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Mother is Angry
The Eleusinian Mysteries
…The basic image of the Mysteries remained that of the Mother separated from her daughter Persephone who has been carried off by Hades. The Mother, inconsolable and angry, wanders over the earth. When the Mother is angry life is barren: as long as her daughter is not returned, Demeter refuses to play her role as Goddess of Fertility. Winter symbolizes the ensuing period of sterility.
— Jon Wilson
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I would say the goddess energy is trying to save us. If we go on with our power tactics, we’re going to destroy the earth. That’s why we haven’t got a long time to evolve. We’re either going to make a leap in consciousness or we aren’t going to be here. Sophia, Shakti, by whatever name we call her, is that wisdom deep down in all matter, pushing her way into consciousness, one way or another. We have to be aware of earthquakes and hurricanes. What are their rumblings trying to tell us?
— Marion Woodman, Conscious Femininity
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Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
