OK, I am further than I'd like to be from first ignition, especially the way that we've gotten an early slug of cold weather; the rest of life, especially the day job, has given me less time than I'd have foreseen to do the bolting-up.
but, partly for fun and partly to give me things to look forward to (and not just worry and stew about the fact that I am so far behind the schedule I'd aimed for)
I'd like to solicit ideas for an appropriate "first fire" ceremony when I get there.
I thought of this because I was remembering once visiting a huge electric utility installation that had been engineered and built by some scandanavian company (a couple of decades before my visit) and my friend who was giving me the tour pointed out to me that, sitting on top of various pieces of digital, solid state, and extreme high voltage (hundreds of kilovolt) equipment were these ornate elaborately decorated little blue wood horses.
Apparently when the whole place was finished construction, but before someone threw the switch for the "first run," the scandanavian engineers and work crews placed these little icons in various carefully-chosen spots, then said some incantation, and then threw the switch. The folks who now own and run the plant keep the blue horses around ever since.
I don't want to get that elaborate, but would be interested in hearing sugested rituals, from any and all traditions (expecially scandanavian, though, given the origins of wood gasifier boilers from those parts) to precede the lighting of a first fire, to bring good fortune and blessings...
Thanks
but, partly for fun and partly to give me things to look forward to (and not just worry and stew about the fact that I am so far behind the schedule I'd aimed for)
I'd like to solicit ideas for an appropriate "first fire" ceremony when I get there.
I thought of this because I was remembering once visiting a huge electric utility installation that had been engineered and built by some scandanavian company (a couple of decades before my visit) and my friend who was giving me the tour pointed out to me that, sitting on top of various pieces of digital, solid state, and extreme high voltage (hundreds of kilovolt) equipment were these ornate elaborately decorated little blue wood horses.
Apparently when the whole place was finished construction, but before someone threw the switch for the "first run," the scandanavian engineers and work crews placed these little icons in various carefully-chosen spots, then said some incantation, and then threw the switch. The folks who now own and run the plant keep the blue horses around ever since.
I don't want to get that elaborate, but would be interested in hearing sugested rituals, from any and all traditions (expecially scandanavian, though, given the origins of wood gasifier boilers from those parts) to precede the lighting of a first fire, to bring good fortune and blessings...
Thanks
