Wicca Altar and Tools: A Beginner’s Guide to Wiccan Altars, Tools for Spellwork, and Casting the Circle: Volume 2 (Wicca for Beginners Series)

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Ancestor altars are often created for memorials or funerals to honor the one who has passed for that day, for those attending. If you are designing a memorial for a beloved, you can ask attendees to bring an item to add to the altar for the day's event.

Chalices or cups are the perfect vessel for holding any and all liquids, whether it be water for the element, wine, tea, or honey for offerings.

How to decorate your altar through the seasons

In this section, we’re going to take a look at those commonalities among different types of Wiccan altars and why so many practitioners see these themes as important to their spiritual journey. What is an Altar? Orange: Powerful for career changes or networking, taking action, letting go of bad habits or addictions, and inviting more joy, energy, and play into your life.

One of the most beneficial and simple things you can do is to put a little gratitude out there into your space, every day. An altar for that purpose can remind you to give thanks, and it can also be a visual reminder of all the goodness that your are blessed with. Here are a couple of ideas that can accelerate your practice: If you already have a journal that you use to record what you are grateful for, you can create an altar, as simple or elaborate as you like, as a place to frame your journal. maybe it leans visibly against a wall, surrounded by colorful stones, shells or feathers. Perhaps you have a candle there that you light while you write. You can imagine the energies of those gratitudes floating up with the heat of the flames to imbue your surroundings, your life, with that positive energy. Some people like to spend a few minutes each day meditating at their witch’s altar, communing with the Goddess or their higher self, offering gratitude, making petitions or simply taking a few calming breaths. Others like a space where they can perform spells and rituals, practice divination, meet with ancestors or connect with unseen worlds. The type of work you do as a witch will determine where you place your altar and what you decide to place on it. Some Witches like to change their altar cloth according to the type of ritual they are doing, or following the Wheel of the Year, having a different one for each season and each Pagan holiday. If you’re on a budget, simply use any piece of cloth that you have at home.A beautiful way to update your altar regularly and invoke and celebrate the natural cycles and seasons is to decorate it based on these Sabbats. Think about the colors, objects, aromas, and themes of each of these seasons and also what these seasons mean to you. Something as simple as a couple of crocuses in a vase at Imbolc, a decorative egg at Spring Equinox, or a sprig of holly at Winter Solstice would be wonderful. Protecting your witch altar Bell: this clears energy, so you typically use it at the end of your ritual. Place it on the God’s side, towards the element of air.