What does prayer look like in your practice whatever that happens to be? How much time do you spend in prayer? What is its purpose for you?
When I was a teenager, my father purchased a copy of the Book of Hours that RC priests use throughout the day and Year.
The past couple of years have been highly stressful, so I started looking into what I would do for a more structured prayer practice.
I found the
Order of the Horae website, and liked a lot of what I saw. My own practice is less Classical and more Northern, so I've adapted it.
Where they use the 12 "hours" of the day, I adopted Nigel Pennicks eight tides (of the day).
Also, my Pagan side has a strong astronomical component. So I've found a number of different prayers to Sunna, Mani, Daeg, Nott, by Raven Kaldera, Molly Khan, Wyrd Designs and others, mixed in with the Carmina Gaedelica and Clann Bhride suggestions.
On waking: "Bless to me, O God," Daeg, Sunna, Bhride
(I may add a Morning Star verse when I find one I like.)
Mid-morning, I honor the Deity for the day of the week
- Sunna
- Mani
- Tyr (as I'm reading up on Urglaawe, I may add Zisa here)
- Odin
- Thor
- Frigga, Freya, and Freyr
- Njord and Nerthus
Around noon, I say another prayer for the sun, a meal prayer, and the Clann Bhride mid-day.
Afternoon, I'm compiling a set of prayers to honor the tides of the year. It's still somewhat Wiccan-Celtic, though I've been shifting to the Heathen tides. The Germanic tides are usually less-strictly scheduled.
- Yule as a season. I started with 12 days, but It's probably longer.
- Mardi Gras / Plough Monday / Disting / Imbolc. Frau Holle, Freya as Vanadis, and of course Brighid. I also have a personal memorial during those weeks
- Eostre / Easter.
- May Eve and Beltaine
- Litha: Northr / Nuada / Mannawyddan
- Lughnassadh / Lokabrenna
- Harvest Home / Mabon / Freyr / Zisa's feast
- Winter Nights / Samhain
Evening: Sunna's setting, Prayers for the lunar cycle. I found Molly Khan's prayers to Mani based on the lunar phase, and am using those.
Nighttide: Mani, Nott, Sinthgunt, the Clann Bhride evening prayers, and "Compass me this Night." If/when I do a Morning Star prayer, here will have a matching Evening Star one.
I also might add Earendil as the planet Jupiter.
I don't do everything every day, yet. Sometimes the rising & mid-morning sequences are grouped together. I'm usually not awake for Uht, 2:30-4:30 am, so I don't think I have any of those.
I'm starting to work on a stellar cycle, probably zodiac-related, that I'll connect to Sinthgunt/Senuna/Stirona.
[Edited to fix broken link - SP]