LOVE Botticelli’s Birth of Venus ~ saw the original painting in Florence. She keeps popping up lately all over these pages. She symbolizes rebirth, comes to shore as a beautiful pearl in a clam shell. And her handmaid rushes with her Primavera cloak to hide her nudity. The Goddess of Love tells us to love ~ painted during the Renaissance, it is the revival of beauty and living in vivid colour ~ all about the age of discovery. Hopefully taking this journey after heartbreak and loss we discover the beauty within and love ourselves.