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 