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Chthonic Devotionals

Styx 🌑🌲⚖️🛡

• Participating in a cause or protest
• Cleaning up a body of water (river, stream, creek, etc.)
• Smoking and enjoying darkness at night, especially in the wee hours
• Reading about current political and legal changes
• Spending time with pine trees
• Working on craft/jewelry/witchy projects that involve iron
• Crafting my Underworld powders
• Warding and protecting my house and property
• Helping spirits cross and giving the dead respect and peace
• Swimming
• Reading Tarot
• Taking a super cold shower
• Caring for/being kind to spiders, moths, beetles

Hades 💀💰⚰️🐾

• Working on my finances and shop business plan
• Reading articles and watching videos regarding burial rights and care of the dead
• Watching horror movies
• Visiting and cleaning graveyards
• Maintaining relationships and communication with local spirits and ghosts
• Spending time with dogs
• Working on my ability to respectfully debate important issue
• Eating pickles or preserved foods or red meat
• Helping someone with a death plan/will/Power of attorney
• Collecting/displaying coins and stones

Persephone 🥀🕊🛀🌺🍯

• Enjoying local flowers and plants
• Listening to birdsong
• Growing flowers
• Displaying cut flowers in their full cycle, even after they’ve wilted/died
• Enjoying a well made meal or snack
• Eating pomegranates
• Taking a long and pampered bath
• Practicing a daily beauty or self-care routine
• Using pomegranate-based products (oil, body wash, deodorant, etc.)
• Visiting graveyards with offerings for the dead (flowers, honey, seeds, nuts, small cakes, paper cards, music played, books read, etc.)
• Setting up a bird feeder
• Combining floral and death aesthetics in craft, artwork, and photo creations

All 👻🌑🍂⚱️🖤

• Visiting a graveyard and walking around and reading headstones, remembering
• Vulture culture
• Reading and researching stories involving death and the dead
• Erecting a death or ancestor shrine/altar to remember and light candles for those who’ve passed
• Collecting and using graveyard dirt
• Lying on the ground with bare hands and feet and feeling the earth
• Volunteering at a hospice or nursing home
• Watching crime and forensic based shows and movies
• Acknowledging your own darker side and working with it, accepting it
• Working on mental health plans and care
• Shadow work