which tradition it was Persephone Rising to speak her name. This tradition comes from her conflation with the very old chthonic divinity Despoina "[the] mistress"whose real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated into her mysteries. In Homer 's epics, she appears always together with Hades and the Underworld, apparently sharing with Hades control over the dead. Odysseus sacrifices a ram to the cthonic goddess Persephone and the ghosts of the dead who drink the blood of the sacrificed animal. In the reformulation of Greek mythology expressed in the Orphic HymnsDionysus and Melinoe are separately called children of Zeus and Persephone. Her central myth served as the context for the secret rites of regeneration at Eleusis[20] which promised immortality to initiates. In a Classical period text ascribed to Empedoclesc. And Nestis, moistening mortal springs with tears. Of the four deities of Empedocles' elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo —Nestis is a euphemistic Persephone Rising title [n 3] —for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to Persephone Rising aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or "the Maiden", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld. Nestis means "the Fasting One" in ancient Greek. As a goddess of the Persephone Rising, Persephone was given euphemistically friendly names. As a vegetation goddess, she was called: [23] [26]. Demeter and her daughter Persephone were usually called: [26] [27]. Persphone's abduction by Hades [n 4] is mentioned Persephone Rising in Hesiod 's TheogonyPersephone Rising and told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeusit is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Pallasdaughter of Tritonas the Homeric Hymn says, in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. In most versions Persephone Rising forbids the earth to produce, or she Persephone Rising the Persephone Rising and in the depth of her despair she causes nothing to grow. Helios Persephone Rising, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Persephone Rising what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode. Finally, Zeus, pressed by the Persephone Rising of the hungry Persephone Rising and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. Hades complies with the request, but first he tricks Persephone, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Various local traditions place Persephone's Persephone Rising in different Persephone Rising. The Siciliansamong whom her worship was probably introduced by the Corinthian Persephone Rising Megarian colonists, believed that Hades found her in the meadows near Ennaand that a well arose on the spot where he descended with her into the lower world. The Cretans thought that their own island had been the scene of the abduction, and the Eleusinians mentioned the Nysian plain in Boeotia, and said that Persephone had descended with Hades into the lower world at the entrance of the western Oceanus. Later accounts place the abduction in Atticanear Athensor near Eleusis. The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion or Mysion Persephone Rising was probably a mythical place. The location of this mythical place may simply be a convention to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past. Eubuleus was feeding his pigs at the opening to the underworld when Persephone was abducted by Plouton. His swine were swallowed by the earth along with her, and the myth is an etiology for the relation of pigs with the ancient rites in Thesmophoria[35] and in Eleusis. In the hymn, Persephone returns and she is reunited with her mother near Eleusis. Demeter, as she had promised, established her Persephone Rising orgies when the Eleusinians built for her a temple near the spring of Callichorus. These were awful mysteries which were not allowed to be uttered. The uninitiated would spend Persephone Rising miserable existence in the gloomy space of Hades after death. In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other deities that Persephone had eaten the Persephone Rising seeds. When Demeter and her daughter were reunited, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for some months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm. This is an origin story to explain the seasons. In an earlier version, Hecate rescued Persephone. On an Attic red-figured bell krater of c. The 10th- century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda introduces a goddess of a blessed afterlife Persephone Rising to Orphic mystery initiates. This Macaria is asserted to be the daughter Persephone Rising Hades, but no mother is Persephone Rising. In the myth Pluto abducts Persephone to be his wife and the queen of his realm this is the myth which explains their marriage. Nilsson believes that the original cult of Ploutos or Pluto in Eleusis was similar with the Minoan cult of the "divine child", who died in order to be reborn. The child was abandoned by his mother and then it was brought up by the powers of nature. Similar myths appear in the cults of Hyakinthos AmyklaiErichthonios Athensand later in the cult of Dionysos. Pluto Ploutos represents the wealth Persephone Rising the grain that was stored in underground silos or ceramic jars pithoiduring summer months. Similar subterranean pithoi were used in ancient times for burials and Pluto is fused with Hadesthe King Persephone Rising the realm of the dead. During summer months, the Greek grain-Maiden Kore is lying Persephone Rising the grain of the underground silos in the realm of Hades, and she is fused with Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld. At the beginning of the autumn, when the seeds of the old crop are laid on the Persephone Rising, she ascends and is reunited with her mother Demeterfor at that time the old crop and the new meet each other. For the initiated, this union was the symbol of the eternity of human Persephone Rising that flows from the generations which spring from each other. The primitive myths of isolated Arcadia seem to be related to the first Greek-speaking people who came from the north-east during the Bronze Age. Despoina the mistressthe goddess of the Arcadian mysteries, is the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon Hippios horsewho represents the river spirit of the underworld as a horse, as Persephone Rising happens in northern-European folklore. He pursues the mare-Demeter and from their Persephone Rising she bears the horse Arion and a daughter who originally had the form or shape of a mare. The two goddesses were not clearly separated, and they Persephone Rising closely connected with springs and animals. They were connected with Poseidon, the god of rivers and springs, and especially with Artemisthe Mistress of the Animals who was the Persephone Rising nymph. They are the two Great Goddesses of the Arcadian Persephone Rising, and evidently they come from a more primitive religion. Persephone Persephone Rising worshipped along with her mother Demeter and in the same mysteries. Her cults included agrarian magic, dancing, and rituals. The priests used special vessels and holy symbols, and the people participated with rhymes. In Eleusis there is evidence of sacred laws and other inscriptions. The Cult of Demeter and the Maiden is found at Atticain the main festivals Persephone Rising and Eleusinian mysteries and in Persephone Rising number of local cults. These festivals were almost always celebrated at the autumn sowing, and at full-moon according to Persephone Rising Greek tradition. In some local cults the feasts were dedicated to Demeter. The myth of a goddess being abducted and taken to the Underworld is probably Pre-Greek in origin. Samuel Noah Kramerthe renowned scholar of ancient Sumerhas posited that the Persephone Rising story of the Persephone Rising of Persephone Rising may Persephone Rising derived from an ancient Sumerian story in which EreshkigalPersephone Rising ancient Sumerian goddess of the Underworld, is abducted by KurPersephone Rising primeval dragon of Persephone Rising mythologyand forced to become ruler of the Underworld against her own will. The location of Persephone's abduction is different in each local cult. Persephone Rising Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". Persephone is an old chthonic deity of the Persephone Rising communities, who received the souls of the dead into the earth, and acquired powers over the fertility of the soil, over which she reigned. The earliest depiction of a goddess who may be identified with Persephone growing out of the ground, is on a plate from the Old-Palace period in Phaistos. The goddess has a vegetable-like appearance, and she is surrounded by dancing girls between blossoming flowers. In some forms Hades appears with his chthonic horses. The myth of the abduction of Persephone was derived from the idea that Hades catches the souls of the dead and then carries them with his horses into his kingdom. This idea is vague in HomerPersephone Rising appears in later Greek depictions, and in Greek folklore. The cults of Persephone and Demeter in the Eleusinian mysteries and in the Thesmophoria were based on old agrarian cults. There is evidence that some practices were derived from the religious practices of the Mycenaean age. In the Near eastern myth of the early agricultural societies, every year the fertility goddess bore the "god of the new year", who then became her lover, and died immediately in order to be reborn and face the same destiny. Persephone Rising findings from Catal Huyuk since Persephone Rising Neolithic age, indicate the worship of the Great Goddess accompanied by a boyish consort, who symbolizes the annual decay and return of vegetation. In Minoan Cretethe "divine child" was related to Persephone Rising female vegetation divinity Ariadne who died every year. The most peculiar feature of the Minoan belief in the divine, is the appearance of the goddess from above in the dance. Dance floors have been discovered in addition to "vaulted tombs", and it seems that the dance was ecstatic. Homer memorializes the dance floor which Daedalus built for Ariadne in the remote Persephone Rising. Above a figure apparently floating in the air seems to be Persephone Rising goddess herself, appearing amid the whirling dance. Two girls dance between blossoming flowers, on each side of a similar but armless and legless figure which seems to grow out of the ground. Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within by Carol S. Pearson

Ostara is right around the corner, and many witches have started planning their rituals to honor the rebirth of the sun. This equinox is a time when day and night will be in perfect balance, carrying with it the powerful themes of rebirth and new beginnings. For our resident fae witch, this makes it the perfect time to honor a true queen of balance: Persephone. Persephone is a powerful Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld, spending half of the year with Hades where she presides over spirits who have crossed over. The other half of the year, however, she returns to the surface to be with Demeter and bring life back to the Earth after a barren winter. Just as the plants have begun to pop up from the ground, Persephone bursts forth from the Underworld on Ostara to shower us with her light and warmth. Persephone teaches us the power of adaptability in the way she merges the role of Queen and Goddess. In her duality, she shows us the transformation that we all Persephone Rising go through during life and the need for balance. Sometimes we must persevere through the dark before we can grow in the light. She also serves as the perfect example of a strong goddess that chose her own destiny by choosing to split her time between worlds, embracing both roles with equal Persephone Rising. Persephone can help us learn to balance our responsibilities and commitments in the same Persephone Rising, as well as show us that we can forge our own fate. The spring equinox is the time for Persephone to resume her Persephone Rising as a Spring Goddess and breathe life back into the Earth. She symbolizes endless renewal and rebirth, bringing life back to the flora and fauna after the dark days of winter. Although the Earth flourishes when she returns from the Underworld each spring, she understands that it is also necessary for her to light the way for spirits in the dark half of the year. She juggles these roles with ease, flitting between Persephone Rising and Goddess in a way that brings abundance and comfort to all who are willing to accept her help. She asks us to join her and plant our intentions like seeds, as well as urging us to choose what we wish to focus our energy on during this time of Persephone Rising and rebirth, just as she chose to split her time between Spring Goddess and Underworld Queen. The intentions you plant with her now are what will manifest in the harvest season. This is a great time to start a magickal garden in her honor and ask for her blessing over the seeds you plant. You can also honor her return Persephone Rising the spring Persephone Rising by setting up an altar with a few of her favorite Persephone Rising. Because of her association with spring growth Persephone Rising the sprouting of seeds, Persephone loves offerings of grains and wildflowers during Ostara. As a Spring Goddess, she loves sweet fragrances and bright colors. I tend to light a lot of jasmine incense during this time of year, but she will enjoy nearly any floral scent. Persephone Rising little tip: dry and keep any flower offerings to Persephone during the Spring so that you can burn them during the Fall Equinox when she returns to Persephone Rising Underworld. In honor of Persephone, the spring Persephone Rising serves as a time to seek out new opportunities and new beginnings. Through her story, we can appreciate how the changing of the seasons holds the ability for renewal and transformation, no matter how Persephone Rising things Persephone Rising during the winter. In a way, we're all coming out of hibernation and into the light. Let's use this year's spring equinox to rebalance and make some magickal new beginnings together. Mar 3. Persephone Rising. Goddess and Queen: A Balancing Act Persephone is a powerful Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld, spending half of the year with Hades where she presides over spirits who have crossed over. Recent Posts See All. What Persephone Rising Lughnasadh? Persephone Rising Kitchen Witch's Lammas Ritual. Check Out Our Witchy Wares! Quick View. Add to Cart.