#Aphrodite Ourania

[whispersinthewaters]

Can I get a Hail Aphrodite?

[beautyofaphrodite]

Aphrodite Areia wants us to know when to be courageous and stand up for ourselves

Aphrodite Androphonos wants us to know when to seek revenge

Aphrodite Melainis wants us to embrace the darkness in ourselves

Aphrodite Ourania wants us to feel beautiful and heavenly

Aphrodite Philomedes wants us to find happiness and laughter around us

Aphrodite Antheia wants us to see the beauty in plants and flowers

Aphrodite Pontia wants us to see the beauty in the sea

Aphrodite Aphrogenia wants us to remember what made us

Aphrodite Kypria wants us to remember where we come from

Aphrodite Pandemos wants us to find unity and acceptance

Aphrodite Chrysea wants us to know that we are golden

Aphrodite Nymphia wants us to be able to marry who we want if we choose to

Aphrodite Erototrophus wants us to feel motherly love

Aphrodite Xenia wants us to be hospitable and friendly to all

Aphrodite wants so much for us all, for She loves us 🫶

[pearlsandjustice]

Aphrodite

Is born from the sky and into the sea

And you can find her in the vivid, exquisite earth.

In the ripe, warm-coloured fruits on the tree which may remind you of the lush softness of fatty flesh or the tenderness of the heart.

There is so much love, so much beauty to be found in all that surrounds us,

And you can always find her there

In the depths and on the sun-warmed surface

Of the world and of yourself.

[seafoamaphrodite]

Aphrodite Ourania

🌊 the heavenly 💫

[aphrodite-kallisti]

This blog is dedicated to Aphrodite

[iamp1ayer0ne]

2/7 gods designed for god games!

Here’s Aphrodite! The woman ever!!!

Dunno if it’s as noticeable as I like but I tried to lean into her ouranos /daughter of Uranus aspect.

[yourlocalcrazygirl]

Aphrodite

How she moves so fair

With pearls in her hair

As she calms the raging sea.

[israaverse]

the Lady of Cyprus, my version of Aphrodite for my Eros+Psyche retelling!! This design is based partly on painted statues and the painting ‘Psyche Before the Throne of Venus’ by Henrietta Rae. 💕

[thefloweredblade]

Oh, Ourania ✨☁️🌕☀️

[lostpeace]

Aphrodite, Mother of Gods and Men.

I based her design on the golden ratio, if it isn't clear enough.

[whispersinthewaters]

⭐️Aphrodite ⭐️

[beautyofaphrodite]

So I’ve been making moodboards representing Lady Aphrodite’s different epithets. I’ve already made:

Aphrodite Areia

Aphrodite Antheia

Aphrodite Ourania

Aphrodite Pandemos

Aphrodite Anadyomede

Aphrodite Erototrophus

Aphrodite Chrysea

Aphrodite Aphrogenia

Aphrodite Nymphia

Aphrodite Philomides

Aphrodite Androphonos

Aphrodite Pontia

Aphrodite Melainis

Aphrodite Kopois

Erotes

Eros

Himeros

Pothos

Anteros

Hermaphroditos

Hedylogos

Hymenaios

Other

The Hesperides

Are there any more you’d like to see? Or any moodboards dedicated to other love gods or Her family?

[deathlessathanasia]

“Plato and Xenophon draw a sharp distingtion between Aphrodite Ourania on the one hand. as the "heavenly" goddess who presides over the highest form of love that is directed primarly towards the soul of the beloved, and Aphrodite Pandemos (of all the people) on the other hand, as the goddess who concerns herself with vulgar or mercenary love that is purely carnal in nature. This is a literary conceit of a moralistic character that deliberately reinterprets the meaning of these cultic titles. Aphrodite was no less a goddess of sexual desire under her title of Ourania, which was derived, as we have seen, from her Semitic counterpart, who was not noted for her high-mindedness; and far from bearing imoral conotations, Aphrodite's title Pandemos represents her as a civic goddess whose worship unites the whole people. At Athens, Aphrodite Pandemos was a quiet and staid marriage-goddess, in whose worship nothing untoward seems to have taken place; according to local legend, Theseus founded the cult after he had united the people of Attica into a single state.”

 - The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology

[ofsappho]

Hello! I've recently been receiving a lot of content and information about the gods on my social media algorithms and am trying to research more in an effort to separate the fact and myths because all the information is new to me. I was wondering specifically about the gods giving people blessings/gifts. I was wondering what are some of the blessings/gifts of Aphrodite, and if I could have possibly been given a gift or blessed by her unknowingly (without me knowing). Like I said I'm very new to all of this information, and intend no disrespect to the goddess, or any of the other gods and deities. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it. <3

Hey there anon! Thank you so much for asking <3

I'm so thrilled that you're starting this research and considering this path, definitely in total support of that and if there's anything else I can help you with or point you towards, please let me know!

This probably isn't the post you were hoping to get, but I hope it is still useful.

While there are a variety of flavors of approaches to worshipping the Theoi, my specific flavor is reconstructionist/reconstructionism. I do significant research into history, archaeology, anthropology, comparative mythology, etc and reconstruct a viable religious practice from that research, that evidence, from confirmed, legitimate academic sources on Ancient Greece and Ancient Greek people/culture.

As I am personally a reconstructionist, my perspective on this subject will likely be different from someone who isn't.

Also, I would be irresponsible to omit the disclaimer that social media algorithms reward engagement and will take the most extreme/wild/engaging content and overpromote that. These algorithms are really cleverly written and HIGHLY advanced and will show you content the computer program has calculated you like, not content at random or content that could be divinely selected for you.

For the sake of this post, I'm going to assume you are speaking about extraordinary/notable blessings/gifts, other than stuff like success in dating, marriage, making yourself more beautiful, beauty in general, etc which are gifts from Aphrodite, just probably not the ones you are asking about.

So while the Ancient Greek people were not mythic literalists, and our religion doesn't take myths literally either, we do use them to teach us things, to show us values, to give us rules, to teach us history, to teach us about the gods, etc.

Within myths, blessings and gifts from the gods served purposes within those stories, whether it was to help a hero achieve a goal, or to demonstrate the power of the gods, or to instruct on an ethical value, or to support a mythic origin for a historical city state, or countless other reasons I can't think of right now.

Aphrodite's mythic gifts have not always turned out well for the heroes they have been bestowed upon. (See: the Trojan War) And given that her mythic blessings/gifts are clearly associated with purposes that we probably don't have today, I feel comfortable saying that we cannot rely on myths to give us any consistent information on what a blessing or gift from Aphrodite would look like today.

I did a brief scan over a few assorted contemporary sources of information on cults of Aphrodite throughout Ancient Greece (Pausanias, Pindar, Strabo, Herodotus, etc) and there is no mention that I have seen so far on ~extraordinary blessings/gifts given by Aphrodite to anyone in the general populace of worshippers, or even consistently to her priests/priestesses/religious people in service to her.

So we can conclude that she probably didn't hand out extraordinary gifts to your average Ancient Greek person on any scale that was so notable it survived in the historical record till this day.

i personally do not feel that there are any objective, externally verifiable, consistent signs/blessings/gifts that Aphrodite gives out today, if she ever even did.

What is a blessing to one worshipper will look like ordinary life events to another, because relationships with the Theoi (and with any god) are heavily individual and subjective. Only you can give the meaning of blessing/gift to something that happens to you. No one on Tiktok/tumblr/wherever can.

There's a lot of information flying around in pagan/neopagan spaces about signs/blessings/etc from Aphrodite and I dislike giving that info authority because for a lot of people, those listed signs/blessings/whatever simply will not apply. And it is a very isolating and sad thing to feel like you are not connected to the gods because you are not living up to someone else's standards.

To be explicit, just because you do not experience Aphrodite's presence in the same that people who go viral on the internet do, does not mean she does not love you, care for you, or want you to worship her.

You don't have to smell roses out of nowhere to be loved by Aphrodite. You do not have to hear things to be cared for by Aphrodite. You do not have to suddenly desire to go to the beach to feel Aphrodite's presence.

the only person who can know if Aphrodite is communicating with you, blessing you, whatever, is you. That is your relationship with her, that relationship is not anyone else's business, and it cannot be dictated by anyone else.

One of the most important parts of my religious practice is seeing the gods in everything and everywhere. In that sense, anything/everything is touched by Aphrodite Areia, my patron and lady to whom I have been devoted to for years. I see her in myself, in other people, in a sunset, in grass, in my cat. I see all of the gods in everything and I work actively on viewing myself as surrounded by the divine, in relation to the divine, etc.

To me, i feel that, for example, my recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder was in part due to her. You could call that recovery a blessing from her, even though I think it's a lot deeper than just a blessing.

If you feel as though something in your life is a gift from her, if you feel her presence and love and divinity there, than it is. It's that simple.

When you first start out on a religious path like this one, I think there's definitely some pressure to try and find your "place", find your gods, find signs from them ASAP. There's a strong desire for concrete "evidence" that these gods you are just starting to build a relationship with are real and listening.

I want you to know that you don't need to have concrete evidence, a lot of people didn't at the beginning, you are loved and welcomed no matter what is going on in your life, and that blessings and gifts from Aphrodite can only be revealed to you, not anyone else. Sorry that this post was so long, again I hope it was useful even it maybe wasn't what you were looking for. Feel free to ask more questions, and if anyone else reading this wants to ask, my inbox is open.

[seafoamaphrodite]

born of the sea

[lumiinousbeingsold]

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