Do You Know Your Holy Relics?

~ Deity work: Aphrodite ~ PROPERTIES & OFFERINGS

Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty, Desire, Fertility, and more.

Correspondences:

Colors: Red, pink, seafoam green, aqua.

Element: Water.

Day of the Week: Friday.

Stones and gems: Diamond, rose quartz, pearl, aquamarine, sapphire, garnet.

Incense and essencial oils: Rose, myrrh, vanilla, cinnamon, jasmine, ginger.

She’s related to:

Doves

Bees

Swans

Geese

Dolphins

Pearls

Mirrors

Roses

Apples

Scallop shells

Conch shells

Ocean

Hares

Cats

OFFERINGS (typical and original)

Roses (could be fake, in a jar of water, planted or in a bush - it don’t matter)

Scallop shells / Conch shells / Sea shells - just shells

Sweets, candy and desserts (She loves chocolate!)

Natural honey

Abandoned beehives

Dead bees (make sure they died of natural causes, please don’t kill bees)

Something you created (could be drawings, poems, knitted decoration, whatever you did while thinking of her!)

Something someone else created (always ask for permission to use someone else’s art and don’t ever make it pass as your own, She’s not stupid and will be pissed if you do)

Statues of her or anything She’s related to, as stated above

White feathers / dove feathers

Pearls of any color

Mirrors

My personal favorite: a golden apple (learn how to do it here)

Diamonds and the stones listed above

Lingerie

Sex toys

Jewelry

Sea water

Fish scales

Wine or champagne

Nuts

Aprodisiac scents/foods

Silk

Myrrh or some incense listed above

Starfish (grab a dead one from the beach, don’t buy one because they usually take living starfish and kill them to sell it as decor or souvenirs)

Beach sand

Coffee beans or ground coffee

Fruits like strawberry, cherries or grapes

Vanilla sticks

Cinnamon sticks

Cat whiskers (please don’t cut a kitty’s precious whiskers, wait for them to shed naturally - look for them mostly during Summer and on the places your cats spend most of their time)

Blood (it could be your period blood or blood you deliberately took to give it to her - I use a menstrual cup and have a rose bush, so what I do is I take that blood and feed it to the roses, they LOVE it)

Himalayan salt

See also: Tip to start deity work and Devotional acts for Aphrodite

I love my name. It's Latin for Warrior. 💗

My Thargelia celebration from this weekend. May the gods bless us with bountiful harvest, and ensure all in our communities have enough to eat.

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Gustav Jung

CIRCLE TIP:

I know books from the seventies would have you believe otherwise, but you don't have to mentally hold circle for the whole ritual, and you don't have to physically mark the whole circle boundary, nor do you need a coven member to hold space. You can put regular old rocks at each of the cardinal directions along the walls of your room or along the outer perimeter of the sacred space and use those as anchor points for the energy you lay.

Start by gathering, cleansing, and sanctifying/consecrating/blessing/charging/whatever four stones of any shape and size that suits your needs. Larger stones are good if you want them to be a visible reminder of the boundaries of circle, but smaller ones are good for discretion. Anoint them with a protection oil if you'd like (I only recommend doing this if you are using them indoors with no animals around), and/or pencil protection sigils on them. Cast circle but make sure your energy hits each stone and runs through it. If you call in the quarters, invite them to reside in their respective directional stones. Boom, done, now you have an easily marked sacred space that doesn't need constant maintain.

And, fun fact, circle doesn't HAVE to be round. Round is easiest when you're using mental energy to hold the space, but if you use physical barriers like existing walls then your cast energy resides in that physical block and is held automatically. I especially love doing this as a quasi-permanent marker to sanctify an entire room because any doorways become defacto entrances/exits that spiritually open and close when physically opened and closed.

Okay but isn't this being lazy? NO you rude hypothetical, it's not. It's being resourceful. Using these physical anchors allows a solitary practitioner to put their focus towards other things. I use this method when I'm studying magic texts, or so I can hang out with my ancestors and spirit friends casually for extended periods of time, or if I am going to be attempting astral projection. And by "I use this method," I mean it is one of the permanent protections I have in place in my home.

Has anyone else tried this? Please share any experiences or circle hacks you might have!

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— Krishnamurti

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