my devotional pouches have become one of my favorite little parts of my practice! i wanted to share it because this is something that could be used by worshippers who can’t practice publicly, and for worshippers of different pantheons.
this is my pouch for hermes / mercury! i meant to use it specifically on mercury days (wednesday) but ive been keeping it with me everywhere tbh and i love it.
- i’ll probably change the picture of hermes because of the little alamy logos but i like it for now
- i have orange stones because those are his main color, and the pouch is yellow because i feel like that makes sense for him too
- i keep dice in there, seem to be classically associated with hermes
- finally i have a few sentimental hotel room keys, as the guardian of movement and travel it made sense to include.
- i also offer him my weed sometimes in the pouch and he hasn’t gotten offended by it but i keep checking in because it’s a bit unorthodox.
- on the other side of the pouch i have another orange stone and a picture of mnemosyne, i closely relate the two and also worship her on wednesdays.
this is the main pouch that i use, but i also have a red one for ares and athena [[trying to combine both aspects of them for my personal temper]] and a yellow one that im planning on dedicating to apollo. but i definitely want to make one for venus and artemis and probably more in the future!
they’re lowkey (no one in my life knows i practice apart from one sibling), they’re simple (chronic pain can make ritual and consistency difficult for me) and they help remind me of my connection to my divinities wherever i go.