Ritual Items
Elemental vessels, and other handmade items for your altar.
“Ritual is a symbolic act, carried out with conscious awareness”
Robert Johnson.
I create elemental vessels for altars, ritual cups, talismans and deity figures, handmade from clay and all uniquely glazed – there are no two the same! I made these for myself at first, and they have become very popular, so I now sell them at various fayres throughout the year. I also hand engrave sea pottery with runes, and make elemental ritual boards. I don’t sell them online, so if you’re interested – I’ll put the venues and dates on here as I confirm them.
Ritual: using movement, items or words to bring what is unconscious or unseen, into our conscious awareness.
When we carry out a ritual, or any kind of sympathetic magic, we don’t need to be ‘gifted’ – we are all qualified to practice this ancient origin of modern psychology – we are weaving a story, we are invoking an archetype, or in popular glittery terms – we are ‘manifesting’. In psychological terms we are really re-writing our narratives.
But forget all this! Think like a child again, forget trying to understand with your brain, just speak your story from your soul – and you’ve performed a ritual – no chickens need to be sacrificed and you don’t need to be naked (although that’s also fine if you want to be)
Elements
The elements not only make up ‘outside’ nature, they also symbolise our inner natures.
As an example (and this is merely a snippet! – observe the elements in nature and make your own interpretations):
When we light a candle we invoke fire – symbolising our intuition, will, confidence, divine self.
Holding water in a bowl can symbolise our emotions, containing or expressing our feelings.
Letting the incense smoke rise through the air – our thinking, communication, openness to change.
Placing an item on the earth – our bodies, sensation, stability.
Honouring them each day with your own ritual, however brief and simple or complex and involved, is a direct way to start to be in relationship with both your inner self and the outer world.
Then you can start to understand what the wind is whispering to you, or what the water is asking you to feel…