
Blood Rituals
#1
Posted 17 April 2004 - 10:21 PM
For my Samhain ritual last year, the Priest invoked the God and I the Goddess and we did a bloodletting, letting several drops of blood flow into the chalice to be passed around for libations. There were some who refused to drink, which was definitely an option. Others had no problem with partaking of the essence of the divine beings. I've also used blood in several spells as well, all with fantastic results.
How do you feel about incorporating blood work into your practices?
Ana
#2
Posted 18 April 2004 - 03:17 AM
I'm sure you had wonderful results but squeamish me doesn't know whether she'd be able to drink blood....!!!
btw, isn't it dangerous? I mean for trasmitted disease and the like?
#3
Posted 18 April 2004 - 08:58 AM
BB, Ana
#4
Posted 18 April 2004 - 09:15 AM

I agree with something you've said in another topic on this board, much of the Wiccan and Neo-Pagan movement these days is rather on the Fluffy Bunny side of things...perhaps as a backlash towards the long standing negative view of the faiths by monotheistic religions.
I myself have no issues with using blood in small quantities in rituals. Of course, these days, one doesn't see the animal and occassional human sacrific, nor do I think there is much of a percieved need for that, although one can easily see the reasons and logic for it in Pre Christian times. But I have indeed used a touch of my own blood in the past in ritual and found it more powerful.
As I've said before, I was brought up strictly Catholic, and since blood in the figurative sense is such a strong element of the faith (as in...the Blood of Christ, the Blood of Martyrs, etc, etc), it was very much easy for me to consider blood in my Pagan rituals without squimishness.
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#5
Posted 18 April 2004 - 10:11 AM
Goddess forbid I say menstrual blood, and all the men on this board go running for the nearest exit... but, anybody ever use it in ritual? Hey, a woman on her cycle can produce extremely powerful magick.
BB, Ana
#6
Posted 18 April 2004 - 11:14 AM
Surprising how generation after generation of mother to daughter teaching that it's somehow dirty can really stick! I know it's normal, I know it's powerful, I have a pretty decent idea of how it was once percieved as a magical time for women, but it's hard to overcome things that were pounded into your head at puberty.
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#7
Posted 18 April 2004 - 11:27 AM
#8
Posted 18 April 2004 - 01:24 PM
Vampchick. You poor thing. Were you raised in the Catholic school system? lol. And what a horrible thing for someone to say about menstruation! Tears of an empty womb. Sheesh. Like the only thing it's good for is makin' babies! But yes, it took some getting over for me to attempt it myself. Joining the feminist movement helped. lol.
Thanks for your thoughts on it.
Oh and Lamuris gets cool points for posting even AFTER the mention of menstrual blood.
Ana
#9
Posted 18 April 2004 - 01:58 PM

My mom actually was furious when I went home that day and told her what the Sister had said.
Candles...must remember that!
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#10
Posted 18 April 2004 - 03:32 PM
The CDC advises that the risk is still present, even with intact oral mucosa. It is some of the HIV groups that say there is no risk. The choice is yours, but why take the risk?

#11
Posted 18 April 2004 - 03:35 PM
Ana
#12
Posted 18 April 2004 - 03:48 PM
As for the blood thing, fill your boots. Just please be careful. I personally don't see any reason to do it, and no, I don't do it, especially since the risk is there. As for how many cases have been reported... there is a first for everything, and I wouldn't want to be that statistic. I agree that blood is the life force, and if your religious beliefs or personal beliefs require you to do it, then so be it.
I hope this answers your question. I kind of babbled.

#13
Posted 19 April 2004 - 11:23 AM
#14
Posted 19 April 2004 - 12:01 PM
In some tribes (all the specifics are currently escaping me) women were forbidden to prepare food for men while on their period as it was thought that they could accidently curse or posion just by being on their period. They weren't allowed near the shaman or holy person as they could make a mess of the magic.
Most of that was off the top of my head, since it was about 15 years ago that I actually read that stuff...so I can't really recall everything. The book title was something about menstrual taboos....
As to added power, well, I've not tried to actually use it yet myself.
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#15
Posted 19 April 2004 - 12:14 PM
I have never used blood personally but the idea of blood in ritual candles is pardon the obviously bad pun, bloody brilliant! Thanx Lamuris!
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