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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:35 am
er....red dress.....anyways....doesn't Kali Ma frolic around just about naked? maybe it's the PC version of her.....i dunno, what the heck it's a Kali Statue.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:37 am
Not quite naked. She's usually depicted wearing a skirt of arms and a necklace of heads (or something to that extent, can't remember off the top of my head and i'm currently too lazy to look it up). It's probably just the artist's representation of her. I'm not picky. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:37 am
I was going to ship the package to her with her stuff before the sabbat since I made you and her Imbolc braclets...they kinda remind me of icecream....anyways.....I was tryna figure if she'd be home for that, but I guess not.....oh well.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:39 am
Yeah, I know she was planning on staying there a week, and it's been about a week since I think she left, but I don;t know if she's back yet. :/
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:43 am
Oh well. you know how that goes with her.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:44 am
Yeah. If a month passes with no word I'll worry, but until then, I'm not concerned. smile
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:32 pm
you might possibly have a problem, then.
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:22 am
I don't have much to put on an altar, nor do I really feel like I need one. I rarely do actual rituals, so whenever I do I just toss stuff together to make one.
To me, my tools are extensions of me, and kinda like a really old friend.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:11 pm
if she goes missing for a month. O.O i'd be worried...but then again, i don't know her like you guys do.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:54 pm
Rizu-Sensei if she goes missing for a month. O.O i'd be worried...but then again, i don't know her like you guys do. Oh ok, hehe. I was tired when I read that and posted my reply so I guess I was too tired to actually think it through properly. But she's back now, talked to her yesterday so no need to worry. heart
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:58 pm
kage no neko I don't have much to put on an altar, nor do I really feel like I need one. I rarely do actual rituals, so whenever I do I just toss stuff together to make one. To me, my tools are extensions of me, and kinda like a really old friend. I agree with the tools as extensions of oneself, I think I mentioned how I feel I am my most important tool (my fiancee laughs because I said I was a tool)
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:48 am
Sanity is an illusion...My altar is kinda elaborate, although atm it's a bit defunct. I don't have current pics, and ... well, right now I can't even take them! xP
Warning: long post coming up; I'm into description, especially when I don't have pics. I also kinda went with what the books said I needed in terms of tools, etc., so ... yeah. It's not as cluttered as it sounds like it is, though; the tabletop is quite long.
The surface was once the top of an entertainment center, but it was busted up, so ... but it worked well, so I've kept it. My altar cloth is a purply-reddish irridescent fabric with stars and moons on it (which I tend to love, for more than just the obvious reason ... Moon is also my married name, and is my oldest daughter's as well) On top of that, I also have a black tote bag, which has a pentacle on it and Celtic knotwork in purple; in a way, that's actually my altar pentacle, since I've only once ever used the bag as an actual bag, and that was for Samhain several years ago.
On each point of that pentacle, I have a small stone, representing each of the elements: a crystal for spirit, red jasper for fire, Tiger eye for air (which is a stone I have a great connection to, actually), sodalite (I think ... I'm not positive) for water, and for earth, a dark green stone shot through with gold flecks ... I'm not sure what it is, honestly! But those stones seem the most appropriate, out of all that I have ... and I've got a few! lol
In the center of the pentacle, on a slice of another stone (I forget what, again) I keep my chalice. It WAS silver-plated ... like KasaChan and the cast-iron, I don't recomment silver plate, because it's hard to polish, and it can come off when you do. I ended up deliberately polishing the plate off. Anwyay, my chalice has a pentacle carved on it, as well.
In front of it all, I keep a small wooden incense holder with a stick of incense, usually sandalwood, although I only light it on occasion. Behind the pentacle, near the wall (or recently, on the moulding), I have my athame, which is simple: a small blade with a wooden hilt and a leather sheath (I keep it sheathed at all times, since I've got kids; having it there is enough of a worry, although they've never in their lives touched it). On the hilt, I have a pentacle lightly carved and painted gold, to match the ... whatever that crossbar is called. My mind won't work.
Above my athame, I keep my wand, as well as my daughter's. Mine is a simple one: it's willow, I believe, with all of the bark peeled and polished smooth, as is my daughter's. The wood came from a tree that my mother had found in her neighborhood, which someone had cut and put on the side of the road. She'd retrieved it, and on the night of my 21st birthday, which was a full moon, we'd selected branches from it to use for our wands, and had cut and peeled them. I was also four months pregnant with my oldest, so we'd cut her a very small one as well, to give to her when she was older. Ironically, she's the Catholic ... xD In addition to those two, though, there's also a small stick that for some reason (I honestly don't even remember now!) had appealed to me many years ago, when I was a teenager, enough that I'd picked it up and brought it home, and put it in with some of my other "treasures", so that it was rediscovered several years later. I keep it, and put it on my altar, because something about it ... just tells me I should. lol
My besom is a simple matter, a Halloween broom that I'd bought at Wal-Mart several years ago as part of a costume, with the idea that I would continue to use it for just that. It's black, with dark brown bristles, and I wrapped it in a spiral down the length with a thin black ribbon, as well as all around the top where the shaft and bristles are connected, and tied the same ribbon around the bristles. I put small stones of various types all along the ribbon, and on the top, a much larger Tiger eye (like I said, a connection to that one ... )
I have two candleholders, the plate type, in the shape of maple leaves, with black pillar candles on them; they were last used for a Mabon celebration a couple of years back, so I don't use them frequently. On each of them, I have a pentacle belonging to one of my daughters, with the necklace coiled under it (one's on a silver chain, one on a leather cord; my younger daughter kept snapping her chains!); neither of my older daughters wears her's frequently, for various reasons, but they keep their pentacles, still.
On the side, I have another slice of stone, on which I keep several small trinkets that have meaning: a puzzle ring that had belonged to my stepfather, and that I'd received after he passed, a small pin that was a gift from a friend, some polished stones that my daughters had found. Next to them, I have a black leather journal, which is my formal BoS (I keep most of my things in a three-ring binder).
On the other side, I have my little cauldron, a tiny cast-iron one. Which I won't be putting in the dishwasher, since I don't have one lol. Next to that, I have a small black wooden box, which has a pewter Triple Goddess on it with a pentacle in the center; I use it to keep my stones. And in the corner above that, I have a glass bowl in a black metal stand, which I use for water during rituals, but which otherwise just has three little tealights in it, along with a bird's nest ... I found that one morning while I was walking my daughter to school, laying on the ground. I dunno how it got out of the tree, but it was in perfect shape, so ... I took it to be a gift.
I also keep a photo frame, with five photos; it was a graduation gift. The two largest ones are of my grandmother when she was young; she passed when my mother was a teenager, from breast cancer, and I was named after her ... those are the only photos I have of her, too. The other pics are one of my younger brother in his Halloween costume when he was 12, my aunt who raised me when she was young, and my grandparents (the ones who adopted my mother after her mom passed) when THEY were young.
On the wall above my altar, I have several photos: my oldest daughter with her newborn sister in the center, with a smaller photo of each of them from the same sitting session, and then above and below those, photos of all three of my daughters together; the lowest one is a double frame of snapshots, my oldest reading to her little sisters on two separate occasions ... those are my favorite photos of all that I have!
I also keep a dreamcatcher hanging by it all, and then my staffs right near. One I found on a walk with my mother, laying on the sidewalk; it was a perfect size and fit to my hand. The other, my mother and I found an oak tree that had been cut down one day, and went and salvaged several of the branches from it (I don't have anything that required me to cut down or break off wood from anything; it's all either deadwood, or something that someone was otherwise wasting). My mother took the time to peel the bark off, and then polished and stained it for me. With those two are my daughters' staffs, one for each of them that my mother also put the same work into.
Oh, one other tiny little touch: I have a little fairy door sitting on the moulding behind my altar. It's an off-white clay, which blends with the paint on the wall, so at first you almost miss seeing it, but then it also looks more realistic for that! lol It's maybe two inches high, so it really is tiny, with a pointed top, a little doorknob, a step leading up to it, and wood graining carefully carved into it. So, yeah.
Anyway, so that's what my altar USUALLY looks like. My biggest problem, though, is that my little rugrats tend to put their little fingers on things (my youngest is only two, mind you). So, I've had to put it up for a few, although it was only recently that I unpacked it from when my MIDDLE was tiny! lol And right now, we're in the middle of moving, on top of that, so I have to find a new place to put it in the new house, and then set everything up once again. When it's not in use, I keep everything packed up in a metal chest, just the right size for all of my tools. It also holds all of my other tools: candles, herbs, my tarot cards, incense, some pictures ... even a little container of graveyard dirt I'd needed for a protection spell once.
Yeah. So, that's that. ...created by the truly insane!
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:14 pm
I have a permanent one. It is set up on my dresser. It just looks like room decor because my room theme is nature.
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