#fire offering

One of the ways I like to give offerings, normally just small ones to say 'thank you' to Whomever has been helping me (since I don't have a specific relationship with any of the Gods yet), is to make a small sachet to burn.

Items:

🥀 Anything flammable you wish to give; food, flowers, herbs, a mix of everything. I picked fresh flowers: red, yellow, and purple, for Sehkmet since she helped me these past couple days but I'm using the fresh ones for water. I cleaned off the plants of the dead flowers to honor the plant itself, and the dried ones are what I will be using for this. I also used cinnamon since that's one of Her herbs!

☕ Used and dried coffee filter, I also keep the grounds either as part of a spell or as fertilizer for my plants.

➰ Something to tie it with, I like to use thread but you can use string, it's just too bulky for myself, it's intended to be small.

🌋 Somewhere SAFE to burn it, we own a couple chimneya's so I use one of our small ones for this.

Directions:

I prefer to use flowers/herbs since it tends to burn easier for me, but you can use whatever you like. It's your offering, your God, ect. You guys do you. But in this case I'm going to sub in for flowers and herbs since that's what I used this time.

Mix it all up! I put my dried flowers and cinnamon into my little mortar and pestle and ground it all, and I added a few pomegranate seeds that weren't very good as well. I talk to whichever God/dess I am making it for, and thank them for producing the items for me to use that I have selected.

Next lay the coffee filter out and put the mess into the middle. I like to use the coffee filter as a way of recycling, Sehkmet does not like waste, and as a means of asking Her to keep me grounded and closer to Earth.

Then I bundle it all up and tie it closed with the thread. I like to use thread instead of string because string tends to be bulky for myself, I try to keep these small. And as an added bonus they come in different colors so I like to match the colors to Whomever I am thanking, in this case I used a dark red!

Now I start my fire, I keep newspapers that I don't need as fire starter instead of just throwing it out. I keep my fires small for these also so I don't have to watch a fire pit all day, and it's easier to clean up. I burn mine a certain way over my chimneya, but you can do this however you want; toss it in, tee-pee it on top of the wood before lighting it, ect.

I then speak directly to Them; announce Them by name, "I give this to you as an offering. I wish to thank you for all you have helped me with." However you seem fit, you can be as detailed or simple as possible, everyone communicates differently. I then wish them a good day, and let the fire put itself out since mine are small.

And there you go! I try not to ask for things while I'm giving this, I feel gross to be giving thanks and then turn around and ask for something, but that's just me.

Have fun but remember to practice fire safety, please.

🍁🍂🎃Pumpkin Fire Offering- A tribute to the orange glow of autumn, the beings that revel in the gusts of wind and twirling leaves of the season, and the natural cycle of life. ~ For use at any point during the Fall Season.🎃🍂🍁

Ingredients ⚗ •Small pumpkin •91% isopropyl alcohol •Nutmeg •Cinnamon •Corn/Ornamental Corn Kernels

Tools 🔮 •Jar with lid •Wand (optional) •Crystals/Stones you feel are appropriate for the season/intent (optional)

Making the concoction 🔥

Cut the pumpkin into 4 pieces and place in the jar. (If using a small jar, use some of the pumpkin guts and seeds instead)

Add corn kernels, ¼ tsp nutmeg, and ½ tsp cinnamon to the jar, then fill with alcohol. Close the jar and shake gently.

Optional

Place the crystals in a circle around the jar and place your wand on top of the jar. Let it charge on your altar overnight to attune your wand and the concoction to the energy of the season.

🕯🎃✨🌌🍁🌌✨🎃🕯

*Outdoors Use Only* Pour into a heatsafe dish/cauldron. Light away from face/body and tie up loose hair or clothing. Light with a grill lighter or match(it’s easiest to just throw a match in the cauldron and step back.)

*Cinnamon - Psychic awareness, Physical energy, Inspiration

Nutmeg- Clairvoyance, Luck Pumpkin - Abundance

Corn - Luck, Prosperity, Abundance

Fire-saving-day

Yesterday was the fourteenth day of jul and the traditional "fire-saving day" - eldbjørgdagen - sometimes also called the "fire-day's jul". It's the day when you make the yearly offering to the fire to save your house and home and yourself from fires and other incidents involving fire - like burning yourself when cooking or baking. But, of course also to save the fire through winter for warmth. To many heathens - and also to many Christians in the old farming society - fire equals Loke (Loki), often perceived as female when dealt with in this shape.

Us Norwegians have never cared much for big words and lots of ceremonies, so the rituals are very simple and basically consist of a short prayer and a libation. For instance, in Telemark they make a toast in beer, and after passing the drinking bowl around, the mistress of the house throws the remaining beer onto the fire and says:

This high, my fire, but not higher nor hotter!

Guri Lykkjen in Valdres used this simple prayer as she threw a spoonfull of beer into the fire:

I drink to you (meaning "in your honour").

Guri became very old and would have turned 107 this year had she lived. She is one of my adopted ancestors.