More DP Goodness!
Jul. 7th, 2006 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarI 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-07-08 04:27 am (UTC)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!