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Who is the High Priestess in the Mythic Tarot? Her name is Persephone, and she is Queen of the Underworld, daughter of the Earth Mother Demeter and she becomes the guardian of the secrets of the dead.

Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, and the unconscious, loved her, and was overwhelmed with desire for her. Her mother Demeter would not oblige Hades of his desire and refused his offer to marry her daughter. Hades was then advised by Zeus, the Emperor of the Olympians, to rise up to the Earth to abduct Persephone, to force her hand in marriage.

So, whilst Persephone was picking flowers with her friends in the meadow – Artemis and Athena – Hades abducted her, raped her and then held her hostage in his Underworld.

When he took her down into the Underworld, he gave her the secret fruit of the dead – the pomegranate – she ate it and was then bound to him forever.

Her mother Demeter, was devastated by her disappearance and she searched everywhere for her, accompanied by the Goddess Hekate, and her torch.

Eventually Demeter learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter’s abduction, and she refused to let the Earth bare wheat and fruit until Persephone was returned.

Zeus eventually agreed to reveal where Persephone was, as the people were no longer able to make sacrifices to the gods, Demeter was led to a farm boy who witnessed the entire abduction who revealed the truth to Demeter.

The story about Persephone, represents our deepest darkest moments where we have felt we have become disempowered and victims in our lives. When Hades abducted Persephone, she was forced to look within to her pain and the repressed material of her past, the darker aspects of her life, where there was misuse of power and where she needed to take her power back.

Persephone was not able to fully return to her mother, because Persephone had eaten the fruit of the dead, she had been initiated and impregnated with the knowledge and power, to move from princess to Queen of the Underworld. She was forced to find her empower life, to find her power equal to Hades. She became Queen of the Underworld, a women unto herself, a Priestess of the Night.

Because she had eaten three of the pomegranate seeds (food of the dead), she was forced to forever spend 3 months of the year (winter) with her husband in the Underworld, in rulership of the Underworld.

And on Persephone’s return she would arrive back in spring, spending nine months of year with her mother, which we see symbolised by the blossoming of flowers and the sudden growth of all the vegetation, grain, food to nourish our being. Persephone’s return to the Underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.

Persephone leaves the daylight world of her mother, and moves into the Underworld of her own personal unconscious, the part of you that you are least familiar with, she is your personal repressed material.

Persephone is queen of your twilight world, where you have the ability to walk between worlds. You can be conscious of yourself reading this right now and at same time be aware that there is another version, you who is witnessing your becoming aware of yourself.

Persephone is the fruitful and rich womb of your inner reality, holding many secrets until they are ready to be born into the daylight domain of Demeter.

The only way to enter Persephone’s realm is through dreams, and she is your dreams, fantasies, intuition and she rules the night!

Many hidden treasures of insight, desire and psychic knowing, are within personal unconscious. And it contains both creative and destructive forces light and dark impulses that can be hidden from conscious awareness.

Persephone holds the secrets to the vast potentials yet to be fulfilled and are still secret and that have not been completely revealed to you yet.

It’s in the womb of your being, silently, your womb providing safe shelter and protection of the precious seed until it is ready to be given life.

Persephone protects your thoughts, feelings, memories, and dreams until they are ready to be given to your conscious awareness

The High Priestess is the feminine mysteries, and your psychic nature. She is the eternal woman who holds the secrets to your personal unconscious and future.

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