Being a witch means growth and trial and error. If your spell doesn’t work that’s ok. Keep trying. I don’t mean to sound sappy but sometimes I need a reminder that not everything is going to be perfect.
Eir, who’s name means help or mercy, is the goddess of healing and shamanic healers, a domestic goddess, and companion of the goddess Frigg.
These are ways I personally honor Eir and my personal associations with offerings. If you have something negative to say keep it to yourself, these are personal and work for me.
Learn first aid and cpr.
Take care of yourself; stay hydrated, eat the best you can, and make sure you’re getting all your vitamins!
Use the runes Uruz and Laguz in your practice or altar.
Donate blood or plasma.
Offer her fruits, soups, salads, bread, or jam.
Any kind of tea would be good for you to drink but green tea is her favorite(in my experience) with honey and lemon!
Learn how to make basic healing balms, oils, or tinctures.
Decorate your home or wear the colors dark greens, red, and gold.
Grow
blood-stanching herbs such as Yarrow or Bistort.
Do something every day to make someone smile.
Take care of loved ones who are sick or volunteer to help the sick and elderly.
Listen to music that features a fiddle of a flute.
Pack and smoke a bowl with her. Better yet, enchant your weed to help you heal and relax.
Use the crystals agate, aquamarine, malachite, moss agate, bloodstone, selenite, or hematite in your practice or altar.
Learn about herbs used in healing.
Learn to cook some healthy meals and dedicate them to her and share them with loved ones.
I’ve found she likes communicating through oracle decks.
Light incense or candles of lavender, sage, patchouli, chamomile, or any traditional healing herbs!
Place fresh flowers or herbs on your altar for her or keep them in your most visited rooms.
Why did you pick up witchcraft??? Reblog and tell me!
I started practicing because I wanted to harness the power I know I’ve always had.
i picked it up when i was little. I was always connected to nature and the paranormal, and i went from there 😀
Freedom. I wanted to feel truly free and have control over at least one part of my life. I’d always experienced weird paranormal shit my whole life. Witchcraft helped me find the courage that was in my all along to fight back and stand my ground. I wouldn’t be the same person I am today of I hadn’t started practicing.
If you find yourself stressed or simply desire a different form of meditation, go ahead and pick one, or, better yet, have your tarot tell you which meditation you should do!
0. Fool – meditate to some calming music, find a nice track
and let it fill your mind and body
1. Magician – recite a mantra of some sort, word or
phrase, pick something meaningful to you, not just what the internet suggests
2. High Priestess – the practice of attending: look at and assess each thought you have as you meditate
3. Empress – focus on self-love, find things you
appreciate about yourself, let love fill you and your soul
4. Emperor – count your heartbeats or your breaths
5. Hierophant – take this time to recite a prayer to a higher being, speak a blessing of some sort, or your equivalent
6. Lovers – send love, good vibes, and blessings to
a loved one
7. Chariot – focus on each body part separately,
flexing and relaxing each part from your toes to your head
8. Strength – stand up and do the sun salutation or
a similar yoga exercise, or if you’d rather, go work out
9. Hermit – ask a deep, philosophical question and
ponder on it for awhile
10. Wheel – diaphragmatic breathing: breath deeply from the diaphragm, so your stomach moves but your chest does not
11. Justice – find five things or people you are
grateful for and meditate on them
12. Hanged Man – the practice of mindfulness: simply
let your thoughts pass by as you meditate, not focusing on anything in particular
13. Death – take a short nap! please wake up, though
14. Temperance – the practice of visualization: visualize
your dreams about the future
15. Devil – focus on each sense individually, what do you feel, hear, see, if you want you can eat a small treat and focus on what you taste
16. Tower – candle meditation: focus on a flame,
image of a flame, or some sort of object
17. Star – take a bath or shower and focus on the
water cleansing both your body and mind
18. Moon – acknowledge your worries, then give them
up or let them go to a higher being
19. Sun – sit in sunlight or other bright light and
focus on the brightness, draining all your negativity away to be replaced with positivity
20. Judgment – focus on the energy within, how it
interacts with the earth and others around you
21. World – stand up and take a walk, preferably walk outside through nature
These are ways I personally honor Freyja and my personal associations with offerings and her. If you have something negative to say keep it to yourself, these are personal and work for me.
Do not declaw her for being a goddess of love and beauty. Recognize her for the god of war that she is, Queen of the Valkyries, and god of the Vanir.
Decorate your home or altar with cats, honey combs, horns, or bones.
Practice self love in it’s totality, look at where you need to grow but recognize and appreciate your strengths.
Carry the crystals(or keep in your home): amber, rose quartz, gold, emerald, labradorite, and copper.
Dedicate a piece of jewelry to her in honor of her Brisingamen.
Drink floral teas like lavender, chamomile, rose, or jasmine with honey.
Use the runes
Fehu, Kaunaz, Jera, and Uruz in your craft or altar.
Take a bath in salts, roses, and lavender. Decorate accordingly!
Enchant your make up to make you feel beautiful, confident, and strong.
Learn self defense or kick boxing; or just do something to help you stay active and strong in her honor.
Light incense or candles of rose, honey, jasmine, amber, strawberry, dragon’s blood, or musk.
If you’re looking for a cat look at shelters and pounds first, rescue a little baby or donate to shelters/vets.
Pray to her for your loved ones in battles whether it’s oversees, a disease, or an abusive relationship.
Leave her offerings of mead, weed, wine, red velvet, roasted nuts, honey, pork, bread, or chocolate.
Watch movies/tv shows with strong female leads(preferably with none problematic actors) like Wonder Woman, How To Get Away With Murder, Mowana, Queen of Katwe, etc.
(Disclaimer; these listings will begin with the verifiable, slowly descend into the realm of shared personal gnosis and end on a personal note. Please take the ‘associations’ section in particular with a grain of salt, save for those things which we know to be directly linked to her, like milkwort and amber.)
→ Primary Source Material
Poetic Edda
Völuspá, Grímnismál, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Oddrúnargrátr, and Hyndluljóð
Prose Edda
Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál
Sagas
Egils saga, Njáls saga, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka, and Sörla þáttr
Further breakdown of her references and source materials here.
Sex, blood, battle, hedgeriding, spiritworking, warding/protection magic, baneful magic, psychoanalysis, acts of courage, kulning, galdr, utiseta, acts of self care, psychopompery, gardening, meditation and diplomacy, rhetoric, righteous anger, acts of defense and protection, crying and acts of catharsis, acts of love, enjoying the "finer things,” large parties and banquets, dancing, fine art and visual aesthetic
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For those who are too keen, too intense, who fight for an ideal… She is their patron. She strips away illusion and leaves only truth. Freyja is the twilight, the place where light and shadow intersect, the glittering gold of inspiration and the bone-deep satisfaction that comes from exercising ones’ autonomy. She is the Heartseeker and with this talent finds the most valuable aspects of all things. Freyja acts as a mirror for the soul.
To those she cares for, she is gentle and wiser still. She can exercise great patience and knows how to play the long game. She promotes stability and community and through this, knows how to call upon allies in times of need. She is not simply a goddess of love but a goddess of relations; of friends, enemies and rivalries.
When it is time for war, this darkest aspect of humanity, she revels in the fight and the kill. Never are her hands dirtied, yet Valfreyja loves the taste of blood on the tongue. Righteous fury, shrieks in the darkness, burning the sheds and salting the earth. Her anger is as deep and boundless as her love, for above all things she is a Goddess of Feeling and emotional intensity.
She is of the human experience. To live is to know Freyja. Those who honor her well will receive the ends they seek. Those who place themself in her contempt will never know peace.
Hail the Vanadis, Chooser of the Slain! Hail Freyja!
may the bridges I burn light the way 