A Prayer for Faith in my Humanity

I know the sharpness of hunger in the belly,in the heart.Scarcity dogs my steps,a story written in refusal to live.You whisper in my dreams,bidding me to be in this world as I am of it.I am afraid to trust;I cannot do your work without it.Bright Lady, help me know my darknessas well as I know … Continue reading A Prayer for Faith in my Humanity →

A Prayer to Menkar

Menkar, star of Cetus,I know what passion drives youTo ensnare, to dissect, to flavor our understandingWith the fruits of devouringAll that lies beneath, between, within.Menkar, salt-maker, turning poisonTo preservation, to medicine, to vitating agentWith your firm walls imprisoningThat which, transmuted, makes us live.Menkar, ill-fortuned, you shineIn my heavens, sun-touched as the seasYou would constrain, contravene, … Continue reading A Prayer to Menkar →

A prayer to Cetus

Cetus, churning in the deeps,Creating currents, cycling the depths That feed our lives, our souls, Through which arise that potentientiating chaos,A wellspring of all that may yet be.The muscular rasp of scales sliding, sinuous In heaving, heavy darkness Is an answering churn within me.Great Beast, may I come to know My own deep rhythms,To ride … Continue reading A prayer to Cetus →

Be welcome.

Grace is a place I've come to inhabitat the edges of my own ruinous heartwhere life flourishes, as it does in every bramble,these joins between the worldswhere the fruit is tart and the thorns feel sweet.When the long night, sharp against my throat,steals my breathand I do not know how to forgive myself for being,it … Continue reading Be welcome. →

A Prayer to All the Mes I’ve Killed

If I call your name Beloved, would you know it is you to whom I speak? You are the sacrifices of my survival; we chose, each of us in our turn, to make that bargain.Oh, Beloveds, hear my prayer as the beating of your own hearts, I entreat you! I reach for you in voice … Continue reading A Prayer to All the Mes I’ve Killed →

A Lughnasadh Prayer

Written by AN Gorniak, 2021. Image from Spark Post free image gallery, chosen because I made whole grain pancakes and berries for my own offering. I stand before you, Shining Ones,and offering I bring.Tailtiu, Foster Mother, who gave freely all that you could give that your people may eat;Lugh Samildánach, who knew the worth of … Continue reading A Lughnasadh Prayer →

Prayer a Day- November 30

Ogma, I stand in the warmth of your honey-tongued illumination, seeking skillfulness. May your light wash through me, distilling, that my words may uplift and edify those who hear them.Noble sage, may your wisdom guide me to be a fit champion of the youth entrusting me with the stories of the hearts, adequate to their … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 30 →

Prayer a Day- November 29

A prayer to Tulsi,with whom I am coming into relationship:Tulsi, blue-visaged herbmaking sacred the soil in which you root,teach me to consecrate the places I rootthat I and those with whom I share this spacemay flourish.Center of all pilgrimages, growing within yourselfthe sacred stories of all that could ever come to be,inspire in me the … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 29 →

Prayer a Day- November 28

Weaver, your work glistens in sunrise like the stories in my mind,each strand holding fast to its anchor,moments in time spiralingcenteredlimned with tears like drops of dew.May I learn the carry in me threads enough to weave the warp and weft of a lifetime.May I learn to connect to whatever anchors this life affords.May the … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 28 →

Prayer a Day- November 26

My heart speaks with words my tongue cannot yet shape, an earnest upwelling of Thanksgiving for the rich loam in which our lives are rooted,fecund with the blessing of the Ancestors,fed as well by the unacknowledged theft of lands yet unceded crying out for their stewards,a legacy it is ours to heal as so much … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 26 →