child of the theoi

Hestia is the Greek Goddess of the hearth, home, architecture, the state, and family. She’s also one of the virgin Goddesses who is seen as a protector deity. Legend says that she was originally one of The Big Twelve (or the Olympians, or the council) but she stepped down to keep the peace on Olympus when Dionysus showed up. 

General: hearth, home, living flame, architecture, bowl, veils, pantry, keys, pictures of houses you’ve lived in/cool architecture you like, family (chosen family counts) and ancestor stuff 

Animals: donkey (ass) and pigs

Plants: Angel’s trumpet (Datura), California poppy, goldenrod, hollyhock, purple coneflower, and yarrow

Perfumes/Scents: angelica, iris, lavender, and peony

Gems and Metals: amethyst, garnet, gold, silver, and brass

Colors: gold, dark rose, lavender, silver, and black

Things To Pray For: protection, inspiration, happiness, guidance, and help getting rid of the home of negative entities 

Invocation of Hestia Hail Hestia, Ancient heart Mother Goddess of the Spiritual Flame, We thank you for your constant love and care. We ask that you come and dwell here. Make of our home your home. Make of our hearth your hearth. Make of our temple your temple. Make of our hearts one heart, your heat. Hail Hestia! 

Prayer To Hestia  Blessed Lady of the Hearth Keeper of the sacred flames of Olympus Enter this home and make it your own Enter and be welcome Bless all who enter here with peace Bless all who dwell here with your protection Grant me and mine your protection That we may always find our way to you

Written by someone who is both landlocked and can’t swim.

Horses! Learn about them, find someone who likes horses and ask about them. Maybe even ride one if you can.

Learn about earthquakes and geology. 

Take care of plants that need a lot of water, like marimo balls or other water plants.

Watch movies about horses or the ocean (my favorites are: Spirit, Finding Nemo, Little Mermaid, Muppet Treasure Island, Master and Commander, the Hornblower series, and the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies)

Read books, fiction or nonfiction.

Listen to sea shanties

Documentaries!

Stay hydrated

Take long baths or showers, enjoy the water.

Take care of your local environment

Learn about island nations and their cultures and histories

To the fighter, ever-armed, living and dying in countless battles, giving their names to his scares, the names of future hopes, spear swirling on a blood painted soulnight, I surrender. - Ares

To the path, opening before us, carrying ourselves, a liquid trail, wind on our tail, rock-solid stream, blowing on our back, for we are the arrows in the hands of the world, I surrender. - Artemis

To the shaper, eyes closed, weaving invisible threads into the air, playing by nose and ears, so that colors may be touched by the blinds, I surrender. - Hephaestus

To desire, absolute, drawing endless longing, whispering tales in river-talk, darkening heads to turn eyes towards inner stars, I surrender. - Hera 

To the raging force hurling us forward, the tidal wave beneath our feet, switching small leaps to surging breaks, crashing down the ice, I surrender. - Poseidon

To the holy one, turning soils into forests and winds to mills, elevated hands we hold to unite with ourselves, an unflawed core of trust, I surrender. - Athena

To beauty, the one true pull, unfolding mind to body, body to soul, warmest kiss to the heart, yet radiant, I surrender. - Aphrodite

To the hand from afar, watching us grow, touching the skies and turning our heads to the cloudless sight of our purpose and self, I surrender. - Apollon

To the one breathing movement, pure motion blurring the frontiers between worlds and truth, bridge among all that is, I surrender. - Hermes

To all that is, all-engulfing, dissolving love. Sparks becomes music, prayers thunders in unheard colors, and I surrender. - Zeus

Gut feeling

Shivers down your back

See a flash of an image in your mind

Hear a positive voice with a brief message

Smell something

An earth angel directly delivers the information to you

You find yourself giving advice to another person, and realize that is the advice you needed to hear

Déjà vu

First to the Furies of old I call,

Friends of the oppressed

Goddesses of justice

Of last resort.

Tisiphone, I call to you, voice of revenge

Speak aloud the names of the victims.


Rage maddened goddess of venom,

In dress as blood stained as our streets.

Come take this pain from out our hearts

And place it into our enemies.

Alecto, I call, eternal and implacable your justice.

Cut down the petty tyrants who have placed

Their violence above your immortal realm.

Our community is broken beneath their hubris.

Take now this outrage from off my mind

Let it crush them with the horror on their hands.

Mageara, I call now to you, Goddess

Who balances the scales. Who sees

The ‘haves’ with their boots pressed

Upon the throats of the ‘have-nots’.

Right this wrong, take back the power

Stolen by corruption and crimes made laws.

Return it to it’s place with the people.

Erinyes I call to you all

Because our courts have

Failed us, and man’s justice 


Has again failed. Again and

Again it has failed. Poisoned

It lies, sick and dying. Only 


With fever and fire will it get well.

Purge it from our system; the

Murderers, the poisoners of public

Trust. Oathbreakers are they who

Protect injustice and serve only

Themselves.


I call to you to curse them all.

Let no soul provide them shelter

Let no heart give them sympathy

Let them be turned from every hearth

Let them be denied at every door
Let their evil be seen and

Let it not be accepted anymore

These enemies of the people, these

Monsters with badges and guns.

Who delight in our suffering.

They are no longer accepted.

To the fourth sister I call now.

Who’s bloodshed was quenched by the sea

Aphrodite, the goddess of communities

I call you now. Keep safe our loved ones

When tyrants assail us. Let ties that bind us

Become stronger in this time of strife.

Aphrodite who delights in war.

There are still those Who fight for right.

Hold high your shield and protect them


In the streets, and in their homes, and in

The courts which once were sacred to you.


Aphrodite, goddess who brings comfort. Heal

These wounds, mend the bones, flesh, and hearts

Broken in these trials. Let our cities mend

After the disease is purged from their bodies.


Goddesses of rage, of grudge, and of vengeance

Goddess of community, of war and of love.

Take from us our pain, our anger, our hate.

Take our cry for vengeance, too long denied;

And shove it down their throats. Let our

Wounds be theirs from now on.

We need be rid of them, we

Need be rid of it all,

Before healing can begin.