Solitary Blots in secret.

Now before I describe how I normally give homage to the Gods, Goddesses, Land, and House wights, I must give a little context, My wife doesn't mind that I do these, but we share our house with her uncle, who is a crazy fundamentalist christian, now I don't take to bashing Christianity, in my opinion they do it pretty well without my help, but his theology is nothing but a mixture of folk theology (meaning not based in the bible) and propaganda from political conservatives, so making an alter in my home to our house wights, or an altar to the Gods indoors or outdoors is something that I will have to wait to do. The reason we live with him, (for those who are curious) is that he was in a car accident ten years ago and cant live on his own due to a head injury, so until someone else is willing to live with him, we are pretty much stuck with him.

So given my dilemma it must be understandable that I cannot just make an alter without causing a severe rift and turmoil in our household, so instead of creating alters I do little things that no one would really notice except for me and the wife if she's paying attention, most nights I have a beer after work to unwind, and I place an opened full beer on the fireplace mantle for our house wight to enjoy as well, in the morning I usually go out back and leave a coffee libation in front of a bush in our backyard for our land wights, and at work I have a tree that I have turned into a small incognito alter, at its base I have placed a rock that I believe to house a land wight, and I normally leave gifts for the Gods and Goddesses, or even land or house wights that are around, its sort of my all purpose alter, sometimes I will find a flower and leave it for Freyja or Frigg, or during lunch I'll find something I really enjoy and share it with the Gods, I just do simple things like this throughout the day, to show my gratitude for life and if I feel that a God, Goddess, or wight has done something for me an needs a gift back. Hardly do I ever gift in order to get something, it is almost always in thanks for a gift I have been given.

As far as holidays go, I observe a pagan calender I have found online, most of the holidays I have to observe on my own, but others, like Yule I have Incorporated into my family as tradition, for example, I celebrate Christmas as a family holiday and Yule as a way of getting all of my wife and I's friends together to eat and drink together, they don't know that I am celebrating a heathen holiday, but it doesn't matter because we are all enjoying ourselves.

One day I would love to be more open about these rituals, but for now they have to be in secret, just between the Gods and myself.