🕯Giving Thanks and Gratitude Ritual🕯 (Patreon)

Giving thanks is very important in all cultures and religions. There are many cultures that have rituals for showing gratitude. Many people do these rituals around the holidays in celebration to the harvest of the year. This is true for pagans, witches and anyone else!

You could give thanks for....

The spells that succeeded

The new jobs, new lovers, and new friends you gained this year

For anything you manifested

The gods for watching over you

That you are loved and cared for

There are many ways to give thanks and you could do this whenever you feel called to do so! You can give thanks and show gratitude through prayer and offerings.

Still, the holiday season is a good time to go all out with giving thanks. It’s a time of year when you can create a huge feast for the gods with many offerings.

This pagan gratitude ritual takes the best portions of food from your holiday dinner and uses them as an offering to the gods. Remember that sacrifice is a huge part of the season. It’s easy to forget that as we’re gorging ourselves on delicious meals!

If you need a selfish reason to give thanks, consider that doing so shows that you are worthy of more blessings in the future. No one wants to help someone that never says thank you, and that’s especially true of the gods! When you give thanks, you let the universe know that you care.

Materials:

The best piece of meat from your holiday dinner

The best fruit or vegetable

A small amount of dessert

A glass of good wine or other beverage

Enough salt to draw a circle

A large candle or bonfire

Instructions:

This ritual is best done right before eating dinner.

Take the best meat, produce, piece of dessert, and the glass of good wine or beverage outside.

Draw a circle with the salt around the bonfire or candle with enough space for you to be inside the circle.

Light the candle or bonfire.

Hold your offering over the fire and smoke to send up the smell to the gods.

Thank the gods for all the blessings they have brought you this year.

Stop the fire (for safety) before leaving the circle

Leave the food and wine to the elements and the animals that will carry your offerings to the gods.

This is from:

https://eclecticwitchcraft.com/pagan-thanksgiving-ritual/