Alters, oh boy I have had quite a few different ones over the years. This is quite humerous but when I first started out practicing magick I wasn't all that handy with tools and was on a bit of a budget, also I wanted to put up an alter right away. So... I borrowed a couple of dairyland crates from the local store and made myself a double cube alter <g>, and threw a black table cloth on it LOL.
Well since then I have had some pretty awesome alters. I of course made a double cube alter (those are very handy for storing tools in if you make little doors). At my last house there was a fairly sizeable backyard where we had semi public rituals (like 10-20 people), so I had a large stone slab on top of a tree stump as my alter, and a stone circle around it. (fortunatly for me there was this druid guy that liked to show off his strenght a lot, and he was present when I found the perfect stone by a river!). I also at one point used a curved granite slab standing up for the base, with a glass top as the actual alter. I have also used rose granite for alters. I made the Enochian great table and used that as an alter for quite some time (that is the one pictured below).
My all time faveorite alter however is the one that I am currently using as my main alter. It is a round brass Moroccan table that I aquired in Morocca about 20 years ago. It is pretty cool, it is about 3 feet accross and is hand hammered with a huge hexagram in the middle of it. There is plenty of room for all of my tools, my current project as well as my Diety statues.
I always have one main alter, then oftentimes have other side alters or alters in other rooms. If there is a lot of counter space in my temple (as in my last house) then I will set some of that aside for alter space as well. There is nothing like counters in all 4 quarters (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I have also never had a problem with using floor space as alter space, but I have always had carpet, so easy to keep clean and relatively dust free. I use a compass for my alter direction (remember magnetic north and true north vary, esp if you live in some parts of Canada etc.). If a wall is close enough to east, it is good enough for me (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The sun does actually rise about East here.
Btw, that stone alter in the photo is awesome, it would be sad to see it replaced with a non-creative double cube one!
Anyway, here is my Enochian alter that I used to use (I'm currently making a new one, this one is only 2x2, and I am working on a 3x3)
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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/nightshademagic/alter1a.jpg)
The Altar, What do you use as altar
A_Smoking_Fox The Altar Apr 6 2005, 02:32 PM
Apr 6 2005, 02:32 PM
