To consencrate is to make pure, passing a bowl over the insence, flame, water and salt and saying a certain chant consencrates the object, or so I have read. It also said you have to consencrate every object on the altar. The bowls to hold the water in, the candles and insence and bowl to hold the salt is on the altar, so do they have to be consencrated? But how can they be consencrated if the process involvings holding the object over the insence and dipping into the holy water and sprinkling with salt?
2006-10-02 06:29:19 · 12 answers · asked by Snow White Queen 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Where on earth did you read that??
There is no need to consecrate everything. The very act of creating a circle is a type of consecration. (Otherwise, you'd have to consecrate the table, walls, floor, etc, etc.)
The bowl/dishes/goblet/whatever you use for the salt and/or water does not need to be 'consecrated' by anything other than a smudge stick or incense. And that, only if you feel the need to do so.
Technically, incense or a smudge stick are for cleansing, not consecrating. Consecrating means that you are making the object "sacred, or set apart". Most wiccans/pagans use it to cleanse something that is going to be used specifically and only for their rituals, like an athame.
If you're using a silver goblet for the water and a broze dish for the salt, and you never plan on using them for any other purpose, go ahead and cleanse them if it will make you feel better.
But you don't really need to.
2006-10-02 07:12:52 · answer #1 · answered by eriayasha 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know of no text that says to consecrate every single item on the altar, nor that any one specific ritual is required to consecrate an item.
My method for consecration is to build a fire for the purpose of consecration. The act of building it as sacred consecrates it. The object is then exposed to earth collected from the ground beneath my feet, passed through (or near, if flammable) the fire, a handful of whatever incense I might have available into the fire then pass the object through the smoke, then plunge it into the nearest body of naturally flowing or gathered water (stream, river, lake, bowl of rain water).
Or, in a pinch, I look at the object and just consecrate it by desiring it to be so.
Ritual is about the will of the ritualist, not the tools. The tools are unimportant.
2006-10-02 06:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is too complex an issue to properly address in the space available here. Since you seem to be working alone, otherwise you could ask your High Priestess this question, I'd recommend "A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunnigham. It covers pretty much everything you need to know. Another good reference is "the Witches Bible Compleat" by Janet and Stewart Farrar. You might also check out anything written by Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders, or Doreen Valiente, the founders of the Wiccan Religion.
2006-10-02 07:08:00 · answer #3 · answered by rich k 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For the bowls to hold the water and salt, you could consecrate them under the tap or in a stream before hand. Consecrating is more about getting rid of negativity rather than making pure, if it were making it pure, we could consecrate ourselves and be virgins again.
Just do what feels right for you.
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2006-10-02 07:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by Seph7 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways to bless and concencrate the tools on your altar. What you should do is devise your own ritual for doing so. You don't have to use oils or water or salt. If you want you only have to use your hands.
2006-10-02 08:34:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are different ways to consecrate objects. Don't rely on one interpretation. Also, figure out what consecrating means to you. My favorite way of consecrating an item is with a little oil and moonlight on a full moon night.
2006-10-02 06:32:57 · answer #6 · answered by ldycopperlk 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-29 09:11:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I usually pour a bit of dried mugwort over the items I consecrate. It's not too messy, and works very well.
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2006-10-02 06:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Making something sacred is personal - use your instincts.
(btw - ignore all the Xtians that are spouting their nonsense! They're insecure and hate competition!)
FP
2006-10-02 06:38:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You consencrate all tools you will be using.
2006-10-02 06:42:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋