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 Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:58 am
My alter's sorta non-existent at the moment for some unknown reason. It's the inside of a a small wooden trunk that looks abit like a Quaker trunk. It's in the north, under a window that never opens. For the Goddess the best thing i've found is a large-ish flat geode like thing that was dyed blue and highly polished. I'm still looking for something for the God. for earth I have a small wooden mouse. for fire I have an unlit tea candle. I can't have any water in my room, because guinea pig bedding would no doubt get int it, so I have a dolphin statue. for air I had a peacock feather, but my guinea pigs ate it, so I'm trying to find something else....
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:50 pm
 Everything has it's own story.
a)Brass incense burner given to me by my Grandmother.
b)Mortar and pestle I hand made.
c)A box that survived a fire and was almost thrown away by a silly women who couldn't see it's beautiful through the ash. She offered to buy it from my when she saw how beautiful it was after I fixed it.
d)I found that crystal wine glass in a lake. =3 It wasn't broken at all. Now I put stones and feathers and other trinkets that the fairies leave for me in it.
e)Ying Yang sticks- found them on the side of the road.
f)Crystal Stone- Found it while hiking in Colorado.
g)I dug all of those stones out of the ground at an abandoned mine. Truly I did.
h)Given to me by my Uncle.
i)Given to me upon my initiation into my coven.
j)Made by me
k)found it buried in my back yard.
l)I made the ones without a purple label.
m)I helped a lady unload her truck at a Ren Fair one time and she gave my this.
n)Painted it myself using the gaelic words for the elements.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:55 pm
 God Statue Male Dragon God Candle Goddess Statue Female Dragon Goddess Candle Bell-invocations and evocations Censer Smudge stick-cleansing Ritual knife-directing energy Fire candle Water bowl Salt bowl (in the back) These are the tools under my altar: BOS Cauldron Willow wand Oak wand Besom-cleansing Offering bowl Stang -Goddess energy Birch Staff -God energy Drum Maracas I also had an ancestral shrine at one point, but thats gone now. I'm going to see if I can put it back up as I miss it.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:39 pm
Mine is kinda disassembled at the moment I just moved. But.... I have like a zilion brass taper candle holders different sizes and a brass goblet. Theres this store downtown that has a mortar and pestle that I want (its wooden). I have various stones, a little bottle of rose quartz is my favorite.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:01 pm
I just put together my altar today, with what I had around the house. It's not much but I suppose it'll do.
It still needs a lot of work though.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:14 pm
yesterday i bought a wooden-like deer/stag, i love it! i blessed it with some water that i blessed during the full moon, and then placed it on my altar to resemble the god
i still need to get something for the goddess which i think should be a bird of somekind, i really belive it should be a falcon, small but ver beautifull and strong, and birds have such freedom and grace
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:06 pm
That's so cool! I got something to represent the God today too, it's a little silver staue of a hound dog. I saw it in a thrift store today and something about it just called to me. I also still need something for the Goddess, I don't know what yet, I guess I'll just keep my eyes open. smile
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:04 pm
Blood Saga That's so cool! I got something to represent the God today too, it's a little silver staue of a hound dog. I saw it in a thrift store today and something about it just called to me. I also still need something for the Goddess, I don't know what yet, I guess I'll just keep my eyes open. smile  Free Hugs! 0/100thats funny cause i got my deer in a thrift shop too
:3
my aunt was like "why do you want a reindeer?" and i said that it was a deer and that i wanted it for my knicknack shelf,
i wasnt even thinking of getting something to resemble the god at that moment, but when i saw it i was like "that whould be perfect for my altar!"
so now i just need to find something for the goddess
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:24 pm
OK, I need some major help,
I need to find a way to make and alter that is either un-noticable or easily hide-able in a room that has limmited places to hide thing and on a small almost non-existent budget HELP!!
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:32 am
Phoebe4448 OK, I need some major help, I need to find a way to make and alter that is either un-noticable or easily hide-able in a room that has limmited places to hide thing and on a small almost non-existent budget HELP!! Free Hugs! 1/100 [=[/size] well, my altar is on my dresser and no one even notices
they just think its just a bunch of random stuff in the middle of my dresser
i have a pic of it on the last page
you should just research altars in general
alot of the stuff you might just have already
and there is no "right" way to do it so you can be creative [=[/size]
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:09 pm
Yeah I saw that I'll try it out thanks for the advice
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:07 am
Blood Saga I just put together my altar today, with what I had around the house. It's not much but I suppose it'll do. It still needs a lot of work though. I fondly remember my first altar when I started out in my studies. It was fairly simple. It was mostly focused on the Goddess as I was not really sure about the God. It had an incence burner, salt, water, and candles. There was also a statue of a fairy on the moon for the Goddess. It wasn't fancy or anything. Just kept my spirituality in check. I haven't always been able to have an altar like the one I have now.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:10 am
FlyingPinkElefantSaysMeow yesterday i bought a wooden-like deer/stag, i love it! i blessed it with some water that i blessed during the full moon, and then placed it on my altar to resemble the god i still need to get something for the goddess which i think should be a bird of somekind, i really belive it should be a falcon, small but ver beautifull and strong, and birds have such freedom and grace I've noticed that it's typically easier tp find things for the Goddess than for the God. When I bought the statue of the God that I have it was the only one I had seen (and I was specifically looking for a God statue). Even the vendors at the local Pagan Pride Day agreed with me that God statues and representations are more difficult to find.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:13 am
FlyingPinkElefantSaysMeow and there is no "right" way to do it so you can be creative [=[/quote]Agreed. Altars can be what you make of them. My fiance had a very simple altar for a long time. A pentacle candle and some incence were his altar and it worked fine for him.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:21 pm
Free Hugs! 1/100 [=[/size] i must have lucked out with the god resemblance
so now i just need something for the goddess
pagan pride day? thats awesome
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