Use to invoke and pay tribute to the Greek god of:
- wine and viticulture
- fruit
- intoxication and hallucination
- festivities
- homosexuality
- male exploration of femininity
- forest wilderness
- the hunt
- reincarnation and the afterlife (Elysium)
- plays/playwrights/actors
- big cats
- madness
Excellent for those who work with Dionysus to thank him, as well as invocation of and petition for help with emphasizing and aiding success in any of the above, and with dispelling sickness, banishing needless violence, and blocking curses against you; allowing anxiety and "madness" to be channeled into productive trance states, spiritual, indulgent frenzy to induce ecstasy.
Other areas of work with Dionysus can include:
- embracing the duality of manhood with feminine traits
- harnessing intoxication to increase personal power without spiraling into ineffectiveness or failure
- doing shadow work to reveal and liberate an essential part of yourself and elevate it
- work to locate the gratitude toward women in your life and use it to symbolically crown them and protect them
- inducing madness and confusion in your enemies to win battles
- inducing frenetic devotion to you against your enemies
[Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. When Semele, pregnant with Dionysus, demanded that Zeus reveal his true, glorious self to her, the fire of his lightning set her ablaze. Horrified, Zeus reached in to rescue his unborn son. He sewed him into his thigh until he was ready for birth, then Hermes transported him to his three aunts, the Nymphs of Mt. Nysa - the Nysiades. Later, Dionysus thanked them for caring for him by restoring their youth and placing them among the stars as the constellation Hyades.]
[Dionysus fell in love with a handsome Satyr named Ampelos. One night, Ampelos rode a wild bull and called out to the Moon Goddess Selene, bragging that he has horns AND he rides a bull. Selene sent a gadfly to mercilessly prick the bull, who ran wild and eventually threw Ampelos and gored him to death. Heartbroken, Dionysus transformed the trail of blood into the first grape vine. That's the origin of the grape vine, and therefore the origin of wine.]
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