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How to Work with Aphrodite

Thinking of working with the goddess of love, beauty, and sensuality? Here’s a beginner-friendly guide to connecting with Aphrodite:

Who is Aphrodite?

Greek goddess of love, pleasure, beauty, passion, sex, and all things heart-stirring. Her Roman name is Venus. She’s soft and powerful—don’t let the rose petals fool you.

Signs She Might Be Reaching Out to You:

• Rose petals showing up unexpectedly

• Seashells, doves, swans in dreams or symbols

• A sudden pull toward self-love, beauty rituals, or romantic healing

• Feeling empowered in your sensuality

Altar Ideas:

• Pink, red, or gold candles

• Rose quartz, seashells, pearls

• Statues or art of Aphrodite

• Fresh flowers (roses especially!)

• Perfume, honey, wine, or sweet fruit as offerings

Ways to Connect:

• Take a ritual bath with rose petals and salt

• Write love letters (to yourself, a lover, or Aphrodite)

• Mirror work—look into your eyes and speak affirmations of beauty & worth

• Meditate on her presence or read hymns to Aphrodite

• Practice glamour magic or wear something that makes you feel divine

Offerings She Loves:

• Honey, wine, chocolate

• Fresh roses or rose water

• Love poems, art, music

• Acts of self-love and sensual self-care

• Helping others feel beautiful or cherished

One Simple Prayer:

“Lady Aphrodite, guide me in love—within and without. May I see myself through eyes of beauty and walk with the grace of your name.”

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Your HelPol practice is valid if you:

Are a Reconstructionist

Are a revivalist

Study ancient language

Don't study ancient language, only looking into it when it's needed

Have read the myths

Are still working on the myths

Are disabled

Give physical offerings

Give digital offerings

Give acts of service as offerings

Pray every day

Don't always remember to pray

Practice witchcraft

Practice sorcery

Don't practice witchcraft or sorcery

Use tarot/pendulum/divination to talk to the gods

Use clair senses to talk to the gods

Don't use divination or clair senses at all

Have a degree in classics

Don't have any degree at all

Have been to Greece

Have never been to Greece

Have an altar

Don't have an altar

Have a shrine

Don't have a shrine

Call them gods

Call them deities

Call them Theoi

Are a man

Are a woman

Are neither

Are trans

Choose to godspouse (it's nobodies business but yours anyway, idk why people care so much)

Believe in egregores

Never "work with" a deity and only ever worship

Have made mistakes in the past

Have trouble finding resources

Believe in pop culture paganism/magic

Worship other gods too

The gods love you, and they won't smite you or hate you for your mistakes or your differences. They love you. And anyone who says otherwise is sabotaging you.

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you have GOT to remember to be specific when asking things from with deities! i asked my Lady Aphrodite for “a requited romantic relationship” back in February, and now my best friend (whom i do not like romantically) is asking me out. which. i mean yeah, i love him. just not romantically.

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You don’t have to have fancy crystals and herbs for spell jars btw. You can use sugar, coffee grounds, leaves, acorns, etc. Don’t fall victim to witchcraft consumerism.

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"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?

she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods

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happy therianthropy day

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Nonhuman expressions of affection are great. Purring. Exposing weak points as a show of trust. Head bonks. Preening and chewing. Nuzzling. Biting. Intertwining tails. Feeding each other. Little chuffs, chatters, beeps and squeaks. Fluffing up of feathers, fur or other things. Dancing to impress. Cleaning their fur, scales, feathers or skin. Sharing body heat. Ears pointing toward those you care about to show your full attention is on them. Slow blinking.

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Im the world's worstest changeling. "You're not my kid", my mom says, "you're a fairy." "OMG MOM you cant say that its homophobic", i answer. Everyone in a many miles radius takes psychological damage.

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Tip for Nymphs, other beings from ancient Greek lore, and Fairies that resemble Nymphs: make yourself some ancient Greek clothes :) all you need is rectangular cuts of fabric, a belt, and some pins. Even bedsheets can work!

Here are some helpful articles:

Ancient Greek Dress: The Classic Look

Dressing Up Instructions: The Chiton

The Chitoniskos (Tunic)

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just this feeling, excited to sail on the northern sea this year.

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ooo yeah classic werewolf in a weird pose

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I LOVE LYCANTHROPY AS A METAPHOR FOR TRANSSEXUALITY GRAHHHHH

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Idk a lot of fairies in media and old art/stories are talked about/depicted as binary gendered and it just doesn't make sense to me that they'd have the exact same societal gendered system that most of human society does. It's like "fae are uncategorizable, diverse, and difficult to truly define so any attempt to do so would be a huge undertaking...but also there are only boy fairies and girl fairies uwu"

The gender binary is not universal even among humans, so you're telling me there'd be no nonbinary fairies? There are no famous nonbinary fairy figures (as far as I know) and I only hear mentions of fairy kings and queens so just...do fae have the gender binary? Heteronormativity? (I know a lot of paganism is incredibly cisheteronormative. Source: I was pagan)

I feel like we kinda have to face the fact that these old fairy stories were told/interpreted/etc. by (mostly binary cis) humans and humans have biases. If these humans believe that there's only two genders then that's all they'll ever see the fae as. It's weird because my fae and nonbinary identities go together hand in hand, generally invisible to binary human society and uncategorizable by them (despite them thinking they can do it) It's strange that I don't feel like I fit into this world partly due to being nonbinary in a binary society (leaning heavily into my changeling identity) but maybe I wouldn't fit in with fae either because of it?

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Date idea we hide in the woods and sing creepy songs to scare the shit out of passerbys and sing creepy prophesies at them then kiss when the run away screaming

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made a moodboard for ~me~ ✩₊˚.⋆ a shadowy little forest fairy

[this is an OTHERKIN post and i am TRANS!!! - terfs, transphobes and anti-otherkin fuck off lol]