Current Offerings and Religious Observances: A Brief Look
Currently, I have several routine offerings going on. The first ten days of the lunar month brings the cyclical offerings to Selene, the Agathos Daemon, Athene, Hermes, Eros, Aphrodite, Herakles, Artemis, Apollon, and Poseidon.
I also worship Apollon every weekend (Saturday/Sunday) during the Kyklos Apollon ritual, which is a great regular ritual. Hermes receives offerings on days I work in thanks for helping me find employment; I bought a huge box of chrysanthemum incense for this very purpose, and I have about two weeks left of these offerings. At some point, I need to find myrrh incense so I can offer Rhea two sticks (because I prayed to her as well near the end of my unemployment).
This weekend will also be busy. I will make a khoe (a drink libation that leaves nothing for the worshipper --- you don't share libations with the dead) to my ancestors, especially my maternal grandfather, who passed away this past January. I will also make offerings to the Chthonic Gods (Hades, Hermes Psychopompos, Persephone, etc.) in honor of the holiday.
Pompaia begins Tuesday evening and runs until sunset on Wednesday. I will make an offering to Zeus on Wednesday, probably a libation.
For libations and other rituals, I either just make the offering or follow a loose version of something posted at sponde.us.
2 responses:
Kallisti,
I was wondering if your interactions with the gods change during times when you are making more offerings? Does it effect your dreams? Do you see an increase in synchronistic events? The long and short I guess would be, do you feel like your offerings are answered in anyway?
Making more offerings increases my sense of gratitude. Offerings are also a component of formal Hellenic prayer, and it would seem very foolish to promise something during a prayer and then not follow through.
As for results ... yes, I see an increase in synchronistic events at times. All of my professional work came through networking opportunities rather than the eleventy billion applications I had sent out, which corresponds both to the "85% of all jobs are found through networking" statistic and one of Hermes's areas of expertise.
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