The spirits have traits, which is a better word I find than personalities as I don’t think it is that appropriate to place a spiritual deity within our human definitions - if we can avoid it.

In forming a relationship, a bond, a connection it helps to have a “brief” on what a particular deity has alliances to. The following suggestions are just that “suggestions”. If you are drawn to work with a magickal stream explore the very nature of that stream and experiment. In my own practice I advocate doing your homework so you can be prepared and choose your ritual offerings with at least the confidence that ultimately you will have circumvented causing any offence, and at best celebrate, honour and align to the chosen stream and/or deity. This can assist you to have a meaningful exchange, a meaningful meeting.

Gods, Goddesses, Deities like communion!

Long ago in our history humanity, in an egoic drive to banish the Gods (as if that’s possible) to the heavens and underworld, lost the way; growing totally in its separateness. Communing was thus left to the church, clairvoyants, shamans, priests/priestesses, cult leaders. Leaving the masses shunned for ever believing they were worthy enough to have any sacred relationship within the spiritual realms of ones own life; be they king or peasant thus causing a tidal wave of illusion that has swamped the western culture to the depths of disempowerment and despair. The Goddess, Deities, Spirits await you! You may have to work for it however and this will require a willingness to invite the chosen to dinner (figuratively) and have a discussion on a regular basis. Set up a sacred altar space, clean and tend to it regularly, lovingly place on it ritual offerings to your chosen Goddess/Deity.

Light a candle, have meaningful dialogue, offer foods. It’s really not about how “other people commune”, it’s about how you do! If you offer foods, light a tea light candle and when it has burnt down, and you have finished your communion, offer the foods back to the Earth in a sacred manner. It really is not appropriate to have a snack from the plate you offered Spirit.

No matter how good that chilli chocolate looks!

Pi Ling altar/ritual offerings