Jun 7, 2020
laeta Vestalia!
today we begin to celebrate Vestalia (7th-15th June). it is the celebration of the goddess Vesta, goddess of ritual fire, hearth-fire and home. she is also associated with chastity and purity.
the festival, in history, was the only time in which women other than Vestal Virgins could enter the Temple of Vesta. they would offer and pray to the goddess in hopes of receiving her blessing on their home.
today, you can light a ritual fire, pray and offer bread to Vesta for her blessing, as well as cleaning your house on the 15th, as the Vestal Virgins did in the temple.
