#needfire

[wyrdkraft]

An eighth do I hold, tis granted to all And most Needful to use, if one’s timely: If the heart of a Knyght, on the Way ever falls I woot well how, to quicken the flame.

[broomsick]

Building a fragrant needfire as an offering

Or, how to combine witchcraft and paganism in a beautiful little craft. (As detailed in Arin Murphy-Hiscock’s The House Witch)

You will need:

A cauldron or fireproof dish strong enough to withstand intense heat. Nothing ceramic or glass!

A heatproof trivet, pad, or flat stone on which to place the cauldron securely.

Rubbing alcohol or any high-percentage alcohol available in liquor stores, such as vodka or brandy.

Epsom salts

Your choice of herbs and resins blend

A long-handled match

A large bag of sand or earth to pour over the fire of you need to douse it immediately

A heavy lid, to smother the flame if it goes out of control

A fire extinguisher as a backup

The steps!

1. Measure out equal parts of Epsom salts and alcohol. Place the salts in the bottom of the cauldron and pour the alcohol over them.

2. Pour the herbal mixture into the cauldron. Place the cauldron on the heatproof trivet or stone

3. Light the long-handled match and touch it to the mixture. It will burst into silent flame, the tops of the flames leaping above the cauldron. The fire will burn until the alcohol has been consumed. Throughout the fire, but more so when the flames begin to die away, you will hear tiny pops and sizzles as the salt cracks in the heat and the herbs and resins are consumed by the flames.

4. Do not even think about adding more alcohol into the cauldron while the flames are burning! Keep the alcohol/salt proportion equal until you are confident about handling the resulting fire; then and only then may you tweak the proportions. Never pour a large amount of alcohol over the salts; the resulting flames can be several feet high and can cause major damage to you or your house. Be safe and use common sense.

5. The fire will die away within a few minutes, but keep your sand, lid, and fire extinguisher handy in case you need them to put out the fire.

Watch your sleeves and hair, and keep the cauldron away from anything flammable, such as curtains.

Notes:

- The Epsom salts serve to soak up some of the alcohol and keep the fire burning in a more stable fashion!

- Instead of adding herbs directly into the salt, you can steep your selected herbs or flowers in the alcohol you plan to use. Steep them for at least 2 weeks, then strain and bottle the alcohol. Label it clearly and do not use it for any other purpose.

- Apart from making a lovely and fragrant offering, this sort of needfire is a wonderful way to scry, to cleanse a room or simply to meditate!

[lokabrenna13]

Good morning! This week's rune is Nauthiz!

Nauthiz means "need fire" and is the rune of need/necessity, resistance, friction, and innovation. Necessity, as the old cliche reminds us, is often the mother of invention. The next seven days could prove difficult. Some of you may experience more resistance than usual to what you want to do, and some may be experiencing greater hardship. However, opportunities to find creative solutions to problems you are facing will surface as well. Now would also be good time reflect on what you need and what is truly important to you right now.

#runepull #runeart #runes #runedivination #divination #northerntraditionpagan #pagan #northerntradition #nauthiz #needfire #resistance #necessity #friction #runeoftheweek #norsepagan #futhark #elderfuthark #runevideo

[chalkrevelations]

LP II

(needs, blessings)

Libertas: isa, elhaz (stillness/calm, protection)

Justitia: mannaz, berkano (the individual interwoven within the network, new growth)

Columbia: fehu, naudhiz (prosperity, the needfire/what's needful)

Fortuna America: ehwaz, hagalaz (partnership, the ice-seed/stasis and destruction -> transformation)

Shadow (the ground we stand on, where we are now): wunjo (joy)

[hazelwest1980]

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[ingridrichter]

Needfire

Fire obtained by the friction of wood upon wood, or the friction of a rope on a stake of wood.

Fugitive Facts by Robert Thorne, 1890.

[lokabrenna13]

Good morning! This week's rune is Nauthiz!

Nauthiz literally means "need fire" and is the rune of need/necessity, resistance, friction, and innovation. Hardship can become an opportunity for growth, depending on the situation, and your approach. You may find yourself in situations that require patience and endurance. This can include major difficulties and obstacles, or you may just be feeling stuck. Some of you will face delays moving forward or resistance to what you are hoping to achieve. Prioritizing will be key here. Nauthiz can also indicate you are facing a difficulty where you need to focus on an innovative, creative solution. So rather than focusing on the problem, look for ways to meet the need.

#runepull #runeart #runes #runedivination #divination #northerntraditionpagan #pagan #northerntradition #nauthiz #needfire #resistance #necessity #friction #runeoftheweek #norsepagan #futhark #elderfuthark #runevideo

[chalkrevelations]

LP II

Ludi Plebeii Day 2, moving outward a little bit, and this second day is generally focused on both Quirinus, as a god of civic-ness and by extension city-ness, based on his place in Rome's early Archaic Triad and associations with the deified Romulus, and on Athena as Polias, the mens of the city, intellectual/artistic/political gestalt, the "weaver of the networks that bind us together, protector of the social institutions that form the keystone of civilized life, and both of them with a particular expression informed by the history and people here, in my city. Local cultus is local.

Busier out there this morning than yesterday, including some people who I think were hanging around before church services started in a nearby storefront. I ended up setting up at one of the small tables with chairs that the city set up in the grassy areas out there, to make sure I wasn't constantly shifting to stay out of people's way. A lot of city-ness going on.

Omen was ingwaz again, for needs from Quirinus - the stored seeds, from the god of the city's storehouses and storefronts (with his association with Consus, the god of the seedbin) - having your things in order, your stores laid by, and taking care of them to preserve them. Naudhiz for the blessing, and that naudhiz, the needfire, can be kind of challenging, but when it turns up on the blessing spot in a ritual omen like this, I tend to see it as an assurance that what's needed will be there - if we do the work requested, it will be enough. Needs from Athena is othala, ancestral ground, the ground that's yours, because you've worked it and tended it and you know it, with raidho for the blessings - ordered and orderly movement, working in common to move toward a goal, and I feel like the ancestral ground in that othala is conceptual, the ideas and ideals where our roots are planted, which will be the foundation for movement forward. Who else is part of your forest - where we learn more everyday about how the trees are interconnected - and how do you work together?

Shadow rune, the place we're standing now, was uruz, the ability to shape and transform, to purify and bring into being. Also, maybe a little bit of literal meaning to it to - the aurochs, the Bull of our city, saying, even if you're not in your usual place, where my physical representation is, I'm still here. It's all my place.

So. Day two down.

Meanwhile, there also were some signs out there left over from yesterday's Ceasefire protest:

Things like this are some of the reasons I love my city.

[tenthousandpancakes-blog]

WHY THE FUCK WAS THIS MADE #cutescoundrel #starwars #doll #needfire #dont

[keiragonelizabeth-blog]

My favorite hot coco was on sale today...so I got 3 flavours! Best hot chocolate ever made! #hotchocolate #landolakes #enchanted #warm #needfire #fall #fallnights #coldnights #mint #mintchocolate #whitechocolatemocha #articwhite #hazelnut