{"id":5714,"date":"2024-06-06T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:00:59","slug":"rite-of-her-sacred-fires-altar-pics-and-a-few-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/rite-of-her-sacred-fires-altar-pics-and-a-few-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rite of Her Sacred Fires: Altar Pics and a Few Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At the last Full Moon, the Lunar Shenanigans Crew and I celebrated our sixth(?) annual Rite of Her Sacred Fires. I honestly can’t remember how this one came to our attention – I think Aradia or Juniper brought it up? (This is the accidental<\/em>\u00a0Hekate cult, after all.) But it was definitely in the Before Times; I remember being upset that we weren’t able to do it in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wind it up a bit, of course, to make it more our style and more a fit for a group activity. Specifically, one of us developed a Hekatean protection circle that we use, and one of us is really big on making offerings to Hestia before any ritual. Some years we’ve worked really hard to make and divide up parts so that everyone has a role. Some years, like this year, someone takes point and leads the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was kind of a weird year for me, and I appreciated Alvianna’s willingness to run the show. I am (as you know if you’ve read my last post, in particular) having something of a crisis of faith; I don’t even know that I could have led the ritual at all, let alone led it and got something out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I gave it my all. I went all-out on cleaning the house and building the altar. I gave the ritual my undivided attention (inasmuch as that’s a thing that even exists). I did my very best to come in good faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I did get something out of it. Not as much as I have some previous years, but it … wasn’t nothing. Of course, I fucked up and didn’t write it all down right away, so my recollection is super vague, but … it was something. I almost managed some fire scrying. And the goddess was there, which I … wasn’t at all sure she would be. And the offerings were accepted, which I wasn’t sure they would be. (Yes my arrogant ass thought I could bring the whole thing down for everyone in the room.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, I took pictures. Before and after (the daylight ones are before; the burning ones are after). And I’m pretty pleased with how they came out, especially the after images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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