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Demeter, as a symbol of dedicated motherhood, remains every bit as 'alive' as she did
all those thousands of years ago.
The tale of poor little kidnapped Persephone tells us a lot about Demeter's
determination. We understand even more about the sacrifices that a good mother has
to make once we understand that, in her long quest to find and free her daughter,
Demeter neither ate nor slept. She roamed land and sea and refused to give her up for
lost - even when advised to do so by Zeus himself. For the sake of finding her
daughter, she later suffered poverty, abuse and eventually, went berserk. She refused
to be a goddess of their grain any longer and thus caused all the crops to fail. But it all
paid off in the end - as truly devoted motherhood always does.
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If you don't have children, you may be wondering whether this article about the
goddess of motherhood can really apply to you. Perhaps, you're not so much
wondering as worrying. This can't mean what you think it means can it? It may or, it
may be that your maternal instincts are going to be triggered in a less obvious way.
All I'm prepared to predict is that, while you're under the influence of Demeter, you
can expect your nurturing, caring spirit to come to the fore in a very big way.
If you do have offspring (of any age) it is most likely to be through your child(ren)
that this surfaces. It could though, be a project, plan, promise, passion or even a
person that you come to see as 'your precious baby'.
You'll know what it is soon enough, if you don't already - for over the next few
months, you are going to be all but taken over by a very powerful need to protect
someone or something. So intense is this emotion likely to be that you will feel
willing to sacrifice almost anything for the sake of your protégé's well-being. You'll
take on almost any task, consider almost any offer, be willing to go to almost any
lengths. This will not necessarily be because the object of your adoration is in any
actual danger; physical or spiritual. It will be because you tend to 'perceive a danger'.
It is very important that you check, at regular intervals, whether this is real or
imaginary.
Even if it is real, you have no need to worry. Whenever Demeter, the ultimate
protective spirit is at work, the outcome of every saga can only, eventually be a happy
one. What we cannot say with any such certainty though, is whether you will be
protected from the vulnerability that your own intense desire to protect someone else
gives rise to.
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