I am making an alter to serve as a focus for spirit work. Its Shinto in conception but incorporates aspects of Cree Indian fetishism, mostly in the form of a spirit stick and fetishes of my spirit animal.

I am thinking of a Yorishiro rock on a wooden platform used to attract and provide a physical "seat" for spirits that are asked for help or info. A fetish pot and spirit stick on either side. A few ritual items, including a singing bowl, bell, ritual knife, Incense, offering bowls, rattle and some pillar candles. As I've said elsewhere in the forums, I am eclectic so you can likely tell that I'm blinding a number of traditions based on what I have found useful. One of the things I have been contemplating is making it part of my astral temple so that my work will happen on several plains at once.

In a slightly less functional form I have made a Yorishiro from a dead tree branch that displays Mono No Aware. Shortly after setting it in place, a presence viseted while I slept. Beeing unused to things popping up as it were, I brushed it away. I am rather sorry I did and will have to find a way to get on better terms with spirits so they don't spook me in my sleep.