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Finally it's part three!🌻🌼🍃

🌿You can find part 1 & 2 on my page under the tags 'altar' and 'altar ideas'🌿

So in this post I'll be showing my Aphrodite & Apollo altar, second part of my 'main' altar which is for Hecate/Hekate, Rhea and Cronus/Kronos and my little altar/shrine for Demeter.

So first, my altar for Apollo & Aphrodite.

All of the tall white statues were given to me as a gift, they were sort of given as a 'set' so that's why a Caryatid stands at the back I didn't want to separate her 😂.

I got the two smaller statues weirdly enough before I was given the bigger ones. Which is why I thought it was fitting for Aphrodite and Apollo to share an altar (it was kinda like they were showing me in a way).

At the back I have gathered some shells and also placed a golden snake on Apollos statue for him. At the moment I am offering them a summer rose & oud candle (it smells amazing not gonna lie).

Like my other altars I've got some artwork that I like pinned at the back & at the side on the bookcase I drew some symbols of theirs.

Back at the front for Aphrodite I put a stone I had found at Crete in the shape of a love heart, a white clam shell and a pink stone/rock I had found on my walk abouts.

Lastly I have a column candle holder on each side for again candle offerings (which I do alot will probably make a post on it at some point). And a shell with evil eye cocktail sticks inside which was given to me by my friend when she visited Turkey.

Now for the second part of my 'main' altar.

From left to right, I have dedicated my rocks and crystals to Rhea, especially the snow quartz egg seeing as she is the mother of the gods (Zeus,Poseidon,Haides,Demeter,Hera and Hestia).

And yes that is a tea light holding it up, when your broke you get creative. She also watches over some of my divination things which are crystal such as pendulums and runes.

In the middle I have put my things for Hecate or Hekate, a crystal ball I don't do much scrying as I find it to be a very hard type of divination to get used to but seeing as Hekate is the goddess of witchcraft I thought I would actually give it to her as an offering of sorts.

I put a skull and a amethyst crystal to represent the underworld. A tall candle stick holder which reminded me to much of her not to put on there and my own drawing of her sacred symbol.

On the far right I have a little corner for Cronus or Kronos. As he is the god or titian of time putting a glass timer seemed fitting for him I am also going to add offering bowls when I get the chance. I gave him a old pocket watch with a horse on it which he weirdly seemed to approve of.

And lastly I have my little corner for Demeter, I dedicate all my Cacti to her seeing as it is the only plant I can have in my room. There is another one on the other side but I didn't take a picture of that... oops.

I'm hoping to get another cactus soon (I'm basically the cactus lady 😂😂) so I will also dedicate that one to her aswell.

Well...that's the end of my altars tour, I hope this gives ideas to others that are struggling to think of lay outs or ideas for their own.

If anyone has any questions feel free to pop up in my Ask box or Dms I don't bite 😁

(AKA Chronos & Cronus/Saturn) 

Although these two deities are separate beings, they are very similar in most aspects, so I decided to make a post designed for both of them! 

Small devotional acts.

Wake up early - enjoy the dawn.

Schedule your activities.

Buy a new time-keeping device.

Listen to slow or fast paced music.

Wander around stores with no particular goal in mind.

Be ruthless, but wise, in getting what you want. 

Watch the clock as it ticks.

Embrace the moments where you’re stuck with nothing to do.

Go to bed and wake up at a regular time.

Play a game that has a time limit.

Make/buy a sundial. 

Watch timelapse videos.

Take a long bath.

Don’t take shit from abusive/cruel power figures.

Get an hourglass.

Learn the history of time-keeping in different cultures - it may go back further than you think!

Hang out in liminal places, like a train station or waiting area.

Take what you want.

Either have an abundance of time pieces or none in your room, whichever feels best to you!

Go for long drives, where everything starts to feel blurry. 

 Meditate. Find timelessness.

Please don’t eat your children.

PRACTICE LOVING YOURSELF.

Many, many, many other things not said here.

Welcome, Devotees!

Take a good look at your Home Shrine.  Is it everything you want it to be?  If not, try one of the following:

Remove an object that you think no longer belongs on your Home Shrine.  Is it still important to you, or have your Gods/Spirits/Thoughtforms/Entities asked you to keep it?  Put it somewhere else in your living space—so long as it feels like it belongs there!

Have something you’ve been meaning to cleanse/purify and add to your altar space?  Today’s the day!

Dreaming of the perfect altar?  Put together a Home Shrine Wishlist.  You don’t need to go out and buy everything—but it’s helpful to get an idea of what you want on your altar eventually!

Got your Wishlist put together?  Got money?  Go get one of the items on your Wishlist!

Something about your Home Shrine setup bugging you, but you can’t put your finger on it?  Try rearranging things and see if you like it better.  (You can always go change it back!)

Today in the Hellenic Calendar: 

According to the Attic calendar, it’s the 12th of the month of Hekatombaion.

The Hellenic Calendar is made up of four-year cycles based on when the Olympics were held in ancient Olympia.  We are now in the first year of a new Olympiad—the 698th since the four-year cycle began!

The 12th of Hekatombaion is the historical date for the celebration of the Kronia, a New-Years festival.  Unlike modern New Year celebrations with countdowns and all, the Kronia celebrates a mythical time in which humans lived in peace, committed no crimes, and had all they needed without having to work for it.  The myths say that Kronos, the Titan father of Zeus, was ruler of the universe during this Golden Age.  During the Kronia, the ancient Hellens would reverse normal social structure--for example, letting slaves boss masters around.  It was generally topsy-turvy.

Wondering why the Titan Kronos is honored when the myths make Him out to be a jerk?  Read this wonderful article by Elani Temperance of Baring the Aegis.

Here is Elani Temperance's article on the Kronia in general.

Drew Campbell’s list of daily devotions suggests reading Orphic Hymns 39 and 40 to Demeter and Meter Antaia (an Eleusinian cultic title for Demeter) as well as 26 to Rhea-Kybele, the Mother of the Gods.  (Demeter and Rhea were closely associated in Orphic cosmology.)

NOTE: Regarding the Orphic Hymns, some lists combine the first two prayers (#0, “To Musaeus," and #1, “To Hecate") into one ginormous prayer.  Others keep the two separate.  The list on Theoi.com combines them, but whatever list Drew Campbell worked from did not.  So if, say, Campbell suggests using Hymn 34 ("To Apollon"), Your Mod will follow Theoi.com’s numbering system and link to Hymn 33.  The more you know~

For those of you who would like to learn ancient Greek, this day of the month is called the dodekáte mesoûntos (roughly pronounced “doh-deck-AH-tay meh-SOON-toss"), meaning “the second of the middle [of the month].”

The ancient Hellens divided their lunar month into three sets of 10 days (or two of 10 and one of 9), called “decades," rather than a number of 7-day weeks.

Keep an eye out for the Synoikia, a celebration marking Theseus’ unification of Attika, on the 16th of the lunar month.

Hekatombaion is the first month of the Athenian calendar.  The Athenians chose to celebrate their new year with this month because their patron Athene had Her biggest festival of the year—the Panathenaia—towards the end of the month.  If you research other calendars, you may find that the New Year took place at different times in different parts of Hellas!