About Venus
François Boucher,,,,,,,,Venus……….1764
To me a particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror.
C.G. Jung
In C.G. Speaking, page 239
About Venus/Aphrodite
Venus seems to have had no origin myth until her association with Greek Aphrodite.
Venus-Aphrodite emerged, already in adult form, from he sea foam (Greek αφρός, aphros) produced by the severed genitals of Caeius and Uranus.
Her male counterparts in the Roman pantheon, Vulcan and Mares, are active and fiery.
Venus absorbs and tempers the male essence, uniting the opposites of male and female in mutual affection.
She is essentially assimilative and benign, and embraces several otherwise quite disparate functions.
She can give military victory, sexual success, good fortune and prosperity.
In one context, she is a goddess of prostitutes; in another, she turns the hearts of men and women from sexual vice to virtue.
Varro’s theology identifies Venus with water as an aspect of the female principle.
To generate life, the watery matrix of the womb requires the virile warmth of fire.
To sustain life, water and fire must be balanced; excess of either one, or their mutual antagonism, is unproductive or destructive.
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Venus/Aphrodite represents the composite nature of the Unconscious within the water principle of gender texturalization. Blended yet unique to the feminine and masculine swirling control within and without the distinct gender model. This balance mirrors the centrifugal balance of the earth.