posted January 31, 2012 08:04 PM            

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posted January 31, 2012 08:05 PM            

Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but was not able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake (made with the tears of the nymphs). In her desperation Ceres angrily stopped the growth of fruits and vegetables, bestowing a malediction on Sicily. Ceres refused to go back to Mount Olympus and started walking on the Earth, making a desert at every step.

Worried, Jupiter sent Mercury to order Pluto (Jupiter's brother) to free Proserpina. Pluto obeyed, but before letting her go he made her eat three pomegranate seeds, because those who have eaten the food of the dead could not return to the world of the living. This meant that she would have to live three months of each year with him, and stay the rest with her mother. This story was undoubtedly meant to illustrate the changing of the seasons: when Ceres welcomes her daughter back in the spring the earth blossoms, and when Proserpina must be returned to her husband it withers.

posted January 31, 2012 08:09 PM            

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posted January 31, 2012 08:24 PM            

The asteroid Proserpina is named in honor of the goddess of the dead, consort of Pluto, she who was known as Persephone to the Greeks. As a goddess archetype, Proserpina constellates an energy that is often hard to fathom at first, because in the poetic myths Proserpina/Persephone seems to have little personality of her own. As the innocent maiden, abducted by Pluto/Hades into the underworld, she was scarcely distinguishable from her fertility goddess mother Ceres/Demeter. As Pluto's wife and queen of the underworld, though, she receives the souls of the dead and as such, is also a guide to other realms and levels of being, and the deepest places of the psyche. The asteroid Proserpina seems to manifest as an energy of innocence and ignorance that learns a very great deal by (often hard) experience. She shows where you tend to take the line of least resistance, to be passive or helpless, and teaches you the consequences of such unaware or unassertive responses. She points to what you learn through the various transitions of life, which may or may not be painful, but which always entail a letting go of what has ceased to be viable, and carry therefore some sense of sacrifice. She shows you altered states of being, can help you to open up to all the stimuli of life, assists you to adapt and change in response to your environment, and even helps you to cultivate psychic perception.

posted February 02, 2012 04:38 AM            

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Pluto obeyed, but before letting her go he made her eat three pomegranate seeds, because those who have eaten the food of the dead could not return to the world of the living.

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Errrrrmmmm..... "Seeds" ..... Pluto's ...seeds.... geddit aldready

Nowhere in the above tale do you hear about the alleged "Rape". Jeff Green says that Pluto stands for the act of sexual merging - the mixing of sexual fluids by which we take the essence of another, be it physical,mental or karmic. Pluto the planet represents the process of Osmosis where two become ONE permanently.

I for one am reminded of something I read somewhere ... that Pluto is the process if dont you yield to you will be forced to experience ..... painfully.

The Rape aspect of the myth has always fascinated me, the sadomasochistic, sexist and chauvinistic tendencies we decry are in fact ALL plutonian forces that control ONLY until we yield. The Sex act whether forced or not IS an act wherein one is penetrated and transformed forever through Osmosis ....

Proserpina has always fascinated me ... for the most macabre reasons I assure you. Sometimes real love, plutonic kind has to yield to the worst in order to experience the best.

posted February 02, 2012 09:11 AM            

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posted February 02, 2012 10:32 AM            

my memry is getting good at finding asteroids or things conjunct it. i remember when i used to find nothing at all.

i have prosperina conjunct BML in pisces exact in h5.

i can only assume the interp for this conjunction is abit dark coz lilith in pisces is open to abuse or perversion according to the sanja peric site. also them being in h5 ugh..

PHASE 347 (PISCES 17°): AN EASTER PARADE.

KEYNOTE: The capacity inherent in all great sociocultural Images to unite the members of a community in a display of excellence.

Here we see, by contrast, the unifying power of great myths and symbols in truly organic and self-perpetuating culture. The Image of the Resurrection spurs all men within the pale of Christendom to appear at their very best and to dynamize themselves in some kind of self-renewal in response to the Christ mythos, and to the call of nature's springtime as well. Wherever found, this symbol emphasizes the value of attuning one's life activities and moods to the ritualistic patterns of society or Earth-nature, rather than acting in complete independence from the group.

At this second stage of the five-fold subcycle the Collective dominates the Individual, Yin overpowers Yang. It is a time for conformity to what constitutes the highest ideals of one's culture and for PARTICIPATION IN COLLECTIVE PEAK EXPERIENCES.