Celebrating Summer: Beauty & Bounty After a Year in the Underworld

Celebrating Summer: Beauty and Bounty After a Year in the Underworld

The first days of summer are here and like our ancestors, it’s time to celebrate the beauty and bounty of the earth.

Ancient myths tell us that in the company of compassionate women, Demeter renewed her soul and the bounty of the earth, simultaneously. Through laughter and joy, she was renewed.

Her reunion with Persephone after a season apart, re-greened the earth. The reunion of mother and daughter gave birth to the Eleusinian mysteries; the rites celebrating the eternal cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

Cerriwydrin, the great Celtic mother has stirred her cauldron, turning the wheel of time and the earth is once again fruitful.

Inanna has been resurrected and set free from the underworld, where she was stripped of power and identity. She faced her fears and returned with new understandings.