Persephone: The Descent and the Becoming

Hey love,

After Lilith burned the house down...

and Kali cleared the ashes...

Now we descend — with Persephone.

She's different, this one.

She's not fire. She's soil.

She doesn't roar. She remembers.

Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld — but she didn't begin that way

Her story is one of descent, reclamation, and rebirth.

From innocence to power.

From surface to soul.

From maiden... to sovereign.

If you're in a season of in-between — no longer who you were, not yet who you're becoming — you're already walking with her.

The Descent: A Myth of Remembrance

In the old myth, Persephone was taken — abducted by Hades and dragged into the Underworld.

Her mother's grief froze the earth, and spring stopped blooming until Persephone's return.

That's the surface story.

But the deeper truth — the Dark Alchemy truth — is this: Persephone chose the descent.

Yes, it hurt. Yes, it changed her.

But in the dark, she remembered who she was.

She didn't return broken.

She rose crowned.

Not a victim.

Not a girl.

Not a reflection of anyone else's will —

but a woman who had met herself in the shadows and called it holy.

This is the heart of her medicine:

Descent is not the opposite of rising. It's how we rise.

What Persephone Teaches Us

Persephone lives in the liminal — the space between what was and what's next.

She's the archetype of becoming, the moment the seed cracks before it blooms.

She teaches us that grief and growth are not separate seasons — they are the same soil.

She is:

• The part of you that is dissolving and reforming all at once.

• The part that still mourns what's gone, even as new life stirs.

• The part that finds peace not in answers, but in presence.

Persephone reminds you: you are not lost — you are deepening.

This is the alchemy of becoming.

Signs You're in a Persephone Season

You might be walking with Persephone if:

• You're in between identities — no longer who you were, not yet who you'll become.

• You're grieving while also awakening to new desires.

• You crave solitude, slowness, or silence.

• You're questioning what "success" or "happiness" even mean now.

• You feel both tender and powerful, raw and ready.

Persephone doesn't rush the process.

She trusts the timing of her own unfolding.

Working with Persephone’s Energy

This is soft alchemy — a descent through stillness, not striving.

You don't force the bloom; you learn to trust the dark.

✧ Journal Prompts

• What part of me is trying to bloom, and what part is still grieving?

• Where am I being called to go deeper, even if it feels uncomfortable?

• What wisdom might be waiting for me in the dark?

  
  

✧ Ritual: The Descent Meditation

Light a single candle.

Close your eyes and imagine walking a spiral staircase into the earth.

Each step takes you deeper into your own truth.

At the bottom, you meet Persephone — serene, sovereign, radiant in shadow.

Ask her what message she holds for you.

When you return, journal what you remember.

✧ Embodiment Practice: Sacred Stillness

Take an evening to do nothing.

No goals, no input, no noise.

Just you, your breath, and the quiet hum of your becoming.

Let the stillness be fertile.

Persephone Isn’t Lost—She’s Remembering

Here's what Persephone teaches:

You don't have to rush to rise.

You don't have to be light to be powerful.

You don't have to "heal" to be whole.

The descent isn't a punishment — it's the throne room of your becoming.

Persephone sits beside the woman who's in between — hand on hers — whispering, "This darkness is not your undoing. It's where your roots grow."

So if you're here, lingering in the not-yet — breathe.

You're not behind.

You're in the sacred middle.

And that's where your next self is born.

Coming Next: Hecate — Keeper of the Crossroads

Once you've descended with Persephone, you'll meet Hecate, the witch at the threshold—

she who holds the lantern when the path splits.

She'll help you trust your intuition, choose your direction, and walk between worlds without losing yourself.

✨ Stay close, love. Subscribe or bookmark this space — and if Persephone's story touched something in you, honor it.

Because descent isn't the opposite of growth.

It's the alchemy that makes it possible.

In softness, in shadow, in becoming,

Tania