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Every time I read the Orphic Hymn to Ares, I feel touched by the entreaty to "give your weapons" to Ceres. The notion that our weapons might be used to till, or thresh, or plow and plot and seed. Also: the violence of agriculture. That Earth might be cut and tamed. 1/
Though we know Mars/Ares as a God of war, he was God and Guardian of agriculture too: like Ceres, whose glyph appears as a scythe (mirroring the scythe we associate with Saturn.) 2/
Such links speak to the destruction inherent in agriculture. But also: to the death and destructive-power of Ceres. 3/
I think the new age has taken the teeth out of Mother. Ceres is a Great Mother, and that brings her closer to death than most of us non-mothers have ever witnessed or thresholded with our bodies.
In our recent podcast with @MissingWitches, we explored the idea of Mother as a shaman: that singular being who guides souls between realms. (A notion partly inspired by Risa's own traumatic childbirth.) 5/
There's something mighty and fearsome about Ceres. She can withhold. She can punish. And when she has the will, her destruction is the kind that bears fruit. 6/
For more on the dwarf planet Ceres, I really recommend these articles by @GrayCrawford6 : https://graycrawford.net/2020/04/02/ceres-at-the-crossroads-of-civilization/ https://graycrawford.net/2013/08/20/ceres-sun-leo-full-moon-aquarius/
For our conversation with @MissingWitches where we discuss Ceres in the chart of activist witch and painter Monica Sjöö:
