Over the years, I have seen many "pagan prayer beads" talked about, but never felt the inclination to make them myself, because they seemed too generic, too much a mimcry of rosaries, nothing that appealed to me. However, while visiting another spiritworker, she showed me her own set of beads and something clicked - a way to make them personalized and powerful. Each bead is related to the god/spirit it represents by color, type of stone, name of stone, shape, or something like that. I do not have formalized prayers for my beads - rather I use them as a complement to my daily prayers. I go through each bead and pause to speak to the god or spirit it represents - to thank them, to pray for something, to think of them for a moment, to have a long discussion; it varies each time. I have found this to be a simple yet deep practice that enhances my entire spiritual life, both the more traditional religious practice and my spiritwork.

Represented, in order from top going counter-clockwise (the order I go through them), are: Dionysos, Apollon, Hermes, my daimon (personal spirit), "well wight" (personal spirit), "100 alfs" (personal spirits), the nymphs, my ancestors, the elements (earth, air, fire, water), my 'inner animal', snake, bee, raven, amanita, salvia, Persephone, Hekate, the Pythiai, Trophonios, the Korykian Nymphs, Odin, and the local wights.