Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about how we can celebrate Aphrodite April by embracing our own inner Venusian Energy!   I thought that this was the ideal topic for the final Friday of April.   

Now, this past month has been full of a reawakening of Spring energy, as this is the first month that is fully in the Spring season.    With this reawakening of Vernal energy, we also tend to begin to open up to new possibilities with the zest for life re-ignited by the Sun shining and warming the land.    This type of warming energy is ultimately linked to the idea that Spring is for Lovers, with ideas like Spring Flings (new love beginnings) being deeply tied to Spring, which obviously links this energy with both the Planet of Love and Love Goddesses!

April is tied to Aphrodite and Venus largely due to the fact that the ancient Roman festival of Veneralia, in honor of Venus Verticordia, was celebrated on April 1st.   Of course, this has gone on to lead modern Pagans, Polytheists, and Magickal Practitioners to associate the month deeply with this energy of the Love Goddesses, hence the term Aphrodite April!   However, I think that the association between Love Goddesses and Venusian energy with April, and Spring more generally, goes deeper than this ancient festival.    As stated above, the classic idea that Spring is associated with young love and new love deepens that link.    So does the whole idea of Spring being all about renewal and reawakening, more generally speaking.   After all, the Planet of Love and Love Goddesses of all sorts are also very often deeply tied to fertility.    Spring is the time when the Earth herself is becoming fertile once again!   That is why the Goddesses of Fertility are very potent during Spring.    

Now that I have gone over why Venusian energy is very potent during Springtime, let’s look at some ways that you can embrace Venusian energy as Spring reaches its peak.    Obviously, meditating and journaling around the energy of Venus and Venusian Goddesses is a great place to begin.    Certainly, this can be journaling or meditating with Aphrodite or Venus, but it can also be with Freya, Inanna, Ishtar, or my beloved Celtic Venusian Faery Queens.    You can meditate with Blodeuwedd, Guinevere, Rhiannon, Melusine, Morgan le Fay (in her Enchantress and Faery Lover aspects), Iseult, Olwen, Maeve, Aine, or Grainne.    You can journal about how their stories impact your life or make you feel.    If you want to do something more active to align with the Venusian energy this Spring, you can also dance to celebrate the abundance and beauty of life or create lovely rituals full of beauty in honor of Venusian energy!   Even simply taking a walk and observing the beautiful growth of the plants, trees, and flowers is a great way to tap into Venusian energy in a more active way.    No matter what you do, make sure that you are finding pleasure in the activity, as Venusian energy is very much in line with pleasure and beauty!

I hope you have enjoyed this short look at Aphrodite April and Embracing Venusian Energy.    In what ways have you been tapping into Venusian energy this month?   Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Note on Image: The image at the top of the post is a lovely Aphrodite artwork.   I found the art on https://www.kristendarcy.com/your-inner-aphrodite/.      

LINK TO AVALONIAN ROSE FAERY MYSTERIES PATREON: patreon.com/AvalonianRoseFaeryMysteries 

Further Reading

• https://www.priestesstraining.com/april-1st-is-the-ancient-venus-festival-of-veneralia/
• Blood and Roses: A Devotional for Aphrodite and Venus by Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies
• Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
• Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory