Persephone/Proserpina

heatherwitch:

Small devotional acts.

•  Leave
  flowers at empty graves
• Wear
  that lacy/flowery dress and the leather jacket
• Wear
  a flower crown or flower hair pin
• POMEGRANATES
• Find
  nature and gentleness in the harshest of places
• Practice
  your “don’t mess with me” look and posture. Use it while walking through crowds
• Paint
  your nails dark red or wear red lipstick
• When
  you find a small animal that has died, honor its life and death. If you can,
  bury it or leave it someplace for the other creatures of the forest
• Go
  barefoot more often
• Buy yourself a houseplant/s
• Build
  your night vision, know your way in the dark
• Take
  time to enjoy the sun whenever it is out
• Drink
  coffee sweetened with honey
• Demand
  respect and a listening ear from all – especially men
• Decorate
  your home with dried flowers in the winter
• When
  people do the unforgivable, hold them to their actions – do not forgive easily
• Grow
  a rosebush or buy yourself some roses
• Visit
  an arboretum or large gardens
• Burn
  a candle for those who died unjustly
• Volunteer
  with organizations that clean and restore forgotten places – graveyards, empty
  plots of land, etc.
• Go swimming in natural bodies of water
  at night (be safe)
• Offer
  a few coins/dollars to those who need it
• Wear
  floral or fruity scents
• Spend
  time outside in the winter too
• Stand
  up for the abused
• Go
  dance in or enjoy the next rainstorm
• Don’t
  be afraid to defy stereotypes –  if she
  can be the Spring Maiden and the Iron Queen, you can be anything
• Add
  more flowers to your garden
• Take
  a candlelit bath
• Know
  how to win a fight in case you need to
• Don’t
  let anyone tell you who you can and can’t love
• PRACTICE
  LOVING YOURSELF
• Many,
  many, many other things not said here