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  • Hel, Goddess of the Norse Underworld

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday post, I am sharing my final post in a small four-part series on the children of Loki.   As they all tend to be seen as monstrous, I thought this was an ideal mini-series for October!   This post is…

  • The Persephone Archetype: Balancing the Energies of the Princess and the Queen

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Persephone archetype and how this energy can help us learn to balance the Princess with the Queen.   I have written before about my deep connection to the Persephone archetype, as out of the seven Goddess archetypes of Goddesses in…

  • Sirens, Handmaidens of Persephone

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about Sirens and how they are connected to the Greek Goddess Persephone!   It is well known to anyone familiar with the myth of Hades and Persephone that Persephone was in a field picking flowers with her Nymph Handmaidens when she…

  • Swim Your Unconscious: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a poem about learning to swim in your unconscious depths! Swim Your Unconscious by Maranda Wabik Take a deep breath Before you enter the depth The Waters of the Unconscious The beat of waves all around For the endless Waters surround Shadow…

  • Persephone, Goddess of Spring

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is going to be focused on Persephone in her aspect as the Goddess of Spring.   We have been in Spring officially for a little over a week, while it is still cooler temperatures than many would like, the signs…

  • The Queen of Pentacles & Faerytales

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about how the Queen of Pentacles archetype is experienced in my two favorite fairytales!   The energy of the Queen of Pentacles is both the young Spring Maiden, Flower Bride, and May Queen energy as well as the High Queen, Queen of…

  • Wintery Goddess Aspects

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is all about Wintery aspects of Goddesses, in honor of this time between the Solstice and New Year!    One of the best ways to embrace the Divine Feminine all year long is to honor the ever-changing aspects of…

  • The Queen of Pentacles Archetype as Related to Other Common Feminine Archetypes

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is yet another one about the Queen of Pentacles, my personal Tarot archetype, as she relates to the common feminine archetypes.   I think that a reason why I am so deeply connected to this Tarot archetype, other than the fact that my…

  • The Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone, Demeter, and the Ultimate Death Mystery Cult

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is going to be all about the Eleusinian Mysteries, at least the small amount of information that we know about it, since this was a true Mystery Cult, with its knowledge lost to history!    The concept of learning…

  • Inanna & Ereshkigal: Earlier Forms of Aphrodite & Persephone?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about Inanna and Ereshkigal and how they may have been the earlier versions of Aphrodite and Persephone.   I am looking to do this post in order to further illuminate that although Aphrodite and Persephone are often simply seen…