Welcome to Psyche's Garden

This first painting that you are now enjoying is Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Garden, by John William Waterhouse (1904).





Welcome to Psyche's garden, may you be attended by Love. Welcome home dear friend, to the garden that is open to both human and immortal friends. This is a garden of mysticism and of knowledge. We are devoted to the quest for human elevation to the immortality that the beautiful human, Psyche, achieved through her love and labors.





We will explore the mythos of Psyche and Love, as well as the eternal and ever-present inspiration of the story of Psyche and Love in art and in literature.





Eros and Psyche can mirror, love, idolize, or inspire the other. This interaction also becomes like the meanings to their names, Love and Soul, Eros and Psyche. This is what it means to refer to the symbolic interplay of Cupid and Psyche as Love and Soul. This relationship of Love and Soul, Eros and Psyche, is the key to understanding the symbolism of the mythos of Psyche; her journey through the underworld, the water of death, reuniting with her beloved Eros, the ambrosia of immortality, her transcendence to the immortal pantheon of god-like archetypes—none of these elements of the mythos can be fully understood apart from the relationship of Love and Soul.

Stay connected- next time we will review the compelling story of Psyche and Eros