Aphrodite

Golden Aphrodite, fair and fearsome goddess,

mighty one whose will it is that the heart leads us

where the mind knows not to go; Aphrodite,

whose hand it is that guides us to the cliff’s edge,

whose voice it that dares us to jump into the dark,

whose gift it is that love’s reward is worth any risk.

Blessed Aphrodite, many have sought to turn

from you, but fire is fire, and feeling is feeling,

and neither can be contained by will alone.

Goddess, I thank you for moments free of reason,

I thank you for the dominion of desire.

Aphrodite, yours is the force of life, yours

the call of instinct; goddess whose power it is

that leads us to joy or desperation, I praise you

for your many gifts, I ask your blessing.

Reviews

[Guilt]

To make love a god is incredibly scary, and oddly beautiful. By all positive an negative respects, love claims the triumph and tragedies. A very accurate and contextual description of love, and it's intoxicating effects. And I thought it funny to ask for a blessing, because my understanding is that you must give to get. What would aphrodite demand in return? That's the scary part.

- Guilt

[Hypnos]

I don't want to think about it. that is why i haven't used it yet.