(Credits to @Pulse.fm on Tiktok for coming up with this originally)
Anyways, enjoy my probably terrible rant about Aphrodite and her connection to Girlhood and that great feeling of childhood innocence!
(Yes I should be asleep, how did you guess?)
The first time I saw this, I didn't think much about it I see a lot of this on my Pinterest regularly. But I stumbled upon this again while working on something else and it really resonates with me.
Probably, because yeah, I relate to this. I went through puberty very, very young and I didn't know what was happening and it wasn't explained until those awkward talks at school did I actually learn what was happening.
And every day since I actually became aware I'm growing up, I've wished I could go back. I still do. I wish I could be a little girl again, but I can't, I don't have the option to go back. I can do things, that make me feel like a little girl again but I will never be a little girl again.
I think this is something every girl can relate to, growing up too fast. We were always expected to grow up fast and be the mature ones at school,
"Girls mature faster then boys."
It's not just a coincidence or a random thing people say, we do because it's expected of us. Girls are expected to be responsible somewhere around elementary school, boys don't have to care until middle school, because that's the appropriate time to grow up.
I think this entire thing allows girls to connect with Lady Aphrodite. She probably understands, growing up too fast, being forced to take on the weight. Struggling with a new changing body, a new world, eyes staring from every corner, aware, and unable to be a little girl again.
She understands that struggle, she understands that we can't go back to being little girls, but she wants you to help feel like a little girl again. She gives you the feeling again.
When you find a cute stuffed animal, when you do a new makeup look for fun, when you rediscover a picture book you used to love, when you play in the bath... Anything that makes you feel like a little girl again.
She's there and she understands
She loves when you feel that childhood innocence again, when you experience childhood joy again, when you go back to that feeling of innocence, that's what she loves!
Sorry this was so long, I should be asleep but this just made me so passionate that I felt like I needed to type this up now. So anyway what do you guys think about this? Also please remember this is my personal interpretation based off of the photo at the top.
I was born in the wrong biome
God does not make mistakes. You were made in Her image. We are led astray by false gods and idols so that we be persuaded, to change our faces, our bodies, our beauty. We destroy Her Creation, Her carefully crafted features, that She gifted our mothers and grandmothers before us. The features She will gift your children, and your grandchildren. And you will look upon them, and see God Herself in your Creation. And you will see beauty.
“She fully aligns herself with the masculine order, but she breathes into it soul, mercy, wisdom. She is above all others, the goddess of civilization.”
— The Gods of Greece by Arianna Stassinopoulos and Roloff Beny (via seafoambeauty)
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I've always found God in sunlight and water rather than trees and dirt
“Woman is the light of God.” ~ Rumi
The Guiding Light by Andrea Fossati (Italian artist, 1844-1919)
Mermaid Cave by 2D artist Zana on ArtStation
-Hylas and the Nymphs-
Femininity is like the sea, a perfect balance between active and receptive, ebb and flow
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