I was pleased to share this poem, which has a lot of meaning for me. Persephone is the Goddess of the turning wheel of planetary life; for she is both the Spring Maiden who brings the rebirth of the world at the spring equinox, and she is also the fearsome Queen of Death, who rules for part of the year in the underworld with Hades. She is the ever changing Goddess of liminality.
I found this short video excerpt (below) from the 2 season television show DEAD LIKE ME (which I found wonderfully clever, funny, and often poignantly true) while searching for the music of Metisse. I had, just the day before, been discussing mediumship, some of my conversations with mediums at Lily Dale that I met, and the paranormal experiences I and others have had. Some of the mediums I have met say that there are spirits that are "earth bound", and don't or can't "cross over". My friend, who is a highly intuitive counselor, asked "how do mediums help people to cross over?" A question I also wonder about.
Then synchronistically this excerpt turned up in my search. "Daisy", in the film, is a "Grim Reaper", one whose job it is to help recently dead souls accept their death, and cross over. Reapers, however, cannot cross over. In the story Stan, who was gay, has just died and wants to go to a Church, which Daisy agrees to take him to. He has a lifetime of hurt and anger at God for being different. And he receives an answer that shatters the windows of his spirit, freeing him. It rings true for me somehow, and I don't mean that in any religious context. The music, words, and acting, are a kind of "sacred poem" to me. Beautiful.............
