Seeing the Wheels

After changing up my altar space Arianrhod granted me a vision. I've written it out here so you can See it too.

Building Woo Spaces – Working Altars (Pt. 3)

While shrines are the backbone of a devotional practice, altars are the place magick happens. They are a physical manifestation of the energies with which we work, and as such are comprised of the tokens and tools we need to facilitate that working. Altars can be hugely elaborate or incredibly simple, depending on the use …

Building Woo Spaces – Personal Shrines (Pt. 2)

Personal shrines are the backbone of a devotional practice. They are a physical manifestation of the relationship between the Power and the person, and as such serve as a site for honoring, contemplation, meditation, petitioning, and connection. Not that you can’t do all of these things perfectly well without a shrine, of course. A shrine …

Building Woo Spaces – Altars and Shrines (Pt. 1)

I recently moved from Seattle to upstate New York. I’ve spent the last few months redoing a tiny house and replacing my furniture, so settling in has taken a bit of time. But as always, pride-of-place in my house is my altar/shrine (together known as my “woo space”, because I’m all about technical language). I …

Striking the Spark – Using Oil Lamps

This is the final post of a four part series. Posts one, two, and three need to be read before reading this entry for clarity. Now that we’ve made (or are thinking about making) an oil lamp, what do we do with it? Like most things you’re pretty much limited only by your creativity. They’re …

Striking the Spark – Constructing the Floating Wick Oil Lamp

This is the third in a four-part series. Please read part one and part two before proceeding. The floating wick oil lamp can be even easier than the standing wick lamp, depending on how it's approached. And either way there are fewer steps! Materials The container for the floating wick lamp tends to be easier …

Striking the Spark – Constructing the Standing Wick Oil Lamp

This is the second in a four-part series. The first post can be found here. Constructing this style of lamp is dead simple. All of the work needed to create it is done to one length of copper wire. I broke it out in steps, but once you get it down you can churn one …