- Archive
- Labels
Follow @spiritualbiz on twitter
- Today I finally understood:
Denial is unfocussing on the issue
Magical thinking is blaming something else for the... http://t.co/98TiG15s
sent Monday at 4:46pm - Feeling like things are super intense in your world right now?
We have a Full Super Moon in Scorpio, the Wiccan... http://t.co/a77T6d6R
sent May 4 at 6:20pm - Buy The Perfect Location Book by Kate Forster (9781921518669) at Borders with free shipping http://t.co/lxLj9LZi
sent Mar 30 at 6:01pm - Love it. http://t.co/62VgTuMY
sent Mar 16 at 12:14pm - Can I ask you a personal question? How are your chakras? See if you are in balance, with this nice little quiz here. http://t.co/z7OFMIeU
sent Feb 21 at 2:56pm - http://t.co/mMltMA2p
sent Feb 19 at 10:25am - I am going to do this for 100 days. I'll let you know how I go. http://t.co/9NPPf5yn
sent Jan 25 at 3:51pm - 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days http://t.co/6tez7Emw
sent Jan 25 at 3:50pm - Got kids? Check this site out from lovely Lauren. So gorgeous. I know where I will be getting my gifts for... http://t.co/euZE2Imr
sent Jan 23 at 8:02pm - Chinese New Year on Monday. The Year of the Blue Water Dragon. Want to know your scope for the year? It's all... http://t.co/jjsoowSx
sent Jan 21 at 7:18pm
- A few things I am loving right now
- Friends
- Bounce back
- Bitter pill
- Feel the joy
- Fridays Mystery School
- Catch up
- They danced by the light of the moon
- Tick Tock
- If it's not fun, then you ain't doing it right!
- Odd Spot
- Fridays musings
- Nine
- Inspiration
- Choice
- Looney Moon
- Got faith?
- What do you look like?
- Ever?
- Dreams and tattoos
- There's a new moon in the neighbourhood
- If you need something to do
- Dizzy with relief
- Keep reading
- Stop draggin' my heart around
- Sing the theme from Mahogany
- Cookie?
- Moon in Gemini
- Hot Moon In Taurus
- Spiritual madness
- Critical point
- Manifesting
- Mask anyone?
- Hush your mouth
- The greater good
- New Moon Alert
- One step
- Hex, hex go away
- Mercury on your wings
- Mercury Retrograde Alert
- Admit One
- Wishing well
- The Little Boy Lost
- Mermaid
- Once upon a time
- Dreams
- Fish Friends
- Fish Moon
- Sign
- Say a little prayer
- Capricorn Moon Dancer
- Offering
- Reverse
- 555 the number of love
- From Here to Quaternity
- What a hoot
- Praise Venus and Fortuna
- Getting positive
- The Yin and the Yang of it
- Moon in Scorpio
- Thoughts while driving under the lunar influence
- A bunch of Pagans, the lot of you!
- Full Moon In Libra
- Strange dreams indeed
- Blessed Cherub
- Process and serenity
- No point crying
- Contraction
- Climbing the stairs
- Ramblings after too little sleep
- A few thoughts
- Getting away from it all
- There was an old woman who lived inside me...
- Capricorn dancer
- Perfect Sunday
- Action plans (2)
- Affirmations (1)
- Angels (1)
- Archetypes (1)
- Aries (1)
- Astrology (12)
- Buddhism (3)
- Business (4)
- Chiron (1)
- Comets (1)
- Connect (2)
- Crystals (1)
- Dreams (6)
- Eclipse (6)
- Feng Shui (3)
- Goals (1)
- Goddesses and Gods (3)
- Hope (1)
- Insomnia (1)
- Jung (1)
- Jupiter (1)
- Leo Moon (1)
- Lunar (11)
- Manifesting (6)
- Mars (1)
- Meditation (1)
- moon (9)
- Moon in Aquarius (2)
- Numerology (1)
- Owls (1)
- Pluto (3)
- Prosperity (1)
- Seasonal Celebrations (1)
- Solar Eclipse (1)
- Spellwork (2)
- Symbols (1)
- Syncrodestiny (2)
- Tarot (1)
- Time (1)
- Venus (1)
- Waiting (2)
- Water signs (1)
- Yin and Yang (2)
- Mayan (3)
- Positivity (1)
Blog
Praise Venus and Fortuna
April Fools Day was a celebration by ancient Romans to celebrate the combo festival of Fortuna Virilis, one of the many aspects of the Roman Goddess of Luck and Chance, Fortuna. Her title means "Manly" or "Virile", and it can be supposed that she made boys into men by making them strong and robust, and watching over them through the difficulties of puberty. She was connected with the Love-Goddes Venus(who also "makes boys into men", albeit in a rather different way), and She was worshipped with Venus at the festival of the Veneralia. and Venus Venticordia.
The Veneralia was a holiday of Venus Verticordia ("Venus the Changer of Hearts") held on April the 1st, the date of the founding of Her temple on the Aventine Hill, in which rites to Fortuna Virilis seem to have played a part. Perhaps the two taken together were meant to inspire and protect young men as they began to take an interest in sex and/or girls as they grew; and further evidence of a link between the two Goddesses is found in the fact that a shrine of Fortuna Virilis was located besides an altar to Venus of the Basket, though exactly where in Rome they were located is unknown.
Basically, the Romans would play tricks and muck around with their high jinks. Wearing their clothes backwards, a l
