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        The Altar

  Used in Personal Meditation, Ritual, Ceremony & Divine Communion

 An altar can be as simple or as fancy as you like. It can even be an image in your mind and not a real place. But the more you create the mental picture the more real you make it. You might even have a simple altar in the real world yet go to a fancy one in your mind. That's how a travel altar operates. The small tools in a travel altar, such as a birthday candle, a tiny pentacle, a shell to hold water, etc. are just tools. But if, when you use them away from your home altar you imagine your sacred space in your mind you will tap into the energy built up at home. It's like using an Internet cafe to sign on to your account that you'd use at home.

 Some say an altar should not have any metal in it because it throws off the energy. But our athames, or sacred knifes, are metal. And many of us have wands with stones welded on with - you guessed it - metal. So I see no problem with using an old end table with metal screws holding the legs as a home altar. I think it's the connection you have that matters more than the construction materials.

 The very spot your altar sits on will absorb energy and begin to charge up. The longer an area is used for energy work the stronger it becomes. It can eventually become strong enough with it's own energy that it acts like a doorway. That's why it's important to close down an altar sight if you move or change locations after a long time. 

 Always remember to eat a bite of food after expending energy at your altar. You can think of it as a communion. Close your rites, kick back, and enjoy a snack. Invite the presence of the deities to remain with you. This can be as casual or as formal as you like. The Gods enjoy a good pic-nic as much as fine dining! Reserve a small bit of your snack as an offering. Then, when you're all cleaned up and your tools are stowed away in your magick box, take the offering outside. Find a special place to set your offerings each time and this too will store energy just like your altar spot. Remember, the Gods come to us in many forms. Don't put out bird seed as an offering and then get upset if the neighbors cat eats one of the birds! Even the larvae of the common fly performs service to the Gods by consuming an offering. 

                                                      by the Webmistress Tree

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