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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:15 pm
Basically an altar is any flat surface that is used ONLY for your own magickal practices. It reflects who you are and can have many things displayed on it like altar cloths, a burning candle, insense, a pentagram, a picture, earth/rocks/sand/seeds that represent the elements as well as water, your athayme and so much more.
Your 'kitchen' cabinet is whereyou store all your magickal supplies in one handy space so that you may find it easily. This doesn't always have to be a cabinet it cold be a chest, a dresser, a desk, or even a closet! These things can contain many things including:
Athayme
candles
insense
herbs
seeds
rocks
earth
crystals
stones
tarot decks
magickal reference books and documents
a yearly almanac
calendars
wax and wicks (if you make your own candles)
amulets
ribbons
and many other things. what I am asking is that you add to these that I have listed by telling us what is in your 'kitchen' cabinet and up your magickal sleeve!
~Ami~
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:24 pm
I happen to have a shoe box that is my "kitchen cabinet" It seems small on the outside but it still wholes all my supplies. Sits on my desk right behind my laptop and no one bothers it. wink
3 Wicca books
1 BOS
8 Candles
2 wooden bowls
4 special pens for writing in the BOS
2 speical pencils
Bag of feeling stones
And a can of incense sticks
And yes it all fits with only a slight lift of the lid if I pack it wrong, and no I didn't do any spells or decorating of the box and yes theres still more room in it for a couple of odd things to go in. It's not even from a pair of shoes I bought, it was the roomies! whee
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:41 am
Well, I guess my whole house is my kitchen cabinet. lol Anyway
three bookcases of religion, philosphy, divination & spellbooks
a couple bookcases of cultural & history studies
a few hundred stones
various oils, tintures & herbs
various craft items (ribbon, yarn, paints, candle making supplies, ad infinium)
one tarot deck for use & eight others for meditation, study & comparison
a handmade witchboard, made by my old group
various ritual items (various wands, staves, swords, chalices, ect)
drums (african)
I am living my dream life to the fullest. Now if I could just get a couple hundred acres out in the mountains, with some caves & a swamp off to one side.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:24 am
WOW> I would love to see what your altar looks like, let alone some of the interesting items on there! Is that even possible? Oh my goddess! It must be an entire room (unless you decorated your whole house as such). Thta must have been thousands upn thousands of dollars! I just was going to say that I added a picture that I had drawn of the goddess interpretation I made and I am sharing my altar with a few friends and continuing forward with my divination techniques with tarot readings and I'm getting good at it with a starter deck (meanings written right on the card). I'm poor. ( crying )
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:41 pm
I have to completely disagree. An altar never has to be an exclusive surface. Many people do not have the space to be able to do that. I think what is key about the altar is what you make of it at the time of its use! If the altar surface is prepared properly (ie cleansed of interfering energies and set up with what you need), then anything can be your altar.
Some people keep an altar cloth around because the cloth itself is their "portable altar" and is ready to be put on any flat surface.
So to have this as an absolute is just not something I can agree with. Absolutes in magic are what cause downfalls and disagreements. Openness is key to understanding and peace between thought paths.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:51 am
I have more than one altar/shrine types around my home. I have a personal altar in my bedroom, a "public" one in the main living room, a small water shrine in the bathroom, and a small "welcome to my home" altar type in the entry hall as people come into the home. Even my children have a small one in each of thier rooms.
I change mine so often.. it follows the seasons and even the cloths (when I have a cloth... I don't always have one LOL) change according to the seasons.
Here is a few items I have on some of my altars:
Shells from my friend in Hawaii
A small bonsai oak tree
A small statuette of a black cat (for my little furbaby)
3 dragon statuettes (1 male, 1 female, and 1 baby breaking out of a shell)
Feathers from various birds (including an ostrich from African Lion Safari smile )
Various knives and tols (includes a handmade sickle from a dear friend)
A black beeswax lined drinking horn (made by the same friend above)
A handmade incense burner I made and the insence for it (also made by me)
small candles, stones, various oils...
There are so many more things that i interchange one each but it would be a very, very long list LOL!
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:17 am
Totally Not Gay I have more than one altar/shrine types around my home. I have a personal altar in my bedroom, a "public" one in the main living room, a small water shrine in the bathroom, and a small "welcome to my home" altar type in the entry hall as people come into the home. Even my children have a small one in each of thier rooms.
I change mine so often.. it follows the seasons and even the cloths (when I have a cloth... I don't always have one LOL) change according to the seasons.
Here is a few items I have on some of my altars:
Shells from my friend in Hawaii
A small bonsai oak tree
A small statuette of a black cat (for my little furbaby)
3 dragon statuettes (1 male, 1 female, and 1 baby breaking out of a shell)
Feathers from various birds (including an ostrich from African Lion Safari smile )
Various knives and tols (includes a handmade sickle from a dear friend)
A black beeswax lined drinking horn (made by the same friend above)
A handmade incense burner I made and the insence for it (also made by me)
small candles, stones, various oils...
There are so many more things that i interchange one each but it would be a very, very long list LOL! I'm so jealous.... I lost most everything I had...including most of my books when I got robbed and then had to leave Texas. My boyfriend paid to ship some of my stuff up....but he told me what to ship...and we both decided that my books could be replaced....as well as most of my supplies....because it would be cheaper to replace them than to ship them. So....I don't have an altar right now....or most of my supplies....but in time I'll get it back together. I can't even really have an altar until we aren't living with his parents anymore...
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:41 am
DragonLady2006 I'm so jealous.... I lost most everything I had...including most of my books when I got robbed and then had to leave Texas. My boyfriend paid to ship some of my stuff up....but he told me what to ship...and we both decided that my books could be replaced....as well as most of my supplies....because it would be cheaper to replace them than to ship them. So....I don't have an altar right now....or most of my supplies....but in time I'll get it back together. I can't even really have an altar until we aren't living with his parents anymore...
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:38 am
Is There Anything that could be placed on your alter during a sabbat (for example Samhain is coming up quick) I'm preparing my alter, is there anyting special I should do for it?
And you put a picture in the alter list, is this just a picture of whatever you wish or of a person/yourself. -asks lots of questions xd - but i guess it's better to ask then not know!
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:43 pm
I dont really have an alter. I just started making one and its in my room.
I gots...
~My BOS
~bowl of salt
~bowl of water
~Candles
~Penagram
~Chalse
~Compass
and books I got from the library. Sadly they're due next weekend. And I've read only one of them.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:07 pm
Blood_Thorn07 and books I got from the library. Sadly they're due next weekend. And I've read only one of them. You could re-new them...?
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:36 pm
I have a bookshelf which is also an alter.
I also have a seperate alter which I have placed my herbs that I drying, my dragon statues, and my mortar and pestle (My little Herbal station, if you will. n___n)
My bookshelf has an alter on top, and underneath there are 4 Books on wicca, 2 on Tarot, 1 on Spices, 1 on Ghosts and unexplained spirits, and 1 Magickal Calender (a Spell-A-Day one). In the shelf to the left, I have a bag that used to belong to my g-ma in which I hold herbal remidies once mixed and charged. I also have four glass candle holders. on the shelf to the right, I have herbs and other ritual ingredients. Underneath I have a box containing at least one of every color candle I can find, Which is a lot! they're all taper but I have to large candles as well. :]
Both my alters contain these in the appropriate places. Salt-Earth, Inscense-Air, a white or red candle-Fire, and a chalice of water. On my "herbal station" I have already explained what I have.
On my bookshelf alter, I have my BoS, another dragon stature (which I may move to my other alter when I find a fae statue) my Tarot deck, Yes/No stones, and the wand that I made.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:05 pm
we use the fireplace as an alter and the ledge infront of it.
It's a combination between mine and my roomate's
It's got :
my chalice and her chalice
my wand and her wand
my atheme and her atheme
her penticle
her ankh
my thors hammer
my cauldron and her cauldron
a wooden bowl given to me by an asatru friend
a large chunk of rose quartz
her oil burner and my oil burner
her inscence holder and my insence holders
a picture of the goddess sitting on the moon
a small votive god and goddess candle
taper candles on the sides
her smudging kit
her morter and pestle
my seashells
my rattley gourd
my pewter fairy
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