Persephone Journal Conception
An Invitation for Women to Co-create
Some of you may know that I have four sons, especially if you follow my musings over at Guerrilla Provisions. We have also had more than our fair share of miscarriages along the way. With each of our births, we made sure to keep the surprise of son or daughter alive right to the end. As a result, I have had the name Persephone picked out for a little girl through four births and even more miscarriages.
I’ve been on a pretty intentional mission to heal my fertility from deep within my spiritual being over the last few years. Prior to that, I really just allowed my suffering to sit on a shelf so that I could keep up with the day to day. Along this healing journey, I have worked through the Ancestral Healing lens as offered by a beautiful local woman. There have been very profound shifts there with more to come. I love having three of my ancestral lines healed and energetically at my side in life.
Working through her Embodiment and Boundaries Course gave me permission to take that suffering off of the shelf and to actually begin to communicate with it. That is the real magic, listening to your body. Pain is a message from the Divine within you and being a tough woman that can endure the pain turns out to be the wrong path. We should instead enter into conversation with that pain.
This is how Persephone came into her pre-conception phase. Last year, at an Ancestral Visioning Ceremony, I was shown an abundant waterfall of flowing golden wheat. Shortly thereafter, I became pregnant. I was certain that my Persephone, the goddess of wheat, was finally on her way. Twelve weeks later brought another miscarriage and a new message from the Divine. It has been a roller-coaster of a year with the emotions surrounding fertility and abundance. I’ve been shown how my four sons are beautiful divine blessings in their own right, and I’ve been gently led into turning this divine communication into a conversation.
A simple, yet profound realization struck me about our creation process. It is how we close the loop and turn a one-way message into a conversation. You can read about that here if you like. Now that I’ve realized how important my creative process is, I’ve re-awakened a beast that cannot be put back to sleep. I have now decided to conceive Persephone as a journal. She will be my baby by my divine will!
Persephone’s archetypal story takes the beautiful golden wheat goddess underground, kidnapped by Hades, to face her shadow and only after integrating this shadow (via the pomegranate) is she able to fully embrace the totality of herself and her true cycle is born. This cycle is beautifully embodied by Venus’ cycle. Venus is our striking morning and evening star, but there are times of the year in which she is also not visible or underground. Pluto represents Hades and the shadow element that must be integrated. There are also the smaller cycles of the moon that can be harnessed to ease us back into our creative flow.
This is an image of the beautiful Venus Rose. It represents the orbital path of Venus. From the perspective of the inner five petal flower, it takes approximately ten months, the same as a gestation, for Venus to trace one half of one of those petals. The entire image is drawn in roughly 8 years. Venus began a new gestation cycle with her superior conjunction to the Sun on January 6th. This will culminate and enter into a postpartum phase with her inferior conjunction to the Sun on October 23rd of this year. I invite you to join me on this journey of co-creating the Persephone Journal as well as your own large and small creations.
My vision for this journal is to PERSonalize it by including your Venus centric true sidereal astrology information for the year so that you will know how your Venus affects you and when she will be aspected by the transits. This creates Energy Portals for Healing ONEself that can be harnessed with intention throughout the year. There are two creation phases embraced with the journal: a moonthly creation cycle specific to your feminine moon cycle or the actual moon for those not cycling and the larger 10 month Venus creation cycle.
I will be allowing the Persephone Journal to unfold creation by creation with my moonthly cycle throughout her 10 month gestation. I would be honored to have any woman that feels so called to join me on this journey.
A few ways to help co-create:
You may join in by gleaning the process as it unfolds through my journey posts on my substack here. Feel free to comment on these posts with your experience and loving feedback along the journey.
I would also happily welcome a value donation of your choice for the moon cycle journal pages that I have created as of now, along with additional elements that come online throughout her gestation such as:
Moon centric calendar pages with the astrological placements for the year
A private telegram channel for sharing your experience more privately as well as feedback on the elements as they are created and experienced.
Whatever else comes to me along the way
Or when this part comes online, you may compensate me for a Venus reading with your PERSonal Energy Portals for Healing for this year and get the whole package with that.
Feel free to contact me through my website if you feel called to co-create this journal with me.
What a beautiful project! I look forward to watching this unfold!