A consecration is most often seen as a smaller act inserted within a larger rite or ceremony or as a smaller rite added on after a larger festival with the consecration being done in the sacred space and with the sacred fire after the primary rite has finished and most of the people have moved off to the after ritual feast and activities. The placement of a consecration really must be decided based on the thing being consecrated, for whom it is being consecrated and the over all context of what is acceptable and appropriate. The purpose of a ritual consecration is to either change the state of a thing or to recognize a change in the state of a thing and thusly facilitating the conception of that thing in a new way.

 In our faith we most often facilitate consecration of an object, place or thing through the use of fire as a symbol for cooking or recreating things. A place may be consecrated through having a sacred fire kindled there ritually. An object that is small may be passed over the flame of a candle or over the hearth fire of a rite. Other symbols include, water, caves and shrouds. Water may be used by passing the object beneath the surface of the water or by splashing nine small waves upon the object, or buy ‘boiling’ the object symbolically in a ritual cooking vessel of water. A shroud may be used to symbolically bury a person who then is changed or altered ritual in some way. The thing of primary import in choosing a method for performing a consecration is that it should be appropriate to the state that a thing is being changed to.