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  • Exploring Venus Verticordia on Venus Day

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings, and Happy Venus Day!   For this week’s Venusian Femme Fatale Friday, I am discussing an epithet of Venus.   Venus Verticordia, or Venus Changer of Hearts, is one of the Goddess’s most potent aspects! This aspect of Venus was said to change women’s desire from…

  • Embracing the Creatrix Archetype with the Empress Tarot Card

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Thursday blog post, I will be exploring the Lover and Creatrix Archetypal energy to examine working with the Empress in Tarot! As we draw nearer to the Summer Solstice, the energy of the Empress grows more profound.   Of course, her energy…

  • The May Queen as an Aspect of the Celtic Venus

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I will be discussing the connections between May Queens and the Celtic Venus! To begin with, May Queens are automatically Celtic Venusian figures in my realm of thought.   To be a May Queen, you have to have…

  • The Lovers Card and the Alchemical Marriage

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Tuesday post, I have decided to discuss the Lovers card and how it relates to the Alchemical Marriage!   I think that this post can be read as a bit of a companion piece to my most recent Patreon exclusive post, where…

  • Iseult: Faery Queen of Cornwall & Healer Princess of Ireland

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I will be discussing Iseult and her nature as a Faery Queen and Healer!   I have long been utterly fascinated, and honestly totally obsessed, with the legend of Tristan and Iseult.   My obsession began in…

  • The Mermaid Queen Archetype

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, the topic is the beauty and power of the Mermaid Queen Archetype!  It is quite obvious that when I call this the Mermaid Queen Archetype, I am describing an archetype that is a balance of the Mermaid…

  • Calypso, Enchantress of ‘The Odyssey’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I will be discussing Calypso!   Now, I did write about Calypso a bit in a recent post where I discussed Aquatic lore in The Odyssey, but I have surprisingly never written a whole post just about Calypso.  …

  • The Adonia: Ancient Greek Festival to Celebrate Adonis as the Consort of Aphrodite

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be discussing the Adonia, a festival to celebrate Adonis!   The Adonia was said to take place around Midsummer, in July, which is why I am writing about this today.    However, I want to note that while Plutarch…

  • The Empress and The Lovers: Tarot Cards of May

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post is about how the combined energies of the Empress and the Lovers cards in Tarot are so perfectly aligned with May’s energy!   As it is the end of May, I thought that this would be a great way to…

  • A Look at Celtic Venusian Films

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s post, I will be discussing films to watch to embrace the energy of the Celtic Venus!   Now, I will note that some of these are more obvious for the category of being Celtic Venusian, while others are more modern and not nearly…