30 Days of Aphrodite: Day 3 - April 3, 2021

30 Days of Aphrodite: Day 3 - April 3, 2021 12:39 PM / Jessie Serica

What were your feelings about Aphrodite before you began worshiping her? Has anything changed?

For me the question is, what hasn’t changed??? My relationship with Aphrodite continues to be the main thing I look to whenever I feel a sense of doubt about my religion and the existence of my gods because looking at my past feelings about her, it’s truly mind-blowing we ended up where we did. I honestly didn’t think about Aphrodite all that much before becoming a Hellenic Polytheist. I automatically assumed she was “not for me” because she was for the super pretty girls that did everything so effortlessly while I was the ugly duckling forever struggling. I thought Aphrodite was cruel, jealous, vain, superficial, basically someone best avoided especially if you did not fit the “type” that she would favor. So I did just that, I avoided her. I didn’t really read about her. I didn’t talk about her. I left her where you leave all the things you decide are not meant for you.

Therefore, it was (and still is) such a shock when it was Aphrodite of all gods, I ended up not only worshiping first but became my most important relationship. It truly makes zero sense when you look at the entirety of the story which again is why it continues to be the place I look when I experience doubt. It makes no sense unless the gods truly do exist.