Working altar progress report.
Not a great deal of change since last time, but it’s taken ages because of reasons, so I feel like I need to check in! The skulls have had a nice whitening session even if it doesn’t really look like it - they’ve been heavily stained from being in the bark tannins for so long, but they are a lot lighter than they were.
The other new addition to that side is my deer hide. It’s an awkward shape and not at all soft enough to drape, so I put it on the altar and pushed it against the wall with The Macquarie Dictionary pushed against it overnight and Hey Presto! it now goes up the wall very nicely.
On the other side, I’ve added my raven skull to the Bones section of my Witchcraft Types platter. It was on my Devotional Altar in the lounge room, but the cats kept knocking it down and I don’t want it to get broken, so it’s in here instead.
I’ve washed the test tubes for my permanent offerings stand and will be filling those when they’re dry. My plan at the moment is oats for Cernunnos (as in, horse feed grain, not porridge oats), corn for Cerridwen (I hope she won’t mind if I use popping corn, it’s easy to get hold of!), tobacco for The Morrigan (my daughter is sending me some super-strong RYO a stranger gave her one day, she kept it for emergencies and is happy to gift some for offering), sea salt for Manannan mac Lir, and raven feathers for Raven, which is my Genius Loci for Tasmania.
I have some other stuff to add as well - my athame for one - but I need to make sure I don’t put too much on there and negate the whole “working” aspect!
