I always considered an altar something too much "institutionalized", not as much aligned to my "natural, more organic "approach. It makes more sense to me what you did with your cloth on the floor. It's freedom, flexible, ready and usable at many places, also spontanously, outdoors on the bed, .... And it can be as easy as having 1 cloth and 1 item you find at the place you are: an acorn, a toy car, a flower, ... Your pony house box is so lovely!
I've recently been working on a "wonder altar" where I put things that bring me joy and allow me to see the wonder in the world. The bit you said about you moving your perfume and jewellery to your working altar reminded me of that
Your altar story reminds me of how in the "witches path" by thorn mooney, she talks about how sometimes when we get stuck, stagnant energy in our sacred space can be part of the problem. She has an exercise where you completely dismantle your altar and rebuild it slowly. It was really helpful for me!
altar as junk drawer! i see you. also i so appreciate your ability to engage with a 'terrifying' thought and follow it through to its end and actually float the idea of getting rid of the primary altar.
As a miniatures artist that sounds fantastic. And if I might offer a more scrappy economical option, you can create a room box out of repurposed cardboard. A roombox is a single room that is set in a box. You can even arrange multiple roomboxes together to give the effect of a dollhouse. And bonus points, if you are wanting something more on the weird side, with a little preplanning in your box sixes you could make rooms that you can move around like a house that shifts. Now something that might be frustrating or in a spiritual context might even be appreciated is that in the creation of one of these boxes there is a lot of forced patience. There are so many steps that you have to let things dry before you can do the next step. But if you start with just one room box it might be a way to start to dip your toes in without too much commitment and using cardboard really helps to not feel too precious about the thing. It has certainly helped in my creative process. But I'll cut myself off there. I can seriously go on and one about miniatures, I love them. I really appreciate the idea of interfacing with different body parts. I feel like that might be really helpful. It got me thinking about the topic and the different body parts I might interface with. But then it also made me realize the injury that has been the most difficult for me and that I haven't actually given myself the time to actually fully delve into my feelings about it. Thank you. Magically fantastic video as always.
This might be my favorite video you've posted to date haha. This gave me so much to think about, and it was such a random smorgasbord of customization. love the idea of the journal altar. I also like deliberately creating and opening an altar, over a standing altar that's easy to ignore. I might reevaluate my standing altars now. your art magic stuff is making me think how making art has been magical, yet I don't use art to do magic. Yet I've been connecting to my creation abilities through art. I love your dollhouse thoughts. it's making me think of creating a powerpoint or photoshop dollhouse! Just snip various rooms from pinterest and collage it into photoshop. Now I want to look up poppets. I've NEVER thought of talking to my body in the way you have. It's so different from how most people have explained it to me. I would talk with my gut (no surprise) and my upper arms! My upper arms get tense for some reason when I get nervous. I like that your legs are chatty, like "don't even think about making too many more steps without talking with me first!" i LOVE your thoughts about Hel. I'm going through something similar with Hekate. There are different aspects and ways we can engage our goddess, different from what we're used to. It makes sense that you've taken space from Hel for a while and the warrior side you've come to know, and now you get to explore the compassionate side.
There is a Taoist exercise of smiling into the various parts of the body - that helps me. If I need to give a part of my body some love I envision a warm, soft, sleepy, purring kitten laying at the place of that part. You have sparked some ideas for me with all the things you talked about. ❤
OMG You've inspired me to make a dollhouse spread in my art grimoire. What home ideally looks like to me has been on my mind a lot lately. Also your hair is gad dang glorious.
For this part of my self-love journey, I am doing your "29 Shadows" shadow work course. I started it in 2016!!! and then abandoned it. But that journal has been calling to me, and in August, I picked it up to finish the remaining 28 days. You've become my bestie in my head as I move through each day's prompts. Some took several days to work through, but I'm determined to finish. Thank you for an amazing shadow work process. Your thoughtful consideration and wisdom make me look forward to each day's prompt. Blessed be. ❤🙌🏼
Pausing again to say Kelly-Ann take the advice you would give to clients and us here in the youtube world: be a rebel witch. It's very rebel witch to not have an altar even though you have the space that you could. ALSO: You don't need to obligate yourself to keep an altar out of guilt because some of us can't have one.
I have an altar, but it's mostly for devotion to deity. You are your most important altar. I am my most important altar. We are the working altar. Magic and divination happens wherever I happen to be. Wherever I choose to do it. I just did a video talking a little about this wonderful discovery. I think it is such a self loving concept. Synchronicity. A dolls house is an amazing idea. I have a pink troll lunch box I use for magical stuff! 😆 Love your little box.
I love your rambles! The conversational tone of practical, personal witchcraft is just so fizzy! A thought on the impulse to dismantle your working altar. An altar is where you practice witchcraft, correct? So, its purpose in a home is to designate a space for this sacred act, both practically so there's a place to do stuff and also to honor its significance in your home and life. Your home is mundane, not sacred - your altar is spiritual and sacred. Well it seems like you're in a phase when you're almost never NOT performing some sort of magical doing, whether it's art or clients or your healing journey - at this point it's all related to witchcraft for you at some level (or so is my impression, I am definitely making assumptions). So designating a specific alcove, however lovely, is almost dimming the magnificence of your full and rich current practice. Your altar is the barre in the ballet studio, but you're mid sold out performance! If you incorporate your meaningful altar pieces in your home, they'll still be in a place of honor because your whole home - or the living spaces anyway - have become your working altar. And adding another fizzy working at some point, like a doll's house, will be another delightful corner of your altar. Just my thoughts- as I said, assumptions were made so I coukd be way off. Love the video!
I'm not that surprised at you having these thoughts because I remember a while back I saw you comment to someone else under one of your videos that you were thinking of doing away with your altar and building them on the astral. I've never had an altar but I maintain an entire castle and personalised landscape in the astral and I totally agree that the possibilities there are endless: I can conjure anything I want and dissolve it whenever, I can wear the most sumptuous magical cloaks and regalia that I would never be able to have in real life, I can work with any objects, ingredients, energies etc. The astral is just so underrated!!
I haven’t used a main altar in years. When I released it, it was a relief. The time & energy it took at this time is more needed elsewhere. I still keep a very small & select devotional altar & a beloved dead altar. Try it! I also have an astral altar in my pineal gland lol. There’s a lava lamp. It’s my discerning place. Change is good. It doesn’t mean you aren’t witchy anymore, quite the opposite I feel. I love how you’re in dialog with your body. I am not consistent with that but I have a slowly evolving dialog with the Devas that run things inside me. This inspires me to be more vigilant in that. Lovely to hear about new things you’re doing. Hope you find the perfect dollhouse for you.
And also...(sorry, double comment, couldn't edit my first comment) the physical healing journey... Self Love and how we talk to our bodies 🖤 The last year has been a shitshow of illness, brain surgery and shadow work - the Real Tower -moment. Still working to get out to the other side. And the body needs compassion to heal and carry me through this. But we walk Helvegen and she will walk beside us 🖤
Maybe you could get the dollhouse for next year's Self Love September? And work on it during that month? That way you have basically a year to research more, gather supplies, etc. etc. Also, I am obsessed with your sheets! I love the cats 😻
A working altar is not necessary. I work outside and I have a “portable” altar, because I am a private Witch. I have altars in my home, but one would not recognize that they were altars.
As one of the first to hear about this from my birthday reading I believe it's a great idea! Going to buy myself a nice book today for my book altar. 😁😁
This resonates so much. I am literally moving and have been 'forced' to pack up everything, declutter and take a hard look at what makes up my Art and Magick. What is me and what is just random shit? But ...ohhh... I love the Dollhouse idea 😍
I have been less drawn to my altar lately aswell.. when I look at it I feel guilt instead of joy so I may take it down for a time and see how I go with my practice. Thanks for the inspiration
This idea with a doll's house is so incredible! I would love to see that! I wouldn't be surprised if in a while from now we see more witches working with a doll's house after this video. Such an inspiration. It's also a bit spooky, end kinda cute, but also mysterious and weird, and girly 💞 I don't work so actively on my own altar, and I use the space of the room where the altar is for workings. But yes, go for it, why not. Be creative make changes. It's beautiful 😍
I no longer have a main working altar, I packed it up when I moved 20 months ago and never set it up. I have my Ancestral altar in the lounge which I making offerings and do devotional every day. In my kitchen I do my workings. It feels more organic and natural.
This is exactly what I’m going through right now. I’m a poet / writer and now I really want to completely make my desk also my working altar but it’s been hard… I think I need a new desk that can hold both. And my working altar in my room is just stagnant and I haven’t been called to it. Also, I love the doll house idea.
I’ve never had a large working altar space. Instead I use a bookcase with various dedicated spaces to honour deity, my phase in life, current ongoing workings etc. The bookcase is right by my dining table & that is where I “do” the stuff (incense & oil creating, divination, journaling etc) I keep a few different boxes (vintage OTT travel jewellery boxes) that are like small working altars. I have one for shadow work, one for astral work, etc. I really love using these vintage “treasure” boxes as my temporary yet permanent altars. I did indulge my dollhouse yearning at the very start of my healing ❤️🩹 process for my inner child. It was an amazing experience. Mine wasn’t a fancy expensive one either. I again used a tall bookcase & created different dioramas that were very symbolic to me. I bought vintage dolls from my childhood years (Daisy by Mary Quant is so kick ass compared to the Sindy option of the same time). I even had a dolls allotment on one of the shelves where I could do nature magic if I wasn’t able to actually get to my real allotment due to unpredictable chronic illness. Absolutely 💯 love 💕 my themed poppets
In Vajrayana Buddhism of which I’m a practitioner of as well as being a hedge\chaos witch. in this Buddhist lineage, especially in households in Tibet, Nepal etc there is usually only one main room for an altar or shrine. Not to say there are not other decorative magical items in the home, but the “practice” or “work” is done mainly in that room. I gather from this tradition that it’s a really grounding way of organizing and digesting things energetically in the home. There’s a space for more mundane activities and then there’s a space for ultimate spiritual absorption. It honestly just sounds like you’re consolidating and refining and grounding, which is good and needed when you’re doing spiritual practice. The doll house magick sounds amazing!❤❤❤ when you first brought up the subject of a practice place my mind referenced The Craft when that witch who ran the bookstore pulled back that curtain to that supercharged room with the pentacle and protection circle on the floor. 😊 I do very similar somatic work. I’ve done a lot of Somatic Experiencing and Rosen Method. It changed my life. I absolutely love how you say you have sassy legs. Girl, you’re Latina like me. The Latin thick hair has a mind and presence of its own. It’s beautiful. At least it isn’t falling out.
I've had a couple spells (pun intended) during which I just dismantled my altar and sold, gave away, or even tossed every last witchy tool or supply I owned. Not because I was disillusioned or anything... I just didn't need it to feel witchy or connected to my practice. And then, like now, I've literally torn apart and redecorated an entire room to set up a sacred space. Lol. Who knows how long this will last. I'm a minimalist, so having "things" can sometimes feel overwhelming. The things I have are still minimal, to the standards of many, but it's a struggle I still have. I think of these gorgeous witchy rooms with just dried plants hanging from the ceiling, plants everywhere, gallery walls of art and oddities, and it's such an amazing and inspiring aesthetic. But then I start collecting, start decorating, and begin to... panic? It's weird. Lol. Some of it is rooted in money issues and guilt, and a scarcity mindset, of course. But some of it is this heavy feeling of being beholden to things, to objects. Don't mean to trauma dump lol. But, yeah, I've definitely had and then not had and then had again a main working altar. Much like what you mused on in this video, my space these days is very dedicated to art and creativity. I don't have jars and jars of herbs. I don't even have a single crystal on display, or in my possession at all, for that matter. Lol. But my space still feels... full. In a good way (so far). Anyway, yeah, I have a complicated relationship with altars and witchy tools in general
Thank you. I've been thinking I don't want to keep magickal journal anymore - I don't like doing it even though everyone in magickal community keep pushing on it. And I would love to listen about your doll house workings - I have wooden doll's house and I've always been interested in using it in magickal workings.
ohhhh fun!!! i love your magic box-dollhouse 🥰 could you maybe make a video about how you use boxes and ideas of what to do with it etc?? i have some boxes of my own, and i'd love to hear more ideas 🥰🥰🥰
Omg altar guilt is real. I took mine down several months ago and I now only set up a mini altar for a specific working, ritual or devotional work and then take it down. It helps me focus too on one thing at a time
I love the idea of a dollhouse! I have a few bc I work in miniatures and they are magical!! Have you heard of dollhouse vignettes? One room boxes you set up? Might be a place to try it out or set up a temporary space for like, a season or occasion- like a writer’s room vignette in a shoebox to support your book process!!
k I'm pausing after the :getting rid of my main working altar because I've just had a major witchy downsize. I used to have a devotional altar that I could sit at, a large dresser as my main working altar and then my desk which I always consider partially an altar because I do a lot of magical journaling and wordsmithing. And I had all this set up in my living room. And recently I realized I really missed having a door and I feel very vulnerable in large open spaces in general, so I've downsized to my desk and a little side table top as a devotional altar. I'm here for the getting rid of it if it's not working.
Whenever I get that feeling about my altar, I tend to describe it as a “knot” in all the energy (I usually picture strands of energy coming up from each item, and when things aren’t flowing, I see it as a knot in those strands), and my solution is to deconstruct and reconstruct, usually making it smaller or less in the way, but other times making it more prominent. Maybe try to make it mirror one of your astral altars? Whatever you do, I understand the weight of this kind of decision, so try not to focus on the “privilege” of it all, privilege is relative and an altar is an important space for its owner.
This reminds me of one of my favorite images of Mother Mary (I’m not Catholic but I’m drawn to Mary). It’s Mary as the “Untier of knots” and the prayer is all about asking her to untangle the knots in your life. That always resonates with me and I think of it when I’m getting worked up over various issues.
I have a few metal my little pony boxes and a couple ornate boxes that have been sitting in my witchy room for YEARS that I've had no idea how to use 😯 box magic sounds like the perfect use for them!! I really like the idea of using a doll house as well: I'm always drawn to them and I don't know why 😅 I'm also drawn to those little Polly pocket play sets, so I might start with one of those! I totally relate to themed poppets. I like using different fashion dolls and I found a doll who came with spa items for the doll so I use her for my self care work. 😊
In some interviews, I've heard of the magician/witch talking about letting go out a lot of tangible material workings after being in the craft for so long. Oh wow, the box magic connecting from the doll's house made me think of my shadow box Cornell obsession, it made me visualize a doll's house but in the Door's way (a la Neverwhere) for hanging on the walls and visiting different rooms.
Random Q but what kind of perfume do you like since you mentioned it? I’m a huge scent nerd and am always curious about this. If I was to design a perfume for you I think it would be a little sweet and spiced with a lingering soft, warm, slightly smokey scent.
You're definitely not alone with the altar downsizing and deconstructing. I've also noticed that I've felt the same recently, and same in regards to putting "mundane" self care objects alongside or on the altar too. Up until recently I've felt very disconnected and overwhelmed by my craft and my connection to my inner self. I just moved to my first apartment to get away from toxic family and I only had the ability to move a small bit of my old witchy items. Tbh, I kind of love it. I realized I had gotten overwhelmed with the energetic clutter of my old space... I was getting so stagnant and confused with my craft until this downsize, which forced me to prioritize both my most important magical objects, and my personal practical needs. I think the simplicity and refocusing of my priorities was something I needed to help me reconnect and recenter with myself; which is especially helpful since rn I'm finally starting the journey of healing trauma in therapy, as well as preparing for starting gender affirming treatment. It was the perfect new "rebirth" chapter of both myself, my connection to my Witchcraft and to my perspective of what an altar can be. (Also I love the doll house idea! Maybe an alternative to getting a literal dolls house would be to make art of it? Itd give you the ability to tangibly arrange it and create it from sratch. It also won't be constrained to physical limitations - so you could really get psychedelic/astral with the room designs! 👀💗)
I'm fast approaching 50! I love your body advice. I've never talked to my aching, disheveled and tired body but I'm loving this idea. Thoroughly enjoyed your video even from my atheistic perspective. Thank you for sharing ❤
I lost my hearing before getting badly ill from some weird cold (not covid). Anyway, my hearing was extremely bad for months. I saw doctors who were of no help. I started accepting that I couldn't hear well any more after six months or so. And then, at eight months, my hearing suddenly improved. Now, a few years later, it is not quite back to normal, but about 90% better. Cold viruses (and other viruses) can cause awful problems and attack any organ or system in your body.
I'm considering packing up one of my shrines... it's tough to get to because it's behind a chair and then my partner really wanted the karaoke machine and speakers in the living room so those things went on the same table as my shrine. So now it's cramped and there's a million wires running where I usually sit. It's just not a comfortable space and I haven't sat at that shrine in 3 weeks and before that I hadn't sat there in 2 months. I can use the beach and my mind as the shrine. Heck maybe I'll just keep the pearls and candle in an easy to access box so I can set up a small shrine every day. Better to have the minimum and actually use the shrine than have a huge amount of stuff and let it go cold. Edit: although I feel a ton of anxiety when I think about taking it down 😭
I have one working altar and a small shrine on a shelf above for my deities. I have tried to expand before, like incorporating a shelf or something like that, next to the main altar with more stuff going on. However, every time I set it up, I just end up deconstructing it and stick with the one I've got. Whilst my main altar used to have a lot going on, in the last week I've stripped it back and decluttered it. I couldn't figure out why I wanted to do this either, because I had a lot of space dedicated to my patron deity and nearly panicked thinking she was leaving me! Good news, she isn't haha! But I have been getting the spiritual message that a lot of the external stuff needs to come inward now, and not to rely so heavily on my altar. I also get what you mean, I had some funny feelings about stripping it back, because I finally have had the space to have an altar for a couple years now since moving! Maybe it's something in the astrology for the collective right now, or/and the feeling of spooky season getting ready to go more inward! I think it's exciting not to have an altar (or at least in my case, not have so much focus on one). If we as witches and spiritual people claim all the time you don't need the "things" or the altars, let['s put it to the test! :D
Me! I just had my third child in march and had to scale back my main altar significantly. Now I hardly do any work in there because babe is napping in his crib and the space just isn't the same. Now I have 2 other altars and I have been gravitating more to my ancestor altar.
I just deconstructed my altar above my bed last night after a year set up. I really simplied it & moved a lot of it outside as I want more of my crystals, statues etc outside in nature to create an altar space on the porch.
Welcome to the altar-less club! Oh wait you'll still have two....nah you really don't need the big one. I only have one every so often when I really want one. Hekate and Hel and others don't need one, our work can be done anywhere 💜💜💜
This is so funny because for a few months/a year Ive been looking at dolls houses to use as a magical space to create and use as a "sympathetic" magic tool. I thought I was being silly. My recent employment was making matchbox gifts and I got really into creative thinking how to use boxes in practice. Its also something that my inner child will love because I loved dolls houses and polly pockets etc. My present available space and finances are holding me back. For a few years I havent had something I call my "working altar", I have a dressing table that I use as a permanent space I make devotions on and talk to my gods and read cards, but for magic work I dont like to be tied to one place. I feel the magic space is within myself, the power is being generated from my centre that expands out or draws in. The thought of a working altar was too much pressure and making me feel guilty for not doing magic regularly and in the "correct" manner. I wouldnt like to feel dependant on that space to feel the magical energy.
I do talk to my organs and I do have a dollhouse♥️😁🙏. I have built three cardboard rooms from my childhood to interract with my inner child. Thank you for making my weirdness normal🦄🙏♥️. Keep going please🌺
Im moving into online space woth my art and witchery. I have been making little devotional ziens on canva for my deitys , little bits of grPhic design . Its also heaps tidier than doing phisical collage. At the moment i am realy wanting cleanlyness in my home so this is the solution
I always thought your astral altar *was* your "main altar," so I'm not shocked by the altar news. I recently took a lot of stuff off the surface of my altar and tucked it away in drawers and shelves down below so that my workspace has space for me to actually...work. (Duh, right?) It's not as aesthetic, but it's a lot more functional. Do what works! The dollhouse idea is fascinating. You'll have such fun! And learn so much! I need to have some conversations with my body for sure. But first I'll have to school myself to be civil with my uterus. She and I are not presently on speaking terms, mostly because I refuse to negotiate with terrorists. (Endometriosis is no fun.) Maybe I'd better start with my wonky SI joint. It might be easier to reason with.
So with me I been doing seasonal work and working with local magick and art. Since my space is limited I feel whatever space I have is sacred. I recently somehow had alot of space to myself and realized my space is my altar. Sometimes it is bigger and sometimes it is smaller. When I have my own place, it entirety will be an altar I can live inside. I also using my fitness journey and gym classes as a for of ritual because I noticed after my work our I am in gnosis
Yes this resonates for me Kelly-Ann - I have a number of altars and I don't always work on them. The altar I spend the most time at right now is for Lilith. What you said about adding tools or items to the altars because they have meaning and resonance but without much magical context in the hopes that they will do something for you or that you might interact with them more also resonates for me too. I have a couple of astral spaces and spend time in each of them as and when I can and I also love how limitless the possibilities are in that realm. The dolls house thing is so interesting. I have had a sense for a number of years that in the past (potentially when I was a child even) I have visited a dolls house (cottage style) on the astral within which my familiar resides - that's where they are. At present I'm struggling to navigate back to that place but I know it's a place of home for me - almost like I've just lost my way a little so navigation and mind mapping the space is something I need to continue working on to find them because there is a disconnect. I also had a brain wave recently to acquire a vintage dollhouse that looks similar and to conjure them within the dolls house as a representation so I may more easily find it again. I've also been engaging with a lot of inner child work in the past year so it's probably no coincidence. Also just for fun I really want to transform this old wooden dolls house my kids no longer play with into a haunted dolls house for a Halloween decoration 😂 💜 As always so inspiring ♥ Thank you for sharing Kelly-Ann. Blessings for self-love September 🙏Xxx
The world is my altar, every breath a spell. And the magic of the mundane is my favorite. I keep statues and rocks and flowers all over the house. I used to have an outdoor altar until my dog dismantled it. 😎😂💜🌺
I'm finding that the older I am getting I'm going back to playing with toys. I think maybe you should avoid going into charity shops for a while... because you know what will be in there..... and you won't be able to resist😂 ❤
I don't have an alter at all anymore. I'm an atheist and I don't do a lot of workings, but I do have items that are magical to me and my whole house is my sacred space.
oh my goodness, your dolls house idea reminded me of the fantasy i've had of making an "altar" (in my strand of naturalistic paganism we call it a focus, it's very similar though) that was an elaborate and ever-growing cardboard castle! like, childhood junk modelling taken to a fantasy medieval extreme!
I love the dollhouse idea! I feel like your dollhouse would be like Phoebe’s on Friends. (Slides instead of stairs, licorice room, aroma room, bubbles, lights, etc) If you know that reference, you’ll love it. 😊
Question about the dolls house... Did you ever read That book by jeni couzyns I told you about the "life by drowning" book has a poem in it called the house of changes and if you haven't, I really thing you need to. To be honest the book is like a book of shadows that she published in the 70s!
I only have 3 altar's two is small each one is for my deity's my biggest is my main deity and I have my cauldron there the other two is my mother Mary altar and the other is ISIS i miss my main working altar.i have never become good with astral travel and building things there i just don't know why I haven't gotten able to do it.and it really depresses me.
Do you remember the hall of faces in game of thrones that Aria Stark went to? I feel like you are going into your own hall of faces with the intention of really understanding all of the facets of You. I also think this makes total sense that this would be expressed in the material with doll house and poppet work, in your relationship with diety, and in body work meditation. ❤
I would really like to write a comment about how you can make me like things which I've never thought about before (like dollhouses) but I shan't write a single word! I need to have a little tête-à-tête with my aching left elbow, so not a single word from me here today, sorry! 🤷🏽♀️
When you said "Barbie altar", I was like, "is this really a thing....hmmm...."😂🤔 Anyway, is it common to have one altar for all my witchy workings? I keep hearing all you fancy TH-cam witches say you have different altars for different reasons including moon phases.
I deprioritized witchcraft, because i had a lot to unpack. I have came to the conclusion that if i practice witchcraft, i am more racist then ever bc of the amounts of cultural approriation it would require from me. And being racisunintentionally is the least i need nor want to commit. I'd rather finish myself if it would happen. I view everyone as equal to me, regardless of background or physical appearance.
You are not alone. I've been going through this for a couple of months. I feel we sometimes get too wrapped up in witchy things. I try to visualize what our ancestors had 100/200+ years ago. My grandmother didn't have things except her herbs, oils, and recipes. I think it is part of our evolving as witches. We begin to realize we don't need altars to create magic or to call on our deities. This is just what I've been going through and just want to give you some support.
I always considered an altar something too much "institutionalized", not as much aligned to my "natural, more organic "approach. It makes more sense to me what you did with your cloth on the floor. It's freedom, flexible, ready and usable at many places, also spontanously, outdoors on the bed, .... And it can be as easy as having 1 cloth and 1 item you find at the place you are: an acorn, a toy car, a flower, ...
Your pony house box is so lovely!
I've recently been working on a "wonder altar" where I put things that bring me joy and allow me to see the wonder in the world. The bit you said about you moving your perfume and jewellery to your working altar reminded me of that
Oooh a wonder altar 🥰
Your altar story reminds me of how in the "witches path" by thorn mooney, she talks about how sometimes when we get stuck, stagnant energy in our sacred space can be part of the problem. She has an exercise where you completely dismantle your altar and rebuild it slowly. It was really helpful for me!
altar as junk drawer! i see you.
also i so appreciate your ability to engage with a 'terrifying' thought and follow it through to its end and actually float the idea of getting rid of the primary altar.
As a miniatures artist that sounds fantastic. And if I might offer a more scrappy economical option, you can create a room box out of repurposed cardboard. A roombox is a single room that is set in a box. You can even arrange multiple roomboxes together to give the effect of a dollhouse. And bonus points, if you are wanting something more on the weird side, with a little preplanning in your box sixes you could make rooms that you can move around like a house that shifts. Now something that might be frustrating or in a spiritual context might even be appreciated is that in the creation of one of these boxes there is a lot of forced patience. There are so many steps that you have to let things dry before you can do the next step. But if you start with just one room box it might be a way to start to dip your toes in without too much commitment and using cardboard really helps to not feel too precious about the thing. It has certainly helped in my creative process. But I'll cut myself off there. I can seriously go on and one about miniatures, I love them.
I really appreciate the idea of interfacing with different body parts. I feel like that might be really helpful. It got me thinking about the topic and the different body parts I might interface with. But then it also made me realize the injury that has been the most difficult for me and that I haven't actually given myself the time to actually fully delve into my feelings about it.
Thank you. Magically fantastic video as always.
This might be my favorite video you've posted to date haha. This gave me so much to think about, and it was such a random smorgasbord of customization.
love the idea of the journal altar. I also like deliberately creating and opening an altar, over a standing altar that's easy to ignore. I might reevaluate my standing altars now.
your art magic stuff is making me think how making art has been magical, yet I don't use art to do magic. Yet I've been connecting to my creation abilities through art.
I love your dollhouse thoughts. it's making me think of creating a powerpoint or photoshop dollhouse! Just snip various rooms from pinterest and collage it into photoshop.
Now I want to look up poppets.
I've NEVER thought of talking to my body in the way you have. It's so different from how most people have explained it to me. I would talk with my gut (no surprise) and my upper arms! My upper arms get tense for some reason when I get nervous. I like that your legs are chatty, like "don't even think about making too many more steps without talking with me first!"
i LOVE your thoughts about Hel. I'm going through something similar with Hekate. There are different aspects and ways we can engage our goddess, different from what we're used to. It makes sense that you've taken space from Hel for a while and the warrior side you've come to know, and now you get to explore the compassionate side.
There is a Taoist exercise of smiling into the various parts of the body - that helps me. If I need to give a part of my body some love I envision a warm, soft, sleepy, purring kitten laying at the place of that part.
You have sparked some ideas for me with all the things you talked about. ❤
oh wow i love this idea, i’m going to try it. that just sounds so soft and self loving
Love this idea ❤
YEEEES!!! this was maybe the first meditation i learned when i was young, i love it so much! 🥰
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OMG You've inspired me to make a dollhouse spread in my art grimoire. What home ideally looks like to me has been on my mind a lot lately. Also your hair is gad dang glorious.
For this part of my self-love journey, I am doing your "29 Shadows" shadow work course. I started it in 2016!!! and then abandoned it. But that journal has been calling to me, and in August, I picked it up to finish the remaining 28 days. You've become my bestie in my head as I move through each day's prompts. Some took several days to work through, but I'm determined to finish. Thank you for an amazing shadow work process. Your thoughtful consideration and wisdom make me look forward to each day's prompt. Blessed be. ❤🙌🏼
Pausing again to say Kelly-Ann take the advice you would give to clients and us here in the youtube world: be a rebel witch. It's very rebel witch to not have an altar even though you have the space that you could. ALSO: You don't need to obligate yourself to keep an altar out of guilt because some of us can't have one.
oh wow i looooved your idea of the poppet and the strings!
I have an altar, but it's mostly for devotion to deity. You are your most important altar. I am my most important altar. We are the working altar. Magic and divination happens wherever I happen to be. Wherever I choose to do it. I just did a video talking a little about this wonderful discovery. I think it is such a self loving concept. Synchronicity. A dolls house is an amazing idea. I have a pink troll lunch box I use for magical stuff! 😆 Love your little box.
LOVE this perspective ❤
I love your rambles! The conversational tone of practical, personal witchcraft is just so fizzy! A thought on the impulse to dismantle your working altar. An altar is where you practice witchcraft, correct? So, its purpose in a home is to designate a space for this sacred act, both practically so there's a place to do stuff and also to honor its significance in your home and life. Your home is mundane, not sacred - your altar is spiritual and sacred. Well it seems like you're in a phase when you're almost never NOT performing some sort of magical doing, whether it's art or clients or your healing journey - at this point it's all related to witchcraft for you at some level (or so is my impression, I am definitely making assumptions). So designating a specific alcove, however lovely, is almost dimming the magnificence of your full and rich current practice. Your altar is the barre in the ballet studio, but you're mid sold out performance! If you incorporate your meaningful altar pieces in your home, they'll still be in a place of honor because your whole home - or the living spaces anyway - have become your working altar. And adding another fizzy working at some point, like a doll's house, will be another delightful corner of your altar. Just my thoughts- as I said, assumptions were made so I coukd be way off. Love the video!
kelly ann, your hair is a gorgeous force of nature and i would do anything for hair as free and fun as yours!! that’s witch’s hair right there
That's sounds so fun! I'm imagining building rooms from scratch and putting them together, bit by bit. I can't wait to see what you do.
I'm not that surprised at you having these thoughts because I remember a while back I saw you comment to someone else under one of your videos that you were thinking of doing away with your altar and building them on the astral. I've never had an altar but I maintain an entire castle and personalised landscape in the astral and I totally agree that the possibilities there are endless: I can conjure anything I want and dissolve it whenever, I can wear the most sumptuous magical cloaks and regalia that I would never be able to have in real life, I can work with any objects, ingredients, energies etc. The astral is just so underrated!!
I haven’t used a main altar in years. When I released it, it was a relief. The time & energy it took at this time is more needed elsewhere. I still keep a very small & select devotional altar & a beloved dead altar. Try it! I also have an astral altar in my pineal gland lol. There’s a lava lamp. It’s my discerning place. Change is good. It doesn’t mean you aren’t witchy anymore, quite the opposite I feel.
I love how you’re in dialog with your body. I am not consistent with that but I have a slowly evolving dialog with the Devas that run things inside me. This inspires me to be more vigilant in that. Lovely to hear about new things you’re doing. Hope you find the perfect dollhouse for you.
And also...(sorry, double comment, couldn't edit my first comment) the physical healing journey... Self Love and how we talk to our bodies 🖤 The last year has been a shitshow of illness, brain surgery and shadow work - the Real Tower -moment. Still working to get out to the other side. And the body needs compassion to heal and carry me through this. But we walk Helvegen and she will walk beside us 🖤
Maybe you could get the dollhouse for next year's Self Love September? And work on it during that month? That way you have basically a year to research more, gather supplies, etc. etc. Also, I am obsessed with your sheets! I love the cats 😻
Your Virgo moon just made this Virgo new moon day so much sweeter
A working altar is not necessary. I work outside and I have a “portable” altar, because I am a private Witch. I have altars in my home, but one would not recognize that they were altars.
As one of the first to hear about this from my birthday reading I believe it's a great idea! Going to buy myself a nice book today for my book altar. 😁😁
This resonates so much. I am literally moving and have been 'forced' to pack up everything, declutter and take a hard look at what makes up my Art and Magick. What is me and what is just random shit? But ...ohhh... I love the Dollhouse idea 😍
I have been less drawn to my altar lately aswell.. when I look at it I feel guilt instead of joy so I may take it down for a time and see how I go with my practice. Thanks for the inspiration
This idea with a doll's house is so incredible! I would love to see that! I wouldn't be surprised if in a while from now we see more witches working with a doll's house after this video. Such an inspiration.
It's also a bit spooky, end kinda cute, but also mysterious and weird, and girly 💞
I don't work so actively on my own altar, and I use the space of the room where the altar is for workings. But yes, go for it, why not. Be creative make changes. It's beautiful 😍
I no longer have a main working altar, I packed it up when I moved 20 months ago and never set it up. I have my Ancestral altar in the lounge which I making offerings and do devotional every day. In my kitchen I do my workings. It feels more organic and natural.
This is exactly what I’m going through right now. I’m a poet / writer and now I really want to completely make my desk also my working altar but it’s been hard… I think I need a new desk that can hold both. And my working altar in my room is just stagnant and I haven’t been called to it. Also, I love the doll house idea.
I’ve never had a large working altar space. Instead I use a bookcase with various dedicated spaces to honour deity, my phase in life, current ongoing workings etc.
The bookcase is right by my dining table & that is where I “do” the stuff (incense & oil creating, divination, journaling etc)
I keep a few different boxes (vintage OTT travel jewellery boxes) that are like small working altars. I have one for shadow work, one for astral work, etc. I really love using these vintage “treasure” boxes as my temporary yet permanent altars.
I did indulge my dollhouse yearning at the very start of my healing ❤️🩹 process for my inner child. It was an amazing experience. Mine wasn’t a fancy expensive one either. I again used a tall bookcase & created different dioramas that were very symbolic to me. I bought vintage dolls from my childhood years (Daisy by Mary Quant is so kick ass compared to the Sindy option of the same time). I even had a dolls allotment on one of the shelves where I could do nature magic if I wasn’t able to actually get to my real allotment due to unpredictable chronic illness.
Absolutely 💯 love 💕 my themed poppets
In Vajrayana Buddhism of which I’m a practitioner of as well as being a hedge\chaos witch. in this Buddhist lineage, especially in households in Tibet, Nepal etc there is usually only one main room for an altar or shrine. Not to say there are not other decorative magical items in the home, but the “practice” or “work” is done mainly in that room. I gather from this tradition that it’s a really grounding way of organizing and digesting things energetically in the home. There’s a space for more mundane activities and then there’s a space for ultimate spiritual absorption. It honestly just sounds like you’re consolidating and refining and grounding, which is good and needed when you’re doing spiritual practice. The doll house magick sounds amazing!❤❤❤ when you first brought up the subject of a practice place my mind referenced The Craft when that witch who ran the bookstore pulled back that curtain to that supercharged room with the pentacle and protection circle on the floor. 😊 I do very similar somatic work. I’ve done a lot of Somatic Experiencing and Rosen Method. It changed my life. I absolutely love how you say you have sassy legs. Girl, you’re Latina like me. The Latin thick hair has a mind and presence of its own. It’s beautiful. At least it isn’t falling out.
I've had a couple spells (pun intended) during which I just dismantled my altar and sold, gave away, or even tossed every last witchy tool or supply I owned. Not because I was disillusioned or anything... I just didn't need it to feel witchy or connected to my practice. And then, like now, I've literally torn apart and redecorated an entire room to set up a sacred space. Lol. Who knows how long this will last.
I'm a minimalist, so having "things" can sometimes feel overwhelming. The things I have are still minimal, to the standards of many, but it's a struggle I still have. I think of these gorgeous witchy rooms with just dried plants hanging from the ceiling, plants everywhere, gallery walls of art and oddities, and it's such an amazing and inspiring aesthetic. But then I start collecting, start decorating, and begin to... panic? It's weird. Lol. Some of it is rooted in money issues and guilt, and a scarcity mindset, of course. But some of it is this heavy feeling of being beholden to things, to objects.
Don't mean to trauma dump lol. But, yeah, I've definitely had and then not had and then had again a main working altar. Much like what you mused on in this video, my space these days is very dedicated to art and creativity. I don't have jars and jars of herbs. I don't even have a single crystal on display, or in my possession at all, for that matter. Lol. But my space still feels... full. In a good way (so far).
Anyway, yeah, I have a complicated relationship with altars and witchy tools in general
Omg I've loved dolly houses since I was a little girl!
I have totally been dying to do a little gothic mansion for servitors, Spirits. 😂
Amazing ❤
Thank you. I've been thinking I don't want to keep magickal journal anymore - I don't like doing it even though everyone in magickal community keep pushing on it. And I would love to listen about your doll house workings - I have wooden doll's house and I've always been interested in using it in magickal workings.
For me it is more about getting everything blended into my home so then the altar is not obvious so I use alot of plants
Everyday I look forward to coming home, getting in bed, and falling asleep to your videos! ❤
This melts my heart.
ohhhh fun!!! i love your magic box-dollhouse 🥰
could you maybe make a video about how you use boxes and ideas of what to do with it etc??
i have some boxes of my own, and i'd love to hear more ideas 🥰🥰🥰
Omg altar guilt is real. I took mine down several months ago and I now only set up a mini altar for a specific working, ritual or devotional work and then take it down. It helps me focus too on one thing at a time
I love the idea of a dollhouse! I have a few bc I work in miniatures and they are magical!! Have you heard of dollhouse vignettes? One room boxes you set up? Might be a place to try it out or set up a temporary space for like, a season or occasion- like a writer’s room vignette in a shoebox to support your book process!!
Oooh, I haven't heard of them, no. Sounds great. x
k I'm pausing after the :getting rid of my main working altar because I've just had a major witchy downsize. I used to have a devotional altar that I could sit at, a large dresser as my main working altar and then my desk which I always consider partially an altar because I do a lot of magical journaling and wordsmithing. And I had all this set up in my living room. And recently I realized I really missed having a door and I feel very vulnerable in large open spaces in general, so I've downsized to my desk and a little side table top as a devotional altar. I'm here for the getting rid of it if it's not working.
Whenever I get that feeling about my altar, I tend to describe it as a “knot” in all the energy (I usually picture strands of energy coming up from each item, and when things aren’t flowing, I see it as a knot in those strands), and my solution is to deconstruct and reconstruct, usually making it smaller or less in the way, but other times making it more prominent. Maybe try to make it mirror one of your astral altars? Whatever you do, I understand the weight of this kind of decision, so try not to focus on the “privilege” of it all, privilege is relative and an altar is an important space for its owner.
Lmfao I obviously commented before I finished the video lol I love how your mind works
This reminds me of one of my favorite images of Mother Mary (I’m not Catholic but I’m drawn to Mary). It’s Mary as the “Untier of knots” and the prayer is all about asking her to untangle the knots in your life. That always resonates with me and I think of it when I’m getting worked up over various issues.
I have a few metal my little pony boxes and a couple ornate boxes that have been sitting in my witchy room for YEARS that I've had no idea how to use 😯 box magic sounds like the perfect use for them!! I really like the idea of using a doll house as well: I'm always drawn to them and I don't know why 😅 I'm also drawn to those little Polly pocket play sets, so I might start with one of those!
I totally relate to themed poppets. I like using different fashion dolls and I found a doll who came with spa items for the doll so I use her for my self care work. 😊
In some interviews, I've heard of the magician/witch talking about letting go out a lot of tangible material workings after being in the craft for so long.
Oh wow, the box magic connecting from the doll's house made me think of my shadow box Cornell obsession, it made me visualize a doll's house but in the Door's way (a la Neverwhere) for hanging on the walls and visiting different rooms.
Off topic but coming back with a fucking slipknot shirt was a fucking vibe 🤣💚💚💚
*seed a new video by you*❤ next stop... Inspiration station!
Random Q but what kind of perfume do you like since you mentioned it? I’m a huge scent nerd and am always curious about this. If I was to design a perfume for you I think it would be a little sweet and spiced with a lingering soft, warm, slightly smokey scent.
That’s so funny, I’ve recently gotten into making miniature models. I love it
You're definitely not alone with the altar downsizing and deconstructing. I've also noticed that I've felt the same recently, and same in regards to putting "mundane" self care objects alongside or on the altar too. Up until recently I've felt very disconnected and overwhelmed by my craft and my connection to my inner self. I just moved to my first apartment to get away from toxic family and I only had the ability to move a small bit of my old witchy items. Tbh, I kind of love it. I realized I had gotten overwhelmed with the energetic clutter of my old space... I was getting so stagnant and confused with my craft until this downsize, which forced me to prioritize both my most important magical objects, and my personal practical needs. I think the simplicity and refocusing of my priorities was something I needed to help me reconnect and recenter with myself; which is especially helpful since rn I'm finally starting the journey of healing trauma in therapy, as well as preparing for starting gender affirming treatment. It was the perfect new "rebirth" chapter of both myself, my connection to my Witchcraft and to my perspective of what an altar can be.
(Also I love the doll house idea! Maybe an alternative to getting a literal dolls house would be to make art of it? Itd give you the ability to tangibly arrange it and create it from sratch. It also won't be constrained to physical limitations - so you could really get psychedelic/astral with the room designs! 👀💗)
I'm fast approaching 50! I love your body advice. I've never talked to my aching, disheveled and tired body but I'm loving this idea. Thoroughly enjoyed your video even from my atheistic perspective. Thank you for sharing ❤
I lost my hearing before getting badly ill from some weird cold (not covid). Anyway, my hearing was extremely bad for months. I saw doctors who were of no help. I started accepting that I couldn't hear well any more after six months or so. And then, at eight months, my hearing suddenly improved. Now, a few years later, it is not quite back to normal, but about 90% better. Cold viruses (and other viruses) can cause awful problems and attack any organ or system in your body.
I'm considering packing up one of my shrines... it's tough to get to because it's behind a chair and then my partner really wanted the karaoke machine and speakers in the living room so those things went on the same table as my shrine. So now it's cramped and there's a million wires running where I usually sit.
It's just not a comfortable space and I haven't sat at that shrine in 3 weeks and before that I hadn't sat there in 2 months. I can use the beach and my mind as the shrine. Heck maybe I'll just keep the pearls and candle in an easy to access box so I can set up a small shrine every day. Better to have the minimum and actually use the shrine than have a huge amount of stuff and let it go cold.
Edit: although I feel a ton of anxiety when I think about taking it down 😭
I have one working altar and a small shrine on a shelf above for my deities. I have tried to expand before, like incorporating a shelf or something like that, next to the main altar with more stuff going on. However, every time I set it up, I just end up deconstructing it and stick with the one I've got. Whilst my main altar used to have a lot going on, in the last week I've stripped it back and decluttered it. I couldn't figure out why I wanted to do this either, because I had a lot of space dedicated to my patron deity and nearly panicked thinking she was leaving me! Good news, she isn't haha! But I have been getting the spiritual message that a lot of the external stuff needs to come inward now, and not to rely so heavily on my altar. I also get what you mean, I had some funny feelings about stripping it back, because I finally have had the space to have an altar for a couple years now since moving! Maybe it's something in the astrology for the collective right now, or/and the feeling of spooky season getting ready to go more inward! I think it's exciting not to have an altar (or at least in my case, not have so much focus on one). If we as witches and spiritual people claim all the time you don't need the "things" or the altars, let['s put it to the test! :D
Me! I just had my third child in march and had to scale back my main altar significantly. Now I hardly do any work in there because babe is napping in his crib and the space just isn't the same. Now I have 2 other altars and I have been gravitating more to my ancestor altar.
I just deconstructed my altar above my bed last night after a year set up. I really simplied it & moved a lot of it outside as I want more of my crystals, statues etc outside in nature to create an altar space on the porch.
Welcome to the altar-less club! Oh wait you'll still have two....nah you really don't need the big one.
I only have one every so often when I really want one.
Hekate and Hel and others don't need one, our work can be done anywhere 💜💜💜
You can make a dolls house out of cardboard boxes. Then you get to decide the shape and room layout.
This is so funny because for a few months/a year Ive been looking at dolls houses to use as a magical space to create and use as a "sympathetic" magic tool. I thought I was being silly. My recent employment was making matchbox gifts and I got really into creative thinking how to use boxes in practice. Its also something that my inner child will love because I loved dolls houses and polly pockets etc. My present available space and finances are holding me back.
For a few years I havent had something I call my "working altar", I have a dressing table that I use as a permanent space I make devotions on and talk to my gods and read cards, but for magic work I dont like to be tied to one place. I feel the magic space is within myself, the power is being generated from my centre that expands out or draws in. The thought of a working altar was too much pressure and making me feel guilty for not doing magic regularly and in the "correct" manner. I wouldnt like to feel dependant on that space to feel the magical energy.
I do talk to my organs and I do have a dollhouse♥️😁🙏. I have built three cardboard rooms from my childhood to interract with my inner child. Thank you for making my weirdness normal🦄🙏♥️. Keep going please🌺
Get the Phoebe's doll house from Friends!
I haven’t finished the video yet, but my mouth literally fell open when you said you were thinking of getting rid of your main working altar 😧
Im moving into online space woth my art and witchery. I have been making little devotional ziens on canva for my deitys , little bits of grPhic design . Its also heaps tidier than doing phisical collage. At the moment i am realy wanting cleanlyness in my home so this is the solution
I always thought your astral altar *was* your "main altar," so I'm not shocked by the altar news. I recently took a lot of stuff off the surface of my altar and tucked it away in drawers and shelves down below so that my workspace has space for me to actually...work. (Duh, right?) It's not as aesthetic, but it's a lot more functional. Do what works!
The dollhouse idea is fascinating. You'll have such fun! And learn so much!
I need to have some conversations with my body for sure. But first I'll have to school myself to be civil with my uterus. She and I are not presently on speaking terms, mostly because I refuse to negotiate with terrorists. (Endometriosis is no fun.) Maybe I'd better start with my wonky SI joint. It might be easier to reason with.
You can make mini poppets and little dioramas.
Loved the video Kelly Ann 🎉perhaps an astral, or collage dollhouse for now? Cheers
So with me I been doing seasonal work and working with local magick and art. Since my space is limited I feel whatever space I have is sacred. I recently somehow had alot of space to myself and realized my space is my altar. Sometimes it is bigger and sometimes it is smaller. When I have my own place, it entirety will be an altar I can live inside. I also using my fitness journey and gym classes as a for of ritual because I noticed after my work our I am in gnosis
Yes this resonates for me Kelly-Ann - I have a number of altars and I don't always work on them. The altar I spend the most time at right now is for Lilith. What you said about adding tools or items to the altars because they have meaning and resonance but without much magical context in the hopes that they will do something for you or that you might interact with them more also resonates for me too. I have a couple of astral spaces and spend time in each of them as and when I can and I also love how limitless the possibilities are in that realm. The dolls house thing is so interesting. I have had a sense for a number of years that in the past (potentially when I was a child even) I have visited a dolls house (cottage style) on the astral within which my familiar resides - that's where they are. At present I'm struggling to navigate back to that place but I know it's a place of home for me - almost like I've just lost my way a little so navigation and mind mapping the space is something I need to continue working on to find them because there is a disconnect. I also had a brain wave recently to acquire a vintage dollhouse that looks similar and to conjure them within the dolls house as a representation so I may more easily find it again. I've also been engaging with a lot of inner child work in the past year so it's probably no coincidence. Also just for fun I really want to transform this old wooden dolls house my kids no longer play with into a haunted dolls house for a Halloween decoration 😂 💜 As always so inspiring ♥ Thank you for sharing Kelly-Ann. Blessings for self-love September 🙏Xxx
OMG I also have been wanting to have a doll's house for workings!! Sadly I don't have the space right now... but one day! 💝🏠✨
The world is my altar, every breath a spell. And the magic of the mundane is my favorite. I keep statues and rocks and flowers all over the house. I used to have an outdoor altar until my dog dismantled it. 😎😂💜🌺
Thank you
As someone who grew up in a hindu home i kinda see the altar as a miniature set 😆
I'm finding that the older I am getting I'm going back to playing with toys. I think maybe you should avoid going into charity shops for a while... because you know what will be in there..... and you won't be able to resist😂
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Hi there 😊 Have you considered building your own dollhouse? Cardboard can be very strong😊
I don't have an alter at all anymore. I'm an atheist and I don't do a lot of workings, but I do have items that are magical to me and my whole house is my sacred space.
oh my goodness, your dolls house idea reminded me of the fantasy i've had of making an "altar" (in my strand of naturalistic paganism we call it a focus, it's very similar though) that was an elaborate and ever-growing cardboard castle! like, childhood junk modelling taken to a fantasy medieval extreme!
I love the dollhouse idea! I feel like your dollhouse would be like Phoebe’s on Friends. (Slides instead of stairs, licorice room, aroma room, bubbles, lights, etc) If you know that reference, you’ll love it. 😊
As an earth sign, I need a physical representative of my soul work. Objects in realia appeal to the subconscious.
I need to have a conversation with my hurting tired legs too..... and improve my diet and sit less and move more...
Question about the dolls house... Did you ever read That book by jeni couzyns I told you about the "life by drowning" book has a poem in it called the house of changes and if you haven't, I really thing you need to. To be honest the book is like a book of shadows that she published in the 70s!
I really want a Barbie dream house!
I only have 3 altar's two is small each one is for my deity's my biggest is my main deity and I have my cauldron there the other two is my mother Mary altar and the other is ISIS i miss my main working altar.i have never become good with astral travel and building things there i just don't know why I haven't gotten able to do it.and it really depresses me.
Do you remember the hall of faces in game of thrones that Aria Stark went to? I feel like you are going into your own hall of faces with the intention of really understanding all of the facets of You. I also think this makes total sense that this would be expressed in the material with doll house and poppet work, in your relationship with diety, and in body work meditation. ❤
You don't need an altar. Try taking it down and see how you feel you can always put it back up
What would you put in your dolls house? 🖤
Except not an Amen but a Heil Satan, this cracked me up 😂
drink every time she says box
Make it water for extra health benefits 😉 💦
@@danielaayers3449 no
I would really like to write a comment about how you can make me like things which I've never thought about before (like dollhouses) but I shan't write a single word! I need to have a little tête-à-tête with my aching left elbow, so not a single word from me here today, sorry! 🤷🏽♀️
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Perhaps I need to speak to my body, it really needs a pep talk lol :).
When you said "Barbie altar", I was like, "is this really a thing....hmmm...."😂🤔 Anyway, is it common to have one altar for all my witchy workings? I keep hearing all you fancy TH-cam witches say you have different altars for different reasons including moon phases.
I deprioritized witchcraft, because i had a lot to unpack. I have came to the conclusion that if i practice witchcraft, i am more racist then ever bc of the amounts of cultural approriation it would require from me. And being racisunintentionally is the least i need nor want to commit. I'd rather finish myself if it would happen. I view everyone as equal to me, regardless of background or physical appearance.
Hail Satan! We should all be interfacing with our underboobs ❤
You're invited 🎃🕯
..to The No End House
You are not alone. I've been going through this for a couple of months. I feel we sometimes get too wrapped up in witchy things. I try to visualize what our ancestors had 100/200+ years ago. My grandmother didn't have things except her herbs, oils, and recipes. I think it is part of our evolving as witches. We begin to realize we don't need altars to create magic or to call on our deities. This is just what I've been going through and just want to give you some support.
i can totes see you owning a weird welshy wacktown dylan thomasy manic pixie dreamgirl darling tangerscream dollhouse
Ol' Sassy Legs Kelly-Ann