This ritual, if done inside and not at a natural spring or outside well, requires a large bowl filled with water from a spring or well. It’s all right if it’s a standard Artesian well for a house – so long as the water came up from the ground as directly as possible. It also requires pieces of red or green cloth with Eir’s bind rune drawn on them – Eihwaz and Raido, on top of each other – a small stone, and red thread.

If you are one person alone, follow this version of the rite. If you are a group of people who cannot be together and must do the rite separately, each can come up with their own well water, fabric, and yarn (or be sent it by other members of the group). You can all be doing the rite simultaneously at a particular time, or during video conferencing.

Decide who you will be doing the healing for – yourself, or another? If it is a healing of an acute condition that needs to be treated immediately, use a piece of red cloth. If it is a healing of a long-term illness that needs to be remediated, use a piece of green cloth.

First an invocation to Eir is spoken:

Hail to the Healer of the Holy Well,

To Asgard’s woman of soothing hands,

Whose touch knits wounds

And salves the marks of fire.

Friend of Menglad on her high mountain,

Friend of Frigg on her high throne,

Friend of the fallen warrior who asks

For mending and surcease from pain.

May blood be stanched, may flesh be whole,

May you look with generous eyes upon us.

Take your pieces of cloth, put the stone in the center, and tie it with the red thread. Drop the stone into the bowl, of well water and say the following invocation:

Holy Well of the Goddess Eir

Whose name means Healer

Whose being is Mending,

Wash us with your waters

And wash our loved ones as well.

May all be made whole,

May all be made healthy,

May all be made well.

May all be made well.

May all be made well.

Take the bowl of water to a sunlit place and leave it for at least an hour. Then it should be taken to a natural area and the water poured out on the ground, and the wrapped stones buried in the earth. It is all right if it takes a few hours to get it there. Just don’t let it spill.