Our Adonis prayer card honors Adonis, Aphrodite's bigender consort who dies and is reborn once a year. While in the prime of his life, Adonis is gored by a boar while hunting: his second love after Aphrodite. When in the Underworld, Persephone falls in love with Adonis as well and endeavors to keep him there with her while Aphrodite fights for his apotheosis and return to the living. Eventually, he's allowed to spend one third of the year among the living with Aphrodite, one third with the dead alongside Persephone, and one third to spend how he will. Adonis chooses to spend this time with Aphrodite, who grieves his yearly loss in the Adonia festival. This prayer card features vintage art of a Greco-Roman individual, assigned male at birth but feminine in presentation, leaning against a column. Each one is printed on Lokta paper, handmade in Nepal, with real cornflowers pressed into the paper. The prayer on the back is the unique work of the Trickster's Apothecary, crafted during our celebration of the Adonia festival to honor Adonis. Each card measures 2.5x3.5 inches. Prayer is the easiest, lowest cost way to connect with a deity, and speaking with them often helps deepen your relationship as it would with any physical person. Pre-written prayers can be used as a chant during meditation, when using prayer beads and rosaries, and as a familiar pathway to connect with a given deity. Freeform prayer in the form of speaking directly to your deity with whatever is on your mind can be uncomfortable if it is not a familiar act. To open that door, we have crafted our prayers to ease anyone into prayer with pagan deities with prayers that are pre-written and have the blessing of the deity they are created for. Reach out to your deities with ease and confidence, knowing that their ears will recognize the familiar words. We encourage the use of our prayers in anyone’s personal practice, but do not consent to our prayers being used for professional use or for profit in any capacity, including but not limited to products, merchandise, and any form of advertising. However, please do feel free to share our prayers and prayer cards with the witches in your life, as a part of your personal practice, and on social media with credit given to the Trickster’s Apothecary. We would love to be tagged in any such posts to see how you use these prayers in your practice!
