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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

A prayer on returning:I plant my feet a little more firmly, roots tunneling deep with easethrough old familiar channelsin the limestone,the sharp chill of flint,sudden wealth of watersdeep beneath.The earth,crumbled and cracked,soaks up the offering I pour,saying simplyHome.I am home.At last.Image of a chipped flint-like gray rock resting on it's side on duty Earth. Image … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 25 →

The threshold holds no answers.It cannot tell me whether I should step through, what I might gain, what it might cost.The door may have no locks or manyor be riven open by some strange claws.Either way there is but one key,found in the flavor of a wordengraved upon the center of my being.Spirits of courage … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 24 →

As with any relationship, sometimes in our relationships with the godden we make mistakes or fail to follow through in ways that require efforts to restore trust and good will. Hence, a prayer to accompany a piacular offering:Cerridwen, Wise One, I would honor you in your many guises, stirring the depths from which wisdom is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 23 →

A prayer for my Mother:Books are gateways-to worlds, ideas, ways of being and of knowing.Books are people-new friends, old enemies, strangers whose speech we catch in snippets, tantalizing.And some books take on the patinaof the hearts that know them,of the hands that smoothed their pages,of the tears that wet them,a sea salted by longing for … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 22 →

Airmid, physician's daughter,whose grief nourished the seeds of our cure,I honor you.For the centeringIn the familiar rhythms of knife and whisk,In the way Rosemary rises to wrap me in her scent,In the unfurling tendrils of life through loam and sinew.I honor you.For the awakeningIn the sting of the Nettle on swollen joints,In the visioning of … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 21 →