Valentine’s Day
PHOTO BY SUSAN TAMCSIN, FOR BIG DIPPER WAXWORKS
Valentine’s Day at Home
When you celebrate at home, you can:
- Enjoy privacy.
- Go with the flow.
- Create atmosphere.
- Select your own menu.
- Pick your own soundtrack.
- Be intimate without concern.
- Wear what you like or nothing at all.
Buy a bulk case of Big Dipper tea light candles to create messages for your sweetheart. Draw a heart or arrange them to spell words such as “love” or your sweetheart’s name.
Aphrodite’s Day
Most mainstream Valentine’s Day concepts can be traced back to the Victorian era: drab, droll, seemingly devoid of sensuality. To find this holiday’s true beauty, we have to reach a little farther back in time.
Overtly sensual Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love and beauty in ancient Greece, is a tempestuous free spirit, born of the sea. Like the sea, she shimmies on the surface but reveals vast, mysterious unchartered territory underneath. Aphrodite engaged in several ongoing affairs of passion. Her lusty romance with the sexy Ares, the god of war, resulted in a son, Eros, otherwise known as Cupid. Like his mother, Eros represents an essential force of nature that prevails, regardless of censorship and moral propaganda.
ZOE HELENE, is developing Cosmic Sister (cosmicsister. com), a multi-generational network of trailblazing women. She works and travels with her husband, ethnobotanist Chris Kilham.
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