I don't really, oops tbh most of the stuff I've seen says that you don't have to have an altar for them and that sometimes if your ancestors were super christian and anti-witch it can go wrong, and I agree. In my personal and somewhat uneducated opinion, it's really only super important if you ever want to do deity work, but I'd still try. I don't fuck with most of my ancestors because I'm scared of them fucking me over, but I have a candle for my cousin and sometimes I'll bring him flowers.
I'd just be like "I have no idea who the fuck you guys are but I got you a candle, please don't hate me <3" and do some family research and maybe some divination to learn more about them
I read up more just now on why some people don't venerate their ancestors, and I strongly vibe with that. I can, and have been, connecting to my heritage in ways other than through flesh and blood people who walked the land, and it's been going well so I think I'm just not,, gunna.. bother dead people I've never met lol. Still cool to learn about though, and if anyone has any other thoughts or experiences with ancestor veneration I'm happy to hear them.
For those of you who have candles for deities, how often do you light them and how do you avoid the urge to have them constantly burning?
lmao definitely not my question to answer, not after my sudden path switch and my inability to light a candle and NOT leave it burning for at least two hours
but for the general populous: someone convince me NOT to buy herbal perfumes and possibly a litha kit…..
Herbal perfumes no, gross, litha kit maybe
Me: walks into my room
Me: I need to light all of my candles Immediately
its basically a ritual kit for litha! some contain spells, others contain a handful of varying items like candles, ritual oils, crystal, etc. it just depends on what you're looking at!
i dont know if i want to spend upwards of thirty dollars on a kit of items that could be hit or miss quality though, especially when the item i REALLY want is just. candles
I'm so tempted to go on Etsy and order a "mystery" crystal, where the seller picks one at random to send you, but then the other part of me is like,,,, "but why" so. I kinda get it lol
Ahhh! I don't celebrate Litha under that name (it's called Samhradh in my tradition), so I didn't know it was like a holiday thing lol. But neat!
I've seen general alter kits that look pretty snazzy, come with all sorts of herbs and candles, I hope to get one someday.
I regret asking for my period as a sign. Should've asked for something else
What did you ask it as a sign for? If you don’t mind me asking
Just a general sign of the Goddess. Which was EXTRA dumb because I could have asked for literally anything else but no the only thing I could think of was fertility
Does anyone have any good shadow work prompts?
Once again, time blindness claws its way into every aspect of my life, now including my craft. My deity candles have almost collapsed on themselves because I didn't realize they'd been burning for so long. It also took me,,,half an hour to do a protection spell and I'm not sure how long it's supposed to take but it feels like it shouldn't be that long. It's fine though, I didn't have something to get to after
It takes however long you need it to take 🤷
Sorry about your candles tho 😔
I got… smacked in the face with a ridiculous amount of signs yesterday. The most obvious I've had. So much so it was literally nauseating (in a good way!). Thing is I still have no idea who sent them heheh. UgHHHH.
There's so many holidays and it makes me so happy
And now my second lighter is broken
Well I have mouth surgery today and I did a protection and heath jar so hopefully it helps because I'm Bad At Recovering from surgery
Good luck!
Go n-eirí an t-ádh leat!
Surgery's done! They didn't put me under so no risk of outing myself in any capacity. Tired but feeling fine
I keep getting so many signs, and I think I have an idea who's sending them (I won't speak too soon tho) and it's half amusing half so surprising and otherworldly it's an entirely different emotion.
Like not fear, but some sort of awe, coupled with a lot of admiration. Basically things are good 👌
Made a fun game called "adhd or divine intervention?" in which I try to decide if the reason I can't find my tarot notebook is because I never know where anything is or because I'm meant to be doing something other than researching tarot at the moment
