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🌾 🍓My Ultimate Guide to Demeter Worship🧺🐝

So you’re feeling a calling to Demeter? Maybe she keeps showing up in tarot readings, you keep feeling her energy, or you’re seeing her in your dreams? I’m making this because I have seen a lot of these types of posts but not as many for Demeter. I do understand she isn’t a highly worshiped goddess and with that being said, I never felt the need to make a long post, but lately I have been getting many asks on people who have been contacted her wondering how on earth they’re supposed to devote to her, how to worship, what she’s like and etc with a lack of info or help especially on this site! My patron means so much to me so if anyone is genuinely interested in working with her I’m going to help with the best of my ability. I’ve been working with the Demeter family (Demeter, Persephone, Arion, and Despoina) for a couple months now, so I have to say working with her as well as the ones closest to her have been the best experience of my entire life. part of me is making this for her as well. It’s also thanksgiving here in America so it’s the perfect time! Note that a lot of this information is from (theoi.com)

I also suggest the page: @demeterspriestess highly!! I have mentioned them in a post before but they have so many resources, facts and prayers that can help tremendously!

WHO IS DEMETER?

Demeter was the Greek goddess of the earth (Eurip. Bacch. 276), and more especially of the earth as producing fruit, and consequently of agriculture, whence human food or bread is called by Homer the gift of Demeter. She was worshipped especially by women. As the goddess of the earth she was like the other theoi chthonioi, a subterraneous divinity, who worked in the regions inaccessible to the rays of Helios. As agriculture is the basis of a well-regulated social condition, Demeter is represented also as the friend of peace and as a law-giving goddess. (thesmophoros, Callim. Hymn. in Cer. 138; Orph. Hymn. 39. 4; Virg. Aen. iv. 58; Hom. Il. v. 500; Ov. Met. v. 341; Paus. viii. 15. § 1.)

Demeter also presided over the Eleusinian Mysteries which promised the path to a blessed afterlife.

Demeter had numerous shrines throughout the ancient world, including regular temples and sanctuaries dedicated to her Mystery cult. The foremost of these were the celebrated Mysteries of Eleusis overseen by the Athenians.

Demeter was usually worshipped in conjunction with her daughter Kore-Persephone, goddess of spring growth and the underworld.

In classical sculpture she was depicted as a motherly woman holding a cornucopia (horn of plenty) brimming with fruit or a bouquet of grain-stalks, or fillets, and poppy flowers. (Source: theoi.com)

DEMETER EPITHETS

DEMO (Demô), a name of Demeter.

CARPO′PHORI (Karpophoroi), the fruitbearers, a surname of Demeter and Cora, under which they were worshipped at Tegea.

DEO (Dêô), another name for Demeter.

SITO (Sitô), a surname of Demeter, describing her as the giver of food or corn.

CALLIGENEIA (Kalligeneia), a surname of Demeter or of her nurse and companion, or of Gaea.

CHTHO′NIA (Chthonia), may mean the subterraucous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities

ELEUSI′NA or ELEUSINIA (Eleusinia), a surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived from Eleusis in Attica

CHLOE (Chloê), the blooming, a surname of Demeter the protectress of the green fields, who had a sanctuary at Athens conjointly with Ge Curotrophos.

SACRED ANIMALS

Serpents: this was sacred to her the most. They represented rebirth, nature and the fertility of the earth.

Dragons: as well as serpents, the dracones drove her chariot

Geckos: was a relative of the snake

Swine: pigs were traditionally sacrificed to Demeter to ensure fertility to the earth

PERSONAL TAROT CARD SIGNIFICATORS:

Empress or Queen of Wands. These are what I use but this is completely up to you!!

OFFERINGS:

- fruits

- Mints

- Barley

- Poppy

- Flowers

- Seeds

- Mother’s Day cards

- Your positive report cards and college acceptance letters cause mom wants to see it!

- Corn dolls

- Baked Goods

- If you’re creative make a Knitted sweater with the letter D on it!

DEVOTIONAL ACTS

- Spread spread spread awareness about climate change

- Eat!

- Become a plant mom!

- Wash the dishes!

- Do something kind for your mother if she is around or is worthy of it of course!

- Once again... spread awareness about climate change

- Spread awareness and speak out on the children that are being separated by their parents at the US border. The idea of a parent and child being separated likely breaks her heart a lot.

- Wear flower crowns

- If you get any honors or recognitions in school, tell her!

- Dance with the fae!

- Eat some goddamn cereal!! in front of your altar would be cool.

- join the green club at your school! Or try and start one!

- Become a plan mom! Start with one plant and then grow some more!

- Next Ostara throw a little welcome back party for Persephone. This doesn’t have to be big! It could be in your own bedroom. Bake a treat for you and the Demeter fam, put on a cute devotional playlist, run out in your backyard and dance around to some Gary Stadler faerie music!

- watch films with powerful loving mothers or mother figures! (The quiet place, the sound of music, Anne with an E, the incredibles, Sarah plain and tall, Mamamia, Coco, Harry Potter, stranger things etc)

- Go skipping in a meadow somewhere tf!

- Play stardew valley, harvest moon, and animal crossing

- Go on a picnic

- Go berry picking!

- Bonus: go on a picnic with your family

- Wear a bonnet and some vintage dresses (I bought mine for cheap on amazon!)

- Ooooh Im currently making a basket altar! It looks like a picnic basket with gingham print and everything and inside it will have all candles, flowers and food for us to share together so that’s also an idea!

- Tell her you love her duh!

ALTAR IDEAS

- Gingham or plaid printed picnic blanket

- Quilt

- Daisy chains

- Wheat garland

- Yellow and brown ribbons

- A Demeter prayer bracelet

- Origami flowers

- Plushies (snake, pig and dragon)

- Corn dolls

- I also ordered small vintage baby doll heads so that could be a thing

last but NOT LEAST! …

Here’s a special DEMETER PLAYLIST! (These are songs I personally love to associate with her) *link to Spotify playlist please click here*

This is also a thank you post to the goddess that took me under her scythe, and helped guide me through stressful times, and I hope she can do the same for you. Demeter says..

YOU

ARE

LOVED

🌾 Happy Worshiping! 🌾

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Goblins always find and collect pretty wonderful sparkly things

Example

I have my boyfriend and is is indeed

Pretty🌼,Wonderful💕,and sparkly✨

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new tutorial, this time for "fake" medals you can use to decorate your jacket or any stuff really.

give yourself a weird award you yourself came up with, coorperations do it all the time!

stuff you will need:

-scissors

-variation of pliers

-a stencil, the shape you want the fabric part of ur medal to be, make it a bit bigger so youll have room to sew

-piece of fabric two times the size of your stencil

-sewing needle

-sewing thread, i use dental floss

-safety pin

-paperclip, or just iron wire, around 1 mm Ø

-bottlecap

start with cutting out the two pieces of fabric for your medal using a stencil

pin em to eachother, with the sides you want to be on the outside, facing inwards.

sew along the side but keep the top open, so you can flip it inside out.

now you can flip in inside out, and fold the top around the safety pin, and sew it down

make sure the side of the pin that doesnt open is the one being sewn down. the opening part should be on top.

bend the paperclip into something resembling the shapes in the pic below using the pliers, doesnt need to look good, mine sure dont

bend the edges of the bottlecap to the inside, and pin the hook part of the right iron wire thing down under the edge

connect the iron wire hoop you made (left in picture) to the piece of iron wire on the bottlecap. fold the point of the fabric part of the metal around the hoop and sew it down.

should look something like this.

now you can add decorations, you can paint the cap aswell as the fabric part, using patterned fabrics can also make ur medals look nicer.

ive seen people advise using modgepodge to seal the painted cap, instead of nailpolish, i dont have modpodge where i live but use that if youre able to get ur hands on it.

i hope this was clear, let me know if you want tutorials on any other stuff. i like doing them a lot.

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