30 Days of Aphrodite: Day 1 - April 1, 2021
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30 Days of Aphrodite: Day 1 - April 1, 2021 7:20 PM / Jessie
What first drew you to Aphrodite?
Aphrodite is what drew me to Aphrodite!
Let me explain. While I have been a fan of Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology my entire life, I was not a fan of Aphrodite. Most of it came from my own insecurities along with not knowing enough about Aphrodite so I judged her purely on mythology. I didn’t give her much thought and she was never on my radar until I began looking for a deity to worship.
At the time I was a sea witch so I knew I wanted to work with a sea deity. Given my love for Greek Mythology Poseidon and Amphitrite seemed like the obvious options. However, something did not feel right about it and my instincts were telling me to keep searching. I questioned whether a sea deity was really the right choice for me thinking I should instead work with the god I have loved my whole life: Apollo. Surely it would make sense for me to start with him as opposed to a god I had zero knowledge of or history with, but again my instincts pushed me towards a sea deity.
I can still remember this moment like it had just happened. I was flipping through one of my sea witchcraft books and noticed a list of sea deities. I began looking through the list thinking I might find this elusive sea deity my instincts kept urging me seek out. I barely began looking when I paused on a name. “Aphrodite”. I stared at her name for a moment before saying to myself “Huh, I didn’t realize Aphrodite was a sea deity. I guess it’s because she was born from seafoam. Interesting.” Then I continued to scan through the rest of the list however the entire time my brain was buzzing. It was like a switch flipped and I couldn’t turn it off. My thoughts were just an endless stream of “Aphrodite, Aphrodite, Aphrodite, Aphrodite”. She was pulling me towards her but at the time I refused to believe it.
As I said before, my insecurities played a big part in the wall I built between Aphrodite and me. I was convinced that someone like me did not belong in Aphrodite’s embrace nor would I even be welcomed. It’s really the classic tale of an Aphrodite devotee. Aphrodite is marketed in the modern world as the mean perfect popular girl so most of us believe she’s as inaccessible (and cruel) as the popular girls are. I didn’t see myself as pretty at all. I barely wore makeup and my skills were (and still are) lackluster. My fashion was more about comfort than style. Frankly, I never thought I was good at being a girl (whatever the hell that even means, tho a lot of this makes sense now that I understand my gender identity more but that’s a whole other post). So it’s not surprising that I fought Aphrodite’s advances for a while.
Obviously something changed though. I couldn’t ignore the signs or the constant prodding anymore so I decided that there was no harm in looking more into Aphrodite. Once I did an entire universe opened to me. The universe that is Aphrodite! I very quickly realized that everything I had assumed about her was completely wrong. But it wasn’t until I came across her connection to “self-love” that the pieces all finally came to together. I knew why she was reaching out to me and I did an entire 180. Went from Elsa in Frozen 2 all “Nope strange voice I don’t hear you!” to “Aphrodite’s my homegirl now!” And we’ve been inseparable ever since!