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Post by mystrick on Feb 11, 2011 10:39:19 GMT -5
Does anyone have any daily devotions that they do? I am curious to see what people do.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 11, 2011 14:15:08 GMT -5
I am more of a get into bed at night and pray sort. Sometimes I fall asleep in the middle of it though if I am too sleepy lol
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Post by spyke on Feb 11, 2011 14:17:36 GMT -5
In the Kemetic Orthodoxy, we have a daily ritual called Senut in which you spend private shrine time with Netjer (Deity) and offer to your Akhu (ancestors) and Gods. I try to do it as often as I can. On my Norse path, I am on my way to developing established devotions.
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Post by rhynne on Feb 11, 2011 18:19:43 GMT -5
oh man. I don't know whether to LOL or just sigh. Well, here goes: I don't have a daily devotion. GASP! I know. Bad pagan, right? Part of me swears I've been secretly ADD for years, but the other part of me says, well, if I need to do something, I'll do it. Sometimes I'll do a Wiccan full moon ritual, and that's what I need then. Sometimes I'll just light a candle and sit quietly in the dark, with only the flame's light illuminating. Sometimes I need to cleanse a space and out comes the incense. Once in a great while I need to whack up a great big ritual--and by big, I don't necessarily mean lots of stuff. It could just be a poem of what is needful right now, it could be symbolic things arranged just so, or just me wishing real hard every day for something to happen. yes, I'm undisciplined. or I'm intuitive. probably both. ~shrug~ any tips on making a daily meditation stick? I especially have problems with this because it's hard to tell my guy (with whom I practically live with all the time) that I need five minutes to light a candle and chant. I mean, he's OK with my paganity, but I guess I'm shy.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 11, 2011 18:28:13 GMT -5
What is a meditation stick? I have not heard of that before I don't think
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Post by rhynne on Feb 11, 2011 18:52:59 GMT -5
lol What I meant was, does anyone have advice on making it easier to actually do your meditation or whatever every day. I've never heard of a literal stick you use for meditation either
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 11, 2011 19:03:37 GMT -5
Ohhh sorry lol. Was gona say I have never heard of such a thing. You could meditate at night in bed and use it to drift into sleep
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Post by toujourspursang on Feb 11, 2011 22:33:58 GMT -5
I don't do daily devotions, Hecate doesn't ask them of me. At the end of Winter and at the end of Summer I take a Hecates' Supper to the crossroads; Raw fish and eggs, cheese, and bread in the summer and in the winter it's the same as in summer but it's all cooked. I also take a bit of cooked and raw food to the crossroads on the sixteenth of November. Other than the Hecates' Supper I don't really do anything, I raise my glass to her on the twenty-ninth of each month and on the thirteenth of August I fast in her name.
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Post by Roberta on Feb 14, 2011 9:02:01 GMT -5
I'm going to respond to the daily devotion thing but in a new thread and make it sticky.. I've got a couple silly admin things to do first but I'm adding it to my list right now.. seriously I have a note pad.. lol
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Post by Wandering Druid on Feb 14, 2011 19:49:44 GMT -5
Bertie I have stickies too. I love Windows 7 lol Your desktop is probably covered with them. lol
I use a scale down version of a ADF core ritual that I am still modifying to better fit my Rewilder ways. I have no problems with the offerings as I feel building a relationship with the First Ancestors, my mortal Ancestors and the Spirits of the Land are a important part of my spiritual growth. As a herbalist, I build my relationship with the Spirits of the Land through the plants I work with. Across the board, building a relationship with the Spirits of the Land is formost for a Rewilder. Magick to us Druids is a by-product/reward of the spiritual work. For us, spiritual growth is first, magickal practice is second.
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Post by mystrick on Feb 14, 2011 23:03:52 GMT -5
I do devotions but more on a monthly bases. I have to really relax myself because I find myself distracted easily. So when I do them I do them in a bath of salt water, with candles, stones and sometimes incense, depending on how much I need to really relax my brain.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 15, 2011 15:03:55 GMT -5
I wouldnt recommend any form of meditation in the bath lol. But what ever works for you I guess. Magic to really comes last, dunno why. It just isn't important to me at all. I hate ritual and spell work is alright but hmmmm I dunno. My connection to spirit/the gods is what is the most important to me
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