What is one thing relating to your spiritual path that you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t due to lack of money, time, etc. (Examples could be….creating your own altar room, going to visit a historical monument related to your spirituality, etc).

Living as I do in a very small apartment in the city, I have always wanted to have an altar room that I could set up just so, with a place for tools and statuary and ingredients and books and everything else I could possibly want to have nearby for spellwork and other magick. My ex-fiance has an unfinished room in his house that, when we were still planning for me to move in, was going to become "my room". I dreamt about how I would finish it.

It would have a wooden floor with a compass and a pentacle inlaid into it for purposes of circle casting (and just because it would be cool). Along one wall I would have built-in bookcases and cabinets to store all of my reference books, ingredients, tools, etc.

The room has a huge picture window that overlooks the woods and beyond them the lake. I was going to put my main altar under it. The full moon always shines so brightly over that side of the house; it would be amazing to look at through that window.

I planned to scout around to find one of those old zinc tables that they had in high school chemistry lab to use as a table for mixing potions, burning candles, and magick that requires burning paper or anything else that might best be performed on a durable, non-flammable surface. And then I was going to furnish the room with soft, warm throw rugs, a reading chair and lamp, a desk, a comfy sofa for visitors and naps.

The room has it's own bathroom, also unfinished. I would tile it completely so that it would be a safe place for leaving candles burning. I liked the idea of using white purple and green glass tiles and a built-in tiled shower with little nooks and niches for candles and other things. I found a replica of the hugh pedestal sink I had in San Francisco that was rectangular and has lots of room to place things on. The bathroom would become another sacred space, used for ritual cleansing and working with water.

sigh

This room in that particular house was not meant to be, which is sad because I connected very strongly to the spirits in those woods. But maybe some day, somewhere else, in another house, I will get to have my dream altar room.

Thank you to Witches Weekly for the Q&A.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 11:25 AM