Venus 

The goddess of love and beauty, also known as Aphrodite, 
Aphrogenia, Anadyomene, Astarte, Cytherea, Cypris, or Dionaea,  
is worshipped today when people (usually women) want to demonstrate 
their sexual passion, sensuality or  "tender" feelings! 
Her worshippers today want to know her within them, 
as to know their creativity, fertility, making love, using affection 
and revealing feminine beauty.

Demeter 

Or Ceres, is the Goddess of Grain and Maternal Archetype.  
Demeter is invoked in nurturing children, gestation, birth, marriage. 
She is the alleged archetype of the Great Mother inside us all. 
Demeter is also the goddess of the earth and thus is invoked when 
Pagans or Wiccans involve themselves in environmental issues.

Persephone 

(Prosepina, Kore) is the Queen of the Underworld and Demeter's 
daughter.  She represents the transition from maidenhood to adult 
womanhood, as well as season changes. In mythology she was 
abducted to the underworld by Hades, the deity of Hell.

 Athena

Or Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and Craft, represents 
logic and self-assurance. Her totem bird is the owl. 
She is ruled more by her head than her heart.  She is 
represented in skills and crafts, weaving, horse training, 
flute playing and other military, political and domestic crafts, 
and abilities to let people be free, unrestrained and immature, 
that is, becoming totally free from all moral and decent behaviour.
 
Iris 

The Goddess of the Rainbow represent feelings. 
Iris was the messenger  to The Goddess, Juno, 
and is thus the feminine counterpart to Hermes. 
In the mythology of ancient Greece, the goddess Iris had an 
ostentatious way to travel, she would ride on rainbows 
from Mount Olympus to her destination. When feelings overtake the 
Wiccas they call on her to balance their mind and heart, 
make their feelings rational as well.

Hecate

 Is the goddess of the moon. She is usually portrayed 
as a triple-faced goddess,  representing the Maiden, Mother 
and Crone and the three phases of the moon. 
She is also a mighty sorceress or witch, described as 
inhabiting the heavens, earth and the underworld (Hades' realm). 
She represents fertility, the menstrual cycle, crossroads, intuition, 
fluctuation, hope when people are confused and their understanding 
is vague. She is invoked through dreams, feelings and arts.

 Hestia

 Is the goddess of the heart. Also known as 
Vesta or Vestal Virgin, she is the inward-focused, meditative 
goddess of spirituality represented by the warmth of  heart. 
Wiccas invoke Hestia by making their hearts and home beautiful 
and by reorganizing in the meditative, centering quality 
of homemaking activities.

 Diana

Or Artemis, is the goddess of the moon and the 
hunt, the goddess of inner strength.   She is the 
virgin goddess of the woods, whose totem animals are 
the deer, bear and hare. She is an archer whose arrows 
never fail. The cult of the Roman Diana eventually 
merged with that of the Hellenic Artemis, goddess of the 
moon and of the legendary Amazons. She was worshipped in Ephesus 
as a black meteoric stone. Diana is the goddess of female warriors, 
lovers of the hunt, who refused marriage and the typical feminine 
roles of the age. Diana  was served by two kinds of priestess: the melissai, 
"honeybees" , and the remarkable male-to-female megabyzes 
(wisdom and beauty), who carried the image of the Goddess in 
grand processions on her local festival in 
late May. These gender-variant priestesses commonly served 
as makers of magic amulets... telling fortunes through casting 
of Ephesian "runes". The Great Temple, one of the famed 
Seven Wonders, met final destruction in the year 405 CE.

 
Juno

Or Hera, Hebe, Theria. is the Goddess of Commitment, 
power and healing. She is also the Goddess protector of 
women and marriage, "the Lady of the Cities," "the organizer," 
the lady of civic law, child raising and relationships. She is the Goddess of the 
summer bounty and the June bride.

The Moirai 

Are the Three Spinners of Fate, Human Life and Destiny. They 
allegedly represent that part of people that is in their center 
that makes unconscious choices based on their fate.

 The Muses of Meditation

Deal with memory and song, the act of creating, 
in connection with nature and the environment. 
 

The modern worshippers of goddesses claim these spirits represent certain 
aspects of their lives and characters. Thus they seek outside 
help of spirits, invoked by variety of magical spells and other 
types of witchcraft. Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore, 
is increasing in popularity these days.

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