Persephone and two Aquarian Moons
Today the moon weaves
Asteroid Persephone into the deeper conversation,
As she continues her journey back to Aquarius,
where she’ll be crowned for the second time.
We are travelling between
a rare two full moons in Aquarius;
Held in the energy of this revolutionary sign,
whilst simultaneously bathing in the
Solar radiance of Leo Season.
Aquarius illuminates our sense of identity
within the group;
How we feel we are received by others
The roles we assume
The contributions that we make.
We are being asked,
How much of our identity
has been intrinsically forged
in the fire of our own self-knowing?
How much has been externally mandated -
Reflected to us by those who
beheld us through the tainted lens
of their own human fallibility.
It is through the constellation of family
that we encounter our first sense
of what it means to belong.
We learnt which parts of ourselves
were celebrated for their value
And which parts threatened
to destabilise the unspoken,
generational spells of safety and stasis.
Muted in passivity
Honed in reactivity
The growth of our expression sculpted
to assume our place in dance of relatedness.
But between these moons the dance is arrested,
As the ground opens under our feet
drawing a part of ourselves and our surety
into the tumult of subterranean forces.
Alongside Lilith, Persephone midwives our descent.
Just like her mythological plight
Life seems to be initiating us against our will;
Beyond the safe and known,
into a deeper revealing.
If we allow our eyes to adjust to the darkness below
We have the chance to look upon
the many faces of our captor;
The ways we’ve imprisoned our expression
within the rules and conditions of belonging.
We are being asked,
How are we abdicating our power
to remain in the dance of relatedness?
How have the beliefs we hold about ourselves
been shaped by the perceptions of others?
What was once shunned within ourselves
as we sought shelter in conditional acceptance?
What armour and rebellion did we craft
to deny the vulnerability of our abandonment?
Ceres, Persephone’s Mother
paces the earth above us
Holding vigil with her rage and lamentation,
For the return of that which
has been taken from her
She asks,
Can we hold ourselves in the liminality of becoming?
Can we be with the pain, loss and injustice
without depriving that which surrounds us
of our care?
Sometimes we lose sight of something precious
in order that a deeper
more encompassing vision
be catalysed.