Spring’s Kiss

My sister sent this picture to me not too long after January started…….

I have this plastic black shelf. It used to be my main ancestral shrine and underworld altar. But I have a far bigger one. So I used this as my shrine to Persephone and Demeter. For the Eleusinian Mysteries.

It’s part of the shrines of the dead, but it’s also for the living. So it’s an independent shrine. The ghosts who live and sleep there are what I call Green Ghosts. Spirits of the dead who watch over nature. The Fae who live there are nature spirits that live side by side with the dead.

Look who decided to put their cocoon in there for the winter.

Fresh out of the cocoon

I interpret this to possibly mean we are getting an early spring after all. Which would explain the accelerated winter we’re getting right now. The darker forces of winter are being kicked out a little earlier this year. This can also mean that now is the starting point to create something good and positive. Despite all the negative forces around.

From death, comes life.

The Return of Persephone
by Frederic Leighton (1891)

Oko (Croatian for “Eye”)
a photograph by Marko Popadic, who took this photo the moment the butterfly entered the eye socket of this human skull. It is said that butterflies symbolize the soul. So this could have been the dead saying hello.

” O holy Persephone, leave now the underworld. And become Kore, the maiden of spring, once more. We need you in this world. Now more than ever before,

Yammas,”

Butterfly symbolism,
from Silk Butterflies.com

– M

Just a sweet Sunday with family

Here with the family enjoying a nice barbecue. I did a special blessing over the charcoal when they weren’t looking. So that the fire would be a holy hearthe fire. And the Gods would be honored. I asked them to bless the food and for the smoke to be food for the spirits of our ancestors and the land spirits.

Then I bathed in the smoke of the barbecue for a blessing. I felt Zeus and Adonai had both come. I am here with my great aunt, my mother, cousin, and uncle. Just talking and relaxing. While my great aunt asks when I am going to get a girlfriend.

Facepalm

When the barbecue is finished, I’m going to collect the coal. And use it for future magic. Coal and ash are very potent ingredients in sorcery. Both for good and ill. We’re having T-Bone steal and chicken as well as pork.

I hate pork, so I’m sticking with the chicken and steal.

And having some cheese and ham appetizers.

I edited the pictures because I prefer privacy

Have a great day

– M