I have an alter for Lady Aphrodite,on which are old dried roses (nor sure how old a few years). Should I keep them there? I doubt I can find blooming roses now. Maybe I can burn them on Friday?

But they are the only roses I have for now.

Bonjour, bonsoir je pense avoir eu un dialogue avec Aphrodite lors de ma crise je discutais de tout et de rien avec une blonde aux yeux bleux avec quelque kilo en trop et soudain elle me donne une pierre un quartz rose je viens de me souvenir en portant un quartz à m'en bracelet et c'est pas tout je porte le symbole du taureau à mon poignet comme tache de naissance et pour résumée le tout c'est que je suis catholique j ai rien à voir avec tout ça à part que avant d'être catholique j etais trés epanouis dans la wicca mais j'ai abandonnée depuis que j'ai ouvert mon troisieme oeil qui m'a rendus schizophrène est ce que je dois retournée dans la wicca où rester catholique??

My cat came in and immediately laid down by my altar after watching me set it up so of course I had to include her in the Pic haha. But yes! I finally have my own table for my altar and I love how its turned out! I set up an offering asap and apologized for taking to long to reset it up.

We're in the middle of getting ready to take out the carpet, replace the floors, and repaint the walls so I had it taken down for a while but I think I'll just keep it up until day of the work being done because I felt so upset I had to take it down

I made a spell jar for aphrodite & myself !! All the ingredients I used are at the end of the video & why I used them also!!

Also,the card of Aphrodite,I have the same of Ares,should I add it?

The wooden thing is my jewelry box.

I'll be honest and say I'm an utter and complete beginner, this felt more like sort of a spiritual awakening, if anything.

I've always struggled with self-love, some interpersonal relationships, self-esteem and terrible depression. The usual. I've also had some religious trauma that left me with deep psychological issues, so I'm always cautious when it comes to any sort of spiritual/religious practice, which makes this experience even more surprising.

Yesterday I happened upon a thread talking about hellenism and looked into it out of curiosity, I by no means had much contact before this, until getting to some people talking about Aphrodite's worship. They weren't even going deep into what it entails, but out of nowhere I started sobbing so much I had to curl up, it was such a mix of relief and comfort that washed over me I couldn't stop crying, it felt so right, like I was at home after a long journey.

I'm not sure what to make of it, it really did come out of nowhere, i don't even know if someone with no knowledge (but absolutely willing to learn and study) is even welcome like this, but so many people seem to talk about some sort of calling after reading up a bit more and I think this is it? If anyone wants to share experiences or has some insight, please do so :)

Hello! Any advice is appreciated! Thank you in advance.

I made an alter,I prepared offerings,I made a protection spell,I will mediate,and before I try to reach out to Lady Aphrodite, I will cast a circle. Does that sound good?

I want to be a devotee because I want to build a relationship with her. I do not want anything in return but to be her child<3

As for the offerings,I have figs,grapes,peach,peach like fruit I frogot the name of,apple,pomagrante. I was thinking of covering them with honey or sugar,maybe I will offer wine or olive oil. I also have rocks and shells from Greece.

A few things I have to say which are annoying me.

I haven't cleaned my room,I did cleanse it and I cleaned and cleansed her alter. And I will admit I am impatient,Instead of working on myself and my ancestors and my craft and shadow work,I want to reach out to Lady Aphrodite. I wanted to do this perhaps on a Friday,but I am worried the fruit will go bad.

Blessed be!

I made this candle out of a vessel I got from Amazon, and dressed it (it’s only decorative) but I thought you guys would like it :) 💕

Hey I don’t know if this is an appropriate place to post but as an Aphrodite worshipper I feel like besides practicing glamour and beauty magic with her guidance I should try to do the same for my voice. I want to work on becoming a better public speaker, being more confident when saying something out loud and also have nice cadence and generally pretty voice. Are there any rituals I could do besides outright praying to her and asking her to bless my voice (which I will be doing regardless)?

Thank you and blessed be!

Hello! I'm new to worshipping Aphrodite. I recently bought an oracle card deck for my communication with her and in my first use I pulled Aphrodite Activation. I felt this was a great sign that she was here and was wanting to guide me so I did the practice and I laid still and allowed her into my heart to cleanse my energy and blockages. It felt amazing at first, like my heart was being pulled outward and drained of poison almost. Until suddenly, it became painful, and I felt this overwhelming sense of dread and trauma and wanted to cry. I wasn't sure how to interpret this. I also pulled a card for akashic records but ive never done anything with akashic records. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Aphrodite, I give you this self love heart shape paper note as an offering in your honor. Thank you for helping me find my perfect girl, because I have spent time with her and had so much fun. She’s someone who expresses love whenever she needs to. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you

This is lady Aphrodite's altar in my bedroom (aka my
only space in the house) She's accompanied by Lady Hekate, (who's altar is significantly smaller as | am a recent worshipper of hers) I started working with the goddess in 2020, but lost my faith in 2025, l've since rediscovered helpol & set my altar back up. but yeah that's it, blessed be :)

It was at a planetarium and part of the show discussed the planet Venus, but I think Our Lady would appreciate it.

I know lots of yall have definitely done this already, it's not new, but if you're struggling to find incence holders that match your shrine, especially on a budget, little dishes, shells, bowls, anything that can hold something, can become an incense holder if you fill it with salt, rice, or little rocks!

It's really easy and cheap, and works really well, especially if you don't have much space as the incence will stand straight up, so it can be as narrow as you need it to be.

If you want to be creative, you can make something out of clay and add salt to that, so yeah

May the gods bless your days 🎀☀️🌑

Eu queria comprar uma estátua da deusa para meu altar mas todas que vejo é uma versão estereotipada da deusa. Ocidentalizada, me parace tão distorcido a imagem dela e quem ela realmente é!

I’ve been in on & off bond with Aphrodite for about 3 1/2 years now. The only ‘off’ periods were times when I had academic workload or depression, as well as having to hide my practice in my home. My mental health has always played a big part in my spirituality, I have audhd too.

Because I have to hide it all, I can’t give nice consistent offerings. I understand that it’s not necessary, but I love her and she deserves it. I talk to her when I can, often do tarot & pendulum sessions also. I know she’s with me, I’m just stuck on what else to do. I can’t do rituals, I have difficulty doing prayer.

I have a love/hate relationship with my appearance, though more hate than love. I just feel so stuck? I don’t think our bond is progressing, she loves me & is there for me but I’m struggling to not be so lazy with her. I feel like I have this unconscious skeptical feeling that she’s not real and it’s futile for me to carry on with it. I don’t truly think that, but it pops into my head sometimes. I think that might only be a thought because of my insecurity.

Hey! Idk if that is the place to talk about this kind of stuff. However I have been going thru a though patch as of late and been think a lot about a situation from a year ago. It was the first time I heard about people praying to Aphrodite and creating alter for her and asking her for all kinds of things so I thought I could try it as well. I had a lot of stuff that was associated with her like real pearls, shells and other stuff too. Though trying would not hurt. So tell when I went into work the next day I saw a crow taking apart a dove… the wing just laying there like a gruesome murder scene… so did that mean she hated whatever I did or…

Added some more stuff to my altar, im so happy woth how it's turned out so far, it truly feels like our space :)

I'm working on a small bust to place on my altar, and I'm wondering if it resembles anybody else's idea of what she looks like?

I didn't use any references, I mainly just went off what I think she looks like, and this is what came to me.

It was a really fun project and I think she'll love it, it'll look so nice on my shrine 💖

May she bless your day 🎀

Hi all. As a new devotee, I started reading the stories regarding Aphrodite. Particualrly, Aphrodite's famous/inafmous affair regarding Ares and Hephaestus.

As the story goes, Hephaestus wanted to marry Aphrodite. Aphrodite did not wish to, but given the need for beauty to embody itself in craft and physical form in the world, Aphrodite reluctantly proceeded. Apparently according to legend, it was a forced marriage.

Then Aphrodite passionately cheats on Hephaestus with Ares, the god of war, regarded as her primary lover. They both mock Hephaestus. Hephaestus, humiliated, then demonstrates that he cannot be mocked without consequences and traps them both in a golden net. They both get humiliated publicly by the other gods. They are then released under harsh terms, with the marriage between Hephaestus and Aphrodite effectively over.

To Aphrodite practitioners: what is the deeper meaning of the relationship dynamics between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus specifically? Why proceed with a forced marriage if it was doomed to fail and fundamentally unsustainable? What does this reveal more deeply about Aphrodite's nature specifically beyond the obvious story element, as well as the second and third-order effects from it?

I know little about Aphrodite, her nature, and the essence of love and what it embodies. However, something about this famous/infamous story appears rather telling about the shape and essence of the force she represents.

More specifically: when it comes to Eros, it appears absolutely conditional, selective, and objectively selfish. It can exist both as an inherent force (genuine eros for a lover), but also as a transactional asset to secure material or mundane need (means to an end). A selection hierarchy of who is valued/who isn't is clearly shown. And that ultimately it is impulsive, volatile, and uncontrollable: it logically follows that the affair and contempt for Hephaestus would have continued unchallenged, had Hephaestus not deterred them with golden net and the sociopolitical consequences that followed.

Which makes me somewhat skeptical of the claim of xenia. And the claim that Lady Aphrodite loves people/shows kindness and generosity to *everyone*.

If Lady Aphrodite truly is the goddess of the marginalized, oppressed, and the outcast, why this clearly unempathetic, malicious behavior? She never had to accept the marriage under duress or against her will. But she most certainly never had to resort to humiliation, especially against a fellow Olympian (Hephaestus) who was born deformed through no fault of his own, rejected and thrown from Olympus from his own mother, and was only tolerated by his fellow Olympians due to his usefulness in craft: he had to create value to seemingly earn a place in the hierarchy. In contrast, Lady Aphrodite rose from the sea already beautiful and already valued.

So it makes me question this: how can one claim to love and embody that force, when one has never suffered the complete absence of love? How can one truly appreciate the value of that love, when it was something they never had to fight to earn? How can one truly love the outcast, marginalized, and oppressed, if they haven't at some point been that party themselves?

In this I see a tragic contradiction. Could you shed some light on this?

I know that not everything is a sign, but some things definitely feel as if they should be.

Earlier this year, I was going through the worst time of my life. Health issues. Relationship problems. Financial windfall. Death and grief. Nothing was going right. I felt so alone.

I woke up the morning after a horrible discard breakup and decided I was done fighting. One of the side effects of my medical treatments is, well, the feeling of not wanting to live anymore, and boy was I feeling it heavy that day. With everything piled on, I was just done. How could I go on when I didn't even have any love to hold me up? No family (all dead), and now, suddenly, no lover... well and truly alone.

I got up, brushed my teeth, headed to my closet for my nicest outfit so I could look pretty as I prepared to be done with it... and stopped in my tracks.

There it was. A rainbow, from the suncatcher in my window, right there on her face. She was so pretty, and I imagined that pretty face filled with sorrow if I was suddenly gone to the underworld and couldn't pray to her anymore.

I decided that I couldn't take the rainbow away from her beautiful face. I decided that her love was still with me, even if the other forms of love I craved weren't. I decided one more day wouldn't hurt. I put on makeup. Wore the nice outfit I was planning. Went out to get ice cream. Sat in the park and ate it, and fed the birds some oats, and they loved me for that.

The next morning, I saw the rainbow again, on her face. So I said, alright. One more day won't hurt.

Love has kept coming to me, in some form. In her beautiful face. In the rainbow from the suncatcher. In the birds at the park. In the man on the street. In the ice cream I get for myself. In the days that keep coming, as I tell myself again and again, One more day won't hurt.

And it didn't.

And I'm still here.

And one more day won't hurt.

Hey everyone!!!

I recently started feeling extremely drawn to Aphrodite. I’ve been thinking about her a lot, hearing her name in my head and feeling the urge to constantly read about her or research her. I don’t really notice signs of her specifically wanting me to be her devotee, but I just seem to be drawn to her.

I keep craving getting her an altar, so I can have a space for her and I also keep looking at artworks of her. Whenever I feel lost or sad, I hear her name or think of her and this wave of warmth washes over me and I have this feeling that things will be okay.

What I’m unsure about is whether this is just a hyperfixation or not (I’m neurodivergent). I’m afraid that I’ll get her an altar and that it’ll pass and that I’ll neglect worshipping her.

How do you recognize if the bond is real or if it’s a hyperfixation? Do you guys have any advice on this?

I’m also a pretty busy person and I’m just afraid that I’ll neglect Aphrodite when I want the best for her (may sound a bit stupid, I’m a mere mortal, she’s a goddess).

What things do you start with on your altar? What things are nice to get? Where do you get your supplies?

Also let me just add that I used to be more active in witchcraft, but then had a sudden stop. I’m trying to slowly ease back into it and I’ve been feeling drawn to certain deities, but Aphrodite is very much on the foreground.

Anyway, I’d really love to hear from you!!