Altars and places of power play a large part in lots of witchesâ craft. Such places include the caves of Cornwall, the seaside, ley lines, cemeteries, and many, many more. These allow access to higher powers, visionary experiences, hidden knowledge, healing, just to name a few.
Some create altars to honor spirits, ancestors, gods, angels, saints, any and all spirits. Some use them to create their own place of power, where they can focus their power and energy. I tend to fall into the second category.
When creating a focus for power in your own home, it is practically necessary to detach yourself from the ideal of the altar of worship. No important place setting, no specific order or required items. Instead, include things gifted to you by the spirits. Feathers, stones, worts, natural fetishes, bones, diverse barks and flowers, etc⊠The Altar of Land should reflect the land and its Genii.
To begin, walk through the land. Collect clay from a river bend. Shape it into a pot and a lid.Fire it in a pit. Once done, coat it with resins of the balsams. Pine, Fir, Locust, Yew, whatever is available. Peach trees, Sweet Gum, latex from Corn Poppies, Dandelion and Wild Lettuce. Add to it then the common flowers you can find. The root of those chtonic plants willing to share. Dirt from the land should then be added. This forms the basis of the Altar of Land.
Bring back your vessel now, and place it upon the space you dedicate. Connect to it, build a link to the Land. Wake its spirit and communicate to it through the vessel. Let it be known for what reason you are creating this space. Soothe it with offerings of Honey, Tobacco, Mead, Wine, Milk, Blood and Fat. Seal the deal with a drop of your own blood, before using yarn or cord to seal the vessel. Keep this upon the altar constantly. Any preparation of herbs, roots, barks, etc⊠coming from the Land should be prepared before this vessel, and a little added to it at the end of the preparation.
As time goes on, you will be given more and more curios, which should be kept on the altar. To this may be added any and all bones given to you, who once reddened may serve you for different tasks, and will protect the Altar of Land. Feathers of birds may also be made into fans or mobiles, such as witch ladders, hung above the Altar. A plant taken from the land itself may be watered using rain, storm, or any sort of water naturally found to connect to the aqueous aspect of the Land Genii.
Once the main Altar has been completed, the addition of the Sky by presence of the feathers and of Water by presence of the waters used to feed the plants and the vessel itself will triple its impact. Items may be brought to the Altar to be blessed, empowered and consecrated to the Land.Â
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