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By knowingly seeking encounters with Hestia in our daily life, by letting her quiet, calm, orderly presence influence our behaviour, we can come to the awakening that there is sacred Mystery in the mundane.
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
When they establish the hearth, it is with the thought and hope that it will always remain in the same spot.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Brighid, Goddess of hearth and home, I ask that this incense/flame might be blessed in your name, that it may purify and cleanse this home, this place.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
O Great Spirit (or Goddess and/or God), I ask for your blessings on this my home, my hearth, my household.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
The Goddess embodies and symbolizes the powers of birth, life, and death (rebirth), and as such, the powers of fertility. She is the supreme regulator, and it is she who controls the seasons, the cycles of nature, and the movement of the sun, moon, and all celestial bodies.
Sarah Owen • Celtic Spirituality: A Beginners Guide To Celtic Spirituality
A blessing upon this home, A blessing upon this hearth A blessing upon this .
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
Great Spirit/God/Goddess, O Brighid of the Hearth, I thank you for your blessings.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
O Brighid, Goddess of the well and the flame, I ask that this water might be consecrated in your name, that it may cleanse, purify and bless this home.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
The domestic hearth had a high priest, who was the father of the family; the hearth of the cury, had its curio, or phratriarch; every tribe, in the same manner, had its religious chief, whom the Athenians called the king of the tribe. It was also necessary that the city religion should have its supreme priest.