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A Prayer for Aphrodite’s Guidance

O gracious Goddess, born beautifully of the sea, loving Aphrodite, hear my prayer.

As I walk my path of life I listen for your guidance.

I ask that you aid me in allowing my heart to navigate the waters, keeping Beauty as my sail and Love as my compass.

When the waters should churn and a storm should cross the seas,

Help love to remain with me, and I can overcome any adversity.

When my chest grows warm and the sunlight bounces off the water, sparkling like your watchful eyes, I will know that your Love has guided me.

I cherish your patient guidance as I learn to love myself, and walk with Love each day.

Thank you for giving me the tools to navigate my path, and empowering to me emulate the divine Love that you bear.

When I feel lost please help me remember what you have taught me, what you have graciously given me, and allow me to bask in your glory.

My heart is yours and I open it to you, for your Love will heal and guide.

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When Friday afternoon starts to taste like “I need someone to be so obsessed and infatuated by me that they need me like they need air” 🕯️

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"I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss."

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Hi! I was wondering if you could make siren/mermaid dividers? Like dark blues/greens and shells basically or whatever you want really?

hi! and of course! i did make a mermaid set a while ago, but it was more on the pinky side. you can find that set here, but i hope you like these ones 🩵

please like and credit if you use, reblogs are appreciated! thank you! 💕

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"your religion is evil!!!!"

they say as im picking flowers for aphrodite and asking her to enchant my favorite locket and perfume, humming and talking about my day.

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O Venus,

O Venus, beauty of the skies,

To whom a thousand temples rise,

Gaily false in gentle smiles,

Full of love-perplexing wiles;

O goddess, from my heart remove

The wasting cares and pains of love

—Sapho

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How to Calm Anxiety When Everything Feels Overwhelming

I’ve noticed on here a lot of dolls struggle with anxiety too and it's not just me. Whether it’s social anxiety, overthinking, or just feeling overwhelmed by life. I get it. I’ve been there too, and honestly? Some days are harder than others. For example, today I needed to hide in the school bathroom for 40 minutes to calm down after panicking over an exam.

But over time, I’ve found ways to make those moments a little easier to handle. If your heart feels heavy and your mind won’t stop racing, maybe these can help:

Breathe Like You Mean It

It sounds simple, but when anxiety kicks in, we forget to breathe properly. Try this: Inhale slowly through your nose for four seconds, hold it for four, and then exhale for four. It might sound too simple and kinda stupid but trust me. Do this a few times until your shoulders relax and your body starts to feel less tense. It’s like hitting a reset button on your nervous system!

Create a Comfort Routine

When I’m anxious, I go back to small things that make me feel safe. Like putting on a cozy hoodie, drinking tea, or playing my favorite playlist. Having a routine like this helps ground you and gives your mind something familiar to hold onto. (Listening to mother Lana's songs slowed version always works wonders~) ⋆. 𐙚 ˚

Talk to Yourself Like a Friend

I used to be so mean to myself in my head, and I didn’t even realize it! Pay attention to your thoughts. Would you say those things to someone you love? If not, rewrite them. Instead of “I’m so awkward,” try “I’m learning to be comfortable with myself.” The way we talk to ourselves matters so much!!

Step Outside

(even if it’s just for a minute)

Anxiety makes you want to stay in bed all day, but fresh air really does help! Open a window, go for a short walk, or just sit outside for a bit. Feeling the sun on your skin, and listening to the wind... It's a small reminder that the world is bigger than our worries sometimes. 𖹭

Don’t Fight It, Let It Pass

This one took me forever to learn, but sometimes, the best way to deal with anxiety is to stop fighting it. Instead of panicking about feeling anxious, try telling yourself: “Okay, I feel like this right now, but it won’t last forever.” The more you accept it, the faster it fades.

You’re Not Alone

I know anxiety can make you feel like you’re the only one struggling, but trust me you’re not. So many of us deal with it, even if we don’t talk about it all the time. I still struggle with believing this fact sometimes too. But always remember this: You’re not broken, and there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re just human, and that’s okay.

If no one’s told you today: You’re doing a lot better than you think. Be gentle with yourself. You deserve it. ⋆. 𐙚 ˚

Sending love, always ♡

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I actually would like to wear flowers and leaves in my hair every single day if that’s okay

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I’m so tired of the demonization of Aphrodite. So often I see people, especially people of non-pagan faiths, claiming that Aphrodite’s defining feature is jealousy and deceitfulness, when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. She is so gentle and kind, only wanting the best for us. She wants us to realize our own beauty, she wants us to see ourselves the way she sees us.

She has made me feel so loved and taken care of, I couldn’t ask for a better goddess of love and war.

έπαινος αφροδίτης🐚🥀

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i saw one for lord ares and lord apollon and i had to make one for lady aphrodite

(edit: i forgot to put her name, sorry)

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Hello March 𓂃 ﾟ｡🌸 ⋆ ⟡ ! this month will bring us better days, comforting moments, peaceful minds, healing, blessings, good health, genuine love, new experiences and amazing opportunities. claim it! sending positive vibes your way, please accept

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all about aphrodite ꨄ

𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼

𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼

aphrodite / Ἀφροδίτη is the goddess of love, beauty, harmony, pleasure, the sea, procreation, and fertility.

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BACKSTORY

there are two different versions of aphrodite's birth and backstory, from the works of Hesoid & Homer.

in hesoid's theogony,

uranus (previous god of the sky) was overthrown by his own son, cronus (god of time). to achieve this, cronus used a sickle to castrate uranus and threw his genitals into the sea.

as his gentials fell, they mingled into the sea's foam. from this divine mixture, aphrodite rose from the sea near cyprus (or cythera, depending on the source) already fully grown.

hesoid depicts aphrodite as an independent entity who's power and beauty inspires gods and mortals.

in homer's iliad,

aphrodite is described as the daughter of zeus (god of the sky) and dione, ( goddess of the divine feminine & previous earth goddess ) a lesser-known goddess.

this version places aphrodite within the olympian pantheon and includes her within the conflicts.

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MYTHOLOGY

themes of aphrodite's myths often include love & desire, jealousy & rivalry, passion & tragedy.

the judgement of paris

the story starts with the wedding of peleus (a mortal hero) and thetis. (goddess of the sea)

this marriage was attended by all gods and goddesses as it symbolised the union between mortal and divine entities. however, eris (goddess of discord) was not invited to the wedding due to her tendency to cause trouble. offended by this, she decided to disrupt the wedding.

to create discord, eris created a golden apple inscribed with the words "to the fairest." (kallistēi in greek)

three goddesses — aphrodite, hera and athena claimed the apple, each believing they were the fairest. unable to agree, they all turned to zeus to settle the dispute.

zeus couldn't settle on a decision, not wanting to offend any of the goddesses — so he turned to a mortal, paris. (a trojan prince) he was known for his impartiality and fairness, making him the ideal judge.

all goddesses came to paris on mount ida and exchanged a bribe for his favour:

1. hera promised paris power and domination, offering to make him the ruler of all known lands and people.

2. athena promised paris wisdom and military prowess, offering to make him an unbeatable warrior and strategist.

3. aphrodite promised paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world: helen of troy, the wife of king menelaus of sparta.

after some consideration, paris eventually gave the apple to aphrodite in exchange for helen's love.

true to her word, aphrodite facilitated a meeting between paris and helen. he travelled to sparta to see her, either seducing her or abducting her (depending on the version of the myth) and they both sailed off to troy.

menelaus was furious to discover his wife had left, and called upon greek kings and heroes to help him get his wife back which was the beginning that led to the trojan war.

ares love affair

aphrodite was married off to hephaestus (god of fire & craftmaking) by zeus, to prevent arguments among the other gods over her beauty.

the couple were an unlikely match, as hephaestus was always focused on his craft and depicted as being physically unattractive whilst aphrodite was passionate and radiant. so, she turned to ares (god of war) for companionship.

the two deities were polar opposites — aphrodite symbolised love, harmony and beauty whilst ares symbolised violence, chaos and war. their love represented the intertwining of love and conflict.

the couple would meet up in secret, away from the eyes of the other gods to keep their affair hidden... which didn't last long.

hephaestus eventually found out about aphrodite's infidelity through helios — furious, hephaestus set a clever plan to expose and humiliate the couple.

using his skills, he crafted an invisible and unbreakable net of chains which he set up over the bed he shared with aphrodite so the next time her and ares met in secret, the net fell over the two which caught them in the middle of the act.

hephaestus invited all the other gods over to witness the trapped lovers, intending to humiliate ares and aphrodite by exposing their betrayal publicly.

all gods attended and laughed at the situation and envied ares, whilst the goddesses did not attend.

hephaestus demanded compensation or retribution from zeus, but he dismissed his demands and no real consequences were given to ares or aphrodite.

adonis' death / the curse of myrrha

a mortal woman named myrrha (adonis' mother) fell in love with her own father king cinyras. she tried to trick him into sleeping with her, which enraged her father and so he tried to kill her. to escape her father's wrath, she prayed to the gods for protection. but instead, the gods looked down on her for her incestuous acts and she was cursed to transform into a myrrh tree... and somehow, gave birth to adonis.

after the birth of adonis, his unbelievable beauty caught the eye of aphrodite - however, she was not the only goddess enamored with the child.

aphrodite placed the infant adonis in a box and entrusted it to persephone for safekeeping.

persephone opened the box, seeing how beautiful the child was and refusing to give him back up to aphrodite — which caused a massive dispute.

zeus intervened, declaring that adonis would spend one-third of the year with aphrodite, one-third in the underworld with persephone and another one-third with whoever he likes.

(later on, adonis chose to spend that time with aphrodite, only deepening her love for him.)

as adonis grew older, he became aphrodite's lover. the goddess was deeply in love with him and often joined him on hunts, despite her distaste for those types of things.

aphrodite was anxious of adonis' mortality, so she warned him to be cautious of the dangers in the wilderness. — but despite her warnings, adonis was emboldened by his pride and desire and pursued hunting with reckless abandon.

one day whilst adonis was hunting, he encountered a wild boar. some versions of the myth suggest...

1. ares became jealous of aphrodite and adonis' love, and sent the boar to kill him.

2. apollo sent the wild boar to seek revenge after aphrodite blinded his son, erymanthus.

3. artemis was seeking retribution and sent the wild bosr after aphrodite played a role in killing her favourite mortal, hippolytus.

adonis struck the wild boar with his spear, but the wounded animal retaliated by goring him fatally.

aphrodite sensed adonis' pain, and quickly rushed to his side — but she arrived too late, letting him bleed to death in her arms.

heartbroken over his death, she mourned deeply. as her tears mingled into his blood, she transformed him into an anemone flower — symbolising love, fleeting beauty and loss.

following his death, adonis descended into the underworld where persephone claimed him as her own. aphrodite protested, begging to zeus once more where he only reaffirmed the previous agreement.

this cycle represents the seasons — time spent with aphrodite symbolising spring and summer, whilst time spent with persephone symbolises autumn and winter.

eros and psyche

psyche was a mortal princess. she was so beautiful that people began to worship her instead of aphrodite — which angered her.

so, aphrodite sent eros (her son / cupid) and ordered him to make psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature.

however, when eros first saw psyche he was struck by her beauty and accidentally pricked himself with his own arrow, causing him to fall deeply in love with her.

instead of honouring his mother's wishes, he wanted to secretly make her his own.

meanwhile, psyche was alone. despite her beauty, men feared to ask for her hand in marriage. psyche's father was desperate for guidance, so he consulted in the oracle of delphi which delivered a tragic prophecy.

"dress your daughter in funeral clothes and leave her on a rocky cliff. she is destined to marry a fearsome, winged serpent that even the gods fear."

reluctantly, her family obeyed the oracle's words. they dressed her up, and left her on a cliff. however, instead of a monster, zephyrus gently lifted her up and carried her to a beautiful palace in a hidden valley.

in the palace, eros came to visit her in disguise and forbade her to see his face. despite his secrecy, he was gentle and loving with her which caused psyche to fall in love.

during the day, she wandered around the palace and was attended to by invisible servants, and at night time she would spend time with her husband.

however, the curiosity ate away at psyche. this was only enabled when her sisters came to visit.

upon seeing the luxurious life of psyche, her sisters became jealous and poisoned her mind with doubts — they convinced psyche that eros was a monster who would eventually kill and devour her. they urged her to take an oil lamp and a dagger, look at him whilst he slept, and be ready to kill him if he was a beast.

that night, psyche's curiosity got the best of her and followed her sister's advice. she lit the lamp, and beheld the most beautiful man she'd ever seen.

overwhelmed with love and regret, her hands trembled and a drop of hot oil landed on eros' shoulder, waking him up.

heartbroken by her betrayal, eros declared: "love cannot live without trust" and flew away.

heartbroken, psyche decided to try and win back eros by calling upon aphrodite.

aphrodite saw this as an opportunity to torment psyche further, so the goddess assigned psyche a list of nearly impossible tasks.

1. sorting a mountain of seeds — aphrodite poured a vast pile of mixed grains and demanded psyche to separate them by dawn. eros, who was still secretly in love, sent an army of ants to help her complete the task.

2. fetching golden wool — psyche had to collect golden fleece from violent rams. a river god advised her to wait until the rams slept before collecting the fleece from a bush.

3. filling a crystal flask with water from the underworld's river —psyche had to fetch water from a deadly river guarded by dragons. zeus' eagle assisted her by carrying the flask.

4. retrieving persephone's beauty in a box — finally, aphrodite ordered psyche to descend into the underworld and retrieve a bit of persephone's beauty in a box. persephone complied, warning her not to open the box. however, curiosity overtook psyche once again and she opened it up — she saw it did not contain beauty, but rather the sleep of death. psyche quickly fell into a deep slumber.

eros, unable to bear psyche's suffering any longer, flew to her and gently wiped away the deadly sleep and revived her with a kiss.

he pleaded to zeus to allow them to be together. zeus, moved by their love, made psyche a goddess and allowed her immortality.

psyche and eros were finally united, having a grand wedding on mount olympus. eventually, aphrodite accepted psyche for her now divine status.

pygmalion and galatea

pygmalion was a gifted sculptor from cyprus, known for his exceptional artistry.

he chose to live in solitude, deciding not to involve himself with any woman romantically as he believed no woman could ever match his ideal of beauty and virtue.

one day, pygmalion began working on a statue of a woman from pure ivory. he poured all his skill and passion into his work, ensuring every detail was flawless.

he named the statue galatea, and his admiration for his work quickly formed into love.

he would dress her in fine clothes, accessorise her in jewellery, spoke to her and slept next to her as he longed for her to come alive.

during the festival of aphrodite, the people in cyrpus gathered to honour and celebrate the goddess of love.

pygmalion approached the altar and made a silent but heartfelt prayer to aphrodite for a woman "as perfect as his ivory maiden."

aphrodite had secretly been watching his devotion and sincerity for his statue for awhile now, and decided to grant his prayer.

when pygmalion returned home, he kissed the statue as he always did. but, something was different...

her lips felt warm.

surprised by this, he touched her arm and felt warm, soft skin instead of cold ivory.

galatea's eyes fluttered open, her rigid form softening as she came to life before pygmalion's astonished gaze.

pygmalion was overwhelmed with joy, repeatedly thanking the goddess for her generosity. galatea, now a living woman, reciprocated his love and the two were happily united together.

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RELATIONSHIPS

- ares (lover)

- hephaestus (ex husband)

- apollo (ex lover)

- poseidon (ex lover)

- adonis (ex lover)

- hermes (ex lover)

- anchises (ex lover)

- dionysus (ex lover)

- zeus (father?)

- dione (mother?)

- eros / cupid (son)

- hermaphroditus (son)

- aeneas (son)

- priapos (son)

- phobos (son)

- deimos (son)

- harmonia (daughter)

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OFFERINGS

- candles ( red, white, pink )

- crystals ( rose quartz, rhodonite )

- seashells / sea water / sand

- jewellery ( pearls )

- flowers ( roses, tulips )

- wine ( red, white, pink )

- beauty products ( makeup, skincare )

- perfume

- chocolate ( dark, milk )

- fruits ( strawberries, pomegranates, apples )

- incense ( vanilla, lavender, rose )

always remember to wash your hands & cleanse yourself before giving an offering!

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WAYS TO HONOUR HER

- compliment yourself

- do your makeup / dress up for yourself

- make a skin / body care routine

- paint your nails

- keep pictures of her or any loved ones in your home

- drink some wine

- listen to love songs / watch rom-coms

- visit the beach / go swimming

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HER SYMBOLS

- doves

- seashells

- roses

- myrtle

- swans

- sparrows

- golden apples

- pomegranates

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do your own research, don't fully trust everything you read online & please correct me if i've spread misinformation!

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Nymphs in a Forest by Henri Adrien Tanoux (1898)

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Happy Valentine’s Day, and happy Friday! Today I suggest you take the time to celebrate, and give offerings to Lady Aphrodite to thank her for the love in your life, even if it isn’t romantic. Valentine’s Day is a day for love, gratitude, and sharing that love and gratitude with others, and even more than that, today is a day dedicated to Lady Aphrodite. Take time for yourself and others, and have an amazing day everyone <3