Where The Stars Meet The Sea

Lady Aphrodite is best known for her jealousy, her anger, and most importantly, her vanity. However, those who devote their lives to her know so much more. Those who drink tea of rose petals and wildflower honey, who adorn themselves with pearls and quartz, and weave seashells and flowers into their hair, understand that she also loves mortals.
She is fascinated by their love, both for themselves and for each other. She is infatuated with all kinds of love and the ways in which they express it. The little rituals they have developed for one another over the eons she has watched and cared for them.
Many do not see how much it pains her to witness abuse and hatred, how loveless marriages, such as her own, bring her grief and distress. As she has observed them through the centuries, she has had a few favorites-couples she has blessed with good fortune and great gifts. Hippomenes and Atalanta, Helen and Paris, Pygmalion and Galatea, and countless others.
This is another of those stories, one often lost to time and memory. This is the tale of the astrologer and the fisherman.