Want to honor Hel? These are ways I personally honor Hel. Please add to the list if you have other ideas on how to honor Hel.
🖤Visit a graveyard or cemetery.
🖤Decorate your altar with animal fur, animal bones, skulls, horns, grave rubbings, skeletons, skeletal hands, dried roses, black shrouds, black mirror, black and white candles, plantain leaves, rue, wormwood, yarrow, yew, black roses, the runes Ehwaz, Isa, or Hagalaz. It is not uncommon for a Hel altar to be an ancestor harrow as well, with pictures of, and offerings to one’s own beloved dead.
🖤Make a cup of black tea.
🖤Learn about burial types, tombstone symbols, graveyard tendings, and assorted death related topics. Dedicate this to her.
🖤Make a “bring love, peace, and protection to the dead” sigil for Hel.
🖤Make a moodboard in honor of Hel.
🖤Sing a song dedicated to Hel.
🖤Dedicate your outfit to her, dress in black and white.
🖤Living life to it’s fullest is important to Hel. She doesn’t like you to live a half-life dreading death, so taking care of yourself mentally and physically are devotion acts.
🖤Place black roses on your altar as an offering.
🖤Walk through an apple orchard in honor of Hel’s apple orchard.
🖤Pour her a glass of wine and tell her this represents the blood of our ancestral dead.
🖤Thank her for keeping your ancestors for you.
🖤Never miss a funeral, always pay your respects to the dead.
🖤Use the runes Ehwaz, Hagalaz, and Isa in your craft or altar.
🖤Dedicate your time walking through snow covered forests.
🖤Honor Hel on Saturday, Saturday is Hel’s day.
🖤Offer her your own blood, Hel will also accept your pain and sorrow.
🖤Plant beech, elder, elm, ivy, juniper, mullein, willow, yew, blackthorn, jasmine, evergreens, any white flower, or an apple tree in honor of her.
🖤Light incense or candles like myrrh, storax, appleblossom, or rose.
🖤Create an online shrine of her.
🖤Set up an altar dedicated to her.
🖤Practice silence and solitude.
🖤Dedicate a piece of black agate, jet, lead, obsidian, cook agate, moonstone, quartz crystal, hematite, or onyx to her.
🖤Leave offerings to her of an apple, anything with apples, tea, good wine, meat, bread, soup, meals that your ancestors would have liked, chocolate, or coffee beans. Any food offering left on her altar must be left until it is rotted and/or desiccated.
🖤Use divination to talk to the dead.
🖤Place black rose petals in your bath, light some black candles, and soak in your warm bath.
🖤Bring patience and understanding into all areas of your life.
🖤Offer sincere aid to the dying, the recently bereaved, the mentally ill, the chronically ill, and the socially outcast.
🖤Work in a soup kitchen (Hel feeds the vast underclass who would die a “straw death”).
🖤Work to alleviate proverty, work on, and expunge your own delusions.
🖤Leave anything that represents an owl, raven, dog, or wolf.
🖤Take a look at your life and figure out any changes you need to make.
🖤Dedicate dark magick to her.
🖤Dedicate revenge magick to her.
🖤Call upon Hel for spirit communication.
🖤Call upon her for ancestor worship.
🖤Call upon her when working with astral travel.
🖤Dedicate your protection spells to her.
🖤Ask for her guidance when in need.
🖤If your in need of seeking answers ask for her help.
🖤Leave a drop of your blood in freshly fallen snow as an offering (this also works for Skadi).
🖤Use snow water and graveyard dirt in your practice or altar.
🖤Practice crystal ball scrying.
🖤Leave offerings or say devotional prayers under the new/dark moon.
🖤Have a glass of apple cider, apple tea, or spiced teas like chai in honor of her.
🖤If you feel anxious, depressed, or insecure give those feelings to her as an offering. Focus on healing after.
