One of the best well-known pantheons around is Greek,
due to the popularity of the Greek myths.Pagans who fall into this catagory tend to follow the Mother and Father
images of Zues and Hera, but it's not at all uncommon for their patron deities
to be other Greek Gods or Heroes, such as Ares, Hades, Persephone, Apollo,
Artemis, or Dionysis.
Lusty and dramatic,
the Greek Gods call to those who like epic tales and wild romance. You either
already are a Greek Pantheon follower, or else you look to them often for
insight.
Born
from the foam of the sea, Aphrodite became the
Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. This is a polite way of
saying she was the Goddess of Sex. In the case of Aphrodite, perhaps it would
be more accurate to say she was the Goddess of sex, sex, and more
sex.
Obviously all this sex couldn't possibly be good 100% of the
time, and it wasn't. Aphrodite was as well known for the pain she brought as
she was for the pleasures of sexual passion which she personified. The lesson
she taught was: "Every pleasure has its price."
The most notorious example of this is when she promised
Paris, a Prince
of Troy, the love of the world's
most beautiful woman, Helen, if only he would judge her the
fairest Goddess in a ridiculous contest that developed between Aphrodite,
Hera, and Athena. Unable to resist such a
lusty bribe, the foolish Prince declared Aphrodite the winner, which irked Hera
and Athena to no end. True to her word, Aphrodite allowed Helen to fall under
the seductive charms of young Paris.
What happened next most everyone knows - a ten year war that
didn't come to an end until a certain wooden horse came on
the scene.
In spite of all the pain and misery that Aphrodite brings to
those who naively think of love as a simple matter full of sunshine and
lollipops, she is still the Goddess of beauty and can be very gentle to those
who respect and understand her sensual and complex nature.
The Fifteen Goddesses
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A
witch who practices his magick and rituals in the home, with the household
hearth as a focal point.
His home will host
various household guardians and spirits. He is often a source of hearth, home
and fireside folklore, customs and traditions. A hearthwitch is a domestic
witch who works closely with the elements and various spirits who may add some
shamanic techniques to his practise.
He knows many spells for the home, such as protection or
purification spells, and kitchen magick as well. He studies how to make a
magickal home, kitchen and garden, a witch who practises domestic magick.
His tools will often revolve around household chores as well
as the kitchen and garden, such as besoms, a garden trowel, smudge sticks, a
wooden spoon, and fireplace tools.
He will have a shrine/altar set up in his home, probably on
the fireplace mantle or by the stove, but may also have one set up in the
kitchen and/or garden.
His patrons will be deities of the hearth, home, family,
fire, agriculture and harvest.
The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine
planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight.
You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things
beautiful.
The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life,
of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the
idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form,
the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be
born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as
love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual
Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in
anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In
fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.
