The Hearth Keepers Way
I started re-reading The Fire on Our Hearth: A Devotional of Three Cranes Grove, ADF and The Hearth Keepers Way this week. Rev. Avende recently sent me my Hearth Keeper certificate, and I hung it over our Family's shrine. Today, I decided to connect our hearth to others of ADF, using the ritual on page 22 of HKW. I'd taken the oath a few months ago, but didn't perform the ritual. Decided today was a good day for it. It was a spontaneous decision. I already have close relationships with my Hearth Entities, and I'm already a Hearth Keeper of Hestia. I wanted to join ours spiritually and energetically with others of ADF, to strengthen the community and our connections to the Kindreds. I selected a candle that I had already dedicated to my Hearth Deities--Hestia, Vesta, the Vestals, Hekate, Frigg, Loki, and Those known and unknown, with and without a shrine in our home. It's also the first candle that we bought when we moved here in the fall of 2022. For a l