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foragewitch · 5 months

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bruxasdebolso · 9 days

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#witch #witchblr #witchcraft #witches #witches of tumblr #beginner witch #studyin witchcraft #tips #witchy tips #beginner witch tips #altar #witch altar #witchcraft altar #studying witchcraft #crystals #skulls #candles #flowers

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vvitchofthewilds · 6 months

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#welsh witch #witchcraft #altar #witchcraft altar #pagan altar #baphomet #candles #candle magic #witchcraft aesthetic

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stars4loki · 1 year

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my Loki altar!

#lokean #loki #pagan #paganism #witch #witchcraft #deity work #deity worship #loki devotee #loki devotion #loki altar #altar #witchcraft altar

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harvestmoss · 1 year

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🔮The Altar

Hello, let me share my knowledge of the altar in terms of witchcraft.

An altar is a witch’s sacred place to perform spellwork, meditate, focus energy, do readings, and keep their most prized possessions. It’s a spiritual focus point and a reflection into the magical self. An altar is typically a physical place with purposeful objects, these objects either have a spiritual significance to you, or represent an element (air, earth, fire, water, spirit), an archetype or energy who’s influence you’d want to keep on your altar. Altars come in all sizes and may be the size of your pocket, to your whole living space, wherever you place your altar is up to you.

Whatever you put on your altar is up to you. altars can range from being specifically for one type of work or can be an all purpose one. They can be changed each season or sabbat, or stay the same throughout the whole year. They may be shrines for deities or ancestors or be for personal growth. What the witch deems worthy to be on the altar, it shall be on the altar.

You may want to include these items onto your altar, but they are not a must:

Grimoire

Candles

Statues

The pentacle

Flowers / Plants

Incense / Cleansing sticks

Toning bowl / Bell

Spices / Herbs / Salt

Crystals / Stones

Blessed water / Moon water

Offerings, food and drinks

Photos / Drawings

Divination tools

Athame / Wand / Boline knife

Cauldron / Chalice

Other various tools…

Cleansing An Altar

One may want to cleanse the space before setting up an altar, before performing a spell, make sure it’s clean from unwanted energies, etc. Cleansing said altar can vary, much like cleansing a space. You can do one of the following:

Do actual cleaning by drying off dust with a wet cloth

Spray blessed water onto the space

Use smoke to cleanse the space

Sound and music may rid of unwanted energies

Place crystals to absorb the energies

Touching the space

Visualizing the space getting cleansed

Use a broom to sweep the unwanted energies away

Perform a cleansing spellwork

Etc...

If you are interested in how my current altar looks and where I store it, and the items that’s on it, and an in depth look into why these items are on my altar. Do please continue to read beyond this line.

Personally, my altar is my whole living space, I use my whole living room for general spellwork, my kitchen for brewery and potions, and my bedroom for sex magic and dream spells. I do, however, have a special place in which I keep all my sacred items, for an easier time to fetch for.

My altar is then kept in my living room, I spend most of my time here, it is my favourite space in my living situation, here the sun is most prominent, I have all my plants here, my work is done here, I keep most important things in this room and me.

Here is a look to what my altar currently looks like, I recently cleaned it:

It is not much now, I hope to get a proper space with shelves and such, and lots more items that I am wishing for. For now, this will do in my tiny space. My altar is stored on top of my drawer, inside my drawer I keep various mundane items, so the altar is strictly what you see in the picture.

Let’s have a look at each item that is stored on my altar:

I keep this beautiful bouquet of dry flowers on my altar. I’ve had these flowers for years now, and they have grown a significant meaning to me as they have traveled with me from one living space to another. They’ve been bleached in the sun for many months from my previous living space, so for me, they have this tender warm feeling of home and warmth. They are also generally very pretty. I keep them in a jar I used once for coffee.

Bones, bones, and lots of bones. I have a dish filled with various bones that I have found myself while foraging, that includes a deer that a fox once killed, mice from owl pellets, and a dead bird that landed in my fiancé’s garden. I have spines, legs, skuls, and lots more unnamed bones, including dead bugs as well that I found on the forest grounds, they give off a shimmering look when in the sun.

In my dish I also keep various rocks, from beaches and cliffs, with holes and none. The big rock I keep outside the dish as it is rather... Well, big. The shimmering rock I found on Bornholm, I cracked open a rock to see the shimmering fools gold inside, and the crescent moon rock with a hole was gifted to me.

For obvious reasons, I keep a candle at my altar for practical spellwork. and in the picture to the left, I thrifted this gorgeous glass ice bucket, in which I keep cleansing sticks of cedar, common sage, stinging nettle, feathers, a wand, my athame, incense, matches, and a small bottle with crystals, which was gifted to me.

Perhaps one of the more peculiar items I keep on my altar is this jar if insects, Once thrifted as a gift to my mother, who then passed it back to me. I keep it mainly for decorations, and it also fits the theming of deceased and strange items I have on my altar.

My absolutly favourite itmes because of how bizarre they are to others. Here from left to right I have a jar of my own hair, to keep a piece of myself on the altar. I have a bottle of baby teeth from my fiancé, to keep a piece of her on my altar, since I love her so dearly. And a little trinket box of my deceased dog’s hair, the last remnants of him before cremation, he is obviously on my altar because of the love I have for him.

Another obvious thing, I keep various crystals on my altar, as well as sea glass in this tiny dish, which sits on top of a bigger dish that has strawberry leaves in it and clear quarts, it is not shown in the picture, but I keep fossils that I’ve found in there too. Selenite and these cave crystals are my favourites, and I use the cave crystal to store my jewellery one to charge them.

I have a small bowl filled with shells and a sea urchin found on various beachs. There’s a tiny pentacle in this bowl, that I believe was from a keychain once. I love the ocean so dearly and swimming in the salty waters brings me much joy, so I keep a piece of the ocean on my altar. I also have a toning bowl on my altar, to help cleanse the space and my tarot cards.

I have a small dish were I keep my cleansing sticks that I’m currently using on, as well as using this dish to snuff out my cleanisng sticks when done, it is also great for catching the ashes when i move around so that I don’t have to clean my floors later. I keep this bowl with legs on my altar to hold my incense sticks, snuffed out matches and herbs. It has been currently cleaned from previous materials, so now it is filled with fresh salt.

Various items. I keep a deck of tarot cards on my altar for readings, I am currently a practitioner in divination and fortune telling, the remaining tarot card collection is on my bookshelf, as well as lenormand and oracle cards. I also have a love potion stored on my altar, that has a love satchel attached to it, the satchel was created by my fiancé years ago. And to the right is my athame, which I actually have hanging on the wall. It was a Yule gift from my, once again, fiancé. I treasure it ever so much.

This should conclude what is stored on my altar in this current moment. In the future I wish to have more space, more items such as a boline knife, more big crystals, more bones, jars of dried flowers, and statues.

I hope you had a lovely read, and got some inspiration as to what to keep on your altar. Till next time.

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mila-stardust · 1 year

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Apollo and Artemis altars

Hello everyone! So I decided to share my lil virtual altar for Artemis.

Since I currently don't have any space in my room to create a nice big altar for both Apollo and Artemis, and since I'm broke af, I decided to go digital. Especially since it's also more eco-friendly so I think it will make Artemis really happy.

Artemis came into my life very recently. Today in fact. Apollo and her decided to play a practical joke on me while I was trying to talk to Apollo (since he was and still is the first deity I work with) and was asking him to give me a Sun card, but he decided that I should pull The Temperence four times instead making me confused. I kinda deserved it tho, since I was inactive in my deity work since December. But Apollo is still a literal child sometimes! And hey! Artemis wants to work with me too!

I also have Pinterest boards saved for them but I'll share that next time.

To anyone interested in where I made this, I used picrew; https://picrew.me/image_maker/1024438

#apollo #artemis #apollo worship #artemis worship #deity work #deity witchcraft #witchcraft #hellenism #hellenic pagan #altar #deity altar #witchcraft altar

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fromneptune-withlove · 1 year

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Happy New Year! 🎊🎆🎈

I am currently running a Sale that begins *RIGHT NOW* and last til the end of the month!

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Reblogs would be appreciated! 🧚✨

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lexstellaris · 1 year

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I have the daily draw post to do still, but I wanted to take the time to film my altars as they currently are and upload those to youtube, and that took longer to wrangle than I imagined it would bc ofc it did lol.

Here you can see my Senut shrine. There's a lot I could explain about it, but it IS late and tbh if you have questions, either use the yt comments or send asks and I'll answer them there. <3

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This is my Hekate shrine and altar space. It's a lot bigger, and contains a lot more things, but it works for me. Also, yes, there's a lot of cauldrons don't judge. >_>

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#kemetic orthodoxy #kemetic paganism #senut shrine #witchcraft #witchcraft altar #sobek #heru-sa-aset #aset #djehuty #wepwawet #wesir #hekate #Youtube

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iamravynd · 1 year

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I haven't edited in a while, I forgot how fun it can be.

#aesthetic #witch aesthetic #witchcraft #witchcraft altar #my edit #edit #aesthetic edit #i don't really know how to tag I'm new to this sorry 😔

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thehappyfeminist-22 · 1 year

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My First Altar!

My boyfriend and I just moved into a bigger place and I finally set up my first altar. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but didn't have the space, as we've been living in a studio apartment for the past year. Everything you see here except for the mushroom insence burner and the burlap rabbit is either thrifted or bought from a small business. I'm so proud of how it turned out! Currently, I have it decorated for Ostara, but I plan to change out certain things to match different seasons/sabbats. (Also, I know the insence burner on the carpet isn't the best idea; I do plan to move it when I actually do burn insence).

#ostara #altar #witchcraft altar #witchcraft #witchy #crystals #sabbat #wheel of the year #bunny #eggs #pentagram #thrifted #baby witch

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silver-daffodils · 2 years

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Throwback to old altar setups

I put moon water in the fountain of that last one 💜

#witch #witchy #witch community #witchcraft #witchcraft altar #witches of tumblr #witchblr #witches

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deja-vu-esoterica · 2 months

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A photo of a candle being lit on our recent Aphrodite Altar for Valentine's Day

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vvitchofthewilds · 1 month

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𝔸𝕝𝕥𝕒𝕣

𝟚𝟘.𝟘𝟛.𝟚𝟜

#welsh witch #witchcraft #baphomet #divination witch #altar #witchcraft altar #pagan altar #witch #witchblr #divination

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themodernwitchsguide · 5 months

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altars for greek gods

this post includes hades, persephone, artemis, apollo, aphrodite, hermes, and hekate. for part 2 including zeus, hera, poseidon, hestia, hephaestus, dionysus, ares, demeter, and athena click here.

keep in mind that typical offerings to any god includes meat, wine, grain (specifically barley), honey, and incense (myrrh and frankincense would be period appropriate), but i'm listing some specific offerings that can be given if you'd like

colors can be used for candles, banners, decor, whatever you want

HADES

Colors: black, red, and white for association with death. purple and metallics for association with riches/wealth

Offerings: mint, asphodel, white poplar, pomegranate, coffee, cinnamon, elm, money, chocolate

Crystals: gemstones, black crystals (obsidian, black tourmaline, smokey quartz, etc.), pyrite, hematite, labradorite

Animals: black ram, owl, serpent, Cerberus

PERSEPHONE

Colors: purple, pink, yellow, green for association with springtime. black and metallics for association with Hades. white for purity.

Offerings: pomegranate, flowers, grains, asphodel, lavender, rosemary

Crystals: amethyst, gemstones, moss/tree agate, milk quartz, jade, lepidolite

Animals: deer, ram, bat, talking birds (including parrots)

APHRODITE

Colors: red and pink for love/sexuality. white and blue for association with the ocean. gold for association with, well, gold.

Offerings: roses, chocolate, shells, myrrh, gold

Crystals: rose quartz, pearl, emerald, opal, aquamarine, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, ocean jasper, morganite

Animals: swan, dove, hare

ARTEMIS

Colors: white, blue, black, and grey for association with the heavens. brown and green for association with nature/the hunt.

Offerings: moon shaped foods, frankincense, cypress, mugwort, amaranth

Crystals: morganite, moonstone, aventurine, selenite, celestite, moss/tree agate, amethyst, quartz (specific dendritic), labradorite

Animals: deer, wolf, wild boar

APOLLO

Colors: yellow, white, and blue for association with the heavens. red, orange, and pink for healing. purple and green for the Oracle

Offerings: sun shaped foods, bay leaves, laurel, cypress, playing music, poetry

Crystals: sunstone, amber, calcite (specifically honey and yellow), quartz (specifically rutilated or clear), rose quartz

Animals: cow, snake, hawk, crow/raven, cicada, swan

HERMES

Colors: green and gold for money/luck. white and brown for travels.

Offerings: money, crocus/saffron, strawberries

Crystals: jade, malachite, fluorite, pyrite, lapis lazuli, citrine, alexandrite

Animals: tortoise, ram

HEKATE

Colors: purple, blue, and green for magic. red and black for association with underworld

Offerings: garlic, saffron, crossroad dirt, black salt, ashes, sage, cedar, yew

Crystals: labradorite, obsidian, hematite, black tourmaline, amethyst, bloodstone, serpentine, lepidolite

Animals: wolf, boar, serpent, lion, horse, cow

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maryhale1 · 5 months

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This would be my perfect home 😍

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candlelitwisdom · 3 months

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Types of altars

#altar #witchythings #witchcraft #witchcore #witch #wicca #pagan

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