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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:54 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:54 am
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:16 am
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Huh. I don't 'anoint' many things, since my skin is insanely sensitive and breaks out when it contacts almost any oil...and soap...and hot water...etc. I've certainly used oils to bless some things, at various points...but the oil doesn't stay on long. I wipe it off. Even if I'm self-blessing with oil.
As a consequence, my personal practice doesn't involve oils often. I sometimes anoint candles, but that's about it. Unless I can avoid directly manipulating the oils with my hands, I don't use them. I can't avoid it as neatly with Wicca. Often I come home with really messed up skin. :
I also don't cleanse my ritual objects, unless they're new and I need to consecrate them. After that, no cleansing. I want them to accumulate ritual resonance. Cleansing would undo that. Cleaning, yes. Cleansing, no.
I think the attitude mostly stems from too many '101' level books out there emphasizing the importance of certain actions - like consecration, like cleansing, like blessing, like anointing - and a level of inexperience and insecurity in a person. Some books do make it sound as if every ritual tool has to have gone through a certain song and dance, and letting it build up any sort of energy and personality is a crime. People end up feeling that 'real' pagans or witches have to do these things in order to be taken seriously. And the process will use up lots of 'product' like incense and oils, thus ensuring that early on SOMEONE is benefiting from that insecure or misinformed need to cleanse and consecrate everything they use.
Personally, I like tools that have been consecrated by use for what they were intended. Tools aren't useful if 99% of the time they're sitting around gathering dust.
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:48 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:04 am
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