Your
Altar
The building of an altar is an
important part of celebrating. It creates a focus in a room and provides a
useful space for invoking the power of the Goddess. Very nearly anything can be
used to create an altar. Altars can very simple or very complex and very much
reflects the type of person you are. The following are ideas for items to be
included in your altar. Not all the items need to be used as can be seen in our
suggestions for a Feng Shui Altar and a simple Altar.
- Use any space i.e. shelf, table top, top of chest of drawers, box
- Altar cloths of any colour - sized to suit your altar space
- Incense holder - ceramic, metal, wooden
- Smudge stick
- Incense - any variety to suit your taste
- Sacred salt in a glass or wooden bowl or other vessel
- coloured glass dish
- Candle of any colour to suit your intention e.g. green for healing, pink
for love
- Large crystal - quartz, rose quartz, amethyst - any other to suit your
taste
- Any tumbled or natural crystals
- Chunk of wood
- Statue to represent the goddess of your choice e.g. Isis, Athena
- Crystals on coloured cord - type and colour according to your intention
- Necklace including metal and/or crystal - type and colour according to
your intention
- Represention of a spear e.g pencil with glittery plastic star on eraser
- Athame
- Spheres - crystal, wood
- Egg - crystal, wood
- Snake bracelet and any other jewellery
- chalice - glass, metal, wood
- wishbones or other charms
- Tarot cards e.g. Queen of wands - High Priestess
- Candle holders - glass, metal, wood
- White beeswax "temple" candles
- Bell - glass or metal
- Magic wand - piece of wood tipped with crystal, wrapped with yarn and
decorated with feathers and beads
- Jar of money
- crayons/pencils of the colour to suite your intention
- symbols - pentagram/fire/water - anything to suite your intention
- Angel TM cards
- Symbolic knife - cutlery, parring, pen knife
- Obsidian Arrowhead
- Feathers - usully Crow although other species can be used
- Shells
A Feng Shui Altar might include
- A rock
- A feather
- A candle
- A shell
A simple Altar might include
- simple symbols of the four elements
- A candle or two
- something to represent the Goddess
and that's it
Happy creating!!
Starbright
