As we move into the springtime, the leaves turn green, the weather turns warmer and life is breathed back into Nature.\u00a0 People’s attitudes shift into happiness, playfulness and they spend more time outside, enjoying nature.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you’ve ever wondered if the Goddess influenced this, wonder no more.<\/p>\n
Persephone and Demeter, mother and daughter, speak to the change in the seasons.\u00a0 Grief turns someone cold, as represented by Demeter turning the earth cold because of missing her daughter.<\/p>\n
Persephone is the Greek Goddess of the Underworld.\u00a0 She is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus and the wife of Hades.\u00a0 She was also known as \u201cKore\u201d.\u00a0 In some myths, the name Persephone could not be uttered \u2013 she was referred to as \u201cThe Iron Queen\u201d because she was known to be cruel as the ruler of the Underworld.<\/p>\n
Demeter is the Main Greek Goddess of the Harvest.\u00a0 She ensures that nature and the harvest are plentiful.\u00a0 However, there are times she grieves when Persephone is away, which is known as our winter.<\/p>\n
In their story, Persephone was wooed by many of the gods such as Hermes, Apollo and Ares.\u00a0 However, Demeter turned them down and sent them away.\u00a0 She felt they were not good enough for Persephone\u00a0 and wanted to keep Persephone with her.<\/p>\n
One day, Persephone was picking flowers in the forest with some nymphs when Hades burst through a break in the earth and abducted her.\u00a0 Demeter turned the nymphs into sirens for not stopping Hades.\u00a0 Because of her grief, she neglected her duties on earth, making the harvest die.<\/p>\n
Zeus negotiated Persephone’s release from Hades when people on earth started to cry out from starvation and lack of life in the harvest and agriculture.\u00a0 Zeus found Persephone and tried to bring her back from Hades.\u00a0 Before he could do that, Hades fed Persephone pomegranate seeds, which are the foods of the deceased spirits.\u00a0 By doing this, it tied Persephone to Hades.\u00a0 Zeus then negotiated a truce \u2013 Persephone would spend part of the year with Hades and part of the year with Demeter.\u00a0 When Persephone is with Demeter, Demeter is happy and it’s wonderful weather \u2013 Spring, Summer, Fall.\u00a0 When Persephone leaves, Demeter turns sad and winter comes to chill out happy feelings.<\/p>\n
There are a few different ways to look at this story.\u00a0 Demeter could be the overprotective mother because Persephone may have wanted to spend time with Hades.\u00a0 Or, Persephone could be the victim of a kidnapping and fell in love with her kidnapper.<\/p>\n
However, this story says how people deal with grief and situations that have no control over.\u00a0 How do you handle situations that turn your world upside down?\u00a0 Demeter got very sad and retreated, so much so that she created a very cold world.\u00a0 Does your world get cold when things aren’t going well?<\/p>\n
Demeter and Persephone teach us that there are ways that you can handle what life throws at you.\u00a0 Life must go on, it may not be quite the same, but you are meant to make the best of what you have.\u00a0 If you are going through a tough time, ask Demeter and Persephone to help you deal with grief and sadness.\u00a0 Wear brighter colors, speak in positive tones, spend time with people who can uplift your spirits.\u00a0 By doing this, Spring will come back to your life soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As we move into the springtime, the leaves turn green, the weather turns warmer and life is breathed back into Nature.\u00a0 People’s attitudes shift into happiness, playfulness and they spend more time outside, enjoying nature.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you’ve ever wondered if the Goddess influenced this, wonder no more. Persephone and Demeter, mother and daughter, speak to the change in the seasons.\u00a0 Grief turns someone cold, as represented by Demeter turning the earth cold because of missing her daughter. Persephone is the Greek Goddess of the Underworld.\u00a0 She is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus and the wife of Hades.\u00a0 She was also known as \u201cKore\u201d.\u00a0 In some myths, the name Persephone could not be uttered \u2013 she was referred to as \u201cThe Iron Queen\u201d because she was known to be cruel as the ruler of the Underworld. Demeter is the Main Greek Goddess of the Harvest.\u00a0 She ensures that nature and the harvest are plentiful.\u00a0 However, there are times she grieves when Persephone is away, which is known as our winter. In their story, Persephone was wooed by many of the gods such as Hermes, Apollo and Ares.\u00a0 However, Demeter turned them down and sent them away.\u00a0 She felt they were not good enough for Persephone\u00a0 and wanted to keep Persephone with her. One day, Persephone was picking flowers in the forest with some nymphs when Hades burst through a break in the earth and abducted her.\u00a0 Demeter turned the nymphs into sirens for not stopping Hades.\u00a0 Because of her grief, she neglected her duties on earth, making the harvest die. Zeus negotiated Persephone’s release from Hades when people on earth started to cry out from starvation and lack of life in the harvest and agriculture.\u00a0 Zeus found Persephone and tried to bring her back from Hades.\u00a0 Before he could do that, Hades fed Persephone pomegranate seeds, which are the foods of the deceased spirits.\u00a0 By doing this, it tied Persephone to Hades.\u00a0 Zeus then negotiated a truce \u2013 Persephone would spend part of the year with Hades and part of the year with Demeter.\u00a0 When Persephone is with Demeter, Demeter is happy and it’s wonderful weather \u2013 Spring, Summer, Fall.\u00a0 When Persephone leaves, Demeter turns sad and winter comes to chill out happy feelings. There are a few different ways to look at this story.\u00a0 Demeter could be the overprotective mother because Persephone may have wanted to spend time with Hades.\u00a0 Or, Persephone could be the victim of a kidnapping and fell in love with her kidnapper. However, this story says how people deal with grief and situations that have no control over.\u00a0 How do you handle situations that turn your world upside down?\u00a0 Demeter got very sad and retreated, so much so that she created a very cold world.\u00a0 Does your world get cold when things aren’t going well? Demeter and Persephone teach us that there are ways that you can handle what life throws at you.\u00a0 Life must go on, it may not be quite the same, but you are meant to make the best of what you have.\u00a0 If you are going through a tough time, ask Demeter and Persephone to help you deal with grief and sadness.\u00a0 Wear brighter colors, speak in positive tones, spend time with people who can uplift your spirits.\u00a0 By doing this, Spring will come back to your life soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}