Let me preface this with the disclaimer there are more than a few open and locked threads on the site that deal with various aspects of offerings. This thread may duplicate some aspects of those threads or may be completely new aspects. So I hope people will not mind possibly repeating previously entered information or maybe expanding upon it.
Ok, figure for me I find that while I make offerings to those gods / goddesses I am bound to my offerings tend to be different in many ways. Not different in that they are unique but perhaps different in why I am making them or why I was given the idea of using the item as an offering.
One common offering I use is Honey. I use it from it's coloration which for me connects it to the solar aspect of the heavens. Yet it's also because of its eternal aspect and longevity aspect. Figure true honey never goes bad and is always nourishing. Granted you have to be careful as much of the honey you might purchase today in the store is sugar added so it can and does go bad after time. Yet as an offering it has always been one that I find Artemis, Hekate, Bastet, Pahket, Diana, Mafdet have all liked and also had a connection to. Hekate also in the capacity as an earthly goddess who is associated with caves when you consider some of the early bee types did make their hives in the ground or small cave openings. At Ephesus the Priestess of Artemis were commonly referred to as Bee Maidens due to the Temple's association with bee keeping and perhaps the structure of the hive itself with its queen and worker bee's in comparison to the High Priestesses and the various priestesses beneath her.
Another offering I find they all like is coffee. Yet not specifically for the reason you might think. Bastet once told me she was a goddess of the desert and water is the greatest of offerings in the desert for it is the source of all life. I had left perfume and she sort of stated you couldn't survive on perfume and knocked it off the altar. So I used to leave water but water simply left soon turned polluted. Which got me to thinking, coffee is is both a perfumed water, is a purified water as it is heated and in a way made sacred, became a sacred drink in the aspect it refreshers, motivates and awakens us in the mornings and for many is almost symbolic in how we use it. Then you can add honey or sugar if you desire, add milk which ties into another life giving liquid and indicates transformation / transmutation. So coffee became a common offering as a scented purified water as an offering.
Eggs are an important offering in my practice. Yet it is because of what is inside of them as a potential. It is the energy of creation. It is the potential of realization and fruition and the symbolic representation of fertility and fecundity.
Granted there are other things I use as offerings but though i'd present these and see what conversations it might generate.
Ok, figure for me I find that while I make offerings to those gods / goddesses I am bound to my offerings tend to be different in many ways. Not different in that they are unique but perhaps different in why I am making them or why I was given the idea of using the item as an offering.
One common offering I use is Honey. I use it from it's coloration which for me connects it to the solar aspect of the heavens. Yet it's also because of its eternal aspect and longevity aspect. Figure true honey never goes bad and is always nourishing. Granted you have to be careful as much of the honey you might purchase today in the store is sugar added so it can and does go bad after time. Yet as an offering it has always been one that I find Artemis, Hekate, Bastet, Pahket, Diana, Mafdet have all liked and also had a connection to. Hekate also in the capacity as an earthly goddess who is associated with caves when you consider some of the early bee types did make their hives in the ground or small cave openings. At Ephesus the Priestess of Artemis were commonly referred to as Bee Maidens due to the Temple's association with bee keeping and perhaps the structure of the hive itself with its queen and worker bee's in comparison to the High Priestesses and the various priestesses beneath her.
Another offering I find they all like is coffee. Yet not specifically for the reason you might think. Bastet once told me she was a goddess of the desert and water is the greatest of offerings in the desert for it is the source of all life. I had left perfume and she sort of stated you couldn't survive on perfume and knocked it off the altar. So I used to leave water but water simply left soon turned polluted. Which got me to thinking, coffee is is both a perfumed water, is a purified water as it is heated and in a way made sacred, became a sacred drink in the aspect it refreshers, motivates and awakens us in the mornings and for many is almost symbolic in how we use it. Then you can add honey or sugar if you desire, add milk which ties into another life giving liquid and indicates transformation / transmutation. So coffee became a common offering as a scented purified water as an offering.
Eggs are an important offering in my practice. Yet it is because of what is inside of them as a potential. It is the energy of creation. It is the potential of realization and fruition and the symbolic representation of fertility and fecundity.
Granted there are other things I use as offerings but though i'd present these and see what conversations it might generate.
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