PERSEPHONE
Persephone is truly the Goddess of the Equinoxes, because She is both symbol of spring and life's renewal when She returns to her mother Demeter at the turning of the seasonal Wheel. And She is also Goddess of death. Persephone is the wife of Hades, the Queen of the Underworld identified with the ending and dormant time of winter.
PERSEPHONE'S FEAST DAY
I offer now bread,
red fruit, red wine.
To life:
to the dreamers,
to planters and gatherers,
to makers and unmakers,
to the innocent and the wise.
To the inarticulate, the lost,
to the hungry, and fallen.
To every transparent lover
wandering these grey bardos in their solitude.
Come to the table all.
Here is a rich conversation
harvested from the last living garden.
A dappled pear, an apple, a pomegranate,
A butterfly in it's chrysalis, winged, moist,
the slow rebirth of color
deep in the depths of this dream.
The weather vanes will turn again.
The wheat has new life in it yet.
The blessing will still be given.
Lauren Raine (2005)
Persephone is truly the Goddess of the Equinoxes, because She is both symbol of spring and life's renewal when She returns to her mother Demeter at the turning of the seasonal Wheel. And She is also Goddess of death. Persephone is the wife of Hades, the Queen of the Underworld identified with the ending and dormant time of winter.
PERSEPHONE'S FEAST DAY
I offer now bread,
red fruit, red wine.
To life:
to the dreamers,
to planters and gatherers,
to makers and unmakers,
to the innocent and the wise.
To the inarticulate, the lost,
to the hungry, and fallen.
To every transparent lover
wandering these grey bardos in their solitude.
Come to the table all.
Here is a rich conversation
harvested from the last living garden.
A dappled pear, an apple, a pomegranate,
A butterfly in it's chrysalis, winged, moist,
the slow rebirth of color
deep in the depths of this dream.
The weather vanes will turn again.
The wheat has new life in it yet.
The blessing will still be given.
Lauren Raine (2005)