Persephone 3

BY MARIE HOWE

My mother knows all about the under-dark.

She needn't have pretended to be appalled.

The seed must break open and rise;

put too deep the rot sets in.

My mother is a god; she wanted to spare me.

But my nature is nature.

Like everything alive I was meant to be split open,

to blossom, to be sucked, to be eaten,

to lean, to bend, to wither,

to die and die and die and die until I died.

In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword I break down shame and the ways it controls us and how we can work with this time of alchemy to set ourselves free of the past. I recorded it in the airport lounge in NYC so please ignore the background and receive the healing.

Scorpio is known for its depth, passion, mystery, and brings a powerful energy for shedding old layers and confronting hidden truths.

As we embrace this transformative lunar phase, we're encouraged to trust the process of renewal, knowing that the seeds planted now will lead to profound and lasting change.

We need others somatically by our side to walk down into our depths and light fires, sing songs and help us come back up too. (J0in our community member, Dark Goddess Doula practitioner and incredible grief and songstress Alli Caw and I Tuesday for a free song circle here. Bring your prayers, sounds, songs and poems.)

We start our yearly Dark Goddess Doula training in a couple weeks, have a peek here and book a call white to apply.

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