Hand Designed Prayer Beads & WEARABLE SACRED ART *

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About our wearable sacred art
Prayer/meditation  beads, or rosaries,  have been used as a meditative tool worldwide for  thousands of years  in nearly every religious tradition.  However, for each individual, they are a unique experience. In my own life, they have acted as a focal point in reaching out to the magic and peace of the Feminine Divine through meditations, prayers, and chants.  

The structure of Prayer Beads can be loosely described as follows:

To see this in an easier to read format go to this page: Chanting Goddess Prayer Beads

1. A pendant is chosen for the prayer beads to represent and honor the Goddess, nature spirit, archangel, saint, ancestor, or whatever symbol best represents your individualized spiritual path. This is where an invocation prayer is usually said. Instead of a pendant or other religious symbol extending from the circle of the beads, a silver bead or other bead of choice can be worked right into the circle of beads themselves to represent the God/dess.

2. A meditative circle is formed by the circular strand of beads themselves. The bead layout in my Goddess format is three groups of nine beads each, with a bead that separates these groups called a divider bead that is usually a bit larger. Nine is a lunar and very feminine number symbolic of the Goddess, but there is NO SET NUMBER of groups of beads or numbers of beads within the groups. It can be five groups of ten beads, so you can use a regular Catholic Marian rosary, or three groups of thirteen as in some other Pagan formats.  If you are having beads custom designed, choose a number that resonates for YOU!

3.  A "center"  usually connects the pendant with the circular strand of beads. I sometimes place a bead or beads between the pendant and the center for a more extended "entryway" into the circle formed by the beads, I usually use three.  Chants are also said on the center and on the beads connecting it to the pendant ,all according to personal preference. Let me know what you have in mind, and I will work with you on a design.

The chants said on the circle of beads is a matter of personal  spiritual preference, but we have many suggestions both here on our website and in our extensive files at our egroup MysticRosary.

Peace and Blessed Be