IVNONI NATALI

{The supplicant faces Northeast, assuming the "Y" posture, being
capite velato*, and recites these words:}

HIC ET NVNC IVNO MEA
Here and now, my Juno,

{she touches her forehead with her right hand, and continues:}

PRAESENS EST IN ME
Presence of Mind within me

{She again touches her breast with her right hand, and says:}

SUB SPECIE VENERIS** SALVE VENVS:**
in the Splendor [of Venus]... Hail, [Venus] !

{She performs the Adoratio***, and continues:}

TE PRECOR QUAESOQVE
I beseech Thee, in prayerful supplication,

VTI DIES MIHI {touching breast) PROPITIA.
that Thou mayest bestow grace upon me,

ET TIBI OFFERO HOC VINUM ET HOC THVS:
so to Thee I offer this wine and this incense.

{The supplicant offers now wine in libation into a little patera,
and also burns a few grains of incense upon the fire ...
then concludes with the words:}

ITA EST! ILLICET.
So mote it be! So may it be granted!

{The rite is ended}

Nota Bene:

*capite velato: with the head veiled

** In this prayer one's Iuno is first addressed in the Latin genitive case.
The Goddess is given here (VENERIS; VENVS) only as an example
of a Iuno

Each woman has her own Iuno, but this Iuno is not so much the invisible
essence of that woman, but rather a goal that each strives to attain
along her long march on the way to the Gods. In this sense, a woman's
Iuno is a kind of a guardian angel and transformational goal of attainment
before reaching the world of the Gods as a diva.

One's Iuno is to be chosen in meditation, ideally as an inner realization
or visualization. Most important is the rite to the Iuno observed on one's
dies natalis (birthday), early in the morning at the Lararium.
Flowers are offered to one's Iuno, along with incense and unmixed wine.

This offering prayer is also performed on a daily basis among regular
domestic prayers, with a simple offering of incense or wine.

*** Concerning the Adoratio:

Lately I have come across some descriptions of how to perform the ritual act of the "adoratio." First of all it is not just a twisting of the body, or merely waving ones hand or just kissing the hand in salute! From the ancient Roman accounts that we have, it could be performed in a manner of TWO ways!

The first way consists of stretching out the right arm and hand straight ahead of you (similar to the Fascist salute) towards a statue or picture of the deity and then immediately bringing the hand back to then kiss the fingertips of that right hand, and then thrust the hand and arm back out again towards the deity. Then as you do so you wave that arm and hand back and forth (left to right), twisting your body left and right as well in union with the arm. If you happen to be praying at an altar or the Lararium you should be grasping the altar with your left hand as you make the adoratio with your right arm and hand!

The second adoratio can be simply performed by repeating the first gesture, EXCEPT when after the salute part and you bring the hand back you join the index finger and thumb together to make a hole or circle and kiss the tips of the index finger and thumb and then thrust out your arm and hand as you blow the kiss. Then you wave the arm and hand, twisting as before.

In relation to any Roman act of prayer, especially at the Lararium, it is NECESSARY that one grasp or touches the altar as you pray for any prayer or sacrifice to be valid! This is according to our Mos Maiorum in order to create a proper link and contact with the Numina!

VALETE!
FRATER GAIVS IVLIVS IVLIANVS, PGI

* GRATIA C IVLIO IVLIANO AGEMVS *
We thank Gaius Iulius Iulianus for providing this Rite.

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