Week 7: Home Shrine

*Written and photographed on March 23rd 2015* 
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Week 7 is about our home shrines/altars. Mine is always a work in progress and on the more cluttery side but it serves me well. I theme my home shrine for the seasons and High Days so right now I have elements for Alban Eilir along with my kindred representations.

For the Gods and Godesses I have a stone mortar for burning incense or other small fire offerings. I also light the taper candle (the holder with the acorns is from Goodwill!) I have a huge fondess for taper candles and how they point up to the sky above everything else *a manifestation of our shining ones*.

My Nature Spirits elements take over the entire alter haha, *fitting as they are my strongest kindred*. My World Tree is a little Syngonium plant (named Sigmund) and I make water offerings via that beautiful brass pitcher. Because of my spiritual background with stones and crystals I have a multitude of seasonally and personally appropriate stones on my altar that are also Nature Spirit elements. The stone spider talisman goes with me anywhere I venture, he is my companion. At various times, for various reasons, I also have reclaimed bones on my alter (sometimes associated with my well). Right now I have two Eggs on my alter, one a natural candle and the other an artistic fragile one. These both represent the cosmic druid egg (the delicate one) and the natural fertility of the egg laying season of Alban Eilir. I really want a hare statue but I am extremely selective. I also have two different Oak branches and a hand twisted dogwood blood twig all personally collected and wove into a ring.

For my well, I have a lovely brassy bowl. At times I place the animal bones around it and I often make offerings of silver spiders and hand blended perfume oils.

Right now I am using a Faerie Oracle deck for omens but I am still learning what divination methods work best for omens for me.