@Cat_LeFey When I was a bit more in tune, my practice involved offerings to my gods, but also to whatever entities/spirits were around. Like I made a point of being polite to the nature spirits around our house since we used to live pretty much in the woods. I'd give them water and stuff like that.
Though I also remember this one time when an entity dropped by and very specifically wanted to lay claim to a jar of raw honey from a local beekeeper that we had in the house, but it wasn't mine to give them. They settled on some honey I /could/ give them spread over a piece of toast, though. To this day, still no idea what one was about.
@quietcatatelier That's interesting, sounds like fae to me, but probably a lot of things like honey.
I can definitely understand wanting to do more offerings when living out in the woods, because things are just a little more wild out here and it gives us a healthy fear of mother nature, lol
@Cat_LeFey You know, whatever-it-was being fae never crossed my mind at the time, but it does make sense. I think that was around the time I was going through a hyperfixation on the fae and vaettir and whether or not they were similar.
It definitely wasn't a nature spirit, though, I know that. It felt different. The nature spirits always felt... bigger. And older, if that makes sense. They had been there longer than I had and would likely still be there long after I was gone, so I wanted to be sure they knew I respected them. The offerings felt like a good way to do that, though I always kind of wondered if they were baffled by whatever I gave them.
@Cat_LeFey I use a specific offering to the goddess every time I address her and it goes like this:
I have a small pitcher and I put some milk in it. I take my finger and dab some of the milk on my skin. Next I pour some red wine into a shot glass and set it on the right of her statue. The milk is on the left. I have a small metal plate and pour a small amount of clean sand onto it. This dish is between the other vessels. I then pour a few drops of the wine onto the sand. Now I can address the goddess.
After we've had our time together I dispose of the offering materials outside and clean my vessels.
This offering represents the transformation of #Sekhmet into #Hathor. Praise the Eyes of Ra! Have a great weekend!
@Cat_LeFey Just to clarify, I'm offering to a goddess but she is also an individual spirit. She uses the name Hathor as a sort of title or office. This indicates to me that the goddess Hathor may be many spirits intertwined.
@Malleus Yeah, I can get that, I know the Morrigan has a similar thing going on, where it's a title. I worship the Morrigan in her aspect of Macha, but she is actually several gods or demi-gods.
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