Today is Thursday, which means it is my day to pray to and worship Aphrodite (though truth be told, I pray to and worship Aphrodite much more often than just on Thursdays). Today I spent time meditating on the birth of the goddess, and then I offered my typical prayers, hymns, and offerings. When I [...]
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A Troubling Tarot Reading
Posted in Spirituality, Tarot, tagged Action, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Cups, Divination, Emotion, Future, Goddess, Hellenic Polytheism, Light, Lucifer, Mind, Past, Prayer, Present, Quest, Reversal, Sacrifice, Spirit, Spirituality, Swords, Tarot, Ten of Cups, Venus, Wands, Worship on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Prayer Calendar
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Beauty, Family, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Liturgy, God, Marriage, Prayer, War, Belief, Paganism, Reconstructionism, Odin, Gods, Mythology, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Dionysus, Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Hercules, Aphrodite, Goddess, Sex, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Venus, Ares, National Guard, Army, Myth, Procrastination, Worship, Sacrifice, Ritual, Bacchus, Dionysos, Military, Hermes, Sunday, Greek Myth, Apollon, Juno, Mars, Artemis, Diana, Infantry, Jupiter, Pan, Theoi, Interfaith Marriage, Home, Jove, Herakles, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Mercury, Norse Polytheism, Hestia, Vesta, Faunus, Wilderness, Wild, Hiking on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking a suggestion from the now-defunct (but excellent and accessible) Sponde: Hands-On Hellenism website, I decided to put together a personal calendar for prayer and worship. The idea was really to just get started and dive in, rather than to agonize over just the right way to set it all up. I can [...]
Hera The Mother
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Children, Demeter, Divinity, Family, God, Goddess, Godhood, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hera, Juno, Lightning, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Paganism, Polytheism, Prayer, Relationship, Religion, Ritual, Sacrifice, Sex, Spirituality, Venus, Worship on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have thought a great deal about Hera over the past few months, and I must say that I am developing some fairly intense spiritual feelings about her. So intense that it’s like my heart can’t really pin them down. They’re too overwhelming for me to really be able to contain, so it’s like they [...]
Ocean Goddess
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beach, God, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Land, Liminality, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Ocean, Paganism, Polytheism, Poseidon, Prayer, Ritual, Sea, Sky, Spirituality on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am looking out over the Atlantic from Key Largo, with the morning sun playing brilliantly over the waves, glittering like a sea of soft jewels, and the experience is profound. I am keenly aware that the sea is Poseidon’s realm, and that he has power over and a presence in all places where the [...]
God Is A Woman
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beauty, Birth, Brahman, Death, Divine Feminine, Family, God, Goddess, Hellenic Polytheism, Hinduism, Humanity, Life, Love, Marriage, Meaning, Mormonism, Mysticism, Mythology, Paganisn, Polytheism, Sex, Spirituality, Vedanta on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I feel a much closer connection to the divine feminine than I ever did to the divine masculine, my patriarchal Mormon upbringing notwithstanding. I guess either it just didn’t take, or it just wasn’t true. Or both, probably. I feel an intimacy and closeness with the overwhelmingly feminine divinity of Aphrodite that I have never [...]
Prayer To Aphrodite
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Spirituality, Religion, Prayer, Deity, Love, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Aphrodite, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Lust, Sea, Ocean, Myth, Worship, Hellenism, Passion, Thanksgiving, Blessing on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read this on Hearthstone’s Book of Prayers, and I really like it, so I thought I would share.
Unsurpassed goddess, with love and awe I greet you.
Sea-green are your eyes, luminous and fathomless;
flawless is your form. O wondrous Aphrodite,
of water were you born, in water we know you–
in soft waves of pleasure, in torrents of [...]
Khaire Aphrodite!
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Bees, Biology, Botany, Cosmos, Dance, Death, Deity, Egypt, Emotion, Eternity, God, Goddess, Greco-Egyptian Syncretism, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Humanity, Kemeticism, Life, Love, Michael Pollan, Mystery, Mysticism, Olympus, Paganism, Politics, Polytheism, Religion, Roses, Science, Seduction, Sex, Spirituality, Syncretism, The Birth of Venus, Uranus, Valentine's Day, Venus, William-Adolphe Bouguereau on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To honor Aphrodite, Sannion has put up three goddess-related posts on his Livejournal, and as I am myself a devotee of the Cyprian, I wanted to share them with my readers. First, he shares a meditation he wrote on the cosmic significance of Aphrodite:
We think of her primarily in connection with our courtships and pleasant [...]
The Lavender Dionysus Office
Posted in Dreams, Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Corporation, Deity, Dionysus, Dream Interpretation, Dreams, Fort Benning, God, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Infantry, Law enforcement, Military, Neopaganism, Organization, Paganism, Police, Sand Hill, Spirituality, Suburbia, UFO Abduction, Witchcraft, Worship on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had a dream a couple of nights ago, a complicated, long dream that was very dependent on this series of adjacent locations in the dream-landscape. Among these locations was a set of purple and lavender office buildings, the nondescript two story office-suite kind you find in the suburbs that is invariably three-quarters full [...]
Personal Gnosis: Artemis
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Actaeon, Aktaion, Anxiety, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Children, Deer, Destruction, Diana, Divinity, Euphoria, Fear, Female, First Slayer, Forgiveness, Full Moon, Gnosis, God, Goddess, Hunt, Huntress, Luna, Malevolence, Meditation, Moon, Mysticism, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, Paganism, Prayer, Primal, Primordial, Revelation, Sacrifice, Savage, Sexuality, Sineya, Slayer, Spirituality, Stag, Unverified Personal Gnosis, UPG on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So the following experience seems entirely appropriate given that the moon is basically full right now. Also it just occurred to me that the last time I went on a kind of pilgrimage to the wilderness, I kept encountering deer: they kept suddenly jumping up from nearby and running away, scaring the shit out [...]
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