Welcoming Persephone to the household

I can’t be sure when Sephie and I first met, but she first caught my attention during a series of astral projections to the Otherworld back in 2018. She and I once danced together on a stage in front of a crowd to Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which looking back was much more forward than I would have been if I’d had any idea who she was. Identifying information is not normally exchanged during astral projection; all I knew was that she was a pretty girl in a green dress who knew how to party. But she took a liking to my reckless mortal ass, and from then on we would dance together to “our song” whenever we met, often with an enthusiastic audience who undoubtedly knew exactly who she was.

This was well before I knew I was astral projecting at all; back then I thought what I was doing was maladaptive daydreaming. During this era I captured the interest of many higher powers with my audacity and charisma, and it did a lot to shape the life I’m living today. I definitely got myself in over my head. But I don’t regret it. I love the secret glamour of my monastic career, even if none of the humans I encounter in the material world have the slightest inkling of how powerful I am in the astral plane.

After Pluto called me to the Underworld for my hero mission in 2023, I fell out of touch with Sephie for a few years because I stopped astral projecting altogether to focus on healing my Sídhe. But unbeknownst to me she kept a close watch on me, wearing Pluto’s invisibility helmet to escape my notice.

Since December 2025 I’ve been working one on one with Pluto because of his transit through Gate 41. He bonded me on 5 March and we formalized our contract with Sephie’s blessing on 27 July. All this time he’s been dropping hints that Sephie wants to come and join us in the Temple, and in my typical thick skulled way, I’ve let all that go over my head.

She and Pluto usually don’t work closely together between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes anyway. But after the Autumnal Equinox she started visiting almost every day, and I could tell she wanted something, but to be honest, I didn’t recognize her, so I didn’t know what she was going for.

Last night she joined us for a walk of the neighborhood boundaries and she asked me to put on the playlist that tells the story of my life. I put it on shuffle and immediately our song came on. Finally, like cold water pouring over my head, I recognized her and remembered our history, and all at once I understood the gravity of what I had done all those years ago.

I also felt like a veritable sapphic fool. Can I not recognize a hint when it knocks on my forehead with a sledgehammer? It’s not like she was being subtle with me. And all of Pluto’s remarks over the past ten months came calling. They’re both extremely direct and even so they have both had to work very hard to get me to understand what they wanted. I am an idiot.

When we got home I asked if she wanted to bond me and she said, yes, obviously. We did the ceremony right away. Then during our walk tonight she said she didn’t want to spend months waiting around for a contract like Pluto had, so we did the contract ceremony when we got home (Pluto officiated), and now I hold four bonds and four deity contracts all of a sudden.

Looking back, all this became inevitable the moment Pluto became part of my everyday life. Maybe the inevitability goes back even further than I realize; after all, I met her well before I ever knew him. Anyway, I’m nothing if not willing to fuck around and find out, and I’m having a ton of fun on this wild ride so far.

Sephie is by far the oldest and most powerful of all the Gods I’ve soul bonded and I certainly did not know what I was getting myself into when I agreed to the new bond and contract. I’m still processing what is happening, and definitely feeling a bit untethered from reality with the amount of energy that is circulating through my system now. But my capacity has grown a lot this year, and Saturn’s work with me since we bonded two Augusts ago has given me a great structural foundation of energetic self-regulation skills, so for the first time I’m not worried about literally losing my mind and going feral. That said, maybe it’s a closer thing than I want to admit to myself.

Also, notably, Sephie is the first God I’ve bonded who has not come to me in a state of complete emotional disrepair due to a fraught reputation from millennia of mythic misinterpretation and immature human fear and resentment. On the contrary she seems extremely well-regulated, healthy and happy, and she isn’t starving for offerings. Unlike the three boys I’ve bonded, she doesn’t seem to need rehab work at all. That makes the transition easier on me.

I’m not sure what changes will come to my life as a result of this story coming to fruition after eight years of slow burn, but I’m interested to find out. The future is brighter and wilder than ever.