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[badstar]

I have an altar set up in my room now. It's on the lower of the shelves built into my wall, low enough to sit in front of. It has a well, a fire and a tree. I'll take a picture tomorrow.

The well is represented by a large abalone shell, which is deep enough to hold water.

The fire is represented by a single candle sitting on a candle plate.

The tree is represented by a piece of driftwood that I found on the shore of a lake in Texas in 1998 and have had since then. It looks vaguely like a tree with no branches.

Also currently residing on the altar:

-The sphere of ocean jasper pictured below, which kinda looks like a planet, to represent the earth.


-The notebook into which I've been writing invocations that I've written for rituals

-my runes

-my Haindl Tarot

-glass incense burner

Future plans for my altar:

One idea that I had for this altar in the near future was to try to grow a bonsai tree for it- I've seen a tiny bonsai tree "gift kit" in bookstores, and while it's not an Indo-European element, I would like to include a small Zen sand garden. It seems to me that it would be good for meditation and contemplation while sitting at my altar. I may sit a small table next to it for holding things that aren't specifically for on the altar, like a glass of water, books or a journal.

Comments

[ex-acousticd43.livejournal.com]

I've always loved ocean jasper. Moss Agate is also a favorite I use for earth, makes me feel like I'm holding a little world.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I like moiss agate, though if I had discovered it, I'd have been more likely to name it seaweed agate- at least the green and white stuff, because it looks like seaweed to me. Not so much the multicolored stuff

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

My husband was doing bonsai oak trees for a while. They were beautiful.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

ooh, sounds nice.

myself, one of these days, I would LOVE a bonsai red maple

[pytheos.livejournal.com]

You can go to a larger flower selling store, like Flowerland, and buy bonsai trees for not that much :)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

yah, i know...but right now, i'm on a very limited budget. the less expensive, the better. besides, i think it would be kinda cool to try to grow my own from a seed

thanks for the suggestion though

[pytheos.livejournal.com]

Tis not the easiest.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

no...but 'tis the least expensive. besides, I've never been known to do things the easy way.

[ex-acousticd43.livejournal.com]

I got one for about $30 online, I don't know the pricing for such things, it seemed like a decent price for me. If I can remember the site...

[fuego.livejournal.com]

for one already grown, sounds really good.

then again, my only experience pricing bonsai trees is from a shop up in lancaster that specializes in bonsai trees and supplies where they're FAR more expensive than that....

[chirael.livejournal.com]

Sounds nifty. What an incredible wombyn you are ;)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Aren't you amusing?

:-P

I've actually done more with it already since last night.

[chirael.livejournal.com]

Well, I try :)

What I find funny/ironic is with all your fire references, you really did start a "flame war", or at least stoked the flames a bit :)

Yeah, "burn some more" is right on target! (said in a jocular fashion, of course :)

Good stuff re: the altar; looking fwd to pics!