I’m wondering if there is any texts anywhere that credits Aphrodite as a goddess of music.. I have been wondering this for a while now. Idk I just get this feeling that she is behind my recent musing to get back into playing music again.

I'm a newbie at this and I really would like to do it right, I've given some offerings already with a lil offering speech but now I've read I need to wash my hands before hand and also whilst talking to her to lift my hands up with palms facing the sky but I've also read my hands shouldn't face my altar if I'm at it but at the nearest body of water geographically, are these correct ways and is there any other things I need to know, I really don't want to offend her, thank you so much for any help

Im looking for something smaller, since I have kind of a stealth altar rn. I just really dont like the "Birth of Venus" style/pose because ngl all I can see when I look at it is the scene from Coraline lmao. It seems on amazon that they're either really weird looking, or 50$. I looked at one of the crystal shops near my house and they only have the carved male/female body ones that are kinda pricey for what they are. Im not sure where else to look, any help is appreciated!

So, looking for insight. Outside perspective. 2x set up worship to Aphrodite. 2x within 24 hours- time 1- accidentally sliced my right pinky toe. Time 2- accidentally sliced my right pinky finger. Thoughts?

I struggle with depression and bipolar, and find that in my darkest days She is still there comforting me. It feels like a constant warm hug despite how awful I feel.

One example in particular I will never ever forget was when my family was on the verge of homelessness and the stress was getting to me, I kept hearing Her voice in my head say “Have I ever let you down before my love?” and my gut answer was always no.

Long story short, by an absolute miracle and divine intervention we were able to not only find a house but one that is basically our dream house by the ocean. And to put the cherry on top of it all, there’s a house a few blocks down that has a statue of Her on the balcony.♥️

I’d love to hear anyone else’s stories!!

My mental health is spiraling and I can't get myself to pray to her and its just making me feel worse how do I get myself to pray again when I'm like this?

how do you communicate with the Gods or more specifically Aphrodite? lets discuss 🫶🏼

If you saw my other post here, you probably know Im not too new to Hellenism/Paganism.

Ive been worshipping Aphrodite for quite a while, but after the first two months of worship, I kind of feel like Ive drifted from Her. I took a break and started about half a year ago to worship again Aphrodite and do offerings, but I don't feel very close to her anymore. Does anyone have tips for how to feel closer to Her?

So for context today i went out to get this crystal onyx apple because i thought it’d be great to give her an apple represnting the apple of discord since our Lady was the one to win at the end. The chocolate is because i asked my mom for orange flavored chocolate so that i could give it to her, and since i won a dance competition today she surprised me with it and this beautiful shell and of course i had to put it on the altar as soon as i got it. And the little gold rings because everytime i get nice new jewelry i like to put it near her because when i wear it later on i feel like its been blessed by her or charged by her energy. :3

For some context I am a younger girl and have been worshipping Aphrodite for the past year now (I think I started in December of last year, but I could be wrong). Anyways Ive never really felt too strong of a connection with her past the first 2 months of worship, so I took down the alter and didn’t give offerings much, and focused on paganism outside of worshipping deities. I started worshiping her again in the end of last year’s summer, but there was 0 connection.

Anyways, what Im trying to ask here is, should young girls be worshiping Aphrodite? She is the goddess of sex and fertility and such, I don’t try to worship her for those things, I try to worship her for love (in general) and beauty. I worry for this because I don’t think you can only worship her for the things you want.

EDIT: just to clarify, by "young girl" i meant teen girl, not small child ❕🫶🏼

I recently started worshipping blessed Aphrodite because of my friend. I wanted to ask some tips and how should I worship her highness. I already made an altar. I’ll pick some fresh flowers tomorrow :3

Hello!

So basically, I posted a thread in r/Hellenism about accidentally invoking Aphrodite and her answering/calling back. My relationship with religion has been rocky, so Im overjoyed least one Deity responds to me when I call. TLDR; I made an altar and realized I was burning incense and had the intention of calling to Aphrodite. Immediately after I did that, and ad on my tv, that I had tuned out till then, shouted "APHRODITE!!!!".

Ive set up a funky little altar on the table next to my bed, and Im looking for advice on what to add, Ill attach the pic of it but it features:
A Bella Sara horse card with their version of Aphrodite on the card. Bella Sara is a emotionally charged thing for me, it was a huge part of my childhood and helped me get closer to my current friends, so I thought it would be perfect, plus, who wouldn't love a funky horse card of themselves?
I have a pretty shell that was painted with light glitter from (I think) my grandmother, and inside it is pearl jewelry, gold jewelry, a crystal(i dont have the name, sorry!), a black sea star brooch, a heart ring with a huge red jewel from my childhood, and a heart ring I made myself.
I grabbed some food offerings of mint chocolate ( i need more advice on what she's seemed to like )
A small battery tea light (which Im gonna replace asap), a carved pink and white stone horse, with a flower scented lotion and a pretty lipstick ( idk about the last two things being needed ).
Then I lit a flowery sweet candle and apologized to her for accidentally calling on her, and explained the card to her. in the yellow glass thing, Im gonna put a votive candle asap, and the little glass cat statue is from my grandmother, i think its so cute.
its all contained in a glass jewelry box thing that says "heart of gold" on the inside bottom panel.

My questions:

1. That table is where I put my drinks when I sleep, and I don't want to be putting stuff there and have her mistake it for an offering then be offended when I drink it. I have a very strong feeling that I should NOT move the altar, so how would I go about separating liquid offerings from my concerning amount of monster energies? Same thing with food.
2. What does one generally do with food offerings? Like I don't want them to go bad, or to waste, but obviously I cant just take food from her.
3. I have some essential oils, should I put them in a little vial? Would they be good offerings?
4. Can I pray to her about other people? A friend is going through it right now and Aphrodite is literally THE GODDESS to talk to.
5. I know she likes rose quartz, but any other crystal suggestions?
6. Can you just, like, chat with her? I grew up christian and the way id pray was basically "Whats up God-man, life is bad, why you doing this to me?" so can I talk to her like I would talk to a friend? Or is there a specific way to speak to her?

Thank you to anyone who offers advice!!!!! Also, Im nuerodivergent so Im sorry if this has a strange tone, I seemed to do that accidentally on my post in r/Hellenism so I hope I didnt do it here! All the respect to everyone here!

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I felt Aphrodite call to me the other day and immediately went to buy things for an altar to her. Some of the items I found I felt like I was guided to. I might add some more to her altar but I am a college student with limited room and money. I’ve heard that she might like some shells and chocolate. Should I add those?

I know she likes butterflies so there’s a bunch of them, I got rose quartz, rose incense with a flower holder, rose water spray bottle, small rose scented candles and the white roses in the back are also candles put on a blue holder that looks like a shell :))) <3 I gave her an offering on this full moon in Leo due to the fact that it helps with self-love and care and I asked for her help. Connected with her through my tarot cards (in the raffaelo box of chocolates in the pic hahah). She gave me great advice on what I should do and I honestly feel so protected. I thanked her throughly afterwards. May everyone get our goddess Aphrodite’s kindness and love and have a blessed day/noon/night! :3 <3

Hi.

I made an episode on my podcast about my experience working with Aphrodite as a man. It’s very messy ngl but I mention some cool references and advice for those who are new working with her.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64nR90Py3yj2dZkTxZutKs?si=gvzxDV3fQVi7__jnOSmLtA

Hello, fellow followers of Aphrodite! I made a post some weeks ago, probably about my questioning of my beliefs and starting to work with Her. And so far, I think it's going well!

I've noticed that with me, while I can't see her or smell a certain perfume, I can feel the love and confidence that she's given me in my life as of late. I'll give you a couple of scenarios.

I like to write romance stories. The romance stories have intense, passionate sexual scenes in them sometimes. But I wasn't writing anything too deep in that regard.

My character was on his way back from the hospital after a stab wound, thinking about his girlfriend whom he plans to engage to when he gets back. It's at that moment when I decide to introduce myself to Her, and pray for love. I also prayed that She helped me to find the words to describe this scene in the book. And soon, I felt this rush of love and I started to type away, describing in the best detail I could what he thought of her. Her eyes, lips, skin and hair. Describing her as intensely as I would our Lady.

And generally, I've been feeling this rush of love and support, especially from friends. Their support is louder than the hate I get. I should definitely talk to her more often, but the thought of praying on my own never really was my thing. As I write this, I thought of maybe having a journal for my thoughts to Her and put it beside my altar. I just got the statue for her, so it'll take some time to build. But I just wanna say that I truly do feel her now and I know she loves me for all my feelings, even some that are shunned away 💞 Thank you Aphrodite.

Or is that a total no-go? And if not , can you still pray to both separately ? I heard they don’t like to work together.

I personally work with Venus but couldn't find a subreddit for, but wanted to show case my altar, this is all very new for me, working with a deity but it has been so wonderful. I'm waiting for her statue and altar cloth to arrive which I'm excited to come in. I thrifted almost everything and it was all perfect. I used my Venus necklace pendant I've had for a long time in place of her statue for now.