#red meal

[mairimccarter]

Happy solstice and Saint John's Eve! I've done Saint John's water and a Red Meal/Offerings Table with the goddess Freyja.

[prairiefirewitch]

I was thinking about the Housle or Red Meal of Traditional Witchcraft while I planned my Agathos Daimon offering for tonight. It isn’t exactly a red meal and it straddles TradCraft and Greek practices, much as I do. I don’t know if other practitioners marry Greek and TradCraft, but it’s such a natural and obvious coupling for me that they can’t really be separated.

Agathos Daimon is a rite and offering to thank and appease the spirits of our homes. There is a complex connection to Zeus and it’s often represented by a snake, another connection to TradCraft that I like to make.

I chose dark fruits and barley, a typical grain offering in Ancient Greece, and a glass of ruby red wine. I made the black beeswax candles and they “bleed” red as they burn. For incense, I used bay leaves. Unlike the previous two nights where partaking in the offerings wasn’t done (probably) you are expected to share wine and a bite or two of whatever food you’re sharing.

#housle #agathosdaimon #redsupper #offerings #traditionalwitchcraft #ritual #witchesofinstagram #greekreligion #ancientgreece

[lailoken]

Some pictures of this handmade, hand-painted Housel Vessel of ours—what we call the Votive Urn.