A few shots of my altar before it gets rearranged and reorganized and cleaned this coming weekend. This isn’t more static worship altar, where I keep my books, cards, runes, rings and items I ever gifted from other practitioners and friends.
My working altar is by far messier and more active in my practice. It’s where I perform spell work, ritual work, and do card and rune readings. It’s covered in wax and herbs and all manner of tools day to day.
The drum is from @feraleryn (Etsy)
The wall print from @poisonappleprintshop
The Vegvisir from @shieldmaidenleahscreativeforge (Etsy)
Much of the herbs, jewelry, crystals and the like are gifts from friends over the years of my practice. The elemental triangles I made myself long ago.
While I greatly prefer solitude in my personal life, my practice has a great deal to do with connection. To oneself. To spirit. To the earth. To other people. To the elements. The ebb and flow energy in and between all things. I try to make and for meaningful connections, and while I struggle sometimes to remain connected to and in touch with everyone that I would like to, a majority of my connections remain in tact, if not as strong as they once were.
So with that said, I hold every piece on this altar of mine in high regard and cherish the memories I have of and with the people who have given me something present on it. My life has been so full of connections, so full of love and loss, of laughter and tears, of joys and of sorrows. But that is what makes life beautiful and worth living. Being connected to each other and the world.
It’s all we’ve got. And we’re all we’ve got. We can only make the world better together.