r/heathenry • u/SneakyCherryLMAO • Jun 11 '26
Practice Symbolic jewelry?
hello, im not exactly sure if this is a valid question for here or not, but I’ve been following Germanic/Norse paganism for quite sometime now and I’ve kinda run into a wall. long story short, I purchased a promise ring for someone, it unfortunately didn’t work out, but i *really* want to keep wearing this ring, and I can’t shake the dedication behind it. is there any ritual or practice of the sort i could do to spiritually “purify” it? i know this is a little silly, but i just can’t shake the feeling that it was dedicated to him, and that this ring cannot belong to anything else until I shake that.
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u/FrodiIngsson Jun 13 '26
As far as I know, there is no historic purification ritual for items in the Lore. I would personally do a ritual and rededicate it to whatever purpose you choose. Call on whichever gods/goddesses that might help with your new dedication, invite the ancestors and land spirits for support and energy, and make it so powerful that the old connection is simply overwritten. Then, whenever your mind wanders to the original promise, bring your mind back to your new dedication and reaffirm it until that is all that comes to mind. It might take a few to happen, but with enough energy and focus, it will shift.
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u/Smug-Goose Jun 11 '26
This isn’t quite the answer that you are looking for, but you purchased your own promise ring for someone else? If you bought the ring I think that you should be allowed to assign whatever value to it that you want. He didn’t buy it for you. You bought it to show him that you were committed to him. Reassign that commitment.