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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAs the goddess of agriculture, Demeter is associated with death and rebirth<\/a>; regeneration or rejuvenation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rejuvenate your body, mind and soul. Where have you heard that before? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ah yes, the mantra of brands that provide spiritual and wellbeing therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a deeper level, Demeter is recognised as a nourishing and nurturing earth mother; the provider and regenerative energy that enables life to flourish. This requires giving yourself and others emotional wellbeing, self-respect and self-care to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Demeter is, therefore, the archetype that aligns with the caregiver archetype, an aspect of Mother Earth (Rhea, Demeter’s mother). The caregiver is responsible for planting the seeds of desire, aspirations and goals through the nurturing of behaviours, beliefs and attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the key lessons we learn from the Demeter archetype is self-worth. Self-worth is developed through self-respect and self-care. When you adopt these qualities, you give and receive care and respect from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a symbol of fertility, the goddess of the grain and agriculture is responsible for planting seeds of thought that foster positive actions and nurturing new ways of being so you can bring new experiences into fruition – the blooming of flowers and the ripening of fruit and vegetables<\/p>\n\n\n\n In psychological terms, seeds are the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes you plant and nurture in your subconscious mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour subconscious mind behaves to the nature of your thoughts. You think with your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think sinks down into your subconscious mind, which then creates according to the nature of your thoughts. Your subconscious mind is the seat of your emotions. It is the creative mind.\u201d ~ Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind On a physical level, a mature caregiver has the patience to allow things to grow; relationships, projects, intentions, goals, aspirations and desires. \u201cGood things come to those that wait\u201d (in the right circumstances).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This archetype is also the energy that brings about a rich quality of life because you feel emotionally fulfilled. This is evident in the myths of Demeter and Ceres<\/a> (the Roman goddess of agriculture).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Demeter mothers three children. Zeus was the father of Iacchos and Kore (Persephone). She also had a son called Ploutos – the god of earthly wealth. Ploutos was the offspring of an affair with the Titan, Iasion, with whom she fell in love at the wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia<\/a>. Depending on which account you read, one seduced the other and they made love in a \u201cthrice ploughed field\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n The most revealing accounts of Demeter are the myths relating to the abduction of her daughter, Persephone. When the Kore<\/i>, literally meaning \u2018maiden\u2019 is kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld to be his bride, Demeter is thrown into a state of despair, grief and depression. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Demeter voices her displeasure and desperation to Zeus, Persephone\u2019s father, but the king of the gods does nothing to order the return of their daughter. To show her displeasure, Demeter leaves Olympus. When she orders the people of Eleusis to build her a temple, she sits in silence brooding and prevents crops from growing. The fields become infertile and famine spreads across the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In esoteric symbolism, the Earth relates to the body and the subconscious mind. Famines in myth represent a lack of emotional and psychological nourishment. Hence we find Demeter so grief-stricken she is not prepared to perform her caregiving role as the goddess of agriculture. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scholars acknowledge that as the goddess of the grain, Demeter is associated with the fertility of the land (earth). She guarantees growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conversely, when Demeter is not honoured, the earth becomes infertile. In other words, when your emotional wellbeing is neglected, you become depressed – a central theme that shows up throughout Homer’s Hymn To Demeter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thoughts you think is the information you program in your subconscious, and the subconscious creates your experience of reality through emotions and actions. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thoughts, actions and emotions are energy. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere is no matter that does not carry information and energy. Similarly, there is no energy that does not carry matter and information. And there is no information that is not carried by matter and energy. Matter and energy are the carriers of messages or information.\u201d ~ Dr Rulin Xiu: Tao Science: The Science, Wisdom, and Practice of Creation and Grand Unification<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Therefore, if your thoughts, actions and emotions are not in your best interests or the interests of others, you are not developing your emotional wellbeing or self-worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Homer\u2019s Hymn To Demeter, Zeus is forced to intervene and orders Hades to return Persephone to her mother. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n An agreement is reached that Persephone will spend six months of the year with Demeter and six months in the Underworld with Hades. Here we see symbols of balance (six), the integration of unconscious content (the underworld) into the subconscious (earth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n As scholars point out, (although not for the right reasons), the motif of \u201cdeath and rebirth\u201d is a central feature of the Demeter myths. Death and rebirth is symbolic for the transformation of energy and the development of the personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The death of old ways of life makes room for new ways of living to be born. This is true of beliefs, attitudes, personality traits and life experiences. This was reflected in the Eleusian Mysteries with the concept of maiden, womanhood and crone; or the train of Persephone, Demeter and Hades. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n These were the secrets that initiates of the Eleusian Mysteries kept a closely guarded secret. Otherwise, it was the secrets of “agricultural fertility and the possibility of abundance<\/a>” – as believed by mainstream commentators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The symbolic meaning of Demeter teaches you about self-worth which is nurtured through self-care and self-respect. These are the attributes of the caregiver archetype which you can read more about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To the ancient Greeks, Demeter was associated with agriculture, a symbol of nurturing, regeneration and fertility. She was subsequently given the title of ‘goddess of the grain’. The symbolic meaning of Demeter aligns with the planting and cultivation of seeds needed to nourish the body, mind and \u2018soul\u2019. Seeds and grains are symbols that relate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,50],"tags":[445,446,443],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17868,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions\/17868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Esoteric Meaning of Demeter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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