Welcome Kyrah!
If you love learning about different traditions you are in the right place! Haha…
Aphrodite is lovely ~ I’ve never worked with her personally, but it seems like virtually everyone I meet who are her followers are lovely people! I was “claimed” by a different tradition ultimately, but I’ve met Hekate, and I worked briefly with Asclepius once from the guidance of a Hellenic witch. It was a little bit of an unusual situation but I thought he was a wonderful god of surgery!
( And btw none of your shared experiences are unusual - spirits and deities leave interesting impressions on us when they are near. As long as you don’t feel unsafe, you should be fine! I have over 30 years of exposure to them personally. If you have any difficulty, just let us know! )
We are no strangers to this technology here!
We have an entire topic on this subject:
We get into other various meditation techniques later on in that topic. My practice is very meditation-heavy so you’ll see a few of my recommendations there.
Cheers. 