The Goddess Weeps

Written By Damascena Tanis

Today, The Moon is triggering the Jupiter (11° Aries), Trine to the Asteroid Goddess Ceres at 10° Leo conjunct Venus at 4°.

This configuration can bring forward a major upwelling of grief.

Ceres, (Demeter) as the mother of Kore (Persephone) lost her daughter to the underworld.

When Jupiter (Zeus) refused to return her daughter to the upper world, Ceres found herself roaming the land in unimaginable sorrow. As the Goddess of agriculture and grain, she refused Green the land in Spring, leaving the ground fallow & people to starve until she was reunited with her daughter once again.

The Planet Jupiter has a tendency to expand everything he touches, while Venus rules our heart connections.

Ceres can help us bring the emotions in the unconscious, into consciousness.

Grief is such a heart opening journey. If you feel the pangs of loss this week, allow yourself to surrender to the underworld to be remade in your heartache.

‘Tis a Fearful Thing
‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be – to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this, And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me, your laugh once lifted me, your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy. ‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Yehuda HaLevi

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Damascena Tanis

Damascena is an Archetypal Astrologer, Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, and The Facilitator of the Transformative Journey through the Mandala of Venus’ Wisdom, called “Sky Dancer”.

She is a passionate devotee of the ever unfolding mystery. As an expert observer, a trait she developed as an only child, she regards herself as both a student of life, and decoder of the cosmos.

Skilled at recognizing invisible patterns, and picking up on subtle shifts in the collective, she gets a thrill from uncovering and revealing the hidden threads that are woven together to create our paradigm.

Her passion for this existential detective work aligns well with her unique approach to one on one client work, as she helps others to discover the building blocks of their archetypal blueprint, and mythic overtones. She does not believe that astrology is static, and therefore works with clients to develop strategies and practices that allow them to transcend challenging aspects of their natal chart.

She lives on the Shores of Lake Erie with her husband, four kids, and Cat, Oscar (the grouch).

These days, when she isn’t interpreting a natal chart, or translating the stars for her astrology blog, you can find her engaging in one of her favorite pandemic pastimes, unraveling her inner “good girl”, cultivating the ability to thrive in the deep, dark, unknown, or playing her favorite game of identifying fun paradoxes called “two things are true at once”.

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