Re-Dedication of my Temple Room, Poplar and Anointing-Oil…

During the last days my temple room got renovated by my husband. When we bought our house four years ago, the room was used before as childrens room. All walls were green. And they stayed green when we moved in. After we moved in the “green-room” got the ritual room and evolved with time into a temple room. It is the biggest room in our house. Over the years we celebrated many group rituals there with my circle (this phase is over now since a few months) and had many open group rituals there, too. It was really time now for a renovating of the room. As said all walls were green, now they are white. I will add some decorations and patterns on the walls, pictures and symbols- this will grow and evolve with time.

On wednesday I have cleansed the ritual room with olibanum resin and blessed water (I have added rose-salt, lavender flowers and lemongras to the water) and used a piece of fresh lemongras to sprinkle the blessed water in the temple room.

Then the temple room got blessed again, the guardians, elements and spirits were welcomed and re-invited, the portals between the worlds were re-opened and the room was dedicated again to Hekate- and she filled the room with her presence again.

I will do some devotional stuff now every day until the full moon to strenghten the connection to Hekate and ground her energy within the room, to re-build the energy level so that the room gets a sacred space of Hekate again.

 On thursday it was very stormy. I did a devotional walk up the Todtenberg- to visit the crossroads shrine. On the path I recognised that big twigs of an poplar tree fell to the ground, the storm broke them off. So I was able to harvest a lot of poplar buds. For me personal the poplar is an important tree. I love it to listen to the whispers of the wind in the poplar leaves, I like their almost majestic power and their hugeness.

In greek antiquity poplars were trees of the underworld and were through this connected to Hekate. The buds of the poplar trees were used for magical incense and as ingredient of flying ointments. I use the also to create ointments, incense, oils or in powders.

 On the afternoon I created a anointing-oil. I react allergic to ingredients in many hygiene products and perfumes. So I began to create oils myself that I can use as perfume. Sometimes I choose those oils for a reason- for example to change my aura/charisma or to influence people on a subtle level through the scent. I created this oil to have a nice perfume and to draw positive influences towards me and to create a aura of positive energy around me.

I have grinded herbs to a powder – cinnamon, cardamom, galangal, lemongras, patchouli leaves, bay leaves and vanilla. I have put this powder into sweet almond oil and heated it (in a glass) with hot water. Through the heat the essential oils got from the powder into the oil and the magical energies of the herbs, too.

After the oil cooled down again I put some drops of natural essential orange- and patchouli oil into the herbal-oil (to strengthen the smell).

Then I have brought the oil into my temple room and blessed it on Hekates shrine and empowered it there.

I also put the poblar buds to the Hekate shrine and asked the Goddess to bless the buds so that I can use them when they got dry. 

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Waxing Moon, Spell and Signs of the Goddess

On the Nomenia i had empowered a rose quarz with the power of the first crescent moon and with the might of Hekate-Phosphors. On Saturday I filled a bag of white cloth with seven herbs, the rose quarz and blessed salt (so 9 ingredients) and sealed this herbal bag with red cord. I asked the spirits of the herbs to help me with my goal (which i will not name her in detail). Then i charged the bag with my emotions, will, intent and my etheric energy.

On Sunday I took the bag with me to a walk through the night. The night was clear, the waxing moon was shining bright, the stars were glowing, i looked up into the living veil of darkness, starlight and moonshine- the living veil of the nightly Goddess. I held the bag in my hands, so that it was filled with the light of the moon, I drew down the energy of the waxing moon and filled the bag with it. I prayed to Hekate-Phosphoros to bless the spell and to be gracious towards my goal. I drew down the power of the stars and filled the bag with it, too.

I walked to Hekates crossroad shrine (a shrine on a hill outside of my village, on a threefold crossroad in a small wood). Again I prayed to Hekate, asked her to bless the spell. I put the bag down to the chtonic shrine, asked her to empower it, to strenghten the spell. I prayed to her as Chtonia, Kourotrophos and Phosphoros. I felt the power of the Goddess, filling the spell. Thanked her. Then I left the crossroad, with the bag near my heart. And in the distance some dogs began to bark in the night. A good sign that the Goddess will help me with my goal.

Back home i put the bag to the feet of the Goddess into my hearth shrine, lighted candles and offered herbal honey on a incense burner. Prayed again for my goal.

This spell brought together elements of all three worlds (of the magic of late antiquity). Elements of the material world (the quarz, herbs, salt, bag etc, and act as sympathetic magic). Elements of the etheric world (the using of my etheric energy, the power of the moon). And elements of the empyrean world (the praying to Hekate).