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Chalice

also called: cup, goblet

the chalice doesn't reach for anything. she just holds what's poured.


her use

holding ritual wine or water, the receptive vessel in Great Rite symbolism

The cup is the altar's receptive principle — water, emotion, the feminine polarity in traditional Wiccan symbolism, paired with the athame or wand in the symbolic Great Rite. Practically, she holds the ritual drink shared at a working's close.