She went to Kypros, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple.
Homer, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
This charm has been a work in progress for close to a year now, an offering in dedication to the Foam-born Queen whose hand has guided so much of my life over the past several years. Many of you who became keepers of the Venusian nymphs that Sfinga created a series of talismanic homes for in the shapes of the Eyes of Nepherieri have kept in touch with us over the past two years, updating us on your experiences with these incredible spirits we met on the shores of Aphrodite’s birth in Cyprus. It has been a true pleasure hearing each and every update, how these beings have helped you find the love of friends, lovers, spirits, and art, how they have become some of your closest familiars and spiritual allies, and how they have continue to teach you in dreams. Even though I was not responsible for their enchantment, I was privy to much of their process, and have continued to work with mine ever since.
Since that time, other spirits we have met on our travels, or who came to us directly via other patrons and relationships we have, have stepped forward to the both of us, asking to be given shape, form, and sustenance, so that they too may find their new sorcerers and homes. One of the most prominent that I have been working with over the past year has been a daimon or attendant spirit of Aphrodite who requested her one unique, one-of-one embodiment. Each step of this process was guided directly by her whim, from the ways in which her vessel was procured, to the sacrifices that gave her embodiment and form, and the bonds and pacts she had forged for me along the way, proving the tenacity of her will and the fire of her spirit.
The shape she chose for herself was that of a vintage perfume bottle. After much searching, she vetoed almost every potential construction I suggested, until she at last led me on a rather whimsical journey to a gorgeous antique store in which it laid, alone, at the literal feet of a larger statue of a fully moss green Venus de Milo that I also ended up purchasing independently. This bottle was ritually cleansed in waters sourced from mountains, churches, and fonts sacred to St. Petka directly by Sfinga, who is an ardent devotee of the saint. Its inside was smoked in my personal blend of incense for Aphrodite, as well as powders and dusts of Venus in Pisces.
In keeping with her vessel, her arcana is deeply entwined with scent, perfume, and subtler things carried on the soft winds of Spring and in the warm breath of a lover. Each step of her construction was similarly fragrant, with dozens of different blended incenses and scented oils burned in offering, the smoke of each captured in her bottle for her later use. I then created a sort of nest for her within her vessel, using the downy feathers from two pure white doves which had been given as offerings, again layering them with fragrant materials. I then purified, enlivened, and installed the core of the vessel, itself a bundle of of precious stones and herbal materia, the vitality of seven white doves, and my own personal Oil of Nepherieri, Oil of Philia, and Tincture of Agape. I constructed additional talismanic bundles enveloped in rose petals, each programmed to a particular function linked to the arcana of the spirit and added to the vessel. Finally, when approved by divination, I put the final seal on construction with lace used in a wedding and pinned it closed with a feather from one of the doves utilized.
Well before her vessel’s completion, the nymph herself revealed a wonderfully contagious energy, full of sweetness, levity, and deeply-felt joy whenever called. Across the months I spent with her, I tested her abilities, cunning, and efficacy as a working spirit extensively, and noted her unbounded ability to change the mood of a space along with the people and spirits in it was a great balm to the soul. Call on her presence with scent in the form of perfume or incense, keeping in mind that the quality of the scent will change and program her manifestation with almost kaleidoscopic intensity. I also find that she regularly distributed her offerings to other spirits nearby, both those enshrined in the home and those in the land, emphasizing a communal harmony born through lightness, play, and the pleasure of the sensorium. For those who cant easily burn incense or use strong scents in the home, contracting this spirit to tend to altars as a sort of elevated shabti on your behalf in exchange for perfumes or diverse forms of flavorful and fragrant food and drink offerings is an ideal workaround. She has a strong ability to cut through miasma and the lingering heaviness encountered in places of the dead, and to lift the spirits of the dead in need of council and resolution.
I will provide the individual who decides to become this Nymph’s guardian with additional specific information about this spirit, including the names and methods by which to call her, offerings and workings from her arcana for love, friendship, social harmony, enchantment, and even subjugation which I tested and found effective shortly after her construction, and records of the visions I had of the spirit throughout her vessel’s construction that reveal more of her personality and ways of working. My intention with providing full instructions on how to work with her, make offerings, and experience her personality is to ensure that the pact with this spirit transfers fully over to their new keeper, such that she may become a key spirit in their court and integrate in the promotion of the health and harmony of their other spirits.
Before purchasing at the link below, I ask that you please perform your own divination to see if this spirit is right for you and your court. I have a deep love and fondness for her and I only ask that she goes to the right person who will care for and appreciate her and her vast skills.
With Cunning & Command 