Aphrodite
Love & Beauty
Aphrodite is the Ancient Greek Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. Mythology tells us that the sky God Uranus was slain by his son, the giant Cronos, while he lay with the Goddess Gaia. His severed genitals were cast into the sea and from his immortal flesh, creating the foam on the crest of a wave, in which Aphrodite grew in and was eventually born off the coast of Cyprus.
Worship of the Divine Feminine
Aphrodite was pleasure and love, seduction and the epitome of all that the Ancient Greeks considered as the ultimate feminine, beautiful, attractive, sensual and worthy of adoration and desire. Plato also referred to her two versions as one representing homosexual love (the greater one) and the other, younger version, symbolising heterosexual love (the lesser one). Later, with the advent of Christianity, these two versions were interpreted as spiritual and carnal love.
No Shame
There was also a male version of her, Aphroditus. His popularity dwindled but his theme was later taken up in later mythology again in the story of Hermaphroditus. Aphrodite was the personification of feminine power in its most pleasurable and loving form, both in a spiritual/emotional, as well as in a physical capacity. Her archetype teaches us to worship our divine feminine energy within and see our bodies as sacred temples of divine creation, without shame or guilt.
Aphrodite & Eros
There is nothing shameful or embarrassing about your body. Whether you’re a size zero (and let’s face it, most women are not), or a size 50, you are worthy of love, being worshipped and adored, and you have every right to take delight in your femininity, on all levels, spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Aphrodite is often depicted together with Eros, the God of Love. This union symbolises the balance and union of the divine masculine and divine feminine principles on all levels of existence.
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