Altar and Tools
If you utilize an altar, what does it look like? It is a dark wooden hexagonal table. I try to change it with the seasons, decoratively speaking, but some things always remain on it. Currently it has representations of the four directions and elements, a white ceramic statue representing the maiden goddess that sits in a silver sun as a ‘centerpiece’, and my wand.
What is it made of? Dark wood.
What is on it? Salt and rocks for north, incense for east, candle for south, shell and crystals for west, representation of the sun and moon at center and my copper wand.
What tools do you use regularly? Or would like to use regularly? I think that if I had the time and resources to spend my whole life, all day, seeking spiritual enlightenment, I would use more tools. But as it stands right now, I don’t use many tools regularly. Candles tend to appear in a lot of my solitary rituals as a focusing agent, and I wear a robe in formal group rituals. If a ritual calls for representation of a particular element, then I use it, but nothing set.
What is their significance? I believe in representing the five points of the pentacle on an altar (earth, air, fire, water, life energy).
What is their use? Tools are used for focusing and amplifying magickal energy. In large group settings, I believe they help to create the “drama” that is needed to focus the attention and raise the energy of a group with varying levels of experience.
If you don’t use tools, why not? Resources and time are the first obstacles to my regular use of tools. After that, I don’t think they are where the energy needs to be focused for basic rituals. I think they have their place in formal and important rituals, and are important to some people.
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