Episode 20: Playing Her Part: Aphrodite and the Art of Being Worshipped

Welcome back to The Wisdom Path Podcast. This episode is part of Playing Her Part, a special series where Rosie Peacock explores the sacred feminine through myth, embodiment, and archetypal storytelling.

In this lush, magnetic chapter, Rosie guides us into the ocean-born realms of Aphrodite, not the softened goddess of romantic daydreams, but the sovereign seductress, the origin of Eros, and the creative flame behind all beauty, desire, and artistic longing.

With mythic retellings, sacred symbolism, and poetic invocation, we remember Aphrodite as a force of fierce femininity: the one who doesn’t wait to be painted, but becomes the art itself.

This episode is a full-bodied reclamation of sacred sensuality, creative magnetism, and unapologetic embodiment. Whether you’re an artist, a lover, a visionary, or a woman returning to herself, this is for you.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• Aphrodite’s seafoam origin and her rise from chaos, not romance

• The mythic meaning behind her symbols: the mirror, rose, sea, apple, and girdle

• Aphrodite as mother of Eros – the force of creation, not just Cupid’s arrow

• Why Aphrodite is not soft love, but embodied longing, life-force and disruption

• A cinematic retelling of Aphrodite appearing in a modern-day photography studio

• The true nature of the muse archetype – and why Aphrodite doesn’t pose, she becomes

• Rituals, embodiment practices, and visual direction for invoking Aphrodite in your art and life

• Behind the scenes of Rosie’s photography pathways: The Muse, The Oracle, and The Priestess

• A final poem: Aphrodite and Adonis – a myth of love, loss, and cyclical return

Key Quotes:

• “Aphrodite doesn’t wait to be painted. She is the art.”

• “Desire is not dangerous. It is divine.”

• “To love something that will not last is a holy act.”

• “She isn’t the muse in your gallery. She’s the ache that made you reach for the brush.”

• “She doesn’t beg to be chosen. She chooses herself—and becomes magnetic.”

Journal Prompts with Aphrodite as a Guide:

Use these to explore your own sensuality, creativity, and power. Best explored during full moons, new moons, or during rites of self-devotion:

• What parts of me have I been told are “too much,” but are actually my power?

• What does true, sacred beauty feel like in my body?

• Where have I been waiting to be seen, rather than claiming my own gaze?

• What desires am I ready to honour—not as indulgence, but as divinity?

• How does Aphrodite move through my creativity, my relationships, and my body?

Other Episodes in the Playing Her Part Series:

Episode 10: Playing Her Part - Reclaiming Lilith: Feminine Power, Sovereignty & the Myth of the First Woman

Episode 12 - “Persephone's Story: The Hunger for Wholeness”

Episode 16: Reclaiming Hecate – The Torchbearer of Transformation

Reclaiming Inanna – The Descent, the Death, and the Return (coming soon)

Connect with Rosie:

Blog: https://www.rosiepeacock.com/blog

Photography Portfolio: www.rosiepeacockphotography.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrosiepeacock

Substack: https://iamrosiepeacock.substack.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamrosiepeacock

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wisdomkeeperscollective

Takeaway for Listeners:

This episode is a sacred call to reclaim your beauty, your longing, and your creative fire, not as performance, but as truth.

Aphrodite is not soft, sweet love. She is the shimmer on your skin, the art in your bones, the ache that births beauty.

She doesn’t wait to be loved. She loves herself into becoming. She doesn’t ask to be seen. She sees, deeply, clearly, wildly.

If you’re feeling the stirrings of something more, something magnetic, something that says I want to be art, not just seen—this episode is your invitation.

Thank you for walking this path with Rosie. May you remember that your sensuality is sacred, your longing is holy, and you were never meant to be a muse.

You were meant to be the masterpiece.

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