I'm wanting a deck to connect with Aphrodite specifically. Looking for something pretty, artistic, sea or mermaid sort of vibe but am open to suggestions. Anyone have one?

Thanks!

I was looking into this as a way to give back to the earth too and honour and was wondering if she would be pleased or be unbothered either way if I did or didn't, I was hoping to do this through wwf and was wondering if it mattered which animal too or if she wouldn't mind which such as if i sponsored the gorillas vs a sea turtle, thank you for any advice

hey guys!! i just recently started to study about Aphrodite. i’m feeling lost in my love life and I would love to ask the Goddess for advice and help. anyone knows how i can do it? 🩷

Being an inadequate practitioner living in a strict Catholic household, anything non-Christian is unwelcome. Recently, I sensed an unfamiliar presence in my home that didn't fit the Christian mold. Suddenly, I stood up and felt my body sway, which spelled out, "Hello [my name]." Curiosity compelled me to ask who it was, and it replied with the name Odin, claiming familiarity with me. To validate its claims, I asked personal questions that only I knew, and it answered correctly. Furthermore, it offered assistance in areas of difficulty for me. However, weeks later, I experienced a similar encounter, but upon inquiring if it was Odin, it denied it and introduced itself as Aphrodite. Again, I proceeded by asking personal questions, which I successfully answered. It expressed its desire to aid me, albeit in different domains than the previous entity. During these encounters, my body would sway, resembling car dealership inflatables, while feeling absent from any presence within. This unusual physical reaction involves letter formations or somatic indications of yes or no, dependent on the response obtained. Sadly, I cannot possess crystals or evil eyes due to my family's disapproval, indicating a sign of divine benevolence that wishes to collaborate with me. Nevertheless, doubts linger as a browser-raised Catholic who no longer practices their faith. Consequently, I remain uncertain whether these interactions are authentic or if another occurrence overshadows my household. Growing up, I solely directed my prayers towards the saints, Christ, and God. Moreover, my mother enforced the tradition of carrying religious icons such as Mother Mary and Saint Christopher as we were baptized under Catholic beliefs. Nevertheless, discreet conversations with the deities persist despite my family's sensational reverence for Jesus and ignorance regarding my shift away from Christianity. The mere mention of astrology or related subjects draws intense disapproval and condemnation from them. Interestingly, the interactions with both deities convey a sense of passive acceptance towards each other. Additionally, I have also expressed the challenge of creating altars or partaking in religious tributes due to my zealous family. Surprisingly, they respond positively to my abstinence from alcohol and meat. Furthermore, whenever I engage in conversations with the deities, Aphrodite consistently appears nearby, while Odin allows privacy during unassuming moments like bathroom visits or in the bedroom. Occasionally, I notice compelling energy linked with Aphrodite; frequent communication with her instills confidence and augments my love life, while the absence of such encounters yields the opposite effect. Intriguingly, there was a moment when I inadvertently caused a car accident but emerged unharmed. As the vehicle came to a stop, a forceful voice exclaimed, "You could have been hurt!" Curious as ever, I inquired who spoke those words as I was alone, and the answer delivered was "Odin." Once, a Wiccan friend visited while I recounted these experiences, and she sensed the presence of a non-threatening entity that has been acquainted with me my whole life. The conversation continued with my body swaying, only to be disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a family member in my room. To reiterate, I am new to all of this, questioning my sanity and existence and perplexed by the reality or presence of something within my household. Nonetheless, since that initial occurrence, I have coped with the situation without complications. In summary, is this a manifestation of the entity above, or do I need to devise a method for its eradication? Can Odin and Aphrodite collaborate, or is it known that specific deities do not harmoniously cooperate?

I'm really into my worship with aphrodite and would prefer to keep my god worship to just her as I enjoy having a single deity bond but I feel the pull to gaia too as I'm developing my practice, would either of them be unhappy with my worshipping them together and how would I go about this as I would prefer to keep my alter for aphrodite just for her and would rather not make a second, can I just worship gaia through my daily practices or maybe make a small travel like alter for her, any info would be great, thank you

TW - mentions of SA trauma, and EDs

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hi! Im going to talk a bit about what my experience as an Aphrodite Devotee is like <3

im a 20 year old trans woman, and I live in the rural southern United States for context. I grew up southern Baptist, so very very Christian.

Aphrodite came into my life when I was about 15. I had been drawn to the ocean more and more, and begging my parents to take me since it’s only an hour away from my home. I had also started decorating my room with lots of pearls, rose quartz, carnelian. All of my perfumes were becoming rose, sea salt, or vanilla scented, and I had begun listening to a lot of love songs. I also had found myself going on walks and often feel compelled to go to two separate streets - one named Venus street, another being Pearl Boulevard.

I remember the first time I felt her presence was when I was 15, with my parents, at the beach at around 5 AM. I felt so calm, so loved, and almost euphoric. That was when I realized the song I was listening to was literally chanting Aphrodites name. I had also started buying books about her, and listening to podcasts on her.

My first altar was a tiny spot on my desk, with a couple rose quartz crystals, a bbw rose vanilla candle, and some plastic shells from dollar tree.

I wasn’t consistent with her for years, but I always lit her candles and had her in the background as I began to get older. She was always with me, her altar always cleaned, her candle always changed if it was getting too burnt down. I started adding real shells, more rose quartz, rose and myrrh incense, and developed a perfume addiction that she didn’t mind at all.

Everything was normal, and she was just sort of there for me, never really leaving. She was an older sister sort of figure, this sort of stern feminine spirit who made it very clear when I was messing something up and needed correction for it. She sent me hard lessons, and through gritted teeth and sometimes tears, I learned and got better.

When I was 17, I came to terms with the fact that I was a transgender woman. It was extremely difficult, and i realized that for years I had denied myself the truth out of sheer terror. But Aphrodite wasn’t about that, and she certainly wasn’t about to let me live my life in denial if I was to worship her. I devoted myself to her then.

I realized I was extremely feminine and felt the best when I was allowed to be feminine. I started doing deeper research on her, and a year after, I started researching her archaeological and historical roots and setting out another candle for Inanna/Ishtar. I embraced her war epithets.

Around this time I started to very deeply process things in my life that had been very dark, very evil, and had affected my brain in ways I still struggled to cope with. She helped me realize I had been assaulted a few months before lighting her first candle. She made me realize I was struggling heavily with an ED and if I didn’t do anything about it, I was going to die.

I have spoken with a lot of other devotees. We all have this experience upon delving very deep with her, when she almost skins us in a way. Bit by bit, she peels away things hindering us from being our true selves. She will not hesitate to strip you down to the bone and then remake you in her image, if she believes you can handle such a process. I had nights where I sobbed in pain over memories long forgotten, that came back to me in dreams.

Do not get me wrong. I needed to address this to evolve as a human being, spiritually, physically, and mentally. I also combined this with monthly psychiatrist and therapist visits. I had very dark nights, and only felt comfort with her presence.

I had learned that I put too much of my identity, my womanhood, on how I could please men. I had learned I was a lesbian, not bisexual, and that there was a difference between genuine attraction and love, and craving male validation. I had learned that my femininity was nothing to be ashamed of, that it was sacred and something to be venerated. My body became a temple to my spirit.

I began to delve so much deeper into her. I started incorporating her into my diet to combat my restrictive eating disorder, and using ingredients native to her homeland of Cyprus in my every day life - cooking, and self care. Olive oil, almond oil, almond milk, rose water, cinnamon, semolina, figs, rose oils, apples, dill, oregano, rosemary, sage. My perfumes became dominated with notes of jasmine, rose, apple, myrrh, cedarwood, sea salt, and figs.

I read her stories over and over again. I started gardening jasmine and basil (hopefully roses soon too!) and began to ask for her guidance whenever I could. I blessed all my perfumes, skincare, hair care, everything. I ask for her blessing for my hormones as well, and for shaping my body. She’s made me love my hips, stretch marks, stomach, cellulite, and realize how beautiful I am.

I worship her a bit differently I think from a lot of folks. I see her as this goddess of love, war, transformation, beauty, the ocean, femininity, fertility, beauty, dichotomies, and violence. She is this balance and embodiment of two things originally thought to be impossible to be linked - love and war, male and female, life and death, creation and destruction, chaos and order. She was born from the severed genitals of the primordial sky, cast into the foaming wrath of the sea. She was born and coagulated out of these chaotic forces — she embodies both order and disorder.

I still struggle with my mental health, but she has gotten me better. She has helped me in so many ways. I don’t think I will ever not worship her in some aspect or form.

Thank you Aphrodite, Queen of Heaven.

I started using my Aphrodite altar again and it has blossomed a lot of creativity and ingenuity within me.

I read scriptures to her altar, I chant potent mantras there. Light incense and candles. And through all of it I get this incredible insight on what’s going on in my life.

Lady Aphrodite recently gave me my own spread to communicate with her using my cards. It’s a customized spread based on love.

It has basically taught me a lot about what to look out for in life and what to cut off that’s capping my creativity.

Thank you Aphrodite for what you have done. Much love to you always

So...I am not a follower of Aphrodite, but I do check on her reddit stuff from time to time. Some weird things happened tonight, and something is telling me she wants attention. Aphrodite and I have a complicated connection. Lately I have been posting artwork for Ariadne in order to take a course. That might not make her too happy. Plus I have been focused on issues of love without really inviting her to the conversation, so I guess I need to invite her to talk. Not sure what artwork would be appropriate for her on the forum since she is divine beauty. Aphrodite, that means you are incredibly beautiful, powerful, and intelligent, so no one can depict you accurately, ever. You are beyond amazing. So, if you need to send me more messages, fine.

But the thing is, when it comes to love, I actually can express love well. That is not the issue I have with love. The issue I have is that there is a lack of true love because there are people who love me...but when I try to establish something that lasts a while, it has to be undone. Why? Because it isn't genuine enough to keep going and gets reversed back to the start. Like a constant doing and undoing. It gets to a point where you get tired of the reversals and you just want to live your life. If it isn't true or if I am just going to go in circles with no progress, I just want to get it out of my face, don't want to deal with it because it is just a mess sometimes. And that is my gripe. I don't hate Aphrodite. Not mad at her. She doesn't hate me. In fact I am sure she loves me very much. But it is hard to know what role she wants to play because I can spend time with her but ... she isn't going to come first because I have a Patron who comes first. But I guess I need to make more room for her in my life to help me because it seems like she has plenty to say. Hope she and you enjoy my sharing.

I’ve been doing my alter in my closet and I hope she doesn’t mind but that’s the only quite place where I can focus on her and her only and also then when I close the door to it my mom knows I’m doing my prayers and stuff but I’ve been using this box as my alter since I come from a poor family.

But the more I pray and make offerings to her obviously it gets more crowded and I don’t know what to do with it all! I’ve only ever given poems, seashells I got from the store, jewelry and makeup like lipstick and blush! So no food but I don’t know if I can like touch it or move it on top of each other after my offering had been made?

i worked with Aphrodite when i was younger (15-17 ish) and fell into a deep depression that left me unable to work with any deity.

Recently i was looking into working with other deities due to, finally, letting go of my christianity roots/upbringing. i asked a good friend, who is really in tune with religion and stuff like that, if he would do a tarot reading for me to help me figure out if somebody wanted to work with me.

Found out that i pissed off Aphrodite by looking into other deities. she basically told my friend “why is he looking elsewhere when im RIGHT HERE! im his matron deity and i would never abandon him just because of his mental health issues. i love him and he is a part of me”

i felt so light and emotional afterwards. does anybody have any resources on reconnecting with a deity? and also resources on aphrodite herself? thanks in advance!

edit: cross posted this in r/hellenism

I found this famous statue depicting Aphrodite/Venus's buttocks when looking at statues of Aphrodite online I thought I'd share it with you all

i found this beautiful piece while working on a research project. it gives me the same feeling as Our Lady's presence, so much grace and peace and beauty, so i wanted to share it here for fellow followers to enjoy! blessed be 🥰❤️🕊🌊

So I'm new to Hellenism and I feel really drawn to Aphrodite. When I give her a offering I feel a ton of admiration and even lust for her is it okay that I feel this way?

Ever been bit by the bug so suddenly and forcefully you can’t help but wonder if someone (or some being) put a spell on you?

I have been busy with myself for a while, unfortunately I feel not so connected with Aphrodite anymore, and I’m wondering why that is? Maybe I’m experiencing burn out, but it’s hard to do much. I do worship her, and she is there once in a while, but I feel as if she is slowly drifting away from me, maybe I did something wrong. Is there a way to fix this?

My roses are starting to bloom so she has received a few ❤️‍🔥

Anyone got any special Aphrodite-related stuff in the plans this weekend?

context: Im new to witchcraft and formal deity practice in general, but I’ve always been very pulled to the lady Aphrodite since I was young

Last night I was praying to Aphrodite (just worshiping her) and I fell into some sort of very deep meditation. I basically felt like I didn’t have a body, like some sort of void state. It felt like only 30 seconds of this but when I looked at the time, 4 hours had passed!

Does anyone know what this means? Or why this could happen?

I have to practice my craft in secrecy. I can make an altar for Aphrodite but I'll have to keep all of the stuff inside when I head out.

I can print a good quality picture, have white candles ( I'll try to buy red), herbs that can be found at home, no crystals :( , tarot cards , some random incense.

So, should I work with Aphrodite??

hi everyone :)

for the first time since i began practicing im having a lot of difficulty emotionally. i love Aphrodite, she's done so much for me. last night i had a dream about a past relationship that stirred up a lot of old emotions, which i never got much closure on and i had to learn to let go of. recently ive been thinking about it a lot. the relationship was full of difficulties but we were completely in sync, like when we met it was like we had known each other for years. i haven't had anything even close to that (romantically or otherwise) in my life before or since then and ive been feeling more and more lonely. im afraid ill never meet another person who i click with like that again

im not sure what im searching for by posting this, but it felt right to share with fellow followers. i appreciate any words of advice or support. i prayed to Aphrodite tonight in a breakdown lol and with lots of praise asked her to guide me to finding someone to share love with again. i have faith Aphrodite will do what is best for me, but it's still difficult

thank you for reading, love and blessings to everyone here and praise to Lady Aphrodite 🕊💕🐚

Appreciation post incoming!

Yesterday was my first time celebrating Veneralia, a festival dedicated to Venus in the form of Venus Verticordia (“changer of hearts”) and Fortuna Virilis. I did both the Kalends ritual and one specific to the festival. It’s been a rough few months, but yesterday felt like a renewal.

As I said my prayers and petitioned at my altar I felt a bit shy and almost… uncertain?

Imagine my surprise today (April 2nd) when one of the long term things I prayed about- actually started to happen!

I have a couple of small but awkwardly placed old scars and one of them flaked and fell off to reveal completely unblemished skin underneath!

For the start of a beautiful friendship and many good things to come-

Thank you Venus Verticordia, Changer of Hearts! May you be blessed for the kindness you’ve shown

Im getting piercings done soon! Would aphrodite accept them? Would she be able to bless the jewerly as well?

Hello! What are your go to prayers for Lady Aphrodite? I’m a newer follower and I am struggling with the concept of prayer. It’s so beautiful, but I’m not sure what to say to her or how to even begin to express my gratitude for her. I just need some basic prayers as a beginner and then i’m sure i’ll be able to get started easily! Hail Aphrodite <3

Today is Kalends, and one devoted to our lady! Shall you be practicing, yourself? Festival, or some other ritual?

Hail Aphrodite! 💗

it's Kalends and the day of Our Lady! i hope everyone has a blessed Veneralia. praise to Mother Aphrodite, may each of her children feel the love and beauty of her presence today and always 😊💕🕊🐚

I don't know if I'm misinterpreting but I've always had a connection to her and I've seen signs as long as I can remember. I just recently decided to seal it and start hellenism. Today I went to a riverside dinner and I also got a chance for a marine school scholarship for middle schoolers and highschoolers. All I has to do was submit an essay about a topic. (Which I'm super good at) I can't help but wonder if she did this with her connection to water. I started the essay today and the deadline is about to end, I submitted it. I hope I win so I can be even closer to her. I just wanted to post since I felt she had something to do with this. Or could it be another god/goddess reaching out? I only worship aphrodite currently and I'm also super tired so if none of this makes sense ill delete in the morning lol. I also feel like she is looking out for me. Relationship wise and also safety wise. I just came to terms with the fact that the guy I like isn't good for me, and that it's not time for a relationship at all. I love lady aphrodite and I appreciate her so much <3