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Hello there! Come on in and
sit and have some pie and coffee. While you eat, I'll just chat on about some of the things I do, and perhaps you might find a
useful tidbit here or there in what I say. I'm a solitary eclectic technopagan/witchy
person, by the way, always exploring new things.
One's entire home can be an altar (as
Scott Cunningham states in "The Magical Household"). What I have done is this:
there is a small shrine to the Lady in our living
room (with our principal household guardian beside her), where we can leave offerings of
thanksgiving and honour; there is a little place for offerings to the faeries in "the
Tupperware cupboard" (open shelving); there is always a candle sitting on the stove,
honouring Brighid and Hestia; the kitchen table can be (and has been) used as an impromptu altar; there is a
little shrine of remembrance in the bedroom for pets
that have left us (here is the inside of it); and
there is my permanent shrine/altar in my computer room. It's in a deep alcove formed by a
U of tall bookcases. Within that is a little side altar/shrine to Yanu, the Bear.
In this way one can feel comfortable
doing workings in almost any part of the house.
I do tarot readings and rune readings
in the bedroom, since there is lots of room to spread out the cards on the bed. It is a
good, safe, comfortable room, with lots of stuffed animals, where one can relax and let
the mind open up to the promptings of the subconscious, helpful animal spirits, etc. It
turned out to be a good setting in which to make and empower magickal candles and sachets
one Yuletide!
In the past I have done tarot and other readings at
my computer, on a little roll cart. I've done online readings this way. I believe the
computer and online activities enhance psychic energy--our other senses are blinkered, so
we reach out with the 6th sense :-)
The stove is the closest we have to a
hearth nowadays (unless one is fortunate enough to have a working fireplace), so it is fitting we do magick there. Much of my spellwork is done there;
and most of our seasonal rituals begin and end there.
My permanent altar is in my little
room-within-a-room, partitioned off in my computer room. I use this altar for charging
sachets, stones, etc.; for spells begun at the kitchen fire altar that need to continue
working on the astral plane; and for other workings when this just feels the right place
to be.
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