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When Aphrodite shows up in your life it’s like a dance that you make with yourself, inviting you to enjoy, relax and party with yourself. Do you spend the day without thinking or saying how much you love yourself? Do you do little loving things for yourself?

Or are you tight, keeping yourself on a diet of starvation rations? Do you listen to your needs in a loving, respectful way, or do you criticize yourself for refusing to keep up with your schedule, for complaining about the job you hate, for moaning about the relationship you tolerate?

Now is the time to love yourself. Aphrodite says that to be able to love another, you must be able to love yourself. Loving others means being able to allow them to be exactly as they are. It means witnessing yourself and your loved ones with love, amusement and delight. The amount of space we can allow another is dependant on the amount of space we can allow ourselves.

Wholeness is achieved when we can hold infinite space and patience for ourselves first and then extend it to others.

To allow yourself to enjoy and enhance Aphrodite’s power and energy make sure to do little loving gestures for yourself. It can be as simple as taking some time and listening to your favorite music, it can be buying yourself flowers, or taking a long and pleasurable bath or even… a whole day just to be with yourself doing the things that you love.

Most of all it has to be a time where you whisper to yourself – “I Love You� and know that you mean it. If you are brave enough you can do it standing opposite a mirror and looking into your eyes and saying it until you know that your inner self has heard it and took in without judgment and cynicism.

Here are some suggested affirmations you can work with to enhance the energy and the power of Aphrodite:

• I am valuable
• I walk in beauty
• I am free to be myself, I accept myself as I am
• I release my habit of self-criticism
• My insecurity is replaced with wisdom
• At my center there is a glowing fire
• I release myself from harmful judgments
• I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to me

Enjoy your day and keep loving yourself!