Aphrodite is one of the popular deities in magic and divination, but why? Let’s know everything to know about this ancient goddess and her powers.

Who is Aphrodite?

In Greek mythology, it was a presence that caused reverence because it made mortals and gods fall in love and conceived a new life: it represented passion, was irresistible, erotic attraction, the strong sexual instinct that first lived naturally in the present. He inspired poetry, persuasive words and represented the power of transformation and creation of love.

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She was the goddess who had more sexual stories, while maintaining the independence of men and the ability to focus on what was significant for her and do what she liked.

At the same time, he experienced the link, commitment, marriage, with men and divinities, as well as with the vulnerable goddesses (Hera, Demeter, Persephoneque in the link with men were victims) and was a mother, without ever getting to depend or suffer for a man.

The archetype of Aphrodite determines the pleasure that certain women feel for love, beauty, sensuality and sexuality. It is the archetype of a woman who crosses all the dimensions of her existence with participation, never depending or suffering as a victim, or identifying in the role of wife or mother, but living from her own passions, for men, ideas, children, projects, remaining focused on itself.

Aphrodite myth: myths and origins

According to some, it is an oriental derivation cult, for others in change of Phoenician derivation. In any case, he was Hellenized by Homer in the Odyssey, a poem in which it is written that is originally from pafos, on the island of Chipre.

The goddess Aphrodite was one of the most important and venerated goddesses of the Greek pantheon; Numerous temples, cults and religious celebrations were dedicated. In the poems and in the different versions of the myths, it usually occurs as a vain and passionate goddess, aware of her own beauty, sensual and easy for anger and revenge, especially towards those who intend to tear her lovers, or even want to share them.

The goddess, that the Romans renamed Venus, was according to Homer daughter of Zeus and the Nymph Dione, daughter in turn of Uranus and Gea. However, according to Hesiod, the goddess was born from the foam of the sea fertilized by the Uranus genitals, which Cronos had castrated in her rebellion.

The image of the birth of the goddess in a spring environment, where nature blooms and all blooms and reborn along with the arrival of the goddess, seen as a carrier of fertility, is present in many works, including Rerum Natura, by the Latin poet Tito Lucrecio Caro, as well as in the famous picture of Botticelli, the birth of Venus.

In fact, in the representations, the nature that surrounds the surroundings is lush and pure, incontaminated and perfect, while the goddess is of a beauty that only the most beautiful of the goddesses could have: an ethereal face, long blond curls that travel all her back and an expression of sepic and celestial sweetness. Many plants were sacred for aphrodite, such as the rose, myrto and poppy diverse animals, such as hare, dove, dolphin, swan and sparrow (as regards the latter, it is necessary Birds, to relieve the love sufferings of the Lesbos Poet).

In the homeric poems the presence of Aphrodite is often highlighted. In the Iliad, he has the role of defending his son Aeneas, Trojan, generated with Anquishes (Primo de Priamo). Therefore, in the war, it is on the side of the Trojans. However, it also highlights the fact that he is not dedicated at all to war: in fact, in battle, while trying to protect his son, he is injured by the fearsome Greek hero Diomedes, and although he is then attended by the doctor of the gods, Peone, Zeus scolds her.

However, even before the beginning of the Trojan War, we must mention his role in the myth of Paris’s judgment: in fact, it was she who was chosen as the most beautiful goddess, in competition with Hera and Athena.

In return, Aphrodite gave Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, Helena, wife of Atreo Menelao; In addition, in the third book of the Iliad, the goddess protects, in addition to her son, Paris. In the Odyssey, however, it is presented as the wife of the hefest and lover of Ares, with whom in fraganti is surprised by her husband.

The cult of Aphrodite was very serious: it was celebrated with periodic parties, as Plutarch tells us, in addition the goddess was also celebrated at parties in honor of Poseidon. Among the numerous epithets and titles referring to the goddess, we mention the most common: Cipride, or Ciprigna, in reference to the Hesiódico myth of her birth; Ambologra («that never ages»), Citerèa, Virgo, Aurea, Celeste, Signora.

There are also innumerable lovers, and the corresponding children of Aphrodite. The most relevant are: Adonis, with whom he had Priapo, Anquisses, with whom he had Aeneas, Ares, with whom he had Erosdemos, Anteros and Fobos, then Dionysus, with whom he had Chariti, Hermes, with whom he had Eunomia, Poseidon, with whom he had a rod, and Pigmalion, with whom he had pafos.

Aphrodite legend

Everyone agrees that Aphrodite arose naked from the foam of the sea, on Pafos Beach, in Cyprus.

Some think that Zeus gave her birth in Done (the lady of the oak of whose oracle the father of the gods seized) and that she was the daughter of the ocean and the goddess of the sea tetis, or of the air and the earth. But most scholars believe that he was born from the waves fertilized by Uranus after Cronos (one of the Titans, corresponding to Saturn) threw his testicles into the sea: Hesiod’s theogony describes that «the genitals were dragged by the sea for a long period and from the immortal meat emerged white foam; inside it grew a girl who became a girl who became Afrodite.»

When the divine blood fell on the sea, the water began to boil and, on a shell pushed by cefiro, Venus emerged in all its splendor. Near the shore, the hours, daughters of Tetis, played, and when they saw the goddess, they ran to her to cover her with veils and braid her blond hair with flower crowns. Zeus, fascinated, welcomed her immediately in Olympus as an adoptive daughter, awakening the wrath of the other goddesses.

Mounted on a shell, Aphrodite first arrived at Citera Island, a mall from which her cult extended throughout Greece; Later, thinking that the island was too small to contain its beauty, crossed the Peloponnese and ended up establishing its residence in pafos, on the island of Cyprus, where the main headquarters of its cult has always been.

There, every spring, his priestesses bathed in the sea and came out virgins. In a gem found in the idea cave, we see the Cretan goddess engraved by blowing in a shell, with a marine animal next to the altar: hedgehog and sepia were sacred to her. It is also said that flowers bloom where Aphrodite puts her feet and that the goddess flies through the air accompanied by flocks of sparrows and pigeons.

What is a goddess Aphrodite?

Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, but also of fertility, love and procreation.

How do you know what Aphrodite calls you?

• When you feel beautiful, magnetic, lovely.
• When you are in love with all things.
• When you are in the senses and in sensory. When you do not judge, but you are simply in contact with what you do.
• When your body comes on passion and you make love completely possessed by Aphrodite.
• When you allow yourself to fully enjoy each sensory experience: when you caress your cat, when you are in contact with the aroma of the Earth, or step on the floor running through the forest after the rain, when you wear a linen suit or walk with your fingers on silk.
• When you allow you to receive, expand the reception space.
• When you are in the body and not in the mind.

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