Your cup of water represents the element water. Place your cup of water on the Western side of your altar, welcoming the spirits of the West: water, emotion, flexibility, love. Place your candle on the Southern edge of your altar, light it, and welcome in the spirits of the South: fire, passion, transformation, inspiration. Place the feather on the Eastern side of your altar, and welcome the spirits of the East: the air, intellect, gratitude for breath, intuition, etc. Place your small table or arrange your altar cloth in the place you have chosen.
The beauty of building your own altar is that you can create one that reflects your own unique style and belief system. In this article, I am focusing on altar use in general, not intended for any particular organized religion or practice. The uses of altar in spiritual practice are extremely varied and individualized. They can help bring you into focus more quickly and deeply.Įlemental Minuet © Lindy Kehoe 2019 What you define as an altar for spiritual practice is entirely up to you. These elements add an extra dimension such as smell, sound, touch, and they add movement, as in the case of shimmering water, flickering calendar, or vibrational sound waves. When creating an altar, you may want to include at least one extra-sensory item on the altar If you have a spiritual project that spans many days or sessions, you may want to bring a new object to the altar at the beginning of each session to refresh and deepen the practice.
If you are creating an altar for group ritual, perhaps each member of the group brings an object to place on the altar to represent a facet of the work you are doing together. If your spiritual practice is earth-based, your more formal altars may want to include a nod to each of the four directions. A more elaborate altar could include many elements that bring to focus a different energy that you would like to focus on. In the most basic form, an alter can be a single stone or a flickering candle that serves as a focal point for your meditation practice. What should I put my altar on?Īltars can be as complex or as simple as you want them to be
Commonly seen on my altars are small sculptures of the Mother Goddess, stones, bones and crystals, a small crystal gazing ball, snake skin, and items that represent the elements, as discussed below. The objects on your altar represent the elements, spirits, feelings, intentions, even specific goddesses or gods that you would like to connect with in your spiritual practices.
Altars vehicles through which you can connect more deeply with the divine They may represent spiritual entities that we revere, or gods or goddesses that we commune with, but these objects are not idols. Let's be clear right up front: these objects are not worshipped in and of themselves. Altars are sacred spiritual spaces, however small or large. Simply put, an altar is a physical object or set of objects placed in a purposeful way, and in a purposeful place, that have spiritual significance to you, or that represent an element, archetype or energy whose influence you would like to have present in your spiritual practice.
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Getting familiar with what an altar is, and how to create and use an altar to focus and magnify spiritual practice? An altar is a sacred space, a spiritual focal point and a reflection of your magical self
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