When it comes to our love life, we all know how difficult it can be attracting love and tune in with our desires without losing our center and our confidence in destiny. We can often let negativity tarnish our new experiences in love and make them disappointing.

That is when Eros goes to the rescue. Let us know this God better, how he can help us and how incredible his power is with this article.

Who is Eros?

Originally, Eros did not represent love, but a force and an attraction.

Fundamental element of the cosmos, Eros (also known as Cupid) was generated by primitive chaos and represents the force of attraction that guarantees the cohesion of the universe and the reproduction of species.

With Homer, it represents the irresistible attraction that two beings feel for each other and that can lead to depriving them of reason or even destroying them.

With Hesiod, towards the seventh century, Eros transforms into God, but it is not the classic cupid that launches love arrows, but a primary divinity, as old as Gea herself.

He is not Aphrodite’s son, but his partner at all times.

Indeed, it was conceived in a double way: as a tiogenic divinity (and the mitographers differently identify it with the son of chaos, or of the day and night, or of the sky and of the earth, or even engendered by Uranus, by chronos, etc.), and as a divinity of the love passion, inseparable of Afro -in of Zefiro and Iris, from Zeus and finally from Poro and Penia).

It was the personification of the irresistible force that pushes human beings towards each other and also venerated as a protector of friendships between men. Armed with an arc with which he threw the infallible arrows whose wound was born the evil of love. To personify the different forms that you can adopt, your brothers are sometimes attributed.

Eros: Myths and origins

It is said that, as soon as he was born, Zeus only needed to look in his eyes to understand that this little one would be a source of endless problems. Therefore, the king of the gods tried to convince his mother to kill him, but Aphrodite, to save him, secretly abandoned him in a forest where he was fed and raised by fierce beasts.

To underline the irreverent character of the young Eros, it is said that he learned for himself to build the Fresno arch and the cypress arrows and learned to use it by hitting the same animals that had fed him.

And as an adult he had no scruples in firing his own darts against the gods of Olympus, not even his own Mother Aphrodite was saved, when he tried a treason arrow, he made him fall in love with Adonis to whom a jealous Ares killing. Divinity of malicious spirit and prone to perversity.

His power was terrible, it could cause damage that no one could remedy, neither men nor the gods. From this conception, the figure of the God became a deity of love, but represented a danger because his power had no limits.

The most emblematic myth: Eros and psyche

The myth of Eros and psyche tells the story of a girl who, with her beauty, put a jealous to Aphrodite. In revenge, the goddess ordered Eros to induce psyche to fall in love with the worst and ugliest of men, but when Eros saw her, it was he who fell in love with her.

Her sisters had already married, while she, despite her beauty, had not yet been able to find a husband. The father asked an oracle why and the answer was terrifying: he should have left his daughter at the top of a mountain, dressed as a bride, where she would be courted by a character feared by the gods themselves.

He obeyed and the girl was left alone in the dark, but soon Eros made her transport to a radiant valley, where a wonderful palace raised. Some voices led her to a room where invisible maidens dressed her for the wedding night. Eros spent every night with her, but only approached her in the dark, and told her that she would never try to look at her or know who she was.

Instigated by her sisters, who one day had gone to visit her, psyche feared that the mysterious lover was a monster, and one night, when Eros slept, she approached him with a lamp on and a dagger to kill him.

With the shock to see him finally, he dropped a drop of boiling oil on the shoulder of the sleeping god. Eros woke up scolding her and disappeared. The first thought of psyche, abandoned because of him, was that of death, and threw himself into a river, but the merciful current returned to the other shore. Then, he began wandering in vain for the world in search of love.

Eros, on the other hand, tormented by the fever of his burned shoulder, or perhaps by psyche’s own pain, he found refuge in his maternal abode. Aphrodite, upon learning that her son had dared to love a mortal, who was also his rival, attacked him.

But not being able to do anything wrong with his son, he thought of taking revenge on psyche, and with the permission of Zeus, he sent Hermes throughout the world to spread the news that psyche was going to be punished as an enemy of the gods and that the prize for his capture would have been seven kisses that the same goddess would have given him. The news reached psyche, who voluntarily decided to go to Olympus to apologize. Aphrodite took her clothes and hit her, stating that it was the punishment of a mother -in -law afflicted by her sick son.

Psyche became her slave, and in vain the young woman went to Ceres and Juno to defend her from the hatred of the goddess, who continued to chase her the most ungrateful and difficult tasks.

She was ordered to leave a lot of wheat, barley, millet and other seeds, and classify a lot of pearls by size, but the ants helped her do most of the work. On another occasion, the goddess ordered her to bring her the golden fleece of the wild rams, but the reeds that grew along the river told her that the rams, at sunset, slept exhausted by the heat of the day and, therefore, it was easier to approach them. Thus, psyche also succeeded in this company.

Aphrodite demanded a vase of ice water from the stigia, where a dragon lived, but it was Zeus’s eagle that carried out the mission for her. Finally, the goddess asked psyche to take a vase to the underworld to Proserpina, to put some beauty in him, since the goddess of love had consumed his when healing her son.

Psyche did not know where to go, when he saw a tower, he thought that from there he could throw himself to end his life.

But the tower itself spoke to him, indicating the entrance to the underworld and telling him to take two coins to pay Caronte and be able to transport it to the other side of the stigial and three barley cakes mixed with wine and honey to distract the cerber.

Proserpina received her with courtesy, took the vase and filled it. Psyche could thus return to the world of the living, but after everything he had suffered, psyche could not resist the temptation to open the vase and take for himself some of the beauty contained. The bottle, as soon as it opened it, turned out to be empty and psyche fell to the ground deeply.

When Eros learned what was happening, he managed to make surveillance at his mother’s house and find psyche. He revived and the girl returned the vase to Aphrodite. Eros went to Zeus and asked for help, and he decreed that the marriage between Eros and psyche could be held.

Psyche was taken to Olympus and her wedding was celebrated in the presence of all the gods, but before Zeus made her drink ambrosia, making her immortal, and finally placating Aphrodite’s jealousy. From his union a daughter was born, known as Voluptas (pleasure).

What is God Eros?

Eros is the God of love.

How do you know what Eros calls you?

• If you feel love energy around you
• If you feel physically and romantically linked to someone
• If you dream of having a romantic relationship with someone special for you
• If you keep seeing couples being affectionate to each other
• If in readings the letters of lovers continue to appear again and again although your questions focus on something else

The best ways to connect with Eros

Visualize it while you do a love meditation

If you like meditation and want to meditate on love in general, but also about how to attract someone like the man or woman of your dreams, visualize Eros by hitting that person with his arrow.

Invocate it when you set a love spell

If you like red magic and your molten love spells, you can invoke Eros to guide you and for magic to manifest before. Be kind to him and show him how much you need him to finally attract love to your life.

Create an altar dedicated to him

If love is all you want in life, but it seems an impossible task, create an altar and dedicate it to Eros. You can bring an Eros statue, a photo of yours, along with some offerings, but also a stealth dedicated to it. He also adds anything that makes you think of love.

How is Eros honor?

You can honor Eros in different ways:

• Perform rituals and love spells
• Celebrate love in general
• Time with …