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Venus

2013-04-18T19:20:52Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Romans honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, She fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix'' and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix'', the bringer of good fortune. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski
"Storia Romana LXIX 4" Cassio Dione Cocceiano

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:19:36Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos: /* Sources */

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Romans honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, She fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix'' and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski
"Storia Romana LXIX 4" Cassio Dione Cocceiano

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:11:28Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Romans honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, She fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix'' and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:11:14Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Romans honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, she fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix'' and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:10:54Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Roman honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, she fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix'' and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:10:39Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Roman honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, she fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix''and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Venus

2013-04-18T19:10:19Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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[[Image:Venus courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb|Venus, courtesy of Vroma]]

'''Venus''' is a goddess of Spring, flowers and vines. Her Latin name defined her character (''venerari'', "to entreat, charm"). She has taken on many attributes of Aphrodite, her Greek equivalent.

After the military defeat at Trasimene, the Sibylline Books were consulted, and a temple to Venus of Eryx, Phoenician Astarte, was dedicated on the Capitoline hill in 217 B.C.E. It was exceptional for a foreign deity to have a temple in the heart of the Capitoline. Capitoline Venus' cult did not have the ritual prostitutes famous on Mt. Eryx, Sicily; rather the cult was Roman, and linked to the Romans' Trojan origins.

Another temple was vowed to Venus Erycina extra Portam Collinam, the 23 of April 184 B.C.E. The cult statue, Venus seated with a dove and Amor, was said to have been a copy of that on Mt. Eryx. Outside the Pomerium, Venus' cult maintained more of its Sicilian character.

The Roman honored her as ''Venus Genetrix'', the mother of the Roman people. According to legend, she fell in love with [[Anchises]], a Trojan prince, but he was blinded when he saw her in her full glory. Their son [[Aeneas]] escaped the Fall of Troy and, after many adventures, settled in Italy. He became the forefather of the Roman people, and an ancestor of the ''Julii''. [[Julius Caesar]] and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Genetrix''and [[Hadrian]] dedicated a temple to ''Venus Felix''. Hadrian's still stands near the Flavian amphitheatre.

Venus has darker aspects too, such as ''Venus Libitina'', an aspect of ''Venus'' associated with the extinction of life force.

Here is a full list of her epithets: Calva, Capitolina, Cloacina, Erycina, Felix, Fisica, Frutis, Genetrix, Iovia, Libitina, Martialis, Myrtea, Obsequens, Plagiaria, Syntrophus, Verticordia, Victrix.

= Poem =

from [[Titus Lucretius Carus|Lucretius]]' ''De Rerum Natura'':

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, 
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars 
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main 
And fruitful lands- for all of living things 
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, 
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- 
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, 
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, 
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, 
For thee waters of the unvexed deep 
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky 
Glow with diffused radiance for thee! 
For soon as comes the springtime face of day, 
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, 
First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, 
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine, 
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields 
Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, 
Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee 
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, 
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, 
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, 
Kindling the lure of love in every breast, 
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, 
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone 
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught 
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light, 
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born, 
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse 
Which I presume on Nature to compose 

= Invocation =

"Seu tu caelestis Venus, quae primis rerum exordiis sexuum diversitatem generato Amore sociasti et aeterna subole humano genere propagato nunc circumfluo Paphii sacrario coleris." — Apuleius, ''Metamorphosis'' 11.2

[You celestial Venus, who at the beginnings of the world united the difference of the sexes making to rise the Love and propagating the eternal progeny of the human kind, now you are honored in the temple of Paphos that the sea surrounds."]

= Sources =

"La Réligion Romaine de Venus" Robert Schilling
"Dieux et Déesses de L'Univers Phénecien et Punique" E. Lipinski

[[Category:Roman Gods]]

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:18:32Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts. She developed her talents of divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia, which was associated with divination by lots at the oracle in the ancient temple of Fortuna in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:17:22Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts. She developed her talents of divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia, which was associated with divination by lots in the oracle at the ancient temple of Fortuna in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:16:17Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts. She developed her talents of divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia which was associated with divination by lots at the ancient temple of Fortuna in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:15:47Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts, and developed her talents of divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia which was associated with divination by lots at the ancient temple of Fortuna in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:14:37Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts, and developed her talents of divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia which was associated with divination by lots at Her temple in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:13:47Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts, and developed her talents in divination in concert with her research for the Goddess Fortuna; specifically in Her aspect of Primigenia which was associated with divination by lots at Her temple in Praeneste. When Veturia discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:12:14Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Veturia learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby during a lull in business between architectural contracts, and developed her talents in divination in concert with research regarding the Primigenia aspect of the Goddess Fortuna. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:08:49Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:07:55Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. She is in the process of designing a priest and priestess ordination program for her own organization as part her independent, and ongoing projects. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:07:35Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. She is in the process of designing a priest and priestess ordination program as part her independent, and ongoing projects. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:06:31Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. She is in the process of designing a priest and priestess ordination program as part her separate, and ongoing projects. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:04:36Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and is in the process of designing a priest and priestess ordination program as part of the projects she initiated before becoming a Nova Roma citizen. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:03:12Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and is in the process of designing a priest and priestess ordination program as part of her independent projects. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:02:27Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. As a spiritual practitioner, she is ordained as a humanist member of the clergy through a separate organization and is in the process of developing an ordination program. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:00:59Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds licensure for the sale of California real estate properties and businesses. She is also an ordained member of the clergy, as a humanist, through separate organizations. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T17:00:20Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in California (C22740).

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds a California license for the sale of real estate properties and businesses. She is also an ordained member of the clergy, as a humanist, through separate organizations. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:58:00Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her credentials in the artistry of building design, Veturia holds a California real estate salesperson license. She is also an ordained member of the clergy, as a humanist, through separate organizations. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:55:27Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license and is ordained as a member of the clergy ordainment through separate organization. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:54:51Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license and clergy ordainment through separate organizations. She has performed marriage rites as a legally accepted officiant in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:52:44Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license and clergy ordainment through separate organizations. She has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:52:26Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license and clergy ordainment through a separate organization. She has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:51:56Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license and a clergy ordainment through a separate organization. She has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:50:37Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her design credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:49:56Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her Architectural credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:49:47Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

In addition to her Architectual credentials, Veturia also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:48:19Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

Veturia also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:46:58Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed several independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:46:32Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had developed numerous independent projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:45:49Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had been involved in numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:45:16Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had been involved numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:44:59Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a contemporary NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had already been involved numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:44:31Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was experienced as a NeoPagan Goddess Priestess and had already been involved numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:43:24Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna from a NeoPagan perspective, and became interested in the Religio Romana. She was already trained as a Goddess Priestess and involved numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:42:17Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna from a NeoPagan perspective, and became interested in the Religio Romana. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved numerous different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:41:24Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna from a NeoPagan perspective, and became interested in the Religio Romana. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects including a separate website, radio show and nonprofit religious organization. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:40:26Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna from a NeoPagan perspective, and became interested in the Religio Romana. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a nonprofit organization for this Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:40:11Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna from a NeoPagan perspective, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a nonprofit organization for this Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:39:26Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

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Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a nonprofit organization for this Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:38:49Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna as a NeoPagan, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a nonprofit organization for this Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:38:07Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a NeoPagan nonprofit organization for this Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:37:27Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, she was already involved a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a distinct nonprofit organization for the Goddess. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:36:25Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, her research had already expanded into a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a distinct nonprofit organization devoted to Fortuna. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:36:11Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, her research had already expanded into a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a distinctive nonprofit organization devoted to Fortuna. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)

2013-04-18T16:35:49Z

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos:

{{BioHeader|name=Gaia Veturia Sacerdos|id=14062}}

Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds an A.A. with Honors in Music and a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ). She is an alumna member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society and a licensed Architect in the state of California.

Shortly after becoming active as a citizen, Veturia was honored to be selected the first place winner of the Certamen Historicum held during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma. She is proud to have established the lineage of the Veturia gens for Nova Roma in AUC 2766. She chose her Nova Roma name as an historic tribute to "Veturia", the mother of the ancient Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus and the first, founding priestess of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris. This temple to the "womanly aspects" of the Goddess Fortuna was an ancient feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war; a temple which was requested on behalf of women's rights by "Veturia" and earned by the successful efforts of a group of ancient Roman women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave the women of Rome, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.

C. Veturia Sacerdos discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna, and became interested in the Religio Romana as a spirituality. By the time she applied for citizenship, her research had already expanded into a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a separate nonprofit organization devoted to Fortuna. She had become a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were divinely answered. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by her mother's new husband; a mysterious immigrant with a strong and quaint foreign accent, who hailed from a region located somewhere within the extensive realm of the ancient Roman Empire ... a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family. Her childhood fascination with books, drawings and pictures illustrating the ancient mythologies, statues and temples of the deities from the Pagan era of Greece and Rome would become the foundation for her University studies in the Architectural design of buildings, sites and cities.

She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California. Between architectural contracts, she learned divination by cartomancy as a calming, meditative hobby. When she discovered that her gifts were well-received by clients, she developed these skills into a second career. At the same time, she earned additional occult credentials as a master consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma, Veturia quickly adapted her knowledge, tools and practical abilities in consultation by {{Global|divination|{{GlobalText|EN=divination|LA=divinatione}}}} to include an Oracle by Lots using English translations of the traditional Homeric texts. She continues to be available as a professional in California, and also entertains a "moonlight" occult consultancy by email, live chat and phone.