Month: May 2013

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When I make the offerings, I put them by the door. Just a small tray filled with milk and bread, left out for the faeries. In the morning I fill those bowls and the rest of my offering tray with water, incense, food, and other offerings for my gods and spirits. A formal morning offering helps me set the tone, but all throughout my day I’m interacting with ‘smaller’ spirits.

Though I feel close to the gods – and when they come to me, I sometimes weep with emotion – I am closer to the smaller house faeries and city spirits of my area. I am able to feel them more often than I do the gods, and whereas the gods are off doing godly things, the house spirits are helping me keep the house clean and the food from going bad. The house spirits are the ones keeping watch over our boundaries and fences. They’re the ones that steal my socks.

”..if I’m not living my faith through my actions, it doesn’t matter..”

Ahh, this all really speaks to me! I enjoy trying to keep an amicable and respectful relationship with smaller spirits, I feel it can be just as important as any other part of spiritwork. (The line above in particular hit me hard on a much more general note also.) This is a great article, as always, and things I will definitely keep in mind! Especially since I do want to get more familiar with local spirits lately, and pay tribute to them as well, alongside my household spirits that I currently leave offerings for. I might have to draw up a really big to-do list soon, so I can start exercising my practices a bit more, and expanding!