Calendar of the Sun
15 Wolfmonath
Hestia's Day
Color: Red
Element: Fire
Altar: Today's ritual should be done in the kitchen and not the altar room. The hearth and the stove are the altar today, and a flame should be burning, and bread and milk and salt set out on the table. No other altar is required. After the ritual, all shall feast.
Offerings: Do kitchen work, or preserving of food, or cleaning.
Daily Meal: Any wholesome, extremely correct food.
Hestia Invocation
Flame of the Hearth / Keeper of the Inner Circle / Faceless One / Eldest of the Olympians / Lady of the Pantry / Whose open hands dispense hospitality / Chimney and cooking fire / Lady of routine and dailiness / To miss your quiet strength / In the rush of our sudden lives / Would be as great a disservice / As forgetting the air we breathe. / You who are the comforting hearth where we began / And the inner warmth that we will come home to, / Make this place a home for all of us. / Make this hearth a home of the every day, / The ordinary morning and noon, / The expected evening and the consoling night. / Teach us to take our time, Lady. / Teach us of the holiness of step after step / Chore after chore, moving in small circles / Around the hearth of our own beings.
Chant:
Circle round the hearthfire / Join our hands as one / Remember the Virgin Flame burns / Ageless as the Wheel turns / The place for which the heart yearns / Since this tribe has begun.
Pagan Book of Hours
Order of the Horae
First Kingdom Church of Asphodel
http://www.paganbookofhours.org/