White Rose of Avalon

Underworld

  • 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…

  • Walk the Labyrinth: The Tor & Gwyn Ap Nudd

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Tor of Glastonbury, how it relates to Avalon as the Underworld, Gwyn Ap Nudd, and walking the Labyrinth.   I find that walking the Labyrinth of the Tor and Gwyn Ap Nudd, as a God, are intimately linked to the…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Books About the Goddess Persephone

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   For today’s post, I have decided to share a countdown of my five favorite books about the Goddess Persephone.    I thought that this would be a good list to do in order to recommend some great Queen of the Underworld book content for the…

  • Deepening into the Energy of the Queen of the Underworld

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about deepening into the energy of the Queen of the Underworld during the Dark Half of the Year!    After we have experienced Samhain and been immersed in the New Moon in Scorpio, we are well into the Dark Half of the…

  • The Grim Reaper & The Appeal of the Personification of Death

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is about the Grim Reaper and the general appeal of the Personification of Death!   There are countless representations of Death personified as a person, for which we have millennia of evidence.   I used Grim Reaper in the title of this post,…

  • What’s in a Name? The Power of Latin Plant Names!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to look at some of the Latin names for herbs and how they hold clues as to some of the magickal and medicinal properties of the herb!    I have decided to include nine herbs for this post, as…

  • Hades and Persephone

    For today’s post I will be writing about the story of Hades and Persphone.    The focus will be on the two as the most functional and truly loving marriage in Greek mythology!   Hades and Persephone even factor into other love stories within Greek myths. The story of the marriage of Hades and Persephone…