It had occured to me that I have not even discussed the Fall season so I have placed a short exert from a book I have written. This just gives a cursory overview of the mythological and folklore history behind. As I post this the astrological sun is in Pisces with the moon Virgo. Virgo compels one to give service so how fitting that I am providing this today.
During this time in our history the world is finally facing a univeral halt to asses their actions. Charlatans are being exposed for theft of money and trust placed in them. The Bankning and Finance Industry are now only publiclly being held to scrutiney but other areas of business including non profit are also being challanged to work with a code of humility, ethics and morality.Please feel free to comment.
The psychological and spiritual influences of the Autumn Equinox reverberate primarily on the inner levels of the conscious and unconsciousness. The classic myth of Demeter, the goddess of Fertility and Agriculture among other rites, holds the secrets to life and death on a material level. Specifically Demeter dealt with agriculture and the cycles of the organic life on the mundane level but spiritual evolution on the esoteric level. Foremost is the gender in which this is housed in. Female as Demeter is the mother, Persephone is the Maiden, and Diana or Hecate, according to some traditions is the Crone. Others insist that Demeter became the Crone while she mourned for her daughter. As an immortal disease was not absorbed but doled out arbitrarily as the deity punished or rewarded as the occasion or sacrifice demanded. When Demeter mourned for her daughter’s kidnapping depression was birthed in the spiritual plane and transmitted to the material plane. IN general a loss of sunlight, vegetation, lack of resources, inclement weather were all personifications of a "spiritual mourning" bleeding into terra firma. Demeter transferred her pain to the mortals and they suffered physically and overtly. I in short mortals became the conduit for divine sufferings. The pantheon of deities suffered at the neglect of temple rites and offerings. Mortals were more concerned with survival than appeasing the gods. Pluto had stolen Persephone and taken her to the Underworld. This was known as the rape of Peraphone. Pluto wanted a wife and found Persephone beguiling. The only witnesses to the abduction were Zeus and Hermes. Demeter mourned and stagnation wreaked havoc upon all life infecting the Gods themselves. There is a myth that Demeter appealed to all Demi-Gods and Gods alike to find her daughter. No one could find her. Shrouded in mystery and fear many dared not to tread to the Underworld. Those who had crossed the River Styx owed their allegiance to Pluto/Hades, the owner of the Underworld. Hecate, one of the Crones and Goddess of Magic and the Moon, located Persephone by using her psychic faculties of seering. She was also the ruler of witches, those with advanced spiritual and psychic talents, and thus enacted her psychic gifts to peer past the veil to the underworld. Once this information, from the Goddess of Witches, Magic and the Moon became intuited with Demeter, the Goddess of Fertility, Transformation and Wheat, then she demanded her daughter's return from Hades/Pluto. Pluto/Hades did not relent and Demeter continued to let death and stagnation permeate the Earth and Cosmos. Zeus, the King of the Gods and owner of the Thunderbolt, could not permit this to continue and sent Hermes/Mercury, the God of Thieves, Communication and Mirth, to send an official proclamation to Hades to return Persephone to her mother. Hades conceded to his brother, Zeus King of the Gods, urgent proclamation to stop suffering and lack of prayers and offerings being sent to the Gods. Hades/Pluto did not independently depend on the prayers or offerings sent to him as the other deities because his realm of Death/Transformation was part of the natural hierarchy, which allowed him to maintain an aloof stance with the other Gods and their respect if not begrudgingly. Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, was in the classic tradition "raped" by Hades/Pluto. This changed her and during the dormant period with Hades/Pluto his power over Death was transferred to her. She gained insight and access into the shadow realms to include the psychic ablities, neacomacy, magic, she unwillingly was taken underground against her will tricked by a beautiful flower that the earth held she had never seen. As soon as she reached for the flower that grew in darkness the ground opened up and Pluto carried her down into his palace of Hades. She was a victim of deception and illusions. The Underworld is the owner of illusions and mystery and Pluto was the master of that realm. She was despondent and wished to return but Pluto would not allow that. Pluto seduced her with mystery and illusion against her vibrant psyche. Her sadness was eventually assuaged by Pluto desire for a mate and she felt compassion for his sadness and empathy for his lonely palace. Pluto shared his love and lust with Persephone who was a virgin maiden and she was birthed as the dark flower, giving her the title of the Dark Queen of the Underworld, She exercised her rulership over this realm and could see the true nature of beings and their desires. Nothing was masked to her anymore. The girl goddess had ascended to a Queen with a puissant gaze and mastery over the shadow realms and Death. She had come to see the beauty in death as transformation to evolve to another existence. This was something only she shared with Pluto and the other Gods did not have. When the news came that Hermes had opened a path for her to return to the Light she became excited and ran towards it to become reborn yet again.
