Aphrodite Calling

Artist: Rongrong Wang

Aphrodite Calling

On the day we know as The Day of LOVE, Valentine's Day, I wanted to give reverence to my favorite Goddess. She just happens to be the Goddess of LOVE, Aphrodite. Aphrodite is the Goddess of LOVE, Beauty, Pleasure and Sexuality. I remember always being pulled by her in art as a child. Then after reading the Iliad and the Odyssey in English class in 9th grade, she stayed with me. My path is a path of LOVE, Beauty, Pleasure and Sexuality. Before I even knew I was on this mystical path the name "Aphrodite Calling" was whispered to me. The Goddess of LOVE speaks through me. I am Aphrodite, I am LOVE.

I have pulled together some of my favorite Aphrodite Art pieces, music and writings. Enjoy....

Cream-Tales of Brave Ulysses

This is the song Tales of Brave Ulysses by the 60s band Cream. The trio was made up of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker.

LOVE is powerful...

OXTOCIN

Also See previous post Our Sexual and Woven Connection

Excerpt taken from The Grandmother of Time by Zsuzsanna E. Budapest

The Goddess Speaks, Aphrodite

I am Aphrodite, Mairamne, Aphrodite-Mari, Stella Mari, the life giver risen from the tangy frosty waters--the original cauldron of transformation. I am life and death. From my loins all things issue forth, and at the it is I to whom they return.

I am Aprhodite sea born, the sexual goddess and death goddess all at once. And what a sight I am! I am naked, without shame. I am attractive and alluring. They tried to tame me, and still I would not obey. They tried to degrade me with censorship. They tried to regulate me with laws and turn my people away. I only came back stronger.

Yes, look at me, I am sex unbridled. I am the heat in cats and dogs. I am the lovers' passionate relationship. I am the LOVERS' embrace and the lust they try to deny you. Yes, lust. When your body is wholesome, healthy and my natural time comes around, I am the one who makes you sigh all night and look with longing on those who have captured your fancy.

I am also the prostitutes who gather in the loveless and undesirable men from the streets. I am the generous whore with the golden hearn and the cold cunt with ice in my veins. I rule everything. I am almighty. No one can resist me. I made you that way. My imprint is on your every cell and nerve ending. I am the images you see in wet dreams, and I am the hope of the lovelorn and the treasure of those who find me.

I reward my worshipers with long and healthy lives. I am there for the traveler and the home bound. I am the food of the body and soul; I am the future of races. I continue weaving my web of knowing around your heart, even if you have been giving this knowing away. When you no longer want me, old and tired, I will take you back into my all-encompassing lap because I am the one who decides on your hour of return.

Are you aghast? Are you wavering, trying to avoid my face, ashamed that you are so weak as to bow to me? Know that I am queen of organic life; none but the stones can resist me. Nothing but honesty makes you listen.

I proclaim messages of LOVE; this is my job, and I do it well. All art thrives on my feelings; all music celebrates my variety; all dancers dedicate their movement to me; and all sculptors follow my lines, if they are any good. I am one with the opposites; I am constantly uniting. I am pansexual; the imprint of genitals is repeated in nature. Look at the vulva like seashells or the nourishing barley for my shape. Look deeply into the orchids, roses, irises--they imitate my sex. Admire the scent and drink deeply of the summer night's coming. I am in the air, dispensing longing and ecstasy in generous measures. My celebrations are spent with flutes and bare feet on the mountaintops. I am Marina, curly-haired and swarty. The mermaids are my cousins. I am that which makes your life worth living...

Hail Aphrodite
Maiden born of the Sea
She Who Shines Brightly
Ever Luminous Morning Star
Radiant Goddess of Feminine Beauty
Mistress of the Maiden's Sensual Allure

Eternal Venus of Beauty & Grace
Dancer in the Light, of every Woman's Eye
The Maiden Who lives within Mother & Crone
Feminine Sensuality Eternally Re-born in Woman

Love magic appears or is alluded to in the literature of every epoch of

ancient Greek history, beginning with Homer and ending with early Christian

hagiography. In the fourteenth book of the Iliad Aphrodite lends

Hera her magical belt (kestos himas) to repair her parents’ estrangement,

but Hera uses it instead to seduce her husband, Zeus.

...Aphrodite in book

8 can perhaps be linked with the later use in love spells of images of these

two deities bound in an erotic embrace.

...Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite most clearly reflects the form, content,

and intent of later erotic spells

...Aphrodite can “steal away the mind of thoughtful men,”

Excerpt from the book Ancient Greek Love Magic by Christopher A. Farone

The Priestesses of Aphrodite

Able to move energies through their bodies like playing a fine instrument, the Priestesses of Aphrodite knew the power of pure joy and deepest celebration.  They were also among the finest Sexual Medicine Healers of all time.  These Priestesses understood the lightness of joy while embodying the most powerful forces in the universe, like their Nymph foremothers. http://www.jenniferposada.com/the-sacredly-sexual-priestess-trainings

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The Rune Ingwaz / Inguz / Ingwuz

INGWUZ - Fertility, New Beginning, The God-Hero

It is the completion of the initiation that Inguz needs. It may indicate a time of joyful liberation, a new life, a new way. As a rune of great power it means that you have the strength to reach you completion, the solution from which there is a new beginning. The completion, the finish/finalization is most important. This Rune indicates that you have to fertilize the soil for your own liberation. Everything is changing, and we cannot live constantly in the midst of obstacles.
http://www.white-magic-help.net/About_White_Magic/runes.html

Pronunciation: "eeeng-wawz"

Tarot Correspondence: Emperor Card

Artist: Brian Froud

To dig deeper in the Magick:

Futhark a Book of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson, you can read Here

Rune Magic by Donald Tyson, you can read Here

Fertility god

Ing was a god of the Danes. The Old English word lngwine
means friends of Ing, and is applied to the Danes in Beowolf -
Tacitus mentions a tribe living near the Baltic sea called the
lngaeaanes. The Old English Rune Poem reads:
Ing among the East-Danes was first
beheld by men, until that later time when to the east
he made his departure over the waves, followed by
his chariot
that was the name those stem warriors gave the hero.
The god Frey, who was the Teutonic male fertility deity, is
said to have had another name, Yngai. His descendants were
called Ynglingar. Since Frey was the son of Nerthus, the earth
mother, and traveled in a chariot,Ing is supposed to have been a
fertility god but this is only supposition. The old English Rune
Poem describes him as a hero.
It is interesting that his departure across the seas to the east
is said to be in front of his chariot. one would assume that the would
ride inside it. Perhaps he was the invisible traveler in a physical
model of the sacred car, like Nerthus. Something may have caused
him to remove himself across the sea-the coming of Christian-
ity?-and his sacred chariot may have been shipped after him.
When Ing is viewed paired with [^agu, it should be noted
that the god crosses the water. The crossing of water was a com-
mon euphemism for the passage into the underworld. Ing is a
god who has gone away,like the great heroes whose bodies
were pushed into the sea after their departed souls on burning
warships. The chariot of lng which follows aftcr lrirn is the life-
Meanings of the Runes / 67
less, hollow vessel of the god.
Ing may have been a god of the heart tu a protector of the
family and house, an insurer of good catches of fish and good
crops. He would represent the healthy and productive side of
sexuality. l,agu is the power and influence of waters-Ing the
power and influence of the earth.
Magically, the rune can be used to overcome illusions and
mental illness. It serves as a help in practical day-to-day prob-
lems but should not be underrated on that account. Ing is a
powerful force for good. It protects the home and those within
it. Calms domestic strife. Unites families with bonds of affection.
A down-to-earth deity embodying the simple but precious
human virtues that lie close to the land.

lngwaz is considered to be the name of an old Germanic earth god,
who works in tandem with the earth mother, Nerthus. Their cult
was most developed in ancient times in the North Sea regions. The
Old English Rune Poem tells us
Ing was at first
among the East-Danes
seen by men,
until he went eastward
over the wave,
his wain rolled after him:
thus the Heardings
named the hero.
The wagon or chariot mentioned is the same used in the Nerthus
cult. lngwaz represents the male consort of the earth mother, and the
priest who attends her. So strong was this cult among the peoples of
the North Sea that they were often referred to as Ingvaeones (those
of Ing).
The Vanic god Freyr also was known as Yngvi, and he too took
part in fertility rites in which he rode in a wagon in ritual
processions. Freyr seems generally to have usurped the role and the
name of Ing in the North.

land and people. Here there are strong overtones of a Cybele-Attis
type of cult. The myth of Freyr giving up his sword to gain Gerdhr or
the Odhinic name Gelding (castrated horse), may be illustrative
here. The male element represents the self-replenishing "cosmic
food" of potential energy, which is held through winter by the
goddess to be suddenly and violently released again in spring during
the orgiastic processional ritual.
The NG-rune is a storehouse of potential energy that must
undergo a gestation period in order to gain in strength. This is a
principle that works on all levels of the multiverse, and it is a mighty
rune of magic, for all power must undergo such a protected gestation
period before it may be manifested in its most potent form.
One of the great secrets of Nordic sex magic is embodied in this
rune.

Key Words:
Potential energy
Gestation

Rune Yoga:
1. Stand straight with fingertips touching

well overhead and elbows angled in the form

of the stave.

2. Stand erect with fingertips touching just

above the genitals with elbows forming the

angles of the NG-rune

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The Rune Jera

The Rune Jera

Success in endeavors, fruition of plans. Good spirits. Just rewards for past efforts. Inventiveness, talent or skill. Great reward to those who work with their hands or on the land.

Jera as Rune No. 12 represents the 12 months of the year. It implies fruitfulness, profit or achievement of a goal. It also means the cycle of seasons implying movement, change, natural development. .It is usually very positive, but as a symbol of cause-and-effect it may portend the end-result of past actions. Jera may therefore represent justice, which can be 
positive or negative, a reward or a punishment.
http://www.runemaker.com/futhark/jera.shtml

Pronunciation: “yare-awe”

Artist Brian Froud

JERA - Harvest, Fertile Phase, One Year

Jera, eine Rune des guten Gelingens, bezieht sich auf jede Aktivera, a rune of good success, refers to any activity or effort you devote yourself. To see this rune is an encouragement to remain in good spirits. But you should know that quick results cannot be achieved. A period is always associated, therefore the keyword "one year", which stands as a symbol for the full cycle of time that is before the harvest or exemption/liberation.

http://www.white-magic-help.net/About_White_Magic/runes.html

Tarot Card Correspondence:
The Wheel and The World

To dig deeper in the Magick:

Futhark a Book of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson, you can read Here

Rune Magic by Donald Tyson, you can read Here

Harvest is the specific meaning of this rune, but for general
purposes, cycle may be more useful. It indicates the coming full
circle of the year when the labor in the fields during spring and
summer is repaid in autumn. The ancient Germans did not
recognize autumn as a season. According to Tacitus, they acknowl-
edged only spring, summer and winter. Perhaps they regarded
autumn as a summing up of the entire year, rather than as a
separate and equal quarter.

Generalized Ger is any revolution or cycle of change. A
change of luck. A cycle of life. All natural cycles such as the
phases of the moon. The change of the seasons. Ger has vari-
ously been defined by scholars as year, spring, summer and har-
vest season. Its broader meaning encompasses all these.

For the Teutons, the most obvious cycle was the change
from winter to summer, and from summer to winter. The joys
and plenties of the harvest are opposed to the silent hardship
signaled by the freezing over of the lakes, rivers and ocean. The
stillness of Is is in sharp contrast to the cyclic motion of Ger. In
winter everything stops; with the return of the sun, things begin
to move once again. Ger is change, and change is always
cyclical.

Even the shape of Ger suggests this whirling energy. It is a
tourbillion, a vortex of active forces. The alternate form of Ger
shows an axis through the center of a circle. This is a Hindu sym-
bol for generation.

Magically, Ger is used to bring about an inversion of cir-
cumstance. It revolves the wheel of fortune and makes the high
to be low and the low to be high. It causes events to come full cir-
cle. More esoterically, it is used to actualize desire by making
inner vision into physical reality. The fruition of designs.

COMMENTARY
[era embodies the cyclical pattern of the universe expressed in the
formula arising-being/becoming-passing-away to new arising. This is
a basic pattern working throughout the rune row. The J-rune is one
of the two "central runes" in the scheme of the Elder Futhark, and it
defines the cyclical nature of the ever-becoming horizontal plane. It is
the secret of the omnipresent circumference.

This is the mystery of the twelve-fold cycle of the yearly solar
cycle. I\aidho is the daily path and guiding force of the sun, [era her
yearly path, and sowilo the archetypal sun herself.

[era is the reward for honorable, right, and lawful (natural) past
action. This has no real moral implications-it is a natural law. If the
sowing is done correctly, according to tradition, and "luck" (hamingja)
is with you, then the reaping should be great. It is the fruition of
efforts well spent toward a willed or instinctual goal. This is true and
valid for the numinous as well as phenomenological realms.

The cosmic fertility aspect of this rune points to the Vanic god
Freyr, who is invoked til ars ok fridhar (for good season [harvest] and
peace).

The Old Norse name ar provides us with the popular association
of this rune with the eagle (ON ari) as a symbol of the swift flight of
the archetypal sun.

Stadha:
Stand upright with right arm bent so that the

thumb of the right hand touches the crown of
the head. The left arm is bent at the same
angle with the fingertips of the left hand
touching the left hip bone.



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