Dedicant Home Shrine
October 8th, 2009
My Home Shrine
This is my altar as of April, but it changes depending on the season and whatever my prayers are focused on at the time. It’s in my bedroom, right next to my bed so I see it in the morning and when I go to bed at night.
As of April 09
Starting on the left and working right:
As a photographer and an artist, I use a lot of photos on my Altar to personalize it. The first photograph is of a large oak tree in the pouring rain I photographed a while ago in dedication to my Grandmother. A bag of various stones lies in front, which I use for practical purposes.
The large green bottle is an incense burner that I love because it’s pretty worry free. The fallen ashes gather in the bottom. Just behind the incense bottle is a bottle of Tullemore Dew Whiskey, which my patron and I share on occasion, and other times strictly as offerings to Her. The photograph leaning against the Whiskey is one that I took at my childhood beach house of a tree that I’d become familiar with on the shore of the Potomac River.
There is a cluster of smoky quartz in front of that, being a practical rock that I use for a few things like meditation. The forefront there is a stone candle holder with Celtic cranes carved in, and a black candle for meditation and illumination. There’s a lighter there for me to light the candle with. (I only use black candles on this altar.)
The large blood red statue is of my patron goddess, The Morrighan. The piece is central to my altar, located as close as possible to the flame to cast Her shadow on my wall. (My altar is very shadows oriented.) Just next to her, I have a black wire tree that holds a number of my spiritual necklaces so I can charge them up. It also casts an interesting shadow on my wall.
You might notice that I have a fountain there. It too, is shadow oriented and casts the shadow of two trees on the wall, plus the wire one that casts a third tree. The fountain in itself represents fire, well, and tree. It is glorious for meditation.
The dried flower in front was collected from the camelia bushes at my Grandmother’s house. Fond memories. There’s a little tangerine quartz point, a crystal quartz point, and a tumbled lepidolite that followed me home one day on my head. Don’t ask.
Beneath the entire thing is a holographic black placemat that is covered in ravens. When you move around the altar, their wings flap. SOMEWHERE hidden in this picture, there’s a little raven statue. I feel like I should be saying “how many ravens can you spot in this picture?” because there are quite a few hidden throughout.
The Lamp is a functional light source. Not too much to be said about the lamp. I intend to add more as I collect the pieces I require to represent Panther and Bunny. And I think the time is quickly arriving that I have …something….present for Athena. We will see what the future holds.