{VIRTUAL} PERSEPHONE: Innocence, Experience, and Self-Healing

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We have been through a lot as a collective in the past few months (or even years). Although I am jumping a little ahead in the season by offering this class in January, I think we need a breath of hope: Persephone is needed now more than ever.

Persephone, the dual-natured goddess, represents both the innocent maiden and the experienced queen of the underworld. Her archetype is often connected with those who have undergone trauma and found a way to rise above it, becoming stronger and more resilient. But sometimes we are triggered into the realization of how our innocence has been irrevocably harmed, and our wounds, though healed over, still reside deep within us. Through them we can be dragged back into periods of overwhelming anxiety and depression.

What I would like to offer is a way to make those two sometimes dueling sides of our natures meet and collaborate to make us whole. I want to help you cultivate a way to connect with that innocent maiden side and find its enormous power so that being pulled away from your tough-as-nails dark goddess of the underworld energy doesn’t break you down, but instead re-invigorates you.

In this class, I’ll cover aspects of the dual natures of the Persephone archetype, apply that knowledge and understanding to our own experiences of lost innocence and cultivated experience, and suggest ways we can reframe our connections with our “pre-trauma” selves that will empower us. Suggestions for Persephone-specific rituals and altar offerings will also be given. Having just completed a program in integrative somatic trauma therapy, I will also provide some breathwork and visualization exercises.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Susan Redington Bobby is a practicing witch and the founder of Professor of Words, LLC, where she is an online teacher, an editor, a writing mentor, and a tutor. Her specialty is being able to read people on a deeper level through their writing. She is a retired professor of English with expertise in fairy tales, adolescent literature, goddess archetypes, magical realism, creative writing, and film studies. She is the author of Beyond His Dark Materials, the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined, and co-editor of The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture. The Series Editor of Tales from Fiddler’s Green, she also publishes creative fiction under the pen name Miranda Rey. She is currently studying the Bardic Course in Druidry from OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids). She maintains Mellie’s Grove, a certified backyard wildlife habitat that is home to a rescued and stabilized cat colony and all manner of wildlife.