APHRODITE
Love
When I open my heart
I am filled
With delight so profound
With ecstasy so sweet
With pleasure so deep
The connecting with my beloved
Takes me to all the places
And the union
Plays rhapsodies in my soul
I can achieve union
When I achieve oneness
With myself
I can dance partnership
When I can dance alone
I can love another
When I can love myself
Aphrodite ( pronounced a-fro-dye’tee ) ancient Mediterranean Mother Goddess, traveled to Greece when the Greeks colonized Canaan. The Greeks say Aphrodite was born of the union of the sky and the fertile sea womb, when the castrated penis of the former sky God Uranis fell into the ocean. Although traditionally revered in all her multitudinous aspects, including battle, the Greeks, in their effort to assimilate her, relegated her to a love Goddess. When she arrived at Olympus, Zeus, the chief God, married her to Hephaestus, the lame god of smithcraft. He made her exquisite jewelery, but she preferred the passionate Ares, God of war in her bed.
