Harvest Offering

Here is how to celebrate Harvest Offering: - Harvest Blót: Go to your garden, a park, or any patch of earth. Bury or pour out the first portion of autumn food. Thank the land. Name three things you have harvested in your life this year. Modern adaptation: Cook a harvest meal. Leave the first portion at the threshold before anyone eats.

Harvest Offering is a Norse festival. An early-October offering to the land and to Freyr and Freyja as the fields are cleared and the harvest comes in. A gesture of gratitude before Vetrnætr — acknowledging that the earth has provided and that care must be returned. First portion of the harvest is returned to the soil.

An early-October offering to the land and to Freyr and Freyja as the fields are cleared and the harvest comes in. A gesture of gratitude before Vetrnætr — acknowledging that the earth has provided and that care must be returned. First portion of the harvest is returned to the soil.

The deities honored at Harvest Offering are: Freyr, Freyja, Nerthus. An early-October offering to the land and to Freyr and Freyja as the fields are cleared and the harvest comes in. A gesture of gratitude before Vetrnætr — acknowledging that the earth has provided and

The spiritual theme of Harvest Offering: Gratitude before the dark — naming what the earth has given. Reflection prompts: What have you harvested this year that you didn't plant intentionally? What do you want to offer back to the world before winter comes?