Ave, Performed the Invocation of Venus, and had a couple of significant things occur. After lighting my sweet-smelling incense, and giving myself a good purification and consecration I stood before my altar and said a short prayer. The richly green candles on the altar gave of just enough light. The temple felt comfortable and warm, like a hug. There was a frission, within the room; it felt like the moment immediately before you're about to kiss a new potential love for the first time...a kind of sultry intensity. I worked through the battery of rituals, and came to the point where one invokes the Goddess Hathor. This was very interesting. I sang a short song in her honor, and felt great energetic rushes into my heart center from below. I created the astral form, and then went to step within it. My eyes were closed, and within my inner eye a blossoming of the form occurred. What was at first a 2-dimensional Egyptian style image of the Goddess became 3-D and lifelike. Her head wa...