Goddess of the Week: Venus

...Daisy...needs a "heartwarming" goddess, which I take to mean a goddess who'll provide comfort during hard times.

This was a tough one.  As I so often say, goddesses tend to be pretty kick ass.  It's not that they don't feel empathy.  Most have been through tough times, themselves; it's that they don't have time for wallowers.  And, personally, when I am needing comfort, I tend to be wallowing in self pity, and that just doesn't sell with goddesses.  Goddesses will help you, but they need to see the fight in you.

And if you've got some fight, a go-to goddess is Venus, the Roman goddess of Love.  She had this son, Aeneus.  Long story short, he was a Trojan who escaped the final days of the Trojan War and made his way to Italy, where his descendants founded the Roman Empire.  People tend to focus on Venus's romantic exploits, but she was a good mom to Aeneus.  She was really committed to him, and she helped him out whenever things got bad, and they did often.  His wife died; his other wife killed herself because he left her to found an empire and then both wives sort of haunted him.  It was a bad scene.  But Aeneus never gave up, which is one reason Venus worked so hard on his behalf.  In fact, when Aeneus died, Venus washed his body in the river of immortality, fed him ambrosia (not easy cuz he was dead), and convinced Jupiter to make Aeneus a god.  She loved her son, and she loved his empire.  She became known as Venus Genetrix, Venus the mother, and she looked down upon and cared for the Roman people in time of need.

But you don't need to be Roman to call on her.  You just need to have a little fight left, and...Daisy...of course you have fight left!  You are a daughter of Venus!  Of all people, she will definitely comfort and help you.

Channel this goddess: When you are tempted to wallow!  No wallowing allowed.  Stand up!  Put on your boxing gloves and get out there!  You can do it!  You can have it!   You can be it!  Now go!


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