Six Graces Prayer
for Health and Well Being
This prayer to six goddesses that personify concepts is based on a fourth century Greek inscription mosaic found in Halicarnassus, Turkey. It features the names of six goddesses that personify concepts: Hygieia, Zoe, Khara, Eirene, Euthymia, and Elpis or in English: Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope. For more information on the practice of personifying concepts, see this article by guest author Stefanos Chelydoreus.
I was inspired to work with Hygeia, starting about four years ago for the creation of a health amulet, and through numerous interactions came to work with all six goddesses together to amplify results. The practice has been so fulfilling I created a shrine to them in my home.
I highly recommend working with them, and to that end I have written this prayer to ask them to grant their blessings. I hope people find it powerful and practical.
Six powerful Graces, your names I call:
Hygeia: you are well-being and Health
Zoe: Life and mother of all
Khara: The spirit of Joy and delight
Eirene: gentle Peace through day and night
Euthymia: of Tranquil Stability and calm
Elpis – embodiment of Hope, a necessary balm
O you six, who are stronger than one, unite your power and let this be done.
Blessed Hygeia, queen of all that pleases, keep away the evil distress of unbearable diseases.
Zoe, the progenitrix of divine life and the eternal spark that transcends strife. Your flame no grief can sever, through sorrow and turmoil, burn within us forever.
O Khara, delight of mankind. Free us from depression and release our mind. Let them of Olympos send your great charity, turn disaster into joy, great blessings, and prosperity!
O sweet Eirene, who giveth mortals wealth, I call you, gentle Peace, and beside you, fair-haired Health. Pour abundance in a blameless tide, and with equal reason, be my constant guide.
O Euthymia help our souls be calm and steady. Remove fear and doubt, let us trust the right path is ready.
Elpis, gentle goddess, great comfort of mankind. Help us look past our troubles and sorrow, inspire focus on an eternally better tomorrow.
Author: Alison Chicosky
Alison Chicosky is a scholar and practitioner of a variety of forms of thaumaturgy with a focus on results-based magic. While especially interested in both Solomonic magic and the Graeco-Egyptian magic of the Greek Magical Papyri, she is also well versed in soul-flight and psychic magic of various kinds. The founder and force behind Practical Occult (www.practicaloccult.com), she strives to provide pentacles and other enchanted items drawn from a broad background of rigorously studied ancient arts, leveraging the systems of the past for practical modern use.