One of the best ways to help get yourself connected to the cycles of life on a daily basis are through daily devotionals. I have a set of devotionals I perform each day that help me wake up in the morning, center my mind throughout the day and relax as the day ends. Though the prayers themselves become set words, it helps as a trigger for the mental and emotion state I am trying to achieve through these moments of worship.
Morning
Devotionals
Sun Rise Devotional
As the sun rises refreshed and renewed, as
do I rise into the new day.
Prayer to the Kindred
Through the Ancestors we gain courage.
Through
the Nature Spirits we find peace.
Through
the Gods we learn wisdom.
Through
the Kindred we are whole.
Ganesha Devotional
Great and noble Ganesha, wise and youthful
dancing lord who opens the way for
humankind;
I
come before you, setting flame to candle and incense in your honor.
I
ask that you open the way for me and my own, that we shall traverse this life
with the
ease of your love
Blessed One!
Chant: ॐ गम
गणपतये नम: (Om
gam ganapataye namaha!) [performed 108's per set.]
Sunset
Devotional
As the sun sets upon another day, I release
the worries and burdens that have done before.
Night
Devotionals
Hestia Devotional
Lady of the sacred flames, you whose throne
lives in the hearth of every home, I light this
flame in your honor and ask that you protect this home and
all within its walls, fill it with
your radiant light. Glorious Hestia, always be the light in my
heart.
Demeter Devotional
Demeter,
warm golden wheat crowned queen of growing things, beautiful and radiant
goddess of purification, I
light this flame in your honor, and ask that you teach me your
ways, and cleanse my soul from human
frailties, that I may grow closer to divinity.
Persephone Devotional
Blessed daughter of Zeus and Demeter,
shimmering light of spring, goddess torn between
two worlds, you who are the queen
of flowers, you are the queen of the Blessed dead, you
who were given the power of eternal life,
I light this flame in your honor, Persephone, I ask
you teach
me your ways of life, death, and life again so I may know eternity.
Hekate Devotional
Hekate, lady of torches, light in the
darkness, I light this flame that you will shed your light
upon me.
Hermes Devotional
Hermes, swift and smiling lord, I give you
this burning fragrance in offering, and ask that
you allow me to see and travel in dream. I ask that this flame ever
light my way when I
return home.
Libation Devotional
Great Ones, Shining Gods and Goddesses,
I come to you as in times of
old, bringing libations, gifts to honor and soothe:
White milk, sweet to drink from
the animal sacred Hermes, the cow;
Golden honey, the distillation
of the bees that work on sweet Persephone’s blossoms;
Holy water brought from source a
pure spring;
This refreshing, unmixed drink
from the ancient vine, its mother Demeter the Goddess of
all growing things;
And here the fragrant fruit of
the pale green olive that lives its abundant life among the
leaves and light of Helios, the gift of Athena;
These gifts I give to you in
love and in respect, in friendship and kinship.
Might Ones accept my offerings!
Prayer
to the Kindred
Through the Ancestors we gain courage.
Through
the Nature Spirits we find peace.
Through
the Gods we learn wisdom.
Through
the Kindred we are whole.
Bedside Devotional
As darkness and rest fall upon the world I
lay my head into the hands of the gods in perfect
love and in perfect trust until the light of dawn. Awen and
Blessings Be!
