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Doubting myself is such a disrespectful action towards Aphrodite, I know she wants me to be as powerful as I can, I know she wants me to accomplish everything, I know she wants me to stay still on my beliefs.

Lastly, I know that she would never want me to suffer or go through anything that goes against my personal principles.

Aphrodite wants all of us to be true to ourselves.

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A guide to worship of Eris - cheat sheets

Hellenic cheat sheets

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Where To Start When Contacting A Deity

Note: I am 100% adding a shit ton of tags because goddamn it, I worked HARD on this. If this isn’t of interest to you, then feel free to just ignore it.

Are you wanting to start following or worshipping a Deity but don’t know where to start? Are you confused by all of the outdated - and sometimes inaccurate - information on the internet? Are you tired of being criticized and judged for being new to the practice and asking basic questions? Well, look no further than this gigantic masterpost, created to assist and educate newbies just like yourself!

Keep reading

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A guide to worship of Hekate - cheat sheets

Hellenic cheat sheets

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worshipping imperfect gods

Maybe this is a flawed bit of theology, but I think part of the reason why I love the greek pantheon is *because* they are imperfect. Because they are gods of bad things as well as of good things. Because I am a person with bad traits as well as good traits.

If Aphrodite was the goddess of love and love alone, where would She be when jealousy takes my heart? Where would she be on nights when I feel lost, or unloved? When I feel any emotion but pure, warm love unmitigated by the reality of life’s difficulties? What relatability, what understanding could there be in the worship, in the love of such a god?

Rather, it is because of Her imperfections that She is worthy of my devotion. Aphrodite has been a goddess for thousands of years, not just of warm and fuzzy love, but of jealousy, of obsession, of envy, of vanity, of heartbreak, of loss, of crushes mild and devastating. Love is Her greatest and most central aspect and quality, of course, but She is so much more. She has seen so much more, and does so not with scorn or condemnation, but with understanding.

When I am hurting, when I am at my lowest, when I am stricken with obsessive thoughts or jealousy or mistrust, I do not want for a perfect god to spurn and reprimand me. I reprimand myself well enough, and look what little good it does me. Rather, I find it far easier to move forward and grow when the goddess I look to is one who understands these emotions - She wants me to grow, She wants me to move past them, but She understands. Because She has been there, and She has watched over hundreds of generations of people feeling the same emotions, and She has loved them, accepted them, helped them move on, just the same.

Because Aphrodite is, Herself, a selfish and vain and jealous and obsessed goddess at times, it makes it easier to accept that these emotions are a part of existence. They come, and they pass. When they come, I pray to Her to help relieve me of them. When they are nonpresent, I praise Her for helping me overcome, and ask that when they return again, She help me maintain sympathy and love for myself.

Hopefully that makes sense <3

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Friendly reminder that the Hellenic Underworld is not the Christian Hell, and Hades is not the Devil.

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*peaks out from a nearby bush as you walk by*

Hey, you know you don't have to imagine Aphrodite as white if you don't want to.

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the hellenic polytheist urge to scream at everyone who slanders Zeus and Hera.

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Basic things to do as offerings from a pagan who's always tired:

1.A short morning prayer or even just saying good morning to the gods when you wake up.

2.Opening your curtain/window,and greet the Sun.

3.Preparing your breakfast in their honor(this can be great for deities such as Demeter,Eos or Hestia)

4..Basic hygiene,things like brushing your teeth or washing your face(great for deities such as Hygeia and Aphrodite)

5.Wearing a piece of jewelry dedicated to them or that reminds you of them.

6.Just talk to them!Say how you feel outloud,thank them for your opportunities!

And Remember,you're not a bad devotee because of the physical or mental challenges you face.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but...

The Gods love you.

They love you when you smile.

They love you when you cry.

They love you even if you have a hard time noticing them.

They love you and are with you.

They love you both when you're feeling down or when you're feeling like your on top of the world.

They love you even if you haven't prayed in a while or can't pray.

They love you when you haven't made any offerings in a while or can't make them.

They love you even if you forget about festivals or don't participate in them.

They love you when you reconstruct in your practice and they love you when you don't.

They love you even if you have doubts.

They love you when you can't get out of bed.

They love you when you're batteling your own thoughts.

They love you when you find it hard to take care of yourself.

They love you when you've fallen and they'll help you get back up.

They love you when you struggle and they see you.

They love you when you think you are not enough but you are enough to them just as you are.

They love you, value and recognise you as a beautiful, unique being that you are.

The Gods love you even when you can't love yourself.

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Aphrodite is as multifaceted as love itself.

Dismissing her as petty and vain ignores all of her complexity, as well as ignores the fact her myths were told by men who did not view women with agency or as equals.

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A guide to worship of Aphrodite - cheat sheets

Hellenic cheat sheets

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i think we’ll be able to grow a lot more as a community once folks recognize that there isn’t one correct way to conceptualize and believe in the gods and that disagreeing on certain points is good actually. not everything is an argument to be won and your objective is not to sound the most correct out of everyone on a topic.

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Aphroditos, the Trans Aphrodite worshipped widely in Amathus and Athens.

This particular pose, where a feminine deity lifts up their skirt or dress to reveal a phallus, is called the Anasyrma or Anasyromenos and was widely regarded as an apotropaic gesture, averting evil influences and bringing forth good fortune.

"There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus, and Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female."

-Macrobius, Saturnalia (C. 431 CE)

This combination of masculinity and femininity in the same Deity and their assocition with the moon, both of which were considered to have fertilizing powers, was regarded as having an influence over the entire animal and vegetable creation.

They were often identified with Ermaphroditos (Hermaphroditus), the intersex child of Aphrodite and Hermes

Sources:

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga; Lyons, Claire L. (2000), Naked truths: women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archaeology, Routledge; pp. 230-231.

^ Freese, John Henry (1911). "Aphrodite" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 166.

Macrobius; Kaster, Robert A. (2011), Saturnalia, Volume 2, Harvard University Press; p. 58

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Devotion for Crackheads

Some fun and totally harmless ways to worship some of the gods!

Zeus:

Climb a tree and screech like an eagle

Throw a stick at someone you hate

Drink milk from the gallon you coward

Hera:

Point out how your life is going better than that nosy aunt's marriage

Wear ridiculously vibrant dresses and thick eyeliner and only speak in peacock

Make fun of the neighborhood Karen

Poseidon:

Make someone step in water with socks on

Step in water with socks on

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

Æügh

Hades:

It's time you went through an emo phase

Train your local dogs to bark at the neighborhood Karen

Lose your 50/50 to Qiqi

Hestia:

Cosplay as Guoba

Arson

Eat your teacher's apple, it's probably plastic but eat it anyway

Demeter:

Stalk the vegan teacher

Stalk vegan booty

Learn about the chemical properties of green onions

Athena:

Make Kokomi crit

Arson (2)

Spend money on Ovid's book. Then burn it.

Ares:

Arson (3)

Learn about the properties and history of battle axes

Make Kokomi crit (2)

Artemis:

Buy a shirt saying "MILF, Man I Love Fishing"

Cosplay the Lorax

Become the Lorax

Apollo:

Learn how to use a shotgun, though you probably already know that if you're a white American

Make friends with crows

Become a crow

Hephaestus:

Socialise

Learn how to build a tank

Build a tank

Aphrodite:

Shove sea water down Karen's throat

Be gay do crime

Arson (4)

Dionysus:

Be gay do crime (2)

Get drunk on vodka

Blast Cult of Dionysus on four big speakers at the middle of the night

Hermes:

Commit tax fraud

Commit theft

Be gay do crime (3)

Helios:

Chug a questionable amount of monster down

Stare directly into the sun

Arson (5)

Selene:

Be gay do crime (4)

Sing Bohemian Rhapsody at the top of your lungs every full moon at the middle of the night

So the fandango

Hecate:

Arson (6)

Adopt a dog despite your parents saying no

Adopt a weasel

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Pagan Altars Inspiration

Credits

In order left to right, up to down

Stella Witchcraft, Venus altar https://stellawitchcraft.tumblr.com/tagged/grimoire/page/2

SunBadger, Cernnunos altar https://sunbadgerplants.tumblr.com/post/177833960555/more-pics-of-the-spirit-of-wildernesscernunnos

Lyllith’s Emporium, Hathor altar https://lyllithsemporium.com.au/

Moru, Brigid altar https://pin.it/6I3iwRm

Raven Elder, Yemaya altar https://orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/yemaya-of-the-sea/index.html

My Profound Secrets, Belatucadros altar https://pin.it/2uV9NxO

Raven Kaldera, Freyr altar https://www.deviantart.com/ravenkaldera

Heart of the Norse witch, Wiccan Goddess altar https://www.etsy.com/ca-fr/shop/HeartoftheNorseWitch?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=588061201

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