{"id":2475,"date":"2009-09-01T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2009-09-01T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:48:20","slug":"gems-of-the-goddess-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2009\/09\/01\/gems-of-the-goddess-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Gems of the Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psyche – the Goddess of the Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Goddess always has lessons to teach us based on their experiences.\u00a0 Today, we look at the transformation through the Greek Goddess Psyche\u2019s story of winning her husband Eros back.<\/p>\n

Psyche was a mortal – a stunning beauty, no less.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t interested in love and romance, which upset Aphrodite, the Love Goddess, greatly.\u00a0\u00a0 Aphrodite decided to teach Psyche a lesson so she sent her son, Eros (known also as Cupid in Roman Mythology) to shoot her with one of his arrows.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, when Eros went to do the job, he stumbled and got hit with his own arrow.\u00a0 He immediately fell in love with her.
\nBecause of not wanting to get in trouble with his mother, Eros took Psyche away to his home, married her and had a beautiful honeymoon.\u00a0\u00a0 Eros made Psyche promise not to look at him.\u00a0 He would only visit her at night.\u00a0\u00a0 Her life was wonderful, she lived in beauty, but she wanted to know her husband.\u00a0 She felt very lonely she couldn\u2019t look at him.<\/p>\n

Psyche talked to her sisters about it.\u00a0 Her sisters, being jealous of Psyche, told her she must be married to a hideous monster and she needed to look at him.\u00a0 So one night, Psyche shined light and found out she was married to the handsome Eros (Cupid).\u00a0\u00a0 Discovering the Psyche saw him, and brok e her promise to him, Eros left her.
\nPsyche went to Aphrodite, Eros’s mother, and asked for her help.\u00a0\u00a0 Aphrodite, seeing her chance to inflict pain and revenge, gave her a series of what seemed to be impossible tasks.\u00a0 Even though Psyche doubted she could complete them, she went forward and tried.<\/p>\n

The first was for her to sort a room full of grains.\u00a0 The task was overwhelming to Psyche so she went into a corner and cried.\u00a0 An army of ants took pity on her and finished the task for her.
\nNext, Aphrodite told Psyche she had to bring back Golden Fleece from a fierce Ram that had already killed several men that had tried to get the fleece.\u00a0 Psyche had help though, a nearby Reed told her to wait until nightfall to gather the Fleece because the Ram slept at night.<\/p>\n

The third task was for Psyche to gather water from the entrance of the Underworld.\u00a0\u00a0 When Psyche got there, she saw how dangerous it was.\u00a0 However, an eagle took the jar for her and gathered the water.
\nHer final task was to get sleeping potion from the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone.\u00a0 As she traveled back and forth, she would have to endure the cries of help from the unfortunate ones.\u00a0 This task was the hardest and longest.\u00a0 She accomplished it but at the end, she was extremely exhausted.\u00a0 At that point, Psyche took some of the sleeping potion to get some rest.\u00a0 Eros found her and, unable to rouse her from her sleep, wiped the sleep potion from her eyes and woke her up.\u00a0\u00a0 He then sent the sleeping potion to his mother and decided to get Zeus involved to help.<\/p>\n

Zeus\u2019s help was to make Psyche a Goddess, hence legitimizing their marriage in the Gods and Goddesses eyes.\u00a0 Aphrodite had no choice but to support their marriage.\u00a0 Psyche and Eros\u2019s marriage was rebuilt.\u00a0\u00a0 Their marriage deepened because of her belief in herself but that took hard times for her to emerge with being comfortable with her skills and intuition.<\/p>\n

Psyche is known as the Goddess of the Soul.\u00a0 Her experiences \u2013 good, bad and ugly \u2013 made her who she is.\u00a0 It is also a reminder to trust in the self that somehow there will be help.\u00a0 Her totems are many of the animals that helped her or who she worked with \u2013 ants, ram, sheep and of course, butterfly for transformation.
\nPsyche encourages you to find courage, to keep going and to believe that you can do the task in front of you, no matter how difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psyche – the Goddess of the Soul The Goddess always has lessons to teach us based on their experiences.\u00a0 Today, we look at the transformation through the Greek Goddess Psyche\u2019s story of winning her husband Eros back. Psyche was a mortal – a stunning beauty, no less.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t interested in love and romance, which upset Aphrodite, the Love Goddess, greatly.\u00a0\u00a0 Aphrodite decided to teach Psyche a lesson so she sent her son, Eros (known also as Cupid in Roman Mythology) to shoot her with one of his arrows.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, when Eros went to do the job, he stumbled and got hit with his own arrow.\u00a0 He immediately fell in love with her. Because of not wanting to get in trouble with his mother, Eros took Psyche away to his home, married her and had a beautiful honeymoon.\u00a0\u00a0 Eros made Psyche promise not to look at him.\u00a0 He would only visit her at night.\u00a0\u00a0 Her life was wonderful, she lived in beauty, but she wanted to know her husband.\u00a0 She felt very lonely she couldn\u2019t look at him. Psyche talked to her sisters about it.\u00a0 Her sisters, being jealous of Psyche, told her she must be married to a hideous monster and she needed to look at him.\u00a0 So one night, Psyche shined light and found out she was married to the handsome Eros (Cupid).\u00a0\u00a0 Discovering the Psyche saw him, and brok e her promise to him, Eros left her. Psyche went to Aphrodite, Eros’s mother, and asked for her help.\u00a0\u00a0 Aphrodite, seeing her chance to inflict pain and revenge, gave her a series of what seemed to be impossible tasks.\u00a0 Even though Psyche doubted she could complete them, she went forward and tried. The first was for her to sort a room full of grains.\u00a0 The task was overwhelming to Psyche so she went into a corner and cried.\u00a0 An army of ants took pity on her and finished the task for her. Next, Aphrodite told Psyche she had to bring back Golden Fleece from a fierce Ram that had already killed several men that had tried to get the fleece.\u00a0 Psyche had help though, a nearby Reed told her to wait until nightfall to gather the Fleece because the Ram slept at night. The third task was for Psyche to gather water from the entrance of the Underworld.\u00a0\u00a0 When Psyche got there, she saw how dangerous it was.\u00a0 However, an eagle took the jar for her and gathered the water. Her final task was to get sleeping potion from the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone.\u00a0 As she traveled back and forth, she would have to endure the cries of help from the unfortunate ones.\u00a0 This task was the hardest and longest.\u00a0 She accomplished it but at the end, she was extremely exhausted.\u00a0 At that point, Psyche took some of the sleeping potion to get some rest.\u00a0 Eros found her and, unable to rouse her from her sleep, wiped the sleep potion from her eyes and woke her up.\u00a0\u00a0 He then sent the sleeping potion to his mother and decided to get Zeus involved to help. Zeus\u2019s help was to make Psyche a Goddess, hence legitimizing their marriage in the Gods and Goddesses eyes.\u00a0 Aphrodite had no choice but to support their marriage.\u00a0 Psyche and Eros\u2019s marriage was rebuilt.\u00a0\u00a0 Their marriage deepened because of her belief in herself but that took hard times for her to emerge with being comfortable with her skills and intuition. Psyche is known as the Goddess of the Soul.\u00a0 Her experiences \u2013 good, bad and ugly \u2013 made her who she is.\u00a0 It is also a reminder to trust in the self that somehow there will be help.\u00a0 Her totems are many of the animals that helped her or who she worked with \u2013 ants, ram, sheep and of course, butterfly for transformation. Psyche encourages you to find courage, to keep going and to believe that you can do the task in front of you, no matter how difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}