holy-mountaineering:
I’m Frater Nought, you’re thinking of @scrollofthoth with the
Greek name. Alright, you’re excited. So, spellwork is about as vague as it gets
but yes, it is good stuff. Considering who Odin is and how he got those Runes,
I’d say blood probably works quite well.
I mean, I’m not sure how to answer this. Like, are you asking
HOW I do spell work? That I probably won’t answer in full on here because I
could write a book about it. The particular thing I do that makes them work
varies from Working to Working. I’d say that in the “casting” (I literally
never use any of this terminology and do NOT identify as a “witch” of any
kind) stage you should have everything in your Temple focused directly on the
goal of the ritual. Your dress, the setting of the Temple, the music, the
ritual, everything should be “pointed in the right direction” and should
aid you in focusing. Also, like you said with blood, SACRIFICE. Especially if
you’re asking a deity for a favor, sacrifice is super helpful and the loss of
whatever your sacrificing should be at least somewhat significant. The idea
of “nominal sacrifice” seems fucking pointless to me and offering MY
Deities shit like water (as much of witchblr is stoked on) will get you no
where and maybe slapped around. Sacrifice is a broad term and the idea of it is
different in many cultures. For me, the idea of giving up something important
as an offering, to something greater, is completely lost on most modern people,
hell on here people will tell you sacrifice is both unnecessary and that
ancient people’s didn’t really even do it! Now, while I’ve never killed a
chicken or any other animal for magick (I’m vegetarian and have been for 17
years) saying there’s no value in it is both racist and fucking idiotic. Just
because most white people phased out animal sacrifice because they believe one
big human/G-D sacrifice did the job, doesn’t mean it isn’t a valid practice and
if you fucking eat meat and get at me about humane sacrifice I’ll send a
fucking demon to your house while your mom is asleep.
Again, this is my personal
take and how I work and y’all do whatever anyway so don’t get fucking offended,
someone asked me and I took the opportunity to talk about sacrifice in an extremely broad sense bordering on talking about abstaining and other traditions that are maybe a form of sacrifice?
For the record, it is Threskionis, which is the Greek name for the African Sacred Ibis. Also, everything @holy-mountaineering is saying here is spot on. I would just add definitely bring water to your ancestors. They like that. Gods will be wholly unimpressed. I have eight rose bushes in my yard now that take constant care, and She’s still not all that impressed, but what can you do?