Life of a Hellenic Polytheist

Hail to you Lord Hades ruler of the Underworld and Noble Queen Persephone We ask that you hear us and bless us this night as we honour you and give our love to our passed loved ones whom have gone before us. Grant us thy favour and protection as we give our messages to our loved ones whom we miss,  May they be able to board the boat of Charon the ferryman in peaceful serenity and without fear.  Great dark haired son of Kronus and great brother to the Mighty Zeus, we ask that you only allow through the veil and the gates of the afterlife those whom we love as well and keep all negative and evil entities out.  Great Hades and Persephone I/we bring thee both an offering of Insence and Food,  Take from it what you will and leave what you do not want.  May you keep us in your hearts and minds this Summer's end on this night as we pass into the the new season safely with your love and blessings of the Gods. Hail to Hades and Hail to Pers...

A friend of mine  asked how to get closer to his deity, but wasn't sure how to go about it. So it got me to thinking, "how can we get closer to our Gods/esses in everyday life, in addition to our prayers and our daily devotionals?" There are so many things that we can do to get closer to our gods in everyday life either as hobbies that we do or even become a professional in a particualr subject,activity or field. As some of you may or may not know I am a female cubscout leader for our local cubscouts group and when I first started out 5 year ago they were about to integrate gilrs within the cubs, which is a very new thing considering cubs is mainly for boys and girlscouts is mainly for girls, for obvious reasons. So as my fiance was already a leader, he roped me in with the whole idea of becoming the first young female leader (there were two other female leaders, but I was about 23  at the time). So of course I was interested and although we only had two girls in cub...

Hail to you O'beautiful and noble Lady Artemis, skilfull huntress and guardian of the wood, Protector of our children and animals of the world. We praise you and your might this day. O'skillful huntress of the ever shining Moon grant us thy favour, protection and strength we give thee reverance and honour. Great blessed daughter of the Mighty Zeus and Leto and twin sister to our blessed Lord Phoebus Apollo, I bring thee offerings of Pine insence and water. May you grant me the strength and courage to fight for independence. Hail to you O'skillful markswoman of the far shooting silver bow and arrows, You who with your loyal hunting hounds are in ever pursuit of the stag. Keeper and guardian of the forests and nature We praise and honour you this day For you are the one voice amongst many Hail to you O'blessed Lady Artemis