I can offer some suggestions as to what to put on Her altar, butthis is based on my own experience of Sigyn, and should not in any way serve tolimit one’s own altar construction. The following suggestions are not in anyway based on lore (save for the symbolism of the bowl) but are drawn from myown and other people’s personal gnosis.
- Symbols: old-fashioned keys, bowl orcup, heart, star
- Sigyn as the child-bride: pink,lavender, or blue altar cloths, pretty dolls, stuffed animals, flowers, childlikethings, lady bugs, beads.
- Sigyn as the mourning wife and mother:grey or dark brown cloths, wooden or metal bowl, ashes. I have known severalSigyn’s women who associated the doe with Her.
- Herbs: milk thistle, sweet flag iris,tulips, cherry blossoms
- Rune: Nauthiz, some Sigyn’s women seeBerkana with Her.
- Stones I associate with Her: rosequartz, green garnet, pearls. (I personally do not buy pearls because the waythey are harvested is often harmful to the ocean. This is a taboo placed on meas a result of my devotion to Ran, Aegir, and Their Nine Daughters. Anexception to this would be the purchase of estate pearls [1].Still, all this being said, I do strongly associate pearls with Sigyn perhapsbecause they are traditionally associated with mourning)
- Food Offerings: sweets, cakes, cookies,chocolate for Her as child, bread, macaroni and cheese (at least one Sigyn’swoman swears She likes this), butter, sweet wines.
- Other offerings: honor Narvi and Vali,put something to represent them on the altar (perhaps toys as They were Herchildren), mourn for Her children, hold the bowl, help children in need, donateto organizations that help mothers and/or children in need, feed thehungry/donate time or money to organizations that feed the hungry, donate towar relief organizations or organizations that help refugees, particularlywomen and children, commit to regular prayer practice honoring Her. Be loyal towhatever you love when you feel you do not have the strength to do so and offerthat to Sigyn. When it’s no effort, it’s just you but when you feel you cannotdo this any longer, that is the effort that can be given to Sigyn.
- Things not to do: insult Loki, insultor demean Her children, ignore Her children.
footnotes
[1]Pearls from pre-1950 were not harvested usingmodern methods.
