Aphrodisia: Day of Aphrodite Pandemos
Colors: Gold, rose, and pale green.
Element: Water
Altar: Upon cloth of pastel colors place a vase of unblemished roses (and apple blossom if available), six rose-colored candles anointed with rose oil, incense of flowers, a chalice of red or rose wine, a chalice of clear water, the figure of a white dove, and a figure of Aphrodite Herself.
Offerings: Sacred sex, or flowers.
Daily Meal: Sweet things. Fish.
Invocation to Aphrodite Pandemos
Pink and red and green and blue and gold…
Love comes in many colors.
Love goddess pink, baby pink,
Newborn infants, newborn love,
Rose pink, tentative, hesitant like the first blush of dawn;
All hail the love that comes in many colors!
Love god red, passion red, rose red.
Apples and valentines,
Arrows struck to the heart.
All hail the love that comes in many colors!
Love goddess green, sea green,
Malachite green of many waters,
Springing from the foam with the green of new life.
All hail the love that comes in many colors.
Love god blue, sky blue, deva blue,
Piping the music of love to many longing ears
All hail the love that comes in many colors.
Love goddess gold, honey gold,
Sun gold, ornament gold,
Golden glow of life; true color of love.
Hail Aphrodite Pandemos,
Love of all the people,
Love for all the people,
Love for all who calls your name.
Today we cleanse you of all impurities,
As your divine love cleanses our souls.
Chant: Love is a river, flowing from my heart, flowing from my heart.
(The statue of Aphrodite is brought forward, and the water is poured over her, and all hands gently stroke and cleanse her, and return her to her shrine. The wine is poured as a libation.)
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