#tykhe

Lady Tykhe,

Gracious daughter of powerful Zeus,

She whose incalculable hands brings me to victory and causes mountainous loss just the same.

You who is known in uncertainty and yet answers as irrefutably as you are merciful. 

Goddess, who is unbiased in her distrubution of plentiful gifts, I praise you. 

For I am steered by your wheel in my tale, guided by your coin in my decision, and blessed by your presence in my worship. 

I thank you, Lady Tykhe, for my adoration and gratitude to you knows no bounds. 

Oh glorious goddess, as always and for forever, I praise and honor you. 

Praise be Benevolent Tykhe!

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O Tyche, Goddess of fortune and fate,

I come to you in times of dismay.

When disappointment weighs heavy on my heart,

Guide me to see with clearer eyes.

Help me find the strength to accept what is,

And find peace in your embrace.

Though storms may rage and troubles persist,

I surrender my worries and trust in your plan.

I embrace the unknown,

About Tykhe

"TYKHE (Tyche) was the goddess of fortune, chance, providence and fate. She was usually honoured in a more favourable light as Eutykhia (Eutychia), goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity.

Tykhe was depicted with a variety of attributes--holding a rudder, she was conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world, and in this respect she was called one of the Moirai (Moirae, Fates); with a ball she represented the varying unsteadiness of fortune, unsteady and capable of rolling in any direction; with Ploutos (Plutus) or the cornucopia, she was the symbol of the plentiful gifts of fortune.

Nemesis (Fair Distribution) was cautiously regarded as the downside of Tykhe, one who provided a check on extravagant favours conferred by fortune. The pair were often depicted as companions in Greek vase painting. In the vase painting (right) Nemesis (Indignation) with her arm around Tykhe (Fortune) points an accusing fingure at Helene, who Aphrodite has persuaded to elope with Paris." - Theoi.com

Tykhe Eutykhia has helped me in many ways regarding simple luck and finances, while she at times works in more subtle ways, at times she will surprise you with answering half hearted, jokey prayers like getting a reward in a video game or finding money on the ground when you're out and about.

I worship her Epithet as Eutykhia (Eutychia) for things such as good fortune and prosperity, she has a main hand on my abundance altar and business. I deeply recommend building a relationship with her, especially in times as hard as these, as we can all use a little bit of luck.

Resources

@ screeching-0wl is a fantastic blog who put a ton of love and care into making devotional cheat sheets full of prayers, correspondences, and myths.

The Theoi Website is chock-full of her myths, correspondences, and many other facts. Loaded with sources and amongst other things.

Personal Content

Tykhe's (Tyche) Blessing Deity Oil

Rituals

Business Blessing Ritual With Tykhe Eutykhia

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Tykhe ~ Greek Goddess of Fortune, Luck, and Fate (not to be confused with the Morai /Fates themselves)

Tykhe is viewed as the good in fortune; When life starts to turn upward for seemingly no reason it is Tyke at work. She was also honored as Eutykhia (Eutychia), goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity. Tykhe was often seen with a cornucopia to depict her good fortune was plentiful. Nemesis (Fair Distribution) was cautiously regarded as the downside of Tykhe, one who provided a check on extravagant favours conferred by fortune. The pair were often depicted as companions in Greek vase painting. In the vase painting (left) Nemesis (Indignation) with her arm around Tykhe (Fortune) points an accusing fingure at Helene, who Aphrodite has persuaded to elope with Paris.

Tykhe was usually worshipped as the guardian spirit of a city's good fortune and her cult was fairly widespread. She was depicted with a turret-crown representing the city's walls and a horn of plenty brimming with the fruits of the earth.

In most representations (represented by two Greco-Roman era statues above) she is barely distinguished from the goddess Demeter; the crown, cornucopia, and child were attributes shared by both goddesses. In many cases, Tykhe was viewed as simply an aspect of that goddess.

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SMYRNA City in Aeolis - Lydia (Greek Colony)

Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 30. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :

I planned some spell work for tonight, taking advantage of the power of the new moon and it being Venus' day and specifically in Venus' hour.

I decided that since I would already be pulling a bunch of stuff outside, and be in a more spiritually focused frame of mind, that this would be the perfect time to also make some offerings! I went pretty simple with it tonight, a libation of water into the planter box and lighting some incense in honor of my Lady Tyche and in honor of all the Theoi.

When I can, I like to use the time that the incense is burning to do other acts of worship or religiously focused things. But tonight I instead did my spell work as it burned.

I absolutely believe that the burning of the incense itself is a wonderful offering regardless of how much you pay attention to it as it burns, or if you meditate on the Gods you have offered it to. Were it safe, I think it would be fully fine to walk away from an incense offering to do totally unrelated stuff! The last of the stick of incense I offered is actually still burning as I write this. But I like to focus on Them when I can as it's a really nicely carved out period of time. I have to keep an eye on the incense for safety, I may as well make further use of this time.