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Aphrodisia

What is Aphrodisia?

Aphrodisia is a festival to honor Lady Aphrodite, specifically Her epithet Aphrodite Pandemos (Lady of All)

When is Aphrodisia?

We don’t know exactly when Aphrodisia is or was in ancient times. Some things that came up in my research were: the third week in July to the third week in August, the summer solstice, and July 13. Because I personally need a specific date to celebrate, I will be celebrating on July 13, which happens to be tomorrow.

Traditional Celebrations

Traditionally, to start the festival, a dove was sacrificed to purify Her temple, and a statue of Her would be brought to the sea and washed, followed by a procession. Feasts were very common during Aphrodisia.

Modern Celebration Ideas

So of course we probably can’t sacrifice doves and parade a statue of Her from a temple to the sea nowadays, but there are many ways we can still celebrate Aphrodisia. These are a few ideas, you don’t have to do all of them or any at all.

🐚 Purify Her Altar

🐚 Spend time with Her

🐚 Bake something

🐚 Offer a libation or some sort of food

🐚 Do whatever makes you feel close to Her

🐚 Offer incense and/or light a candle for Her

🐚 Have a self-care day

🐚 Spend some time researching Her

I will be wearing a color that reminds me of Her, lighting Her candle, enjoying the small things in life, spending time with my partner, painting my nails, listening to music that reminds me of Her, and I may watch a romance movie. I will try to bake something or offer her something if I can.

Remember that no matter what you do for Her, or even if you don’t do anything extra at all, She will be happy. You do not need to do any elaborate celebrations or offerings in order to please Her. Just do what you can, Lady Aphrodite understands ❤️

Khaire!

i work with aphrodite, of course i try not to insult peoples looks i work with aphrodite, of course i wished that i was a typical sorta pretty but then she helped me realize beauty comes in all forms i work with aphrodite, when she says something. i do it. her war epithets will always be there. i work with aphrodite, of course when i laugh i do it in her honor i work with aphrodite, of course i look through her epithets in awe i work with aphrodite, of course shes linked with the ocean but im no where near flowing water

Trust your instincts ya'll

Should've listened to my instincts when I wanted to tell my girl cousin I'm pagan. Boy cousin respected it and told me to stay safe because he knows very well how our family is. Should've just told him. She already looked at me differently when I told her I wasn't Christian anymore, when I wasn't comfortable praying to the Christian God when our family would beg me just because I'm the eldest grandchild, I don't want to because I don't want to disrespect Him.

I know it's her opinion, I know she has the right to have an opinion.

But for me and many people it's not stupid like how she thinks it is. Such a big blow, ngl.

Aphrodite listened to me that night when I cried. She was there when no one else can hold me.

Hail Lady Aphrodite 🩷

Aphrodite: Goddess of Passion, Love, Sex, Beauty, Pleasure and Procreation.

Offerings include:

rose water,

rose/ocean scented candles or incense,

rose petals,

seashells,

perfumes,

jewelry you consider beautiful, honey, rose tea, fruits like apples ( golden colored apples ) figs, and pomegranates,

crystals/gemstones such as quartz, rose quartz ( specifically ) and emeralds,

chocolates,

naturally shed dove/swan/geese feathers,

herbs like basil and majoram,

sand,

poems about her, love, or any other poem you have written.

Prayers to Aphrodite

1. I come to you by candlelight, I bring a humble gift this night,

View my soul and weigh my truth, I love, respect, and honor you.

May this gift be well recieved,

By Love's goddess,

Lady of the seas.

2. Lady Aphrodite,

Beloved Goddess of all the world's beauty, of love in all forms,

and of purest desire,

may you continue to guide me

towards acceptance and love,

for myself and for others,

for now and for good.

May we flourish forever

with beauty and grace.

my Beloved Aphrodite

with love in your heart,

may you continue to guide me,

til death do us part.

3. Prayer to Aphrodite to Bring Love into One's Life

Tender-hearted Aphrodite, friend of the lonely, friend of those who seek a lover, a companion for life, a mate to share their sorrows and delights;

Aphrodite, you touch the center of the soul, you light the flame of passion in men and women, you hold our hearts in your gentle hands. Goddess, fair one, kind one, giver of the most precious gifts, open my spirit to joy and gladness, open my mind to possibility, open my heart to love. Heal me of hurt, release me from fear; grant me the innocence of first love that I may see the world in all its promise and beauty; grant me the wisdom of experience that I may choose with sense and judgment. May my eyes be keen, may my vision be true, may I see what is more clearly than what may be. Aphrodite, I pray to you, goddess, grant me your gift of love.

4. May Aphrodite bring love to you, and may you feel that love.

Ares and Aphrodite, an allegory of peace by Angélique Mongez, 1841

Hail Lady Aphrodite.

e-offering to Aphrodite!

Lady Aphrodite, passionate and golden-tressed, thank You for all the love and beauty in the world, even if we do not always see it. thank You for the love that surrounds us all and helping me accept love from others.

help those who cannot find it in their hearts to love another to do so, to make passionate those who have fallen out of love with life and to aid those broken relationships becoming more and more prevalent.

i see You in every act of love i see out and about, in every romcom i watch as a devotional act, in every smile.

hail Lady Aphrodite, wondrous and vibrant, may you be as eternal as love is!

For Lady Aphrodite. 🗡️🐚❤️🌹💄

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by luo li rong

an offering to the glorious aphrodite on this venus day. may this day bless our hearts & allow us to show beauty & kindess to all. so mote it be <3

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How I see my deities! Because I know everyone cares ☺️

Ok so basically, I mostly see my deities how they are pictured in Hades (the game) 😭 especially Aphrodite because when I was researching how to worship her, even before I saw the game, the post I saw used her hades picture as the picture so I’ve seen her like that ever since. Dionysus and Ares kinda have two forms to me. First there’s white boy Dionysus (I like to call it) and then hades Dionysus. For Ares, there’s frat boys ares and hades ares. Weird I know but lmao 😭 ok enough of that I’m gonna use the picrews I made ! Enjoy ig

M’lady Aphrodite

As you can see, it’s all pretty consistent. I really see her as having dark tan skin, blue eyes, but I would say more dark blue eyes (even tho on the picrews, they are light), and having long pink hair. I would say to like her middle back.

There will be three posts because I just found out there’s a ten picture limit 😔

Ares

Dionysus

This is a reminder for all my lovely witches/ practitioners of magic~

Remember instead of just doing hexes on the Supreme Court (or if you don’t do hexes) to do protection Spells for our rights (afab people, queer ppl, BIPOC) and do protection spells on the people who are protesting! Especially if you’re like me and can’t go out and protest 😢

Also remember to rest and take care of yourself!!

Hey how’s everyone doing? Im doing…ok,,, but I wanted to talk about something cool that happens (happened) with my deities and guides. Ok so I’m kinda loved and affection starved because while my family does show love, it often doesnt feel real or it followed up as something hurtful or love and affection is kinda used as a prize.. what I’m trying to say it isn’t really used freely and correctly. So recently (they know it’s been always, but recently it’s been noticeable ig) my I’ve noticed that my deities and spiritual guides have been really nice and loving. And it’s not like I expected then to be rude or hateful to me (obv 😳) but it’s that I’m not used to it haha

Some examples would be like I’m been trying to know my guides better, so when I asked how they felt about me, the song they used (I used sufflemancy) is serendipity by BTS 😭 ngl it made me tear up a lot 😭 Another example is something that is really personal to me. I notice that I shiver a lot when talking to my deities and I’ve known that’s how they show me that they’re listening, but I’ve just recently figured out that they do that because I have hard time with not knowing if ppl are listening,, like when I’m talking to someone, I need them to respond so that I know they are listening, if they don’t, I don’t think they are listening. So what I’m saying is that me shivering when I talk to my deities is their way of showing me that they are listening (think of it like when ppl say hmm or nod when listening). Again when I realized that, I was tearing up 😭 ofc there’s other moments like that but I’m talking about MOST recently. So lately, I’ve been asking my spiritual guides and deities how they are via Pinterest 😭 and my spirit guides have been giving normal answers but the main focus is actually my deities. 90% of when I ask them, the answers I get are so 😭🥺 instead of like answering like this (how they have in the past (this was lady Aphrodite)

They often answer like this 😭

Lady Aphrodite

Lord Ares

Lord Dionysus

So yeah 😭 when it first happened I was so confused and I Lowkey thought that maybe it was a mistake but I knew it wouldn’t be there if it was a mistake 😭 plus I’m following my intuition more,,, but yeah they have been reminding me more and more about how they love me 😭 which is 😭 like when the message with lady Aphrodite popped up (the red image with black words on it) I (again) started tearing up when I fully read it,,, especially with how relevant it was. Like I often worry (? Think) about how my deites would leave me some day, so when it really hit when one part of the message said “I fully intend on staying in your life for quite some time.” Also they “I love you without limits” thing. I shouldn’t be surprised but lady Aphrodite is the more affectionate (ig) like a long while ago she gave me a message like this

Which also made really emotional because I had (and still have) a hard time talking to my guides and deities about stuff that’s going on with me, even though they encourage me too. And I always remember this one post I saw along time ago that was talking about how “talk to your deites about your problems and stuff” 😭 so yknow this made me really emotional. Also M’lady is always reaching out at random times telling me that she’s here. It’s really great overall. Oh and recently I made a joke about my deites not wanting to talk to me and then I said “I’m joking don’t fight me” and right after I said that, I heard “fight right now” 😭 so yeah that’s hilarious and sweet.

Onto my guides,, Ig they are more toned down about it ?? Not really tho,, oh like one time, I asked them if they thought I was cute as a joke and I didn’t really expect them to respond, but they responded with “so cute” which was very nice 😭 Though I’m a pretty weird person and my guides are low key weird too 😭 like I’m not even gonna lie, they have a weird obession with Hyunjin from SKZ 😭 like they even said that it was a one sided love aka they love him but he doesn’t love them back 😭 back on the cute note, one time they sent me this

To translate it means “me when I look at your beautiful face” 😭 which literally came out of nowhere. Also they send me a lot of cats with hearts on them (a lot of guides are cats 😭) so yeah. (Also I should mention that Aphrodite and Dionysus are also apart of my guides)

So I guess this post was just to say that your guides and deities really do love you unconditionally (if you had a hard time believing it). While I knew that they loved me because of how I grew up, I had a hard time truly believing it 😭 So seeing all this just really cements this, especially since I don’t ask things “like how they feel about me” and they just pop up random. If you can, I would really recommend using Pinterest as a divination tool ! That’s how a lot of this was done !! Thank you so much for reading! Byeeeeeee

Edit: the amount of typos in here are….

Hello ! Todays post is on how my deities show love to me! (I guess that’s the best title for this) So I guess this an follow up to my last post I did post I did on this certain topic (link if you wanna see it) because I want to show different ways it might happen! Despite not being human, I swear our deities actually do love us (also spirit guides since Dio is one of my guides and they also often do stuff like this haha)

To get on perspective on my relationships with my deities, I have been worshiping Lord Dionysus (who’s actually gonna kinda be the main focus 😳) for over a year now. And lord ares and lady Aphrodite for 11 months (a year in October for both) so I would say that were pretty close,, I’m particularly close with Lady Aphrodite as (somewhat) unsurprisingly, she is the most affectionate and loving towards to me. She often reminds me that she’s here for me and that she loves me and all,,, which is very nice 😭

What really sparked this post was something that happened a couple days ago. So yknow I’m trying to get better at taking care of myself and doing things for my higher good (as we all should be doing) and I’m currently sick and I have been for the past few days. I also just got back from a trip and I had school work to do but while I was going it I decided stop because A. It was getting late, B. like I said, I just got back from a trip and I was tired, and C. I’m sick and it’s not good to work when you’re sick anyways 😭 When I closed my computer to go lay down and rest, I also said “Ideserve to rest” (i just talk out loud a lot when I’m by myself lol) and immediately got (the best way to describe it) a thumbs up (basically) from Lord Dionysus ! It made me feel very good about myself! Though I don’t need my deities, guides, or anyone really to back up my decisions for me to do them, it still feels very nice,,, plus it helps me know that I’m going in the right direction !

Thanks for reading! If you have any experiences you want to share that go ahead! Whatever makes you happy :)

Deities never fail to surprise and amaze me

My brain has decided to be cute lately and decided that I am no longer able to function, so I was telling that to my deities (particularly Aphrodite and Ares) and I asked them to be a little more present during this time (/ showing me that they are present) and idk why, whenever I do this, I just forget 💀 so then I start seeing a bunch of signs of them and I’m like ???? And THEN I remember 😭

And it’s not like I expect them to ignore me, but I’m still surprised when they actually do what I ask 😭The Gods are good fr 🤍

I just started calling for Aphrodite ever since she stopped my heartache while I was having a mental breakdown. I've been praying to her and thanking her for little things. I made my first offering which is a gold bracelet with these cute hearts, flowers, some shiney pink stone as charms.

I think I pissed her off when I openly started talking bad about a guy that's really crappy to people (esp girls) in my class. I havent felt her i think shes ignoring me.

How do I apologize?

HOW DO I KNOW IF APHRODITE HAS FORGIVEN ME? 😭

Okay, so I've prayed three times to her and even offered a golden leaf hair clip and a lil flower I saw while I was on my way home.

Omw home it almost rained but it didn't continue (thank you, Lady Aphrodite). Is that considered as a "I forgive you"? I think if she didn't I think would've been drenched in the rain 🤔

I'm new to paganism and working with deities, i have been wanting to explore and experience this for about a year now. I now worship Aphrodite and so far she's the only one I'm connecting with.

First thing I learned from her: CHEATING IS NOT DEMURE

She doesnt care if its just on a test its still cheating. It does not honor her (dont come at me im VERY new to this yall).

I was legit thinking of cheating on my test the other day because of how desperate i was to pass. It was 30 minutes before the test and i was reviewing the coverage and thought of cheating and ways to cheat.

I swear I heard her say "thats not very demure" !?!?!? IM- IM AMAZED! I am CHOKED, I am SPWNROEJS!?

I only have a make-shift altar of Aphrodite because I dont have money, space, and my family is strictly religous. So i keep it subtle.

So, her altar is at the shelf next to my table and i looked over it and i could feel this disappointed energy and im like "okay i wont" I WAS SCREAMING INSIDE! DID APHRODITE JUST TALK TO ME!? LIKE- OMG!?

AND YES I WILL BE USING MY TUMBLR TO INTERACT WITH OTHER PAGANS AND LEARN FROM THEM HEHE 🩷

I love Lady Aphrodite yall 🥹🫶

LOOK! I MAY SUCK AT FINISHING MY PROJECTS, COLORING, AND ANATOMY EVEN ESP WITH POSES BUT HERES MY INTERPRETATION OF LADY APHRODITE 🩷

I really see her this very graceful woman who MOTHERS! absolutely MOTHERING with the gold crown, the pearls, the whole everything she is just😭🥹🫶🩷🎀

Hail, Lady Aphrodite!

Might print this out, laminate it, and put it on the altar

Went to a christian church the other day because my family is christian. i decided go let Aphrodite control my outfit choice that day and she dressed me in my prettiest floral dress. I did it to honor her eveywhere I went! <3

I had never felt more gorgeous than I did that day. Lady Aphrodite really boost up my confirdence.

"great goddess of beuaty really blessing me today" -me, looking at myself in the mirror while doing light make up.

I swear, I was in the mall bathroom and I could feel her hyping me up while I was fixing my hair.

Everytime I go out, i repeat the ssme 4 outfits i have sslad ,outsid,,,,,!

Sleeping earlier than usual cuz shes telling me to take care of myself. since im a stubborn lil shit, shes abt to knock the daylights outta me rn.

Self-care is beauty, yall!

I need to know if theres any Aphrodite devotees that listen and enjoys the Epic Musical. I personally enjoy it. I love it. Im stuck in the loop.

Everytime Aphrodite is mentioned in God Games- ESPECIALLY THE "Aphrodite~ 🕊️" part I SUDDENLY HAVE THE URGE TO KNEEL AND BOW AND CRY AND DANCE AT THE SAME TIME!

Like eugh just the mention of the goddess I get excited 😭

Ngl I didnt expect this shift when I started worshipping her.