#Proserpine

[garlandedspirits]

Various versions of Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, created between 1874 and 1882

[illustratus]

The Abduction of Proserpine by Ulpiano Checa

[moon-kissed-corner]

The painting Blanzifiore “White flower” (1873), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of eight separate versions of his painting Proserpine (1871).

[iphisesque]

Proserpine, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[aliensfoundthisblog]

BERNINI, GIAN LORENZO (1621-1622) El rapto de Porserpina [Il Ratto di Proserpina] Galería Borghese, Roma, Lacio, Italia

[mythologypaintings]

Orpheus and Eurydice

Artist: Jean Raoux (French, 1677-1734)

Date: ca. 1709

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Getty Museum Collection, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Description

In the center of the picture, Orpheus leads his wife, Eurydice, out of Hades after having won her release by his enchanting violin playing. Pluto, ruler of Hades, and his wife Proserpine observe their departure from the upper left. The three Fates ominously spin the future at the left, foreshadowing Orpheus's eventual downfall. He broke the one condition that Proserpine had set for Eurydice's return to earth: he could not look at her until they had lef the netherworld. On reaching earthly light, Orpheus could not resist a glimpse, and Eurydice vanished forever.

[faeriegirl]

Fairy girl!!

[hewantshisbrideback]

The Parallels of Περσεφονη and Princess Arya Stark

You had best run back to your room, little sister. Septa Mordane will surely be lurking. You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers. A Game of Thrones, Arya I

[jadeseadragon]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Proserpina, 1882, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

[janesgms]

Proserpina & Persephone

✨️ What the asteroids Proserpina (26) and Persephone (399) can indicate in one's natal chart ✨️

For this post, you can analyze the natal sign, house, degree and aspects to the planets of these two asteroids, as well as their persona charts in case you know what you're doing, to interpret you own asteroids, just search about the energies and meanings of these, I'm gonna make a guide on how to interpret any asteroid, planet, angle, persona chart easily without headaches in the future ♡. You can ask me if there's a difference between the two asteroids and, honestly, I didn't find anything about it so they're basically the same, do with that what you want. Asteroids you may use: Hades, Zeus, Ceres and Demeter. Planets you may use: Jupiter and Pluto. Just maling clear: Proserpina/Persephone was daughter of Jupiter/Zeus and Ceres/Demeter, and married with Pluto/Hades.

Where and how you fall to tempations (and which temptations)

Where and how your beauty manifests

Where and how (if) your fertility manifests

Where and how your passion manifests

Where and how you're pure that people want to take it away

Where and how your chastity and innocence will be taken away from you

Where and how you're so enchanting that catches the attention of even the least probable and "womanizer" men

This one's more specific but it also shows your relationship with fruits, harvest, the seasons of the year specially spring, flowers, herbs and agriculture, and how you're born with these abilities. A heavily aspected Proserpina/Persephone can indicate you're really fond of these subjects naturally

In contrast, it can also show your relationship with occultism themes like necromancy, ghosts, talking with the deads and reincarnation and how you develop these themes throughout your life. Again, heavily aspected Proserpina/Persephone can indicate you're really fond of these subjects, with the difference that this is something you're gonna work in improving

Where and how your mom is overly protective and attached with you

Where and how happens the transition between your virginity and protectiveness into a phase of discoveries about your body and romance. In some versions, Persephone goes willingly with Hades.

Where and how people fight over your attention

How you blossom and rebel from the wings of your mom and become more independente, even if against her will

How you manage your duality of embracing both light and darkness. Persephone was the goddess of two opposites spectrums: the underworld and the spring, and she still could reign both in an unusual combination

Where you feel you're stuck. Wanting or not, Persephone is always stuck with someone like a prisoner, be it her husband or her mother, she's always restrained

Where and how you're manipulated. Persephone was, in some versions, manipulated by Hades to eat the fruit and stay forever in the underworld. Also, in some versions, she's indirectly manipulated by Aphrodite to fall in love with Hades and not become a lady like Athena and Artemis

Sadly, this asteroid can also talk about abusive relationships with men. I mean, rapturing someone because you feel in love with them is not the most healthy and romantic thing in the world, is it? But it can also talk about taboo and prohibited relationships in general

Where and how you can ascend socially through your romantic relationships

Where and how you can transform yourself through your romantic relationships

Where and how you can sacrifice parts of your life to keep the peace between the ones you love

Where and how you're more known by your personal relationships than anything. I mean, people focus more on this than in the own Persephone

Where and how you can transform dark places and make them flourish

Where and how you can soften the heart of cold, dark and mysterious men 🦭 (this one's a shot in the dark but it makes sense for me hihi)

Where and how you activate your initiation the expression of your feminine energy

Where and how you evolve into the next chapters of your life you never expected

Where and how you express your royalty energy through light and darkness

An aspected Proserpina/Persephone can at its worst, indicate a cold relationship with your father and a suffocating relationship with your mother, in contrast

An aspected Proserpina/Persephone can indicates you've earned some gifts from your mother and you can even have a similar job to hers or a similar personality. But at the same time, it can indicate you don't want to be attached/related to your mother in these matters

I've already talked about that but I'm gonna reinforce it, an aspected Proserpina/Persephone can indicate a toxic relationship with your mother, where you're attached with her but at the same time you wanna leave

Where and how you can use your powers to create adoration and fear at the same time

Where and how you can use abilities related to life and growth

Where and how you can find love in an unexpected way

Where and how you can benefit the souls who deserve happiness and blessings but at the same time condemn the ones who deserve suffering

Where and how you can conjure growth and new life but pain, madness, destruction and death as well

✨️ Proserpina & Persephone's symbols ✨️

Some of these symbols can have some meaning to you if you have an aspected Proserpina/Persephone or just attract you

The promegranate

The narcissus flower

Flowers in general

Torch

Seeds of grain

The deer

Bones/skull

Bats

The garnet

Iron crown

Corn

The waxing moon

The high priestess and ace of pentacles cards in tarot

Dark chocolate

The color red (in my opinion)

Virgo or capricorn

✨️ Persephone: The Making of a Queen ✨️

"Most do not understand the darkness of its gifts. Most prefer to avoid such raw truth, intense passion, and the deep, dark mysteries of the unbridled feminine.

Before embracing the dark, I was limited to spring. I was an adolescent, a maiden, an innocent. Not a sovereign woman in my fullness and certainly not a Queen.

Before I could come anywhere near putting that crown on my head, I had to make the journey into the underworld to face my demons, my skeletons, my untruths and my insecurities.

It was only after this, that I was able to claim my rightful place on the throne... The Throne of Self... Full Self, Sovereign Self, Authentic Self."

— by Sabrina Lynn

fun fact that no one asked buuuuutt anyways: last year i've had a dream with persephone and hades and it was so real i could almost swear they really exist lmao. and when i was smaller i actually believed in greek gods and mythology, i was really fascinated with it (blame percy jackson), but who knows loool

[deathlessathanasia]

Hi, I recently saw someone use the quote "Proserpine [Persephone] reclaimed cares not to follow her mother" from Virgil's Georgics to claim that, well, Persephone did not in fact care for Demeter, and this may be because english is not my first language and I'm misunderstanding the full quote, but like, I read the full quote, it is: "whatever you [Cesar] are to be (for Tartarus hopes not for you as king, and may such monstrous lust of empire never seize you, though Greece is enchanted by the Elysian fields, and Proserpine reclaimed cares not to follow her mother)" and to me it really sounded like Virgil saying "in case this incredible absurd things happened, I do not wish for that to happen to you" Just like it would be weird for the Elysian fields to be in Greece rather than the underworld. Again, English is not really my first language so I may be misunderstanding the quote and the other person was right that it was supposed to claim Persephone cares not for her mom

„and you too, Caesar, who, in time, will live among a company of the gods, which one’s unknown, whether you choose to watch over cities and lands, and the vast world accepts you as bringer of fruits, and lord of the seasons, crowning your brows with your mother Venus’s myrtle, or whether you come as god of the vast sea, and sailors worship your powers, while furthest Thule serves you, and Tethys with all her waves wins you as son-in-law, or whether you add yourself to the slow months as a Sign, where a space opens between Virgo and the grasping claws, Even now fiery Scorpio draws in his pincers for you, and leaves you more than your fair share of heaven): whatever you’ll be (since Tartarus has no hope of you as ruler, and may such fatal desire for power never touch you, though Greece might marvel at the Elysian fields, and Proserpine, re-won, might not care to follow her mother), grant me a fair course, and agree to my bold beginning, pitying the country folk, with me, who are ignorant of the way: prepare to start your duties, and even now, hear our prayer.” - Georgics: 1.24-42

The idea (as I understand it) is that the emperor is invoked as a future god and Vergil suggests several possible functions for him: an agrarian god, a god of the sea, a sky god, but not the ruler of the underworld even though the Elysian fields are marvelous and Proserpina doesn't want to come back from there.

Vergil definitely seems to be reworking the myth here and diverges from the traditional narrative on purpose: „Ancient commentators recognized that Proserpina's refusal to return was contra historiam (Probus, ad I.39). Servius (ad I.39) says it is Vergil's invention. The anonymous Brevis Expositio (p. 2I3 Thilo, v. III) adds that Ceres made a vain assault upon the Underworld in the attempt to retrieve her daughter, who refused to return pro loci amore.” - Patricia A. Johnston, Eurydice and Proserpina in the Georgics. Another article that discusses Vergil's Proserpina/Persephone and touches a little on this passage from the Georgics is Nondum Proserpina abstulerat: Persephone in the Aeneid.

Anyways, this idea is still anomalous (though something similar appears in one or two other Roman texts) and I wouldn't take seriously any generalizing claim about Persephone and her relationship with her mother based solely on this source. It is however a much more solid basis for these super popular modern interpretations of the myth than that alleged "original", "pre-patriarchal" version which some like to bring up in discussions, but I guess "My interpretation is based on Vergil and Lucan" sounds less cool and special than "My interpretation is actually how the myth originally went, you fool!"

[garlandedspirits]

"Proserpine" (1874) - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[illustratus]

The Rape of Proserpina by Valerio Castello

[brimo5]

Proserpina being a moon goddess and ceres being the earth is honestly such a creative twist on the original story, which made me wonder are there any other retelings which interpret the story of her abduction differently.

There are far too many versions! Empedocles may think of Hades and Persephone as earth and water. In late sources (mostly by christians author), Demeter is the plain and fruitful earth, Hades and Persephone are the sun and the seed, or the sun and the moon. There's also a silly explanation that they're all mortal, a rich countryman drowned with a girl when he kidnapped her, so the girl's poor mother built a cult in her sadness.

But for me, the version given by Plutarch is unsurpassed.

And what is told of Cora, that she is sometimes in heaven and in light, and again in night and darkness, is no untruth, only time has brought error into the numbers ; for it is not during six months, but at intervals of six months, that we see her received by the earth, as by a mother, in the shadow, and more rarely at intervals of five months ; for to leave Hades is impossible to her, who is herself a ' bound of Hades,' as Homer well hints in the words, ' Now to Elysian plains, earth's utmost bound.' (Plutarch, on the face which appears on the orb of the Moon, 27)

[olgadealexandria]

🫀ATAEGINA🫀

Like many other ancient deities, we don't know a lot about this goddess, but it is believed that her cult spreaded mainly in the southwest region of the Iberic peninsula (which nowadays we consider Portugal and Spain). It's believed Ataegina had connections with nature and the cycle of birth and death, reason why she was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Proserpine.

Another variations of her name are Ataecina or Atégina.

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Como muchas otras deidades, no sabemos mucho sobre esta diosa, pero se cree que su culto se extendió principalmente por la región suroeste de la península Ibérica, (lo que hoy consideramos que es Portugal y España). Se cree que Ataegina tenía cierta conexión con la naturaleza y el ciclo de la vida y la muerte, razón por la que posteriormente sería asociada con la diosa romana Proserpina.

Otras variaciones de su nombre son Ataecina o Atégina.

[iphisesque]

god. proserpine by mary shelley makes me actually insane. you know how the story goes you already know persephone will eat the pomegranate seeds and divide herself between the underworld and her mother for the rest of time. but the way they are reunited is almost enough to spark a flimsy light of hope in you and make you think that maybe this time it's going to be different maybe she hasn't eaten the seeds maybe she'll be able to stay with her mother forever. and then the seeds are revealed to have been eaten and the two are forced apart once more with the promise that the time shall pass and the hope you had only makes it more painful and melancholic to read. things never really go back do they