Rules over: love, beauty, sex, fertility, desire, all passions, pleasure, grace, connection to the earth.
As a goddess she is the personification of temptation and all types of love and the pain that comes with them.
Symbols: conch/oyster shells, mirror, girdles/corsets, erotic figurines, erotic writing/art, the planet of Venus, heart shaped things, poetry.
Descriptions (duality): Aphrodite Urania- born of Uranus with no mother so represents intellectual/non-physical love, Aphrodite Pandemos- daughter of Zeus/Dione(patron of prostitutes) represents common/vulgar love.
Epithets: Euploia- marine/easy sailing, Nikephoros- warlike/victory, Areia- averter of unlawful desires/actions, Symmakkia- ally in love (this one was used by Sappho in her poems)
Plants: myrtle, rose, myrrh, anemone, daisies, narcissus, honeysuckle, rosemary, a
Animals: swans, dolphins, dove, goose, bee, peacocks, salmon, cats, butterflies
Crystals: rose quartz, pearls, aquamarine, ruby, opalite
Incense: cinnamon, rose, sandalwood, lavender
Foods: dark chocolate, apples, honey, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, avocado, lime
Colours: red, white, gold, pink, light blue
Tarot: the empress, the lovers, the star, suit of cups
Places: Paphos and Amathus in Cyprus, Thebes, Sparta, Corinth, Kytherea
Temples: Acrocorinth, Aphrodite Kraneion, Leachaion, Cenclareae.
Songs: Aphrodite- the Ridleys, alrighty Aphrodite- peach pits, she loves a good Hozier love song too.
Battery (sounds used to represent her in rituals): gentle waves, love songs
Times: Friday, 18th March (goddess of fertility day), Spring
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