{"id":8324,"date":"2023-04-28T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:03:50","slug":"persephone-my-dear-listen-to-your-mother-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/persephone-my-dear-listen-to-your-mother-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Persephone, My Dear Listen to Your Mother, Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Feature Image:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Persephone\u2019s Return BY KINUKO Y. CRAFT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">Ah,<\/span> Persephone, it was never your fault! Whatever gifts you were born with\u2014be they beauty, innocence, certain (dare I say) bewitching qualities, or merely because you were born into a family of gods\u2014we all know that what happened was not your fault. The long winter, well, maybe, but life is what you make out of difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to remind you that you have responsibilities up here too? The mortals are waiting for us to appear, together, so the spring Mysteries can begin. So you are being very naughty, lingering here at the edge of the Underworld, pouting about a husband you don\u2019t like and a lover who didn\u2019t want to stay down there with the two of you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, Adonis doesn\u2019t think any less of you because of where you live! But understand also that the boy is mortal, and that place\u2014<\/p>\n<p>I always think of you in sunlight, my dear. Never, never in shadows! You must know that. All those months after you first disappeared, while I searched and searched, I wouldn\u2019t let a single blade of grass grow, lest a vine or a branch be hiding you. It was a long time before Helios told me what he\u2019d seen\u2014yes, I agree, I was annoyed with him too for keeping the secret so long\u2014but at least then I knew where to look, and it wasn\u2019t in sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>One moment there you were, as merry as you please, strolling through<br \/>\nan Eleusinian meadow with Artemis and those silly sea nymphs. I picture you gathering juicy treasures of berries and flowers, laughing at the stains your fingers left as you wiped them on your white chiton \u2026 those reds and blues and pinks and greens \u2026<\/p>\n<p>If I blame your prissy cousin Artemis for anything, it was for scolding you then, for holding your chin in her hand and wiping your mouth with her hem and asking: \u201cWhen will you grow up?\u201d For I understand that it was her voice that attracted the beast.<\/p>\n<p>Hades. My disgusting little brother. I grew up with the fellow chasing me around and pulling my pigtails, holding me down and belching into my face. I wouldn\u2019t have wished him on my worst enemy, let alone on my own daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe I\u2019d wish him on Artemis now. Honestly, the earth splits asunder at your very feet, and a monster grabs one of your friends and pulls her into the earth\u2014wouldn\u2019t you tell someone? The girl\u2019s mother, for example? But no, she went running off through the forest with her dogs and her bow and arrows, calling herself the moon, and I had to hear it from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m the Mother Goddess; my job is to empathize. I\u2019ve tried to understand Hades just seizing you like that, and your half-sister Aphrodite encouraging him&#8230; Well, she was jealous is all, because you\u2019re every bit as pretty as she is. I\u2019m sure Adonis thinks so too. And you know she really loves you, because when she found that infant curled up in a box, she brought him straight to you. It\u2019s just bad luck that when he grew up, both of you fell in love with him.<\/p>\n<p>I talked it all over with Zeus while you were away, and I do believe he meant to be fair. Zeus catches a lot of blame in this family. He was trying to please everybody (which is impossible, you know) when he decreed that Adonis would live with you for four months and Aphrodite for four months, and then wherever he liked for the rest of the time.<\/p>\n<p>So Adonis did not choose you this winter\u2014maybe he\u2019s waiting for you aboveground now! Come see! \u2026<\/p>\n<p>No, no, I\u2019m not choosing sides against you; I only want us all to get along and have a great summer together. I\u2019m trying not to be so angry all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Fine, my dear, you\u2019re stuck being Queen of the Underworld. There are worse things you could be. Rude, for example. You might say it\u2019s inevitable that you forget yourself and your manners when you\u2019re down there feasting with ghosts half the year. But Persephone, if you want someone to fancy you, do not let your husband\u2019s bad habits become yours!<\/p>\n<p>All right, I\u2019ll give an example. Hermes and I also worked through a few issues recently, and he told me that last summer, he chased you through one of those fields up north. He said he almost caught you too, but as soon as he touched your elbow, you\u2014my dear, he said you snorted at him. Now, that doesn\u2019t sound like a harbinger of springtime sweetness, does it? Can you understand why Adonis would be put off, hearing something like that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, certainly, \u201cWhen in Rome \u2026\u201d But this is not Rome or the Underworld. Ghosts may snort; Olympians do not.<\/p>\n<p>And haven\u2019t I always told you to be careful about accepting hospitality if you don\u2019t want to linger? You\u2019re the one who ate those pomegranate seeds\u2014six of them, greedy girl\u2014when Hades offered them to you. It was your own choice.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe I do blame you, just a bit. But you know how much I love you. And you love Adonis, so please think how he feels, finding out that you expect him to join you\u2014and your husband\u2014on the other side of the Styx! But he might fall for the girl who comes bursting through the earth every March in her clean white chiton, setting the meadows abloom with a touch or a word \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Be that girl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, take my hand; it\u2019s time. I\u2019ll pull you the rest of the way into the light. I have a sheaf of wheat for you, and I\u2019ll carry oats and poppies, just as usual. We have a year\u2019s worth of harvest to seed.<\/p>\n<p>You deserve to be loved for yourself, not your manners or your address. And do you know who loves you that way? Family. 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