Daily Routines

[maenad nuri]

For those of you with a consistent daily practice, what does yours involve?

Mines not always consistent, but I have my prayer beads that I probably use most days of the week.

For less than Daily, I bake about once a week as an offering to Hestia.

So what do you guys do? What do you want to do?  

[AniMajor]

I wish I'd be able to meditate every day. I'm at about once a week, and even then it usually gets shoved off to make room for something else.

I also keep putting off the things I need to create as permanent sigils, but once I do that, then, in theory, I will be meditating every day.  

[Branwen Silverwolf]

I have a small altar (it's really this yellow kitchen chair I found next to the dumpster and there was just something about it) set up where I light incense once I've got my daughter settled in the morning. I sometimes leave little trinkets that I or my daughter find.  

[Esiris]

I meditate and pray every day.  

[Synnthetika]

I try to remember to at least say a greeting to the landvaettir, the gods, and the heroes as I pass my heaped stone altar (I think it's spelled hoergr, but I have only heard the word, never seen it written) every day.

I want to be able to put a little offering there every morning as I leave. Nothing exorbitant, maybe even something as simple as toast with butter and jam or a little oatmeal. I'd also really like to get back into finding the runes. I've been putting it off for fear that I would start and then not be able to keep up, but I just gotta do it. Even if it's just for a couple minutes a day.  

[Collowrath]

I used to have daily practice. I would do a basic purification (washing my hands, arms, face). I would light a candle and recite the Orphic Hymn to Musaeus. Depending on the day I would either make an offering or just... talk. Put myself out there for the day to which ever one of Them was interested.

Eventually I stopped because my Hellenic practice at first became more focused on particular relationships and has now become more 'folksy' and less ritualistic.

My daily practice now largely revolves around the little things that form the basis of my personal faith - little actions like how I keep myself (physically and mentally), how I cook food, things like that. I also have an olive tree that I care for (it's still little and cute in a pot) in honor of the goddess who initially pushed me into the Hellenic pool.

Ideally I want to bring the ritual back in - regularly doing Noumenia for instance, and some sort of solid and separate daily devotion that is relevant to Hellenic and Slavic deities.  

[kyndryana3]

I have a routine I go through at night before bed. I say affirmations/gratitude statements. There is a tai-chi based exercise I was taught when I was very young that has stuck with me...to help relax the body. I also spend some time in prayer.

I don't meditate every day, though it is a pretty regular practice. I would like to get back into daily meditations, but I dislike meditating right before bed, and there are days where I have a hard time carving out time to spend in meditation.  

[blindfaith^_^]

I meditate and set my intentions in the morning and in the evening I do gratitude. Sometime in the day I do reiki on myself though that's more an as I see fit thing than a general must do. Twice a week I try to put time a side to focus on sending energy and prayers out for close friends and family. Once a week I try to focus on local news and global news. I keep up with current news events and personal events as they come, but I like to set aside time in my week to filter and deal with that mentally and religiously beyond the immediate moment I learn about said events.

I'm really connected to colors and there personal meanings. This season I've been focused on green and gold so I do my best to work it into my wardrobe and to keep an eye out for those colors in the world around me. Before that I was looking for blues and teals and before that it was orange.

Sometimes I hold constant symbols and signs with me, but right now I don't see a need and none of my guides have directed anything specific as they sometimes do.  

[Hawk Atreides]

This is kind of weird, but I always used to have one last cigarette before bed as a time to meditate and give gratitude before sleeping. I've nearly stopped the religious aspect of it, to my shame, but I think I intend to pick it back up again. It grew out of necessity and maintenance of hospitality, and eventually became near-ritual. Then it just became habit. I think I can still say I use the time to shed the day in the manner I think my deities wish of me, but it's no longer a directed act.

Sorry if this doesn't quite fit.  

[patch99329]

Collowrath

Eventually I stopped because my Hellenic practice at first became more focused on particular relationships and has now become more 'folksy' and less ritualistic.

This in every way.

Most days now I light my candle for Hestia and recite a Hymn for her. Then, throughout the day if I am around I will burn incense or leave a little food out for one of the gods or my ancestors as I go about things.  

[Seeky]

I think everyone, including and especially, saint dreya, will find this weird. I say the Sailor's Creed before bed as an affirmation.  

[Cunning Witch Angus]

I try to meditate everyday and do a crossing at night in honor of those I serve. Sometimes I am too exhausted however crying

I try to meditate in the morning and at night, but usually it's just at night. Though...I suppose my shower counts....hm...

I also try to give an offering to the local spirits once a week and a bigger offering to those I serve on a Saturday or Wednesday. But mundane life sometimes gets in the way.

Stupid mundane life...work...school. *shakes fist*  

[Dante Moonshadow]

Hawk Atreides

This is kind of weird, but I always used to have one last cigarette before bed as a time to meditate and give gratitude before sleeping. I've nearly stopped the religious aspect of it, to my shame, but I think I intend to pick it back up again. It grew out of necessity and maintenance of hospitality, and eventually became near-ritual. Then it just became habit. I think I can still say I use the time to shed the day in the manner I think my deities wish of me, but it's no longer a directed act.

Sorry if this doesn't quite fit.

I actually do something very similar. I guess one could say that it is a sort of ritual. I mean, i don't personally attach any meaning to it, just a time to think and mull things over, clear my mind, etc. before going to bed  

[Naynram Ukir]

Seeing the divine spark inside myself, as well as being a fan of Buddhism, I would say my daily/weekly rituals would include meditating and taking care of myself, as well as the world around me.
I don't see anything else as important.
I wish I could be more consistent though.

 

[Salmenella]

I pray twice a day with an offering. When I wake up and before bed, I light my candle for Vesta and pray/make offerings to her and the household and family spirits.