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Venus: Symbols of Wisdom and Beauty

Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli

Ascension of Wisdom: Vigilance of Discernment and the Application of Truth

Greetings Beloved  Kin,

Botticelli’s painting of Venus appears to be the celebration of Feminine Beauty. There’s much more to the story of the surrounding Time and Place. It was painted at the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of European cultural, artistic, political and scientific “rebirth” after the Middle Ages, when Humans turned away from the idea of Beauty as a Source of Divine Inspiration.

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