Place a dish or plate that is gold-colored metal, a gold or green colored glass dish, or a small clear glass plate at the center of your altar to represent your offering tray and the space element. You can add items to your offering tray that represent abundance to you such as paper money, coins, gems, or pieces of jewelry. On a small, unlined piece of paper describe in three words the feelings you would like to experience. Words like peace, healing, love, abundance, success, or grace have greater power in this circumstance than a laundry list of what you believe is wrong and needs attending.
An Offering to the Moon by Clark Ashton Smith
Your offering tray is the place to connect to and offer your dreams and deepest longings to All That Is. Include a personal symbol that you place in the center of your altar in back of the offering. Along with her husband, Michael, she co-founded Vastu Creations, LLC and the American Institute of Vastu, working with thousands of people worldwide to reduce stress and end suffering. Robin and Michael write about Vastu , and their work has been featured in print and television worldwide. Together, they have written three award-winning books about how stress impedes success and fulfillment, Michael Mastro Master Vastu Consultant.
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His excitement rose, it became more mystical and more rhapsodic as he neared his destination. His being was flooded by the superstitious awe of ancient man, by the dreadful reverence due to the unknown powers of nature. He peered with a solemn trepidation at the moon as it rose higher in the heavens, and saw in its rounded orb the features of a divinity both benign and malevolent.
Now he beheld the temple, looming whitely above the tops of titan fronds. The walls were no longer ruinous, their fallen blocks were wholly restored.
Clark Ashton Smith
His visit to the place with Thorway was dim as a fever fantasy; but other visits during his life as Matla, and ceremonials of the priests of Rhalu which he had once beheld, were clear and immediate in his memory. He knew the faces he would see, and the ritual wherein he would participate. He thought mostly in pictures; but the words of a strange vocabulary were ready for his recollection; and phrases drifted through his mind with unconscious ease; phrases that would have seemed untelligible gibberish an hour before.
Matla was aware of the concentrated gaze of several hundred eyes as he entered the great, roofless fane. The place was thronged with people, whose round features were of a pre-Aryan type; and many of the faces were familiar to him. But at that moment all of them were parcel of a mystic horror, and were awesome and obscure as the night. Nothing was clear before him, save an opening in the throng, which led to the altar-stone around which the priests of Rhalu were gathered, and wherein Rhalu herself looked down in relentless, icy splendor from an almost vertical elevation.
He went forward with firm steps. The priests, who were clad in lunar purple and yellow, received him in an impassive silence. Counting them, he found that there were only six instead of the usual seven. One there was among them who carried a large, shallow goblet of silver; but the seventh, whose hand would lift the long and curving knife of some copperish metal, had not yet arrived.
Thorway had found it curiously hard to apply himself to the half-written monograph on Etruscan tombs. An obscure and exasperating restlessness finally impelled him to abandon his wooing of the reluctant muse of archaeology. In a state of steadily mounting irritation, wishing that the bothersome and unprofitable voyage were over, he went on deck. The moonlight dazzled him with its preternatural brilliance, and he did not perceive for a few moments that the cane couch was empty, When he saw that Morley was gone, he experienced a peculiar mixture of alarm and irritation.
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He felt sure that Morley had not returned to his cabin. Stepping to the schooner's shoreward side, he noted with little surprise the absence of the moored boat. Morley must have gone ashore for a moonlight visit to the ruined temple; and Thorway frowned heavily at this new presumptive evidence of his employer's eccentricity and aberration. An unwonted of responsibility: He seemed to hear an inward injunction, a half-familiar voice, bidding him to take care of Morley.
This unhealthy and exorbitant interest in a more than problematic past should be discouraged or at least supervised. Very quickly, he made up his mind as to what he should do. Going below, he called two of the Swedish sailors from their game of pedro and had them row him ashore in the ship's dinghy. As they neared the beach the boat used by Morley was plainly visible in the plumy shadow of a clump of seaward-leaning palms. Thorway, without offering any explanation of his purpose in going ashore, told the sailors to return to the ship.
Then, following the well-worn trail toward the temple, he mounted the island-slope. Step by step, as he went on, he became aware of a strange difference in the vegetation. What were these monstrous ferns and prinordial-looking flowers about him?
Surely it was some weird trick of the moonlight, distorting the familiar palms and shrubs. He had seen nothing of the sort in his daytime visits, and such forms were impossible, anyway.
Then, by degrees, he was beset with terrible doubt and bewilderment. There came to him the ineffably horrifying sensation of passing beyond his proper self, beyond all that he knew as legitimate and verifiable. Fantastic, unspeakable thoughts, alien, abnormal imphlses, thronged upon him from the sorcerous glare of the effulgent moon. He shuddered at repellent but insistent memories that were not his own, at the ghastly compulsion of an unbelievable command. What on earth was possessing him?
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Was he going mad like Morley? The moon-bright isle was like some bottomless abyss of nightmare fantasy, into which he sank with nightmare terror. He sought to recover his hard, materialistic sanity, his belief in the safe literality of things. Then, suddenly and without surprise, he was no longer Thorway. He knew the real purpose for which he had come ashore — the solemn rite in which he was to play an awful but necessary part. The ordained hour was near -- the worshippers, the sacrifice and the six fellow-priests awaited his coming in the immemorial fane of Rhalu.
Unassisted by any of the priests, Matla had stretched himself on the cold altar. How long he lay there, waiting, he could not tell. But at last, by the rustling stir and murmur of the throng, he knew that the seventh priest had arrived. All fear had left him, as if he were already beyond the pain and suffering of earth. But he knew with a precision well-nigh real as physical sight and sensation the use which would be made of the copperish knife and the silver goblet.
He lay gazing at the wan heavens, and saw dimly, with far-focused eyes, the leaning face of the seventh priest. The face was doubly familiar He did not try to remember. Already it seemed to him that the white moon was drawing nearer, was stooping from her celestial station to quaff the awaited sacrifice. Her light blinded him with unearthly fulgor; but he saw dimly the flash of the falling knife ere it entered his heart. There was an instant of tearing pain that plunged on and on through his body, as if its tissues were a deep abyss.
Then a sudden darkness took the heavens and blotted out the face of Rhalu; and all things, even pain, were erased for Matla by the black mist of an eternal nothing. In the morning, Svensen and his sailors waited very patiently for the return of Morley and Thorway from the island. When afternoon came and the two were still absent, Svensen decided that it was time to investigate. He had received orders to lift anchor for San Francisco that day; but he could not very well depart without Thorway and Morley.
With one of the crew, he rowed ashore and climbed the hill to the ruins. What was their cultural habits? You can make offerings whenever you feel moved to. If that is every ritual, go for it! If that is only during a particular moon phase, go for it! Its up to you and your practice. I would bet though, once you begin to add making offerings part of your ritual practice, and you experience a supercharge in your magick, you will probably make offerings more frequently. However, do not eat any of the food that you placed as offering.
Doing so is not favorable for you in any way. Most common ways to dispose are to bury food in the earth, pour liquids onto the earth also. You can of course pour the liquids down the drain if you wish. Like I said, whatever works for you. Do you make offerings? How often do you do it? What have been your results if any? It is such a fascinating topic and I know many of you have been curious. If you enjoyed this post and you want to be notified when new posts are up subscribe HERE. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Prepare your ritual space like you usually do. Spend a few moments meditating and centering yourself and your thoughts. Invoke the spirit, deity, or ancestor with a confident yet respectful tone. Once you feel complete with the last step, you may… Take a moment and speak to the invoked and explain why and what you are offering.