#offering ritual

[that-one-deaf-witch]

Offering accepted ❤️🙏

[starsandepithets]

I'd like to ask Hathor for some guidance though I'm not sure how to go about it. Do you have any tips?

Hey!

Asking for things from the gods can be as simple or as formal as you like, the most informal is a stripped down offering ritual.

☀️ Prep

Wash your hands and face, and brush your teeth. If you feel up to it, have a shower and get changed into clean clothes.

☀️ Offering

This can be as simple as getting glass or cool water and putting it on the side. If you want to get a little more fancy you can provide offerings of whatever you like, from food to shinies to reading out poems or hymns.

☀️ Chat

Speak to Hathor, this can be spoken out loud or in your head. So long as you’re focusing on saying what you want her to hear, she will be able to.

Addition - performing some kind of divination at this point might be useful in order to hear back

☀️ Saying bye

Thank her for her time and remove the offerings and eat/drink anything edible.

And it’s as simple as that, feel free to add to the basic formula as much as you’d like, and please feel free to ask me any questions if anything I’ve written doesn’t make sense!

[starsandepithets]

Quick Question?

How many times a week/month would you say that you perform a forma offering rituals?

I’m just curious, if there is an average or if everyone is wildly different. I’d normally say I do it once a week. But, I’m very big on ritual purity - so in actuality it’s more like 2 maybe 3 times a month.

[petetintenebris]

Formal Offering Ritual:

This is simply something I wrote for those times when I want to do a special, formal offering to Beelzebub for important shite and special circumstances. A lot of the offerings I usually do are either informal or fall under another, less formal ritual I wrote. Anyway, this ritual could be used for any other entity/deity, as well, so feel free to use it for your own purposes. :)

Things You Will Need:

Altar / Shrine

Clean, private, and protected ritual space

Athame / dagger / wand

Candles and incense

Sigils *

Offerings

Music **

* The sigils would be optional, depending on if you're working with a demon or not. I guess it would also depend on your personal practice.

** Music is optional, as well, depending on whether you think your entity/deity would enjoy it, and it also depends on whether you feel the music invigorates or saps the energy of the ritual.

Procedure:

Clean your space. I believe this is important, especially for formal rituals, because you are about to invite your entity/deity to come join you for the purpose of offering them something. It's kind of like when you have a big dinner during a holiday, and you invite members of your family that you haven't seen in a while. Most people would clean up their home and use their best silverware, etc. Same idea. In my own practice, I generally will pick up my room, put everything in it's proper place, vacuum, and make sure there is a pleasant aroma. (As for what "space" encompasses, I would say the entire room you're about to do the ritual in.)

Make sure your space is protected. This is really just a precaution. I like to keep my space protected at all times, anyway, because I don't want anyone or anything coming to pester me, especially when I'm trying to do something special with my patron. It's also because when I invite my patron to join me, I don't want anyone else tagging along or trying to steal his spotlight, if that makes any sense. It's really just a personal preference based on what makes me feel comfortable, I suppose, but I know a lot of people will do circles before they do rituals. This is the same idea. You can do a circle, you can put up shields, you can ward your room with a special sigil - what have you. For my purposes, I had a friend of mine devise a special sigil for protection on my entire room. See link for further explanation. ("Space" here implies at least the area you are performing the ritual in, if not the entire room.)

Set up the ritual space and altar/shrine. If your altar/shrine is small, and if you have a big offering, you might have to rearrange your altar/shrine in order to compensate for the offering. That's fine. Take the time to do that. Make it look good and pretty, like wrapping up a present for gifting. Also take the time to make sure everything you will need is set up around your ritual space for smooth sailing.

Gather offerings. Set the offerings down into your ritual space, but do not place them on the altar/shrine yet.

Sit down / kneel. This will be for the purpose of invoking. If you are not going to do an invocation, you could simply pray and ask for your entity/deity to join you or hear you.

Put on sigil. * If you are working with demons, this can be seen as a sign of respect when doing invocations, and some demons prefer you to wear their sigils. If you don't have some kind of pendant or something to wear, I would say it's fine to draw it out all nice and pretty and then very neatly tape it to your person. I would say you could also draw it out all nice and pretty somewhere visible on your skin.

Take athame / dagger / wand. * This will be for the purpose of invoking.

Draw ZD invocation sigil. * This is for the purpose of invoking demons. Please see the link for proper demonolatry invocation, as per S. Connolly. It is explained there about how to use it and what it means.

Say demonic enn. * This is for the purpose of invoking demons. Please see lower links: (Dukante Hierarchy Enns) (Goetic Hierarchy Enns) (Goetic Enn Pronunciation Guide) (Demonic Enn Pronunciation Guide)

Meditate and wait for the presence of the entity/deity. Even if you are not working with demons, you could still do an invocation, so this step is left in for that reason. Also, if you are not doing an invocation and simply praying, this step still applies.

Thank the entity/deity for coming. You may or may not feel the presence of the entity/deity. Not everyone senses or feels things, and that's ok. I would say that if you're doing an invocation of some sort, you will likely feel something. This could be in the form of the entity/deity showing up or simply giving you the go-ahead, and it could feel different for everything. If you're not doing an invocation, I suppose you would simply ask for the go-ahead or let your entity/deity know that you would like them to listen or be aware, since you are giving them an offering and would like them to know/hear you (this goes back to what was mentioned in Step 5. I guess this would really depend on your personal practice and what you think is right for you.

Stand.

Present offerings.

As you lay them down, say the following: "I present this offering to [insert entity/deity name] for [insert reason; i.e. thanks / apology] because [i.e. insert reason you are thankful / sorry]. I pray this offering will bring you pleasure for as long as you shall enjoy it. Whatever you desire me do with this offering or time, I shall do graciously."

Bow to the altar/shrine / kneel. You're basically bowing/kneeling to your entity/deity in respect.

Speak the following: "I will now leave you to enjoy this offering in peace. If you wish to stay, feel free to do so. If you wish to leave, I bid you adieu.Thank you for your time. Amen." After this, you could also wait to see if there is something the entity/deity would like to say to you or would like you to do.

Stand.

Put on music. *

Leave.

* Indicates an optional step or step that might need to be tweaked for your own personal practice.

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I did my best to make it general so that it could be tweaked and used for purposes other than my own practice, but I sometimes struggle with wording things smoothly. Anywho, I hope this is helpful to others. Also, please don't take this to mean there is any one way to do an informal or formal offering. I just like to write rituals so that I can have structure to my practice, where certain things are concerned. I posted it to my blog because it's one way to keep myself organized, and I also like to help others, if I can. Another note: I don't have a lot of experience with proper invocation and such, so I'm open to hearing from others about what they think in regards to this ritual. I'm always looking to learn and grow.

Thanks for reading. :)