The Completed Altar

My outdoor sacred space was completed in time for the Blue Moon on the 31st, and what little work has been done there has had a "presence" about it. You have the Altar, on either side of it is a pair of Tiki Torches, on the wall are sun and moon plaque style bird feeders (offering dishes). Then on the laundry post we have a cast iron bird bath (a sunflower with a bird perched on it) that we coated with heat resistant black paint and hung to act as a censor, then a sun-moon-star wind chime, on the main post secured with a nine knot charm (witches ladder) is a broom from a craft store, then the pentacle-triple goddess knot-Solomon's seal chime, and the final chime is a unicursal hexagram.

You'll see that there is no statuary on the altar, no dishes and no crystals. This is to allow the altar to be dressed  as needed, and to protect our ritual items from wild-life and weather. This is also because until the 5th of this month I have been abstaining from using my tools.

This post is in the wake of some personal circumstances that have made it difficult for me to be productive about much of anything, and unfortunately this restriction is impacting my personal studies.

I also want to stress the amount of work involved in the construction of or creation of items to be used in magick. The effort involved is an offering to the Gods and in fact acts as fuel for all work that is performed when making use of the area.