welcome to dreaming so darkly…

a descent into the underworld of desire

deep in a hidden wood, there lies a mossy fissure in the earth, a portal to another world. stairs spiraling downwards, an endless descent into the dark, carved into the living rock.

you feel each rough stone tread biting into the soles of your careful bare feet, the walls slick and damp beneath your trailing fingers as you reach out to hold onto something solid in the endless darkness.

deeper and deeper you descend, the air musty and damp, until finally the faintest golden glow appears in the distance, a trick of hopeful eyes you think at first, but then a new scent drifts up to greet you—spiced, smoky, forbidden.

finally, you reach the bottom and you hesitate at the threshold, heart pounding, the flickering torchlight revealing the yawning cavern before you.

this is where persephone walked before she became queen.

where psyche wandered before she earned the love of eros.

and where you have now come, aching to touch something deeper.

here, beneath the surface of waking life, lies a temple of obsidian and firelight. a dark lake stretches vast and silent and deep, reflecting the glimmering constellations of a forgotten world.

a world of myth and erotic longing, where the glittering stone walls whisper the stories of those who have come before you—of those who made their own descent in search of truth, of love, and of the self they could find only in the darkest surrender.

dreaming so darkly is a distinctly feminine mythopoetic descent and initiation. a place where pleasure and peril and the forbidden walk hand in hand, and where erotic surrender is not just an act but a ritual of transformation. here, the sacred merges with the profane, and our most tender innocence meets our most taboo desires…

i write for those who have felt the pull of the abyss and wondered what lay at the bottom... for those who have yearned for a force strong enough to crack them open, only to find that the breaking was the beginning of something holy… and for those who intuitively know that the only way reclaim their light is through facing the dark.

here in this underworld you’ll find my musings on love, sacred sexuality, sovereign submission and, most of all, my erotic stories. some of these stories will be contemporary in tone and setting, while others will carry you into alternate realms. certain tales will build upon each other, weaving a larger tapestry of submission, revelation, and rebirth, while others will stand alone—brief but searing descents into the dark waters of longing.

oftentimes, these stories will challenge the modern feminine mind, pressing against the boundaries of what we have been told we should want and what we actually crave…

the truth that so many of us are unwilling to face are the ways in which we instinctively eroticize our wounds. we’re afraid to face these dark places because they make us feel ashamed and broken, but only because we have forgotten the most important truth… the intuitive remembering that our erotic life force is not just for pleasure but for our greatest healing.

these stories and explorations are here to remind you that the same places where you have been stripped of power are the very places where your power waits to be reclaimed.

this is the magic of alchemy, and to descend fully into darkness and emerge unchanged is impossible.

so i invite you to surrender to the descent.

to immolate yourself in the fire of your own erotic longing and see what emerges from the ashes.

to bite into the pomegranate and let its juices run down your chin and coat your fingers like blood.

come, then, sweet one.

step into the dark.

let’s see what awaits you in the underworld.

xx persephone

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i’m so grateful for your presence and attention. here is your official invitation to journey to the underworld…

everything i share here is born of years spent reclaiming my own pleasure and power—through grief, shame, devotion, and desire—the fruit of a decade of embodied study in tantra, bdsm, feminine embodiment, and sacred sexuality with some of the most well-respected teachers in the world.

when you subscribe, you’re not just supporting my work—you’re casting a spell for your own becoming.

and if someone comes to mind… someone brave enough to enter the underworld with you… please consider sharing this invocation with them. this work is sacred, and it grows by invitation.

finally, if this invocation moved something in you, i’d love to hear about it in the comments below…