Eleos & Clementia - What Might the Goddesses Teach Us?

I am a student of history, and mythology too. I turn to the distant past sometimes to best understand the present state of mind and imagine the future. A few of the goddesses whose stories have come to me recently, in a variety of pathways are the goddesses who are desribed as:

personified spirit (daimona) of mercy, pity and compassion

Some may know the word daimona from a phrase that Jim Morrison has on his grave, and there is much debate about what that means. I will let those debates run their course, and not get snagged in them. I chose to think of the word more of a reminder of the power of our own guiding spirit. Each of us is the living, breathing machination of our own guiding spirit. We are and can in fact re-member the personified spirit of mercy, pity and compassion.

The most powerful of these three to me is compassion. Literally meaning "to suffer with" from the Latin origin. Imagine if we gave ourselves and made the space for others "to suffer with" one another. Would that not, by definition and action, increase our empathy?

The next time you take a walk, try and see the personified spirit in all things. Trees, animals, other human beings. Ask yourself how to nourish your own and those of others.

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