Witches Weekly: Ritual Sacrifice

This week's question on Witches' Weekly: How do you feel about animal or blood sacrifices? In terms I’m speaking about using your own blood as a sacred object during a spiritual working, and using all parts of an animal (hunting deer for meat/pelts) rather than solely for ritual sacrifice. Though if you want to speak about plain animal sacrifice, by all means.

No animal sacrifice. Plain and simple. I am a vegetarian, so there is no honorable form of animal sacrifice for me. You may do as you please, as long as you do it with honor and eat or use what you hunt to sustain you. I understand the concept, but I prefer not to practice it.

I hold moon blood to be sacred, but the blood in my veins is just a part of me, no more filled with energy than the other bits that make be a living being. When I raise energy, I transmit it through my hands after it has coursed through my entire being, not just through my blood, but through my nerves and through my breath.

The sacrifice on my altar is a vase of cut flowers, some fruit or seasonal produce.