Pagans Do you have daily devotionals?

Question

What do you do daily on your path in a spiritual nature.
I burn insence and light candles and offer prayers to the God and Goddes each day.
How does everyone else do things?

Answer 1

What a fantastic Question!

As a solitary, my daily Pagan activities are very important to me.

When i wake i do a pentagram salute.
Then i go out side and greet the new day!
I usually give morning offerings to the dietys.
Then i have a purifying shower and meditate before waking the kids!
During my day i will tend to my altar, play pagan music, read pagan books, paint pagan pictures or talk to other pagans on here. I find all of this helps me feel closer and more in tune with my path. I burn insence and candles almost constantly while i am home too!
One of my favourite rituals of thanks that i do every other day is the white flower offering in Scott Cunninghams book~Living Wicca. This book has a good chapter on bringing our faith and our day together......ahh here it is chapter 7.....
At the end of my day i will usually go outside and moongaze for a while with a cup of chamomile or valerian tea.
Then i do another pentagram salute and its off to dreamlnd i go!
I love my Pagan Days!
~A~

Answer 2

There's very little that I do daily, although there is much I do "regularly."

I keep a chalice of water full. Everyday, I wash and refill it, and say, "My cup is empty. I make it full." That's about the only daily ritual I have, part of an ongoing effort for prosperity, which so far seems to be working.

Regularly, I spread a blanket on the ground under the sun or moon and use that a setting for meditation and communion with the God and Goddess. In the spring and summer, working in my garden with my hands buried in the warm soil is a devotional task for me.

In the colder months, I find my hands turning to cooking and brewing with thoughts of Them at hand, and I stock up on many of the remedies, potions, etc. that I like to keep on hand.

Incense, prayers, etc., are used more as a reinforcement, when I feel in need of something particular, a word of advice or a bit of help from Them.

Answer 3

I find that Paganism is a lifestyle as much as a spiritual path. I light candles, pray, do healing work, spend time in nature, practice some form of divination every day, remain tolerant and non-judgmental, don't harm any living things, and I count my blessings. I take salt baths for purification, and do a house blessing to purify/consecrate my space. These things I do on a conscious level.

On an unconscious level, I find that I stir deosil when I cook, sage in a particular way (N,E,S,W), and broadcast love and positive energy while I'm out and about and to those around me.

In regards to my spirituality, I don't fit into any particular category. I'm kind of a Neo-Pagan/New Age/ Metaphysical /what have you kind of person. I guess I practice Pixieism!

Answer 4

I guess I do just about the same as you. In the evenings when I come home from, i light candles and incense...to meditate, relax and say thanks for the day. Everyday I "try" more and more to live my life more like the God and Goddess would like me too and I am purposely making an effort to. So in the evening I think about the day, how it went, and thank them for everything. Then I make an effort to go out to my make-shift garden and enjoy the Earth and nature around(my little postage stamp of a yard-but hey-its green and lush-and growing w/flowers). This has become my evening ritual of sorts.

BB.

Answer 5

Lovely question.
I'm up and out the door with my wolf, Cece, at 5 a.m. heading to the nearby forest where we walk for 2 hours - encountering anything from elk, deer, coyote, skunk, badger, and squirrels. Deep in the forest I have a medicine wheel. In this area I perform my greetings to Goddess, the four directions, elements, the day, and Mother Earth et al. Give my offerings of tobacco, nuts, seeds, or dry corn and light incense. Then I sit and meditate on all the things of life I am grateful for, send out my blessings and listen to the many birds. Watch Cece and the Ravens in their dance together and occassionally we chase coyotes together in the meadow. When I return home at 9:00 I look up the meaning of the animal I have encountered and sage my house, light candles, incense and do my studies for the next couple of hours.
Then my day begins with love and joy in my heart.
Blessed Be

Answer 6

Sometime during the day, I pause and do a silent ritual of Gestures that is found in Scott Cunninghams "Wicca". I also meditate on my round hand made rug that is in a wheel spokes design symbolizing the pagan year. I make these rugs myself. I take it with me where ever I go. In the evening I light candles and give thanks for the day. I have chants that I say as I cook, clean and garden. I try to make everything I do a devotional to the Gods and Goddesses.

Answer 7

Well, maybe not every single day, but when I remember to, I drink tea and contemplate simple things that make me happy, such as the tiny ivy leaves at the end of a long tendril, the sky and cloud formations, flowers in others' gardens, the light that enters my room. I do some gentle yoga or sun-salutations, reciting "I am one with time, I am one with space, I am one with the Universe..." My rituals are simple and different each day. Quiet morning time is my own little orb of peace.

Answer 8

I have morning rites that mean a lot to me . . . a cup of honeyed coffee to the hearthwights, with a chanted folkcharm for the luck of the stead, and then I light the harrow candle and offer ritual prayers to my ancestors, heroes, Disir (familial goddesses) and Freyr.

It helps mold my worldview regarding my place within the Web of Right Relationships, and builds Luck.

Answer 9

Good morning Spirits of the North
I am successful
I am the body of Earth
The cornucopia of the earth showers blessings into my life

Good morning spirits of the East
I am creative
I am the spirit of the wind
my mind soars to other realms and back again

Good morning Spirits of the South
I am passionate
I am the glow of flame and sun
I magnetize and inflame the senses as I heal and burn.

Good morning spirits of the West
I am beautiful
my blood contains the tears of the mother
I am joy and hidden depths transcended from the moon

Good morning Spirits of the Spirit
I am the balance
my body, mind and spirit are in harmony
I stand in the center of my web weaving.

Good mornining Lord and Lady
I am your daughter (son)
Guide me and guard me throughout this day
Blessed be

Answer 10

I don't... not ritually anyway. My respect for nature and the way things work just happens naturally during my everyday doings.

I do try to to exercise and meditate, but relaxation and focus is more the point than devotionals... which I don't practice anyway because I'm an atheistic pagan (Taoist).