Tag: prayers

I praise Hermes of the threshold, Hermes who stands
watch by every home, who guards every gate.
Hermes who keeps safe from harm the households of men,
Hermes who knows the scoundrel and the thief, who knows
them as no other, who knows best the way to drive
all villains from the door, defend my home from all ill,
allow no evil to enter. Hermes, granter
of wit and wile, make of me an able foe
to any who wish me harm. Hermes, I pray to you,
I ask your blessing, grant me your favor

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Hellenic Protection Blessing for LGBT Youth

aro–aphrodite:

May Hestia help your family to be more accepting of who you are, and not try to change you.

May Zeus help repeal any laws that put you in harm, or try to deny you any basic human right.

May Hera bless your current or future marriage, with a gorgeous ceremony where you and your beloved are entirely safe.

May Demeter make sure you have enough food during any dark times when you don’t know when your next paycheck or meal is.

May Poseidon keep you safe from harassment during those dreaded swim trips before transition.

May Artemis protect you from sexual assault, especially Her sapphic daughters.

May Apollo aid you with smooth hormone therapy, and surgeries without complications, especially His achillean sons.

May Athena give you the strength to deal with ignorant bigots, and explain your identity so they understand.

May Hermes help you stay financially secure through abusive homes and relationships, transition, lost jobs, and moving out.

May Aphrodite bless your love life to find a partner who understands and supports you, and so that you love yourself a little more.

May Hephaestus help you be creative in coming up with new ways to pass a little more, while still being safe.

May Ares help you protect yourself from people who wish you harm, so that you can fight back the oppression.

May Hades comfort your lost brothers and sisters who are now with Him, and help you keep hope.

May Dionysos protect His trans children from fatal self-hatred. There is nothing wrong with you, for Dionysos, a God, is just like you. You are lovely, and you are ethereal.

A prayer for safety

I pray, small under the gaze of the Gods, that they may bless me with the weapons I need to inflict my heart’s fury
If I cannot yet be an armored daughter of Penthesileia, let me be a mare to pull the chariot of war until I grow in my ability to serve as a warrior.
I plead grant me your favor, Deimos, so I may strike dread into the hearts of men.
Bless me, Phobos, and turn yourself from my heart and instead into the hearts of men.
Ares guide my hand and gird me with courage so I may face my enemies with the fire of your essence.
Artemis, I pray you watch over me as you preserve your nymphs.
Enyo, look upon me favorably and take me to be a daughter of your arts and clamor.
Eris grant my hands the touch of discord to destroy those who would harm me.
Zeus, father, I pray you watch over me as a daughter, small and mortal, but loving of you as a father and a king.
Hera, queen of heaven, bless me with gentle hands and the acid of your wrath should I be betrayed.
Aphrodite open my heart, and cut off the heads of those who would seek to poison it, for you know of all the matters of the heart.
Hermes, make swift my feet and clever my being, to escape when I cannot raise my spear.

A prayer to Ares for blessing and protection

Ares Polemistes Talaurinus, I pray for you to take me under your brazen shield;
gird me in a belt of courage as you did your daughter Hippolyte.
Ares Oxys, put in my hand a bronze spear so I may spill the blood of men
Ares Obrimus allow me to put my small feet in the vast hollows of your footsteps,
Laossous rally my heart with the sound of your mighty spear beating against your shield
Gynaecothoenas allow me, maiden, to stand strong, a child amazon desirous of your favor and strength
Grant me the mindfulness to destroy those who seek to take from me-
watch over me in your fury as you did Alkippe.
Guide the strength of my hand and weight of my blow so they may strike to the very quick of my enemy
Miaephonus stain me with the blood of men, my open mouth accepts it as honey and bread; feed me.
Open me to my own violence, so I may inflict war upon the predatory hand and eyes
Let me fly as a hawk and strike as a poisonous serpent so men may know that I serve the god of blood and war.

Prayers in flight

persephone-praxidike:

Three prayers written while on a plane home, after several miracles of luck and timing coinciding to let me catch a flight on far too short a layover. Most prayers I feel very private about, but these felt meant to be shared.

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Hail Hermes lightfooted, swift-winged!
Hail to the traveler, to the messenger, he of the golden sandals and the silver tongue!
Hail to he to speeds the way, who clears the path, who lightens the load.
Hail Hermes swift-footed, clever tongued, fleetly winged!
Hail to he who aids the foolish, guides and speeds along the way.
Hail the Messenger, he who connects and facilitates all.
Hail his kind heart and laughing eyes.
Hail Hermes, kind to the deserving and undeserving.

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Hail to my lady of the frost and snow, she who descends with the chill of the air.
Hail to she who carries life beneath the earth to slumber till her rise.
Hail Persephone Khthonia, our lady beneath the earth, she who carries the turn of the seasons on her heel.
Keep chill what should be, and let not your mother’s heat wrack the earth and tear it from its slumber.
Let all things lie fallow and recover their strength until the proper time.
Let no life’s green force be wasted, Persephone Karpophoros, my lady of flowers and fruits.
Let the seasons turn in their time and all belong where it falls.
Beg your mother to cool the southern summer that kills bat and stills bird.
Let all happen as it should, in its cycle, in its turn, in its allotted time.
Hail, fair Persephone, cruel and kind, light and dark, above and below and never less than divine.

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Hail the Theoi, gods of our ancestors, gods of our today.
Hail to those brightly burning and to those shrouded.
Hail Zeus, King of heaven, God of lightning, God of xenia.
Hail Hera, queen of heaven, goddess of marriage of family of home.
Hail Hestia, maiden goddess, she of the hearth and the flame.
Hail Apollon, brightly burning, of medicine and sun.
Hail to Hermes, ever laughing, he who parleys between all.
Hail Demeter, fertile mother, she who cares for the life of the soil.
Hail her daughter, Queen Persephone, ruler of dead men underground.
And hail her spring face, Karpophoros, bringing life forth with her rise.
Hail Hephaestus, clever craftsman, overlooked and underestimated.
Hail Aphrodite, child of sea foam, goddess of passions in her right.

iamidae:

snow along the forest floor gleams where
the light hits it through the evergreens
and in our memories, quick to fade
it seems like the glow of starlit bows
those arcs we have not seen for seasons
there are no footprints in the drifts
but the twins were never that easy to track
and the only sign that they are parted
is howls at a dark moon that grow quieter
bears that choose to slumber through sorrow
the twins chased summer over hillsides
and shot it with shafts of shattered light
the brother moved north, the sister sleeps
and all we have left is the cold winter sun

-16.12.15 [to artemis and apollon]

Prayer to Hephaestus

He, the Sooty God, who’s thundering forges melt metal and earth
Skillful, quickfingered god who has granted me favor
I thank you with these offerings of frankincense
I offer you sweet wine
I offer you the meat and fat of the thigh
I pray my words have reached your ears, small words on small wings
Heard under the blows of your mighty hammer
Each time I light my kiln, rough fingered God, I thank you

Goddess Aphrodite

pentagramwitchcraft:

Gracious Aphrodite,
Maiden born of Sea,
Goddess of radiant beauty,
That shines from thy face and heart.

Ah! Thy skin shines bright like a distant star,
Capturing the hearts of man and god afar,
Enrapturing, no one is on thy par,
From the cestus on thy waist to thy golden hair.

Both men and god alike will fall to your will,
A mere glance sets any beating heart still,
Your power of love beats others power to kill,
Hail Aphrodite, Eternal Goddess of Love and Beauty!